Hello AB,
I posted awhile back about a M.I.A person who had bought an adopt from me years ago. Previous post can be found here: http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/661924.html
I've tried making contact with him several times expressing my interest in buying back the adopt. I've left shouts ect and still nothing.
I've been told by a few friends some advice and was wanting to know what everyone on Ab thought of this. I'm iffy on it my self and wanted to run it by. They are suggesting I "take back" the adopt in question for use for my self, an OC again of mine, and then when Blackfox777999 comes back with a proper way to pay him for it, pay him then.
I of course am straddling this one. While I am a person who prefers to always pay up front for things, items, ect. I honestly don't know what would be appropriate in this situation. I don't know If he'll ever come back in contact with me or come back on FA, but in the same sense, I feel he is justified the money and I am willing to pay for it back at any time, since he offered it back to me in January.
What do you think the best course of action on this would be? Leave the matter be and wait for his return? Or take the adoptable back into my possession and pay him when he returns?
Thank you for the advice!
EDIT: Thanks to everyone who commented! I will definitely be waiting for him to respond back to me on the matter!
I posted awhile back about a M.I.A person who had bought an adopt from me years ago. Previous post can be found here: http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/661924.html
I've tried making contact with him several times expressing my interest in buying back the adopt. I've left shouts ect and still nothing.
I've been told by a few friends some advice and was wanting to know what everyone on Ab thought of this. I'm iffy on it my self and wanted to run it by. They are suggesting I "take back" the adopt in question for use for my self, an OC again of mine, and then when Blackfox777999 comes back with a proper way to pay him for it, pay him then.
I of course am straddling this one. While I am a person who prefers to always pay up front for things, items, ect. I honestly don't know what would be appropriate in this situation. I don't know If he'll ever come back in contact with me or come back on FA, but in the same sense, I feel he is justified the money and I am willing to pay for it back at any time, since he offered it back to me in January.
What do you think the best course of action on this would be? Leave the matter be and wait for his return? Or take the adoptable back into my possession and pay him when he returns?
Thank you for the advice!
EDIT: Thanks to everyone who commented! I will definitely be waiting for him to respond back to me on the matter!
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Legally, adoptable designs don't seem to have any inherent copyright protection so theoretically anyone could just take it, but character theft tends to be looked on rather poorly in the artistic communities.
Edited at 2013-05-31 06:04 pm (UTC)
I don't think this is a good idea at all to just take back a rightfully paid for adoptable just because they were CONSIDERING selling it back. Even if there was a deal in place, unless the money exchanged hands, you still can't take it back.
OP: You're realizing now that you liked a design that you sold? Tough luck, suck it up and make a new one, because if you really liked it, you shouldn't have sold it in the first place.
You sold it, you have no entitlement to it, it's not yours.
Best of luck with getting a hold of them.
I would just wait until he returns. From looking at his page it appears he's having money problems, so he may have just had his internet cut off or something.
I'm not paying to loan a character, I'm paying to own it. What would I do with the art I'd later commissioned of this character? Does the artist then decide that's theirs too now?
I've bought adoptables from deviantArt because I liked them and use them personally, even though I don't use deviantArt as a site and don't post art of some of the characters I've bought. My activity on dA is basically nil, but that doesn't mean I don't want the adopts I bought.
Seriously, don't take 'em back. It's super shady and will ruin the adopt scene if artists think this is an okay thing to do.
I agree with the folks above that it is inappropriate to take the character, despite your intention to pay when the current owner gets back in contact. However, I don't see a problem with making a new one that is slightly different, considering the extended period of no contact from this person.
Why not just make a similar character?
I've seen a lot of people sell the old design on a character, but it's usually after they post the redesign. :/
So.. it's still kind of on the fence.