Another Darzi post...

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

In April of 2009 I bought a commission for a fursuit foam head from Darzi VIA furbid. At the time, she had nothing but positive feedback and did not have the less then reputable reputation that she has now. At the time, I was getting ready to get married and move to Canada and she was very good to respond and even offered to ship the head to my new place in Canada for no extra charge.

Her responses to my e-mails were usually very quick, and about a month later she sent me links to finished pictures of the foam base on FurAffinity.



Unfortunately, the pictures have long since been deleted and I don't seem to have them anywhere on my computer so a cap of the e-mail she sent me will have to do. But I will tell you that the pictures she sent me were very beautiful and I was very, very happy with what I saw. It even had a moving jaw... which I didn't expect! I couldn't wait to get it and start furring the head!

So I wait... and I wait... and I wait. Nothing comes in the mail.

MEH!

So in the August/September time period I'm really wondering what's up. I sent her an e-mail asking her if the head has been sent. No response. Sent her another one around January. No response.

I chalked it up to the head getting lost at customs or with Canada Post, since in the short amount of time I've already been living there, I already had issues with the local postal service and just let it go...

... until someone posted this thread in the fursuit auctions community back in March wondering where Darzi was because they couldn't get ahold of her either.

I responded that they weren't the only one having issues with Darzi and gave a brief description of what went on with my experience. It wasn't long before Darzi responded saying that she was having medical problems and hasen't been able to respond to e-mails lately. I gave her my e-mail address again so she could let me know what's going on.

A few days later I received a "bulk" e-mail that she's sent to all the client she owed suits to with a personalized message on the end.



A few days afterwards, she sends me another e-mail saying that it will be in the mail on Tuesday. I responded with a simple "thank you" and "I can't wait to get it".

I wait... and wait... and wait. Nothing.

About a month later I receive another e-mail saying that she no longer uses plastic mesh in her suits so she offered to make me a new head base as well as send me the first one she made if I could wait until June.



Since I had long since given up on the idea of receiving my head anyways, I said okay and gave her my measurements... but in retrospect I probably should have said "Don't make me a new one! Just send me the damn head!".

A few days later I sent her an e-mail saying that if she wanted to send the original head that she made, then she could send it to my parent's house back in the US to save on shipping since I was going to go visit them late that month.

No response.

So here it is... the end of June 2010 and I STILL haven't heard anything about my foam head base that was finished over a year ago. Normally I'd try sending her another e-mail around this time, but since the only time she seems to respond is when someone posts a beware post about her, I'm going straight here instead.

Don't get me wrong...
I feel bad for the girl (sort of) and I think this is a case of taking on more commissions then she could handle, but still... it's been over a year since it was finished. It should have been in my hands long ago. >:(

Comments

[shukivengeance.livejournal.com]

If it was done, I don't understand why it wasn't sent to you. That sort of thing is so strange. I hope your situation can be worked out!

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

I never understood that either. Why let it sit around your house for a year instead of mailing the damn thing out... >:(

I dunno. I've written this one off as a loss long ago.

[the-lest.livejournal.com]

Maybe because it got damaged, and she doesn't want to admit it so she's stalling for time to repair or something...

Its a possibility.

[goosestep-lion.livejournal.com]

Well she's been back in touch recently... X___X I'm on her commission list too and she also wants to remake my fursuit head... I hope that I don't have to jump through hoops like this too.

[artkyn.livejournal.com]

How hard is it to just mail something....? Sheesh! That's the easy part!

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

I had a little bit of sympathy for her in the beginning, since I don't have a car and sometimes have a hard time making it to the post office to mail things out... but a year?!

I guess I should feel special that she actually finished mine... since the issue that most people seem to have with her is that she never finished their fursuits. :/

[artkyn.livejournal.com]

I can't drive myself (seizure queen), but even if I have to walk halfway across town I've always gotten my stuff shipped out ASAP. Unless she is rural and/or disabled (as in physically can't walk across town)...

I dunno though, the fact that yours is finished almost makes it worse because of the fact that it's sitting there for no good reason. =(

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, but cash is a little tighter for me right now so I'm afraid that fursuit parts are a luxury item I can't afford at the moment.

[erisvalgen.livejournal.com]

I apologize for my friend being rash with the comment he posted. I just wish you the best of luck getting the head that you comissiomed from Darzi.

[kurenaipaladin.livejournal.com]

Wow. Tacky.

[gel-wolf.livejournal.com]

agreed! Leeeeettle bit on this insensitive/inappropriate side. :|

[genkigami.livejournal.com]

They deleted the comment. What did it say?

I will take responsibility for the Eris post.

[rzkesp.livejournal.com]

Please understand, that post was made by me. I felt I wanted to say something, and try to plug her good work in the process and do so as a joke. Really, that was bad. I know that.

My words, being as biased as they are, came out tacky and venomous. Not what Eris would be at all in fact.

And yes, I used "I" because I was pretending to be her. Jokingly. I grabbed the laptop when I saw a darzi post on her screen and typed it up. We were going to remove it, but I didn't know.

And no, I didn't know it was against the community rules to erase comments.

She in fact did not make the post. I can promise you that.

[rzkesp.livejournal.com]

I can promise you that it was not her. She is watching me type this... pretty pissed off right now.

100% my fault. I will truthfully tell you why I am this way about Darzi and why I get pretty crappy over the whole thing.

You guys have no clue how many people she has done this to. Between big jobs and small ones. I have talked to the people she has dealt with.

I know she owes:
1.) $15
2.) $50
3.) $45 - Me by the way
4.) $500ish - (dragonfeathers made a post)
5.) the poster here
and thist list keeps going... and going...

The whole reason why she does take jobs is because she needs the money to get out of her financial holes. I show no mercy for her financial issues. Buying drugs when you owe hundreds in pay day loans should NOT owe her sympahty.

I know the girl in real life. I finally give up on her as a person. She can keep my $45 dollars. If she gives it back, I would burn it if the Treasury didn't declare it illegal. Money bothers me none. It is what she has done to you guys that ticks me off.

Believe me. I know what she does. She earns no sympathy. None.

And oh buddy... you don't want to know the drama she has caused outside of her little fursuit/art issues. Overall the person will make you feel pity until you gain some reality on her. Trust me, if you have seen her spend your money on pot even while in debt to pay day loan places... it gives you perspective. Perspectives you wish you never had.

I regret meeting the person. Simple as that.

[kurenaipaladin.livejournal.com]

Considering you used someone elses account (allegedly) in order to pretend you were them and apparantly somehow trash Darzi by doing so, I'm seriously just going to say that this is all bs just to make Darzi look worse than she is even making herself.

Jokingly my ass.

[erisvalgen.livejournal.com]

Yes he DID use my account without me knowing! i got angry at him and made him apologize. At this point i could care less with what you have to say...if you think its bs fine...i dont give a shit.

As for making Darzi look worse, she did that very well on her own.

(frozen)

[fyphfoko.livejournal.com]

not making excuses for the girl, but if shes in debt and continues to buy "pot" even though she clearly can't aford it, then maybe she has

a, an adiction problem, if thats possable, or

b, more likely hiven ehat i've read, she needs the drugs to relieve pain from heath issues that she can't help, meditational marijuana

wheather or not its her own fault, she does seem to be in a rather big hole at th moment. i'm not saying for one tiny minute that you have a duty, but are there not more constructive things you could do then attemteing to imitate a ganster rap record that has a scratch on it?

personaly

i hope she can pull herself together and pay everyone back so we can all dance around and eat cake

[trikkeh.livejournal.com]

So your personal vendetta has nothing to do with the fact that Darzi personally told you to fuck off right?

You used both of our names , without our consent, to lie to your parents about going to a furry convention and you just assumed we would back you up. Hell you even posted about it in your own public journal. http://rzkesp.livejournal.com/2829.html

"Made some friends firstly that I could make an ideal excuse with. Darzi, Trikkeh, and etc helped give me names and reality to an excuse that has TRUTH. :D

The excuse: "I am going camping at Roman Nose State Park in Watonga with my friends *names go here*. They are going camping that far out because they are meeting up with some friends down in OKC. I'll be gone over the weekend and we'll probably leave out before then."

"The excuse was versatile and I have faces and instances to backup the friends part too. Frankly, this was just something I cooked up over lunch at school. I realized that there is a damn frickin' good chance that this would work. I should have asked permission first (which I was but none of them were there) to use this "embellished excuse" with names and people in it, but I am sure they don't mind.

Hell, I think they'd be there to support me in this. :P Long story short... I got the out I could have only dreamed for. This was the "game theory proof" excuse. Nothing a lie. It was just a vanilla restatement of what I would be doing."

You also constantly rubbed your oh-so-much money in our faces on a NUMBER of occassions. You even offered to GIVE her money and she turned you down time after time saying she was not comfortable with that. I recall both of us telling you to knock off the money talk because we were uncomfortable discussing it and you wouldn't. I believe the last time that you and I actually spoke was when you kept bragging about the wonderful new car that your Daddy bought for you. I said some harsh things I admit, but dude, when someone tells you to stop something you STOP.

If I recall correctly you later started making fun of Darzi and her boyfriend for having less money than you do. If I can hunt down the caps I will go ahead and post them here.

[kayla-la.livejournal.com]

You should be proactively contacting people you owe, not expecting them to contact you. Not everyone reads AB, and not everyone in AB reads the comments after the fact.

[ulariogryphon.livejournal.com]

We've contacted each other VIA e-mail and things seem to be on the right track of getting resolved. Yays! I'll keep updates whenever possible.

[artkyn.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear--good luck, hope it all works out. =)

support

[bjbear2001.livejournal.com]

It is good to read that this is being taken care of. I've met Darzi and wanted to chime in support here. Darzi is a very head strong person to her own benefit. I've seen her get beautiful crafts done in a few hours before show time at AC and keep up her classes while working for a wicked fast vet clinic. You have to be determined to accomplish those things. So as a spectator to this thread : the good and the bad, I'm quite confident in Darzi that she will get this done.

[drag0nfeathers.livejournal.com]

I WAS THE ONE actually who posted that thread that you linked to. I got the same run around except I never got pictures or anything at all to show that anything had been done at all. Just lots and lots of excuses. Not only that, but I had sent my own materials to her besides paying $410 for the labor for my partial.

I must say though, even though I haven't got a cent back from her I DID start getting emails from her promising repayment over this past week. Not much, but it's a start.