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Community's Monthly Positive Review Post

Artists Beware only has three officially recognized sites:
artists_beware ab_archive & Artists Beware on DW

This is an update on my previous beware: http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/587669.html
The original beware has also been updated.

A dispute was opened up on the 14th, after waiting for my product or a refund and getting no contact I escalated the dispute to a claim on the last day possible. The seller did not respond to the claim at all and after the deadline for the seller to respond ran out the payment was refunded by PayPal. So I have been refunded and the case is closed.

However, I wanted to mention a few recent activities that people need to beware of from this builder. After the claim was finished and the AB was updated and posted to my FA the user started lashing out with rude journals, including bringing old friends in to call names and white knight for them. I recommend that no one commission this person unless they clean up really quickly.

The journal links to a video from lonelyisland called "threw it on the ground" After weeks of inactivity this is how they react as soon as it's over with.


And of course their white night, who apparently hates them but not enough to stay away from my journal chimes in to call everyone names and tell me how I'm going over board and being immature.



I'm just glad I got my money back, even with the trouble that came with it.

I feel like this has been covered in some post or other, but I can't find it. I'm heading to Anthrocon for the first time, and this will be my first major con with a table in the dealer's room. I've been looking around for a place to get quality prints made for a decent price, but so far I've been striking out. I've been printing my own stuff at my college's print lab, but they recently downgraded their printers, so the quality has dropped considerably.

I'm open to any suggestions, whether it's online or a chain (Already tried Kinko's and Office Max, and both gave me very bad quality prints).

I have two very time consuming offline issues that is affecting my time to work on commissions. I have informed my commissioners, and offered refunds if they do not want to wait, but they declined.

I still feel extreme bad and unprofessional about it. What should I do in this situation?

I set very short deadlines for myself (About two weeks) and if I do not make these deadlines I feel extremely bad. I am worried that the commissioners will think bad of me for taking so long. I was considering upgrading their commissions, or drawing something for free after finishing them. As a commissioner, what would your opinion be?

Never thought I would post here! This is the most amazing epic debacle I've ever seen in my life, and I need some advice. Technically I got burned out of money I was supposed to be paid, but more importantly at this point an entire convention of people are being burned out of money. I would like to leave names out for now, I don't want to put people on blast but I can later depending on what happens.

Can someone open a paypal dispute on an intangible object they paid for past the dispute period, like 9 months ago? If it's a large group of people *100-200 people* that open up a dispute at the same time will it freeze their paypal or will it not matter because they bought tickets in some cases a very long time ago. The fear is them taking all the money and running and the goal is to stop it.

The deal is a convention that was supposed to be happening next weekend was cancelled. A week ago. How/why/who was at fault for the cancellation is up to interpretation. The fact is they didn't fill the room block the said they would. Eventually I will encourage everyone involved to post an A_B on these people for the sake of future dealers/artists/attendees.

Any advice I can take to these poor people who I'm pretty sure will have to fight tooth and nail to see any money back would be really appreciative.

Marybunnie (http://furaffinity.net/user/marybunnie )/ Badxbunnie (http://furaffinity.net/user/badxbunnie )

It's only been about a month since last contact, but I haven't heard a peep. She went from amazing communication to absolutely zero. From what I gather, she is reading PMs on the site we did our trade on, but is not responding. She mentioned having issues with her friend so I don't know if something happened in real life.

I'm not mad or anything, I'm worried. As I said, she went from absolutely fantastic communication to none. She already received my half of the trade so says USPS and I can't get a hold of her to confirm.

Edit: I got in contact with her! Thanks for the help! <3

Before I begin, may I note that this is not a report of 'wrongdoing' per say. This user commissioned me a good deal of time ago and never approved the sketch. He's paid and I want to either give him a partial refund for not being able to contact him, or actually get approval to finish the art. I've messaged him repeatedly and I don't know if they are getting the messages and I do not want him to either forget he's commissioned me or feel as if I didn't do the work I promised. I feel I should have posted to AB sooner, but I wanted to give it time. Here's hoping someone can help me find them!

( The nitty gritty )

EDIT: 5/20/12
I finally got a reply from Tater, I've added it to the end of the entry.

WHO: TaterGator/Naynay

WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tatergator/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/naynay

WHAT: A 2-character digital piece won in a charity auction benefitting SportyPup.
Proof of purchase (the original auction URL no longer works):

WHEN: First contact with artist made February 10th, 2011. Commission drawn April 22nd, 2012. Lost contact with artist immediately after receiving the piece.

WHAT HAPPENED (breaking the template format a little so it flows better):
( The story with screencaps )

Hey everyone!

We'd like to announce something to the community as a whole. Recently there have been a few cases of Artists Beware clones popping up on various social media websites. We would like to let you all know that these 'mirrors' are not official Artists Beware portals. Our only portals are this LJ community, ab_archive and a mirror of A_B on DreamWidth. These three sources are all run by moderators of this, the 'mothership' community.

As for these other 'mirrors'; we don't know who's running them but they seem to do it so people who do not have LJ accounts can loophole out of signing up for one, and/or for the fact we do not allow proxy posts.

We do the latter for quality control, and to make sure the members of our community get their answers right from the source without any 'telephone effect'.

The former is not an issue because as some of you might have noticed, LiveJournal allows people to interact in communities via GooglePlus (G+), Facebook and Twitter. Not only in comments, but actual entries as well. You can even go through these connect widgets to create an actual LJ account anyway, should you choose to!

We'll be editing our info to reflect this knowledge, and we hope that you, our members will continue to guide people towards our LiveJournal community, for quality control, user protection and immediate action in case of anything, be it good or... not so good.

And for those who either were or already have entertained and followed through with the idea of a 'mirror site': We're flattered you want to help spread the word and all, but we'd prefer if you did NOT use the name 'Artists Beware' for a user title, or copy any content from this or our official mirrors to your own. This is to avoid confusion in the user base, and is again for quality control, user protection, and more.

Thank you guys for your support, you're the best!

Who: Tashumitsu (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tashumitsu/) / Tani-Da-Inki (http://tani-da-inki.deviantart.com/)

What: Sketch trade.

When: I finished my part of the sketch trade in February of 2011.

( More here under the cut. )


In short, don't trade with Tashu. You will be waiting a very long time with countless excuses.

Edit: Fixed some flubs with Tashu's gender. :) If anyone spots any instances where I still refer to him as she, please let me know.

While this was in queue, Tashu has delivered his half of the trade seen here.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7965448/