Who: VengeanceZ
His Website Pages:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/vengean
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/grandvis
https://inkbunny.net/Grandvision
Where: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/959
What: Prepose Commission with Applejack from MLP:FIM
Bid was £3000
When: 1/3/2013
Proof:
Screenshots will be Provided below
Details:
Along with regular commissions, I've been doing Prepose/YCH auctions on furaffinity to help pay for some of my wedding expenses, as I'm getting married this year to Ebonyleopard this Summer. In the link provided above (Next to Where), I was holding a Prepose auction for Applejack from My Little Pony: Friendship is magic.
It runs off smoothly, until I noticed Vendeancez posts a bid of £600, which roughly translates to almost 1000 USD. So I ask him if this was a real bid, as that seemed a bit of a large bid in itself; I also told him what £600 translates to in American money. He says he was legitimately bidding, so I allow it, and I place him as bidder in the lead with £600 / $975.
He asks if he won, so he could pay and I'd start on the picture asap, but I told him that there's no auto-buyout, and that he'd have to wait until the auction ends (which would be tomorrow on Saturday). So in response to that, he drops down a bid of £3000, which rather shocked me, which made me curious as to why he was in such a hurry to make this auction end with him as the winner, so I PM him about it; he says that information is classified, which made me kind of suspicious, but I don't like prying in other people's business. I basically told him that 3000 pounds equates to nearly $5000 and asking if he's aware of that. Conversation linked below:
http://imageshack.us/a/img832/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img543/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img715/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img39/1616/userc
As you can see, the end result of that transaction..
So I report him to the FA admins, and post a warning about him on my journal on FA. He gets suspended for three days, and fearing that someone else might try and pull that stunt on that auction, I closed it early, giving it to the previous person that was in the lead, Avalon487 with a $450 bid. This whole thing was just confusion, with a troll/scamming bidder to try and cause confusion and disrupt the whole auction process.
Other Screenshots:
http://imageshack.us/a/img255/889/ychpr
http://imageshack.us/a/img692/2876/ycht
His Website Pages:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/vengean
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/grandvis
https://inkbunny.net/Grandvision
Where: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/959
What: Prepose Commission with Applejack from MLP:FIM
Bid was £3000
When: 1/3/2013
Proof:
Screenshots will be Provided below
Details:
Along with regular commissions, I've been doing Prepose/YCH auctions on furaffinity to help pay for some of my wedding expenses, as I'm getting married this year to Ebonyleopard this Summer. In the link provided above (Next to Where), I was holding a Prepose auction for Applejack from My Little Pony: Friendship is magic.
It runs off smoothly, until I noticed Vendeancez posts a bid of £600, which roughly translates to almost 1000 USD. So I ask him if this was a real bid, as that seemed a bit of a large bid in itself; I also told him what £600 translates to in American money. He says he was legitimately bidding, so I allow it, and I place him as bidder in the lead with £600 / $975.
He asks if he won, so he could pay and I'd start on the picture asap, but I told him that there's no auto-buyout, and that he'd have to wait until the auction ends (which would be tomorrow on Saturday). So in response to that, he drops down a bid of £3000, which rather shocked me, which made me curious as to why he was in such a hurry to make this auction end with him as the winner, so I PM him about it; he says that information is classified, which made me kind of suspicious, but I don't like prying in other people's business. I basically told him that 3000 pounds equates to nearly $5000 and asking if he's aware of that. Conversation linked below:
http://imageshack.us/a/img832/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img543/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img715/1616/user
http://imageshack.us/a/img39/1616/userc
As you can see, the end result of that transaction..
So I report him to the FA admins, and post a warning about him on my journal on FA. He gets suspended for three days, and fearing that someone else might try and pull that stunt on that auction, I closed it early, giving it to the previous person that was in the lead, Avalon487 with a $450 bid. This whole thing was just confusion, with a troll/scamming bidder to try and cause confusion and disrupt the whole auction process.
Other Screenshots:
http://imageshack.us/a/img255/889/ychpr
http://imageshack.us/a/img692/2876/ycht
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Edited at 2013-01-09 03:21 am (UTC)
This guy is known for being a troll before (complaining on places where artists are conducting business, and stirring up trouble in general), and the fact that he took it to an auction was unacceptable.
I haven't seen the notes until now. I am just... stunned at the part where he admits trolling.
Good god, beware well warranted. People like this make my freakin' head spin.
Fake bidding is just such an incredibly obnoxious thing to do.
How rude and immature.
Thank you for the heads up, hopefully this will help other artists if he does pull this stunt again.
What a jerk.
Sorry this happened to you, Kayla :C Excluding as much profanity and name-calling as I can bear, his behavior is absolutely appalling.
Congrats on getting married by the way, glad you still managed to sell the auction to a decent bidder.
I'm glad your other bidder was cool with it, though. Good luck on your wedding!
congrats on your marriage, I wish you and your SO all the best!
Edited at 2013-01-09 07:06 pm (UTC)
As soon as the site is back up (maintenance at the moment, it seems), I'm blocking his sorry ass. o n o
If I make an auction on FA, I get loads of bids, if I do it on an actual bidding site, I either get none or barely any.
Things happen, you do get trolls and fake bids, but I don't see it nearly often enough to risk making so little cash. Even here, there was a fake bid, but it worked out fine. There's always the last bidder to go to.
I sincerely apologize for this being handled inappropriately on our side of things. Another admin was apparently not informed that I personally handle all issues of this nature, and because of this went above me to take care of the problem themselves. I am currently working towards a more suitable resolution to this, but I cannot guarantee anything, as I need to clear it with higher first. I have made my displeasure with this situation well known to the other staff, and I assure you that this will be handled appropriately in the future.
This user has been alerted to this post, as well as additional punishments levied against his account by administration. Again, I apologize for this issue.
Honestly, why was he only suspended for three days? I'd think that'd be perm-ban worthy, whose to stop him from doing it again?
here is pdf of one of the times, from one of his moments
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0q6zj4hgrde3
later he continued his little trolling rampage on IRC with one of the users. I alerted a mod on FA of his random behaviour but nothing happened...
Edited at 2013-01-13 08:37 am (UTC)