NSFW commission - Final versions never recieved.

[stalgondo.livejournal.com]

Please be forewarned, this was a commission for adult material. Some links on this post refer to NSFW material.

Who: TwistedCreations on Hentai-foundry.

Where:
NSFW link - his hentai-foundry account:
http://www.hentai-foundry.com/profile-TwistedCreations.php
Communication was mainly over MSN messenger, but I sent several emails attempting to contact him.

What:
Digital Artwork of a Female Orc with two versions of the same image, paid in two transactions of $100 each ($200 total).

When:
January 14th 2011 - I first contacted him to commission the artwork. The price and details were agreed upon.
January 28th 2011 - First rough sketch was received and I paid the first installment.
February 7th 2011 - Second rough sketch was received and I paid the second installment.

The last contact I received was on Febuary 7th 2011. I never received the final versions of the artwork.

Proof:
NSFW text - Chat log of all conversations:
http://doujinhunter.totalh.com/twistedchat.txt
NSFW - Last image received:
http://i.imgur.com/fvJFo.jpg
Email 1:
http://i.imgur.com/VrZVA.png
Email 2:
http://i.imgur.com/KU7KW.png
Email 3:
http://i.imgur.com/V0rjn.png
Email 4:
http://i.imgur.com/NlnjF.png
Paypal Transfer 1:
http://i.imgur.com/YDcWn.png
Paypal Transfer 2:
http://i.imgur.com/EiKkS.png
Evading me on MSN:
http://i.imgur.com/uBtAk.png

Explain:

Things went well initially, and the final draft was sent to me on Feb. 7th. I confirmed the final changes and sent the final payment. I have received no contact since, and I have made several attempts to contact him. I have sent him numerous emails asking for any reply or notice that I am not being ignored. He did not appear to be on MSN, but using an alternate MSN account, I determined that he has blocked my main MSN account. Contacting him via the alternate MSN account caused him to block that one as well.

I attempted to retract payment via paypal, but they would not allow me to dispute a payment that was categorized as "other". I have submitted a transaction dispute to econsumer.gov in hopes of getting those payments retracted. I would prefer to have the final work, but that seems unlikely at this point.

I was referred here by the hentai-foundry forums, and I will also be posting this to hentai-foundry to warn others.
Thanks for reading,
Stalgondo

Comments

[fenrirs-child.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry to hear that, i just went through a similar experience, and luckily for me a threat to force a refund through paypal was enough to get them to fork over the fullsizes... i just don't understand why it's so hard to send a freaking email for some people :/

[sbneko.livejournal.com]

A bit off topic here, but did you lock this so people under 18 can't read it?

It's really good to warn about NSFW things, but if you do that some people may not be able to read the post C:

Mod post.

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

Since you already warned the links are NSFW, go ahead and change the setting to 'No Adult Concepts'.

[girlomega.livejournal.com]

The links are going to a search engine site for me.

[mrst4nkr.livejournal.com]

Will your account get into trouble for purchasing "adult" artwork through paypal? (Pinups and porn alike, even if one is considered tasteful) I thought a lot of people switched to alertpay for that reason.

(If anyone can clarify this for me, that would be awesome. I'm googling for INFO on their policies ATM. )


:C I hope they get back to you.

[holydust.livejournal.com]

is he making journal posts? anything? anything to show that he's, y'know, alive?

seems a little early to be making a "this guy screwed me" post since he's not clearly "evading" you from what i can tell.

forgive me if he has been obviously making posts elsewhere. but i saw another post on the hentai foundry site from another user asking him to check his email. is it obvious he's just avoiding you, or has he dropped off the face of the earth? it's been what -- 2 and a half months since you first contacted him to even start the commission?

just playing devil's advocate, here; as an artist, that'd be a somewhat reasonable timeline for an artist who was active on the scene. for one who isn't making any posts, well, i'd be worried something bad happened to him.

but that's just me.

[peas-n-rice.livejournal.com]

This the same person? http://www.furaffinity.net/user/nsfw/