https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/942850.html
WHO: SugarNSpiceCostumes or as she goes by on social media, Corpse Cat
WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sugarnspicecostumes/
WHAT: The product was a full fursuit, $1,918. 2 full bodies, 2 sets of feet paws (indoor/outdoor), 1 set of hand paws and of course a head and tail. The quality of the suit was to be the same as the ones advertised on her FA page
WHEN: I made the first payment for the suit in 2015, she claims that she started it in April 4th of 2016. I was the only suit she was working on (so she told me, which I have screenshots of and will display)
PROOF: This is a small section of screenshots. To screenshot our ENTIRE chat it would be too many links, but this is times where she's ignored me, times where's she's lied to me, and times where we discussed the product quality, when it would be completed, and the price/payments. I blurred out her paypal and the addresses that are there
All payments. The last one was refunded by Paypal but the rest of the purchases are over a year old and I can't refund them
http://imgur.com/brixFYe
The original advertisement in the Dealer's Den
http://imgur.com/4hVMoGx
Talking about prices/payment plan
http://imgur.com/EeHH6Hg
http://imgur.com/ZkHGTX1
The date I finished enough payments for her to start on my suit, she already had all of the materials and she had my DTD
http://imgur.com/pqNzufp
The first progress update I got, then being ignored for a few days while she comes online and offline of telegram, but still ignoring me
http://imgur.com/g02hjo7
http://imgur.com/iHv3vYn
A small update she gave me with no pictures, then being ignored again. She's never sent me a picture of the 2 body suits, 2 feet paws or the tails
http://imgur.com/OilUrwR
Her reading my messages and still ignoring them even after going online and offline repeatedly
http://imgur.com/HDg8Ni8
Her finally responding, but with more excuses. She changed her settings on telegram so I couldn't see her last time online so I got a little upset. She was active in her SoCal Furries telegram chat while ignoring me. She got a side job and had even less time for my suit
http://imgur.com/h7t93TH
http://imgur.com/aPxIUio
Her ignoring me again and giving me ridiculous excuses like "Yea sorry I'm out grocery shopping for a week"...
http://imgur.com/BDoTuHh
http://imgur.com/zxVLIit
Gave me a picture of my paws with fur and pads, I came back a week later asking what's new and ignored again. Another case of coming online and offline and being active in other chats during the time
http://imgur.com/uib5pY1
For a while she kept giving me the excuse "I put your suit back in my shop and I can't get to my shop right now". Then she said she would go to the shop and instead ignored me the entire day and did nothing
http://imgur.com/ELxjWZk
After being ignored for a long while I just asked for my money back and got this. This is what I will be using when I open the small claims file because she explicitly says she will give me either my suit or money by a specific date. I of course have neither right now
http://imgur.com/HMMbDK2
Still saying she can't get into her shop, but she said she finished it and needed my address to ship it. It was never shipped
http://imgur.com/4rcOCB3
The 2 partial suits she made for MFF while ignoring me and telling me that my suit is finished but never sending pictures of the body, or mailing the suit
http://imgur.com/Rn9GSw9
http://imgur.com/G0wWW2T
Constant struggles to get her attention
http://imgur.com/xcaOOk7
Final proof of her ignoring me and blaming it on being "Spacey"
http://imgur.com/uke09GA
Ignored again even after she told me she won't ignore me anymore, and another fake deadline where she didn't finish it
http://imgur.com/QPCAJwR
She told me she had the box with the suit in her new apartment after she moved and just needed to "find it" before she could ship it. Apparently it takes a week to find a box
http://imgur.com/Pd3NI8r
http://imgur.com/P58ZBz4
http://imgur.com/QeoT2do
Another excuse. She got a tooth pulled and said she can't ship the box, even though she has a roommate who could do it for her
http://imgur.com/u6weqDm
I had to bother her roommate in order to get her to respond and stop ignoring me again
http://imgur.com/N11eRkI
Lying about the suit being shipped and the USPS "losing her package" but the package was never brought into the USPS. She bought a $22 shipping label and never brought the item in
http://imgur.com/VwWsT7I
The unused shipping label/tracking number
http://imgur.com/AN6blhe
Her threatening to put a cease and desist on me just for posting about this on twitter
http://imgur.com/XfeRG2g
http://imgur.com/rPWbWqn
Some screenshots look different because they were taken on my computer and not my phone
EXPLAIN: I payed her in full and she never delivered the product, but the thing is that she lied to me long enough and gave me enough fake deadlines that I ran out of time with Paypal, my only option now is to go to Small Claims Court. I've threatened with that and she just keeps giving me these lies, and even bought a $22 USPS tracking number and sent it to me saying "I shipped your suit" but never brought the "package" in to USPS, so it's still not in use to this day. There are constant times where I had to threaten to take my money back on Paypal in order to get her to respond. In the end, she's still ignoring me, my only response from her is her telling me on Twitter that she'll give me a cease and desist because I posted about this on my Twitter. After all of this she still swears up and down that she shipped the package and says she has an open claim with USPS about the "lost package" but has no proof of that, and still has no proof of the "$2400 in insurance" she bought on the package, because she sent me a receipt for a $22 shipping label but the insurance alone on a package that large and that heavy is $34. On top of all of this, when she was supposed to be working on my suit, she went off and made 2 partials for MFF (they're in the screenshots) during the same week she said it would be shipped to me. Then she ignored me for another 7 days until I threatened with a refund again. After she started ignoring me I started to get a little more aggressive, as you can see in some of the screenshots. Eventually she told me "I was ignoring you because I'm spacey"... that makes no sense, no one should ignore their customers especially if you owe them money/a product. I took back $440 because that is all I could get back from the payments. The rest is over a year old and Paypal won't touch it. Just getting her to give updates was a pain, and I really do hope that no one has to go through this again like I did, this is the reason I'm making this Artist Beware, not as revenge or in anger. She's still open for commissions and keeps taking on suits while apparently working on mine. It's obvious she's either doing them instead of mine, or stealing other people's money as well.
UPDATE: After speaking with Vitai Slade to get her removed from Dealer's Den, she "found" the unshipped package inside of her apartment and took it into USPS once and for all. After all of this mess and drama, the suit is the right quality and there are no missing parts. Glad it's finally all over
http://imgur.com/a/wKPpS
http://imgur.com/a/3cF4t
The suit!
http://imgur.com/a/xf2zI
http://imgur.com/a/kOYlx
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