FA Artist heads up

[cerari.livejournal.com]

First time posting here, but after stumbling onto this user's journal I thought a heads up to this community might not be a bad idea.

User is JinDragonWolf (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/jindragowolf/) - they posted a journal about how they may cancel their current commissions since they have been taking so long and "not feeling up to them", and then start over with higher prices to get a Wacom. Oh, and they can't afford to give refunds at this time either.

Journal : http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1357331/

Screencap of the journal under the cut :





If I made any errors in posting this, please let me know! I checked the community info and don't think I broke any rules...

Comments

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

XD well at the least it's pretty tactless/bad advertising to basically say "well I can't finish my old commissions, and I'll get around to refunding you some time, hey who wants a more expensive commission?" XD

It's basically like asking "hey, can I hold some money for you?"

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

I suspect one of two things would happen here:
1. Money from new commissions pays for refunds for old ones
2. Old ones are ignored and new commissions pay for new tablet

Version one he effectively got a loan from the commissions without presenting it as such.

Both are versions of fraud.

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. It's one thing if an artist cancels and refunds commissions because they /can't/ do them anymore. Quite another if they just want to raise their prices for the exact same thing :/

[cerari.livejournal.com]

I think my problem with this is the wording about why they are not going to/not planning to finish their commissions : "I'll cancel the commissions I have on my list, been having them there way too long and really not feeling up for them"

Not that things have come up and they are unable to do them in a timely fashion or what not just comes across as "I don't feel like doing them anymore"

As I said in an above post, I'm hoping this was just worded wrong and I got the completely wrong message out of the journal!