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

[copper-curls.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm still a bit confused. Kai on FA is Katsuke in the IRC chat? And Dasaki is Dasaki in both? Because if that's the case, then the course of events I'm seeing is this:

1. K hosts a pay-for-entry contest; runners-up to be in a group picture.
2. D pays USD 9.00 to be in contest (screencap of Paypal transaction)
3. D is a runner-up (screencap of journal)

Time passes...

4. Confrontation between K and D happens in IRC chatroom:
a. D disagrees about what is canon
b. K rudely tells D off
c. D replies - politely - that they've talked with others about what is and is not canon, naming a couple.
d. K tells D they have no respect for D and this channel is not for them
e. D replies they have more respect for others named than for K
f. K kicks D from channel
g. R restores D and further confrontation follows (IRC chatlog)

More time passes...

5. K posts pic, D is not in it despite what the journal said.
6. D asks why?
7. K says it's because D "doesn't respect me at all"; then later attributes "I have no respect for you whatsoever" to D (FA comments)

Huh? Where did that come from? From my read to this point, K is the one who has no respect for D? At any rate, K then refunds D CAD 9.00, which is about a dollar short.

Really, I don't see where Kai/Katsuke has a leg to stand on. Unless I'm mis-reading the sequence of events and players in it completely...

[dasaki.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much it, yea.