Lost Contact Draconemignis of FA

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EDIT: after a year of waiting and no contact do you think its appropriate to create a beware on this artist as well?



Original Post:

This is a lost contact of Dragondoodles or Draconemignis of Furaffinity. I commissioned them back in 2015 at BLFC (biggest little fur con) for a badge, and have been promised multiple times of its completion, and have apparently been dropped out of contact.

They have deactivated FA, and the email provided for contact bounces now so I'm assuming thats been disabled. Did they do a name change? Does ANYONE have contact as this was a 40 dollar badge and Id love to fund another honest artist with that money rather than just be out the cash. I've asked for refunds over email, notes on FA (pre-disable), and shouts. Have yet to be contacted and since it was an in person cash transaction (I have a physical receipt however) I cant file a dispute.

Any suggestions? help please...


Update 11/23/2016: I reached out to the "Dragondoodles" Facebook page via facebook chat not expecting anything since the page seems abandoned. However; the message has been seen. No response though. Ive sent the message below:

https://imgur.com/a/tTCi7

And noticed they were not responding. So I left this as a message, hopefully they get in contact with me. Blocked out my email since its not needed here in this forum.

"I see this message has been seen, if you could email me at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com again id like to discuss my refund for my badge please."

Edit to update 11/23/2016: My second message has been seen on facebook but not responded to. I have left them a message stating they have 24 hours from a specific time to respond or a full beware will be posted.

Feeling like I wont be seeing my art or my money, but I'd like to just warn others of this potential scam.

Artists Beware: Wolfenbro aka Rein Ranulfo

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WHO: WolfenBro on Furaffinity, who is also BigbyxWolf (Rein Ranulfo) on Twitter. Here are other sites he is on.

NOTE: All sites listed below contain NSFW content
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/wolfenbro/
https://twitter.com/BigbyxWolf?lang=en
http://reinawasawachi.tumblr.com/
https://www.patreon.com/rein


WHERE: First contacted him on Furaffinity via note. He also had the commission information up on http://werewolfrein.tumblr.com/Commissions but it has since been taken down. His new one is http://reinawasawachi.tumblr.com/ (nsfw)

WHAT: A two character commission with full background. Digital art. Description is in the screen capture of the long thread.

WHEN:
First contacted him in July, 2015.
Sent payment July 10th, 2015
Asked for progress update March, 2015
Asked for refund July, 2016
Was paid back $40 on July 12th, 2016
Was paid back $31 on August 7th, 2016
Last correspondence that he replied to was on September 26th, 2016
Sent another note through Furaffinity on November 6th, 2016 and it does not show that it's been read.


PROOF:
Here is the main thread. http://imgur.com/Lt0yiVt
Paypal transactions: http://imgur.com/r6Phamq
Asking for an update: http://imgur.com/zerSvWA
Trying to sort out refund: http://imgur.com/eMOm8pB
Reminding him that he still owes me: http://imgur.com/4PfOEF7
Another reminder: http://imgur.com/F4kqrJK


EXPLAIN: Artist posted an "emergency commissions" journal so I sent him a note asking for one. After money was exchanged I didn't hear from him for a few months, so I sent him a note on FA asking what the progress was. He said he'd get to his commissions over spring break. Mine was never completed. I waited a year and then asked for a refund. He was apologetic and refunded a partial amount of $40, then $31 the next month. He still owes me $27 and is not responding to my notes.

I feel I've been extremely patient through all of this. I've had enough. Dealing with someone like this is infuriating.