Kai...

[dasaki.livejournal.com]

WHO: Kai or any of their many different character names.

WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kai/

WHAT: A pay to enter art contest, $9

WHEN: Jan. 27th 2011

PROOF: Journal with the entrant names after the closing, they deleted the original contest journal months ago. http://i42.tinypic.com/34zelxu.png
Paypal transaction. http://i42.tinypic.com/2gtdw1j.png
Today's conversation. http://i44.tinypic.com/jr8qyc.png
'Refund' email. http://i41.tinypic.com/es563m.png

EXPLAIN: I entered a contest Kai ran about this time last year, it was $9 a person and anyone that didn't win still got featured in a group picture with one of their larger (macro) characters. I paid the $9, and I even covered the fees (or lack of, at that point gifts didn't take them yet), everything was going fine and I'd seen the winners pictures had been posted so I waited to see the group picture. It was posted about a month ago and I only saw it today, and I wasn't in it. So I posted on there asking why I wasn't there and got this in response; http://i44.tinypic.com/jr8qyc.png

Now I know I come off a bit hostile in this myself, but anyone that has dealt with Kai at all knows what kind of person they are and what kind of reputation they have. My 'public attack' was a single comment in a small IRC channel, which she was then lectured heavily by the owner of the channel after banning me for it.

After a long conversation during which a mutual friend acted as a middleman while she raged over it somewhere, I was finally given a 'refund' which was sent in CAD instead of the original USD that I paid, and I was made to pay the fees, causing it to come up a total of 98 cents short, over 10% of the total.

Overall a very bad experience and one that I do not wish to repeat. In short, if you value decent customers, stay away from Kai.

Edit: found the IRC logs after some time of digging.

http://www.privatepaste.com/02da40f222

Edit 2/update: Got home from work to find http://i43.tinypic.com/egondl.png in my inbox, best part is she's blocked me so I can't even ask what she's talking about.

Comments

[conigliomannaro.livejournal.com]

Uh, I'm sorry, I really think this is not enough background information. Sure, not following through to her end of the deal automatically puts her in the bad spot, but a less evasive report of what you said in that IRC channel may change the reader's perspective quite a bit. I think you need to come forward in a more honest way, and tell people what exactly you said, or a vague rephrasing of it, because personally, I don't feel like I can judge anything until I hear what happened for real. And your hesitating attitude on the matter, I'm sorry, doesn't help.

A quick question to the mods goes as an afterthought: did you change the layout of the comment pages after the last changes in Lj's layout? Not to complain or anything, but this one kind of hurts my eyes a little.

[mistresswolf.livejournal.com]

Re: comment layout - Yeeeesh, yeah I hate this one too. I like the normal, white/blue comment page layout more.


Anyway more to the point... I'd like to know what was said in IRC as well. Not that it excuses the person from holding the contest from calling the OP a "drama whore" and "failure of a person".

Personally, I would stay far away from any contest that wanted me to pay an entry fee.

[kerstin-orion.livejournal.com]

I liked the old layout, too. Unfortunately, LJ is mucking around with the styles and we had to change it. It's still a work in progress, so bear with us.

Is there anything in particular about this color scheme that's hard to read on your computers? I've tried it on my laptop and phone, but would welcome input from others.

(Oh, and to keep this from taking the post off-topic, please email me your suggestions at kerstinorion (at) gmail or send me a PM on LJ.)

[dasaki.livejournal.com]

Posted IRC logs