Beware: angelwolf

AngelWolf on FA

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/angelwolf/

An un-formal art trade: Badge for Badge.

Most of the communication, sadly, was done through FA shouts which are easily deleted and are no longer able to cap. The trade was initiated some time before I completed my half back in July 2010. After close to 3 years now, Ive given up on ever receiving this badge.

I honestly dont recall when it was began. But I do remember her asking me via shout if we could do a badge trade. If I could guess it would have been shortly before AnthroCon 2010 so June 2010 until today.

See below all in proof screen grabs,

All of the screen grabs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wintersnowolf/sets/72157631774762737/

My half of the trade: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4201234/

I completed my trade by mid July, in a timely manner which can be seen here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4201234/

I left it to her to see whenever she felt fit to complete her half.

Several notes (as well as shouts asking for an update) were exchanged. The only notes on hand I have are here:

Nov 3, 2011: http://flic.kr/p/djThR7

Her reply on Nov 13, 2011: http://flic.kr/p/djThME

My reply back asking a few things Nov 13, 2011: http://flic.kr/p/djThNY

No reply to that note.

She then posts her art: http://flic.kr/p/djTh8p

I even typed up a nice comment, super happy to have finally seen it! I get no reply... 

Nov 18, 2011, I give her my address and ask for her address so I can send out my half after seeing hers: http://flic.kr/p/djTiRF

No reply to that note...

Several months go by and here and there I do kindly remind her of our trade, via shouts, and asking when can I send my half to her. I remember one reply said something along the lines of "Since you live overseas, its going to be very expensive to ship, I dont have that money right now to do that :(" Okay, so you cant cover a $5 overseas shipping charge. No big. Ill wait. I ship things overseas all the time. In fact, I ship things on a weekly basis  Then, it really got old; she's taking more trades, and more commissions. All the while my other shouts asking when I can send my half to her go un-replied.

Finally sick of it, I tell her to just give me an address so I can at least do the right thing and give her my half. Testy, I write up a pretty annoyed reply, but after broken promises for additional arts, and a -watch later (from much earlier I noticed, not due to this last note) I have come to being sick of having her name sit on my waiting list for a trade. I had full intensions of shipping her half out, and not even caring if I ever received mine. 

I get this reply to my note last night: http://flic.kr/p/djThLE

Okay, so I do not bother you for over a year to finally do our trade, then once its finally done you take another year before I even bother asking you again to mail it out and you accuse me of harassing you; I didnt know waiting 2+ years for a trade was harassing :

So, Im sick of it, and decide to leave the note unanswered, block her, remove her from my watch list and Im going to just throw the badge away. Its not worth waiting to send out old, out-of-date art any more. And just to show I still do, yes in fact, have the badge to this day! I placed it in an over-sized envelope, with a blank piece of paper & cardboard backing since the day I posted it to FA (and finished it), in preparation for shipping.

Here is a photo I took today of that badge: http://flic.kr/p/djUdiW

Biggest worry; I see she is trading with more people, and taking commissions for more art: Buyer and Artists Beware. This girl is nothing short of someone that clearly holds no responsibility for her actions and has no intentions of fulfilling a trade, much less a paid commission. And if you want anything more than a low quality scan forget about it. The original has no chance of making it to you ever it seems. If you dont have a place to mail things to in the first place, dont take a trade and waste peoples time.

EDIT: Angel has reached out to me to give an address: To keep it fair, since she cannot receive my half then I do not want hers. This is merely a beware to any one else to see the lack of communication and the year+ time it took to even trade. Had I known she never wanted to physically receive my half I would have never spent the extra time to cut, laminate and prepare it for shipping so it could serve its purpose as a badge to wear. As someone below stated we are both equal in the fact that neither of us have physically received our shares. I dont wish her to spend money on shipping it out.