I hate the fact I'm so kind...

[bluewolfzanza.livejournal.com]

Well got conned out of a commissioned picture I did back in Oct. '08 by a furry known as Snowfox (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/snowfox19/).

I had kept in contact with him since completing the picture and was told originally that they were having problems with their pay-pal account. Was a bit skeptical of this but decided that I could wait a few more weeks for their payment on the piece. During the wait was informed from a few sources that this person has been known to either skimp on payments or just not pay all together. Tried to keep my mind open and go and ask them to see if this was indeed true to get both sides of the story. He completely denied the matters claiming them as untrue. It wasn't until about the third week of December when I was told that their account was "supposedly" working properly and that I would receive my payment plus interest for all the trouble on that Friday. This never happened so I assumed that something must have came up again. By this point I was pretty much fed up with this waiting time and figuring that they weren't going to pay me.

Decided to venture around and ask some artists that had been commissioned by him at the time. Found one who got the pay-pal excuse as well and was supposed to be payed via money order.

Just decided to chalk this up as a loss after no further progress with this commission matter.

I just want folks to be on the lookout if they are commissioned by this person and not get scammed out of their hard work.

Comments

[starcharmer.livejournal.com]

I've heard some things about him lately. Personally, I've done some work for him and only had minimal problems. He's always paid me, but recently, a payment he made to me got reversed back to him, presumably because his bank thought his payment bounced for some reason or...something. [It was explained to me by a friend of mine, but I get confused when talking about stuff like that. It sounded legit.]

He says he's going to resend the payment, but I've been contacted by another artist who said the same happened to her and he has yet to pay her, though he told her he was going to. We will see how it pans out!
I think you'll be able to get your money if you keep after him about it. He seems like a good-hearted guy, if a little irresponsible at times.

And definitely always get paid before you start work and give the payment time to clear.

[snowfox19.livejournal.com]

yours bounced back cause of bank taking money out on me before it cleared taking care of it in neext day or so

[armaina.livejournal.com]

Sounds to me like your paypal 'problems' are more like financial problems. :|

[snowfox19.livejournal.com]

actually

the problem was the money was in the bank and then the bank took the money out for monthly fee's and the next morning i went in and put the money in the bank to cover it but pp had already taken it back out. And bank returned it, normally pp has in the past done a second attempt to take the money out but this time it didn't even try.

[armaina.livejournal.com]

Once again, financial problem. If you actually had a decent buffer of funds in your bank account then you wouldn't have these problems, because the money would -be- in the account for paypal to take out.

Maybe you should stop spending so much money on frivolous things.