Artist Beware | Crystaluniicorn

[vlrgo.livejournal.com]

 

Who: CrystalUniicorn

Where: https://crystaluniicorn.deviantart.com/

What: Custom Draft Horse Stallion Lineart/ base

When: Commissioned on August 11th 2016

EXPLAIN: I commissioned Crystal on August 11th 2016 for a Draft horse base because she and I had talked about lineart custom previously via comments on one of her submissions, she explained a custom lineart would be 15$ and I agreed, explained what I wanted and left it at that. I didn't note her about it afterward because I trusted her to finish her list of commissions in a timely manner, she was very kind and professional. Around mid September she posted a journal stating she'd be catching up on commissions and posting them soon but after one batch of horse adoptables she disappeared. I posted a Lost contact and never received any info other than a locked instagram which I found out she doesn't use anymore, she hasn't responded to commissioners even when she came back to deviantart for a month. I've sent her a note which has gone unresponded to.

Proof: (Tried to make these as big as possible)

Original Note; https://imgur.com/IpUTNvJ

PoP; https://i.imgur.com/Mx6R9ew.png

Journal Mentioned; https://i.imgur.com/l8sa5L5.png

Unread note status; https://i.imgur.com/104QthE.png

Unread note contents; https://i.imgur.com/vhoV9X6.png

Not really sure what to do at this point.

EDIT/ 1/29/18; Sent an email to the last known email / email I paid through paypal to see if by chance she'll answer me, highly doubt it due to people saying she's ignored them but I'll cross my fingers.

EDIT: 2/18/18; My email and note have still not been answered and from what I can tell she's still avoiding deviantart even though a commission widget is still on her page ( can be seen here; https://i.imgur.com/PghBT4r.png ). I'm sick of this tbh 

EDIT: 7/9/18; She's made a full return and has been posting, albeit infrequently, but still hasn't posted commissions/ given refunds from what I've seen. She HAS posted p2u (pay to use) bases/ linearts and persona reference sheets though which leads me to wonder... but I digress. I sent her a note 3 days ago as seen here: https://i.imgur.com/wq79Unh.png it's been read but not replied to. (Contents of said note: https://i.imgur.com/TZykIzK.png )

Comments

[gatekat.livejournal.com]

You file a Paypal claim before time runs out.

[fralea comms (from livejournal.com)]

August 2016? Unfortunately that ship has sailed.

[gatekat.livejournal.com]

I misread the year.

[vlrgo.livejournal.com]

I wish I could, unfortunately it's been over a year, a claim is under 45 days I do believe.

[fralea comms (from livejournal.com)]

180 days, for future reference. But still.

Sometimes you can chargeback through the bank instead but I haven't heard of banks considering a transaction this old.

[vlrgo.livejournal.com]

Due to the nature of my bank I think it's safe to say that they won't due anything about it since it's over 365 days old

[teekchan.livejournal.com]

This email is listed in the journals; crystaluniicorn@gmail.com Try emailing it?

EDIT; Did more digging, their da links to another da account which links to this instagram https://www.instagram.com/hitomi_art/ and the same username and language as this twitter https://twitter.com/hitomi_art

Both of which were active today.

Proof; https://crystaluniicorn.deviantart.com/journal/Other-account-553049545
https://i.gyazo.com/50b92b57e14cd0d6e72eb7c11b778924.png

[vlrgo.livejournal.com]

I will write her an email as soon as I am able to write a controlled statement rather than something out of anger.
However those accounts are old and unused which is why I haven't contacted them, the last post on them was from 2015.

EDIT: Also I don't use twitter / instagram (for art) but I'll try there too if she doesn't respond to an email. (which apparently has been happening to people; she's been ignoring them? I don't know how true that is though.)

[kell0x.livejournal.com]

I really dont get people who just vanish like that knowing they have clients waiting for their products..

[vlrgo.livejournal.com]

It really is upsetting because she was known for putting out commissions quite quickly, she did make mention of having school / college at one point I think? But that's still not really an excuse to just vanish.

[smol boi (from livejournal.com)]

I commissioned her for lines as well, late last year and she did one but ran off before the other. But her only active area I see is this Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hitomi_cosplay/