Update: She fixed the name on my badge today. Wohoo its pretty too, now just 2 art peices left till this is resolved.
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Well Starfinder finished one third of my commissions she offered instead of the stuff she owed me. but she got my name wrong and I wrote her about it and she didn't respond until I left a not on her fa saying it was one third done and she was gone again so she sent me this back
Kannos
7th Jun 2011, 2:20pm
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You know, I'm really not pleased that you posted on my old FA, where I can not even defend myself, shit-talking because I finished 'half of your works and then fell off the planet again". Did you try to contact me to see why? No. Well, guess what? I had finals and had to study. That comment was entirely unnecessary and does nothing to help me.
You pretend to care, but honestly I don't think you do. I'll finish up your remaining things over the summer break, but knock it off with the rude comments. Seriously.
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So I guess I will never see the rest of it now. I wish now I had just asked for my money back. I actually apologized and tried to sympathize but just got more guilt and now haven't heard from her and can't even use the first badge since the name is wrong urg.
Original post:---------
Well Starfinder finished one third of my commissions she offered instead of the stuff she owed me. but she got my name wrong and I wrote her about it and she didn't respond until I left a not on her fa saying it was one third done and she was gone again so she sent me this back
Kannos
7th Jun 2011, 2:20pm
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You know, I'm really not pleased that you posted on my old FA, where I can not even defend myself, shit-talking because I finished 'half of your works and then fell off the planet again". Did you try to contact me to see why? No. Well, guess what? I had finals and had to study. That comment was entirely unnecessary and does nothing to help me.
You pretend to care, but honestly I don't think you do. I'll finish up your remaining things over the summer break, but knock it off with the rude comments. Seriously.
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So I guess I will never see the rest of it now. I wish now I had just asked for my money back. I actually apologized and tried to sympathize but just got more guilt and now haven't heard from her and can't even use the first badge since the name is wrong urg.
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This is why I was so sure she'd never get any better.
and to make it worse, she acts like everyone owed her something, even when she was PAID TO DO A JOB.
There are other artists out there who are working through the same, if not more dire circumstances. They aren't terribly backlogged, they admit to fault and they're eager to please. Her circumstances are being used as an excuse, when progress and resolution comes much easier when you aren't consistently blaming your surroundings and circumstances for your wrong-doings.
Some people just aren't cut out for art as full time work. I recognized this in myself a long time ago, and so I kept my full time job, instead. Abilities and skills are one thing, but if you can't keep a business ethic your skills aren't going to do you much good for very long.
Is something keeping you from asking for your money back now? After this display and her error (and refusal to fix it), do you really want to continue business? I'd say this is appropriate terms to end the transaction, in all honesty.
Edited at 2011-06-10 04:50 pm (UTC)
Sorry to hear that you've had troubles with her and that she even got the name wrong, she really needs to put a journal up when "finals" or whatever come up rather than just leaving and hoping all her current commissioners forget all about buying stuff from her.
I'd say just ask for your money back. And some for the unusable badge she's refusing to correct. :/
hell finals aren't even usually that big a deal for me. I know they can be stressful for a lot of people, but it could be a lot worse like you said.
But she isn't banned from here or anything. She never has been. She replied to a couple of the first posts about her years ago, I believe. But it's really saying something that she's such a constant problem that I even was able to write that sentence. I don't know why she doesn't realize her behaviour is unacceptable.
Someone needs to sue her seriously AUGH
But I'm not surprised in the slightest.
Sorry that the truth hurts, Star.
From the comments I've seen, the OP has been backing Star pretty much the whole time from at least the standpoint of "I've been waiting for this, but she's been in contact and she's making good on it so far!" and Star turns around and unleashes this guilt-tripping (and totally unwarranted) note when there has been zero contact on her part. It takes all of five minutes to create a journal saying "Contact will be scarce for a while because of finals, sorry!" That's seriously it. One sentence. I'm appalled, but not surprised, as unfortunate as that is.
She still didn't draw a commission for my friend, and she already got the 900 USD for this art, 5 years ago!!!!!!!!!!
If you are going to be late on something, let your customer know well in advance and learn how to not take orders if you can't get your time management up to par. It's not called customer service for nothing. If you can't take the heat, get out of the damned kitchen.
There are plenty of artists out there that can handle what artists like Starfinder can't, so she had better realize that competition is stiff and that she's not God's (or whatever deity people worship) gift to the world.
I wouldn't have apologized if I were you. Nor sympathized. That's exactly what she was trying to do. She's being manipulative and trying to guilt people into feeling sorry for her so she doesn't have to be accountable for her mistakes.
Edit: Basically what I am saying is you should be firm with her. Don't let her guilt/manipulate you anymore. You are in the right here and she is in the wrong. There's no way around that. Don't let her manipulate and try to control this situation when she's the one who needs to take action to make this right.
Edited at 2011-06-11 06:49 pm (UTC)