Beware: Lingo/Eindraa

https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/856511.html

WHO: Eindraa, Iingo
http://endraa.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/whitekens
http://whitekens.weebly.com/
Where: http://iingo.deviantart.com/

What:
Dec 2013 - Two Chibi Commissions
May 2014 - Fullbody Commission
When: December 2013 for the chibis and May 2014 for the fullbody.
Proof: http://imgur.com/a/QsVKY Contains all the pertinent image files, but will be linking to singular ones in the post.

Explain (This is a very long post, I apologize for that! There's a summary at the bottom):
In November 2013, Iingo (then known as Eindraa) opened chibi commissions (http://i.imgur.com/9ts6BsT.png) to help with college tuition (http://i.imgur.com/JpKaptF.png). I purchased two chibi slots. (http://i.imgur.com/uvY0fMX.png) As can be seen, I also considered asking her to do some gijinkas of anthros (http://i.imgur.com/VER6i9n.png), but I decided not to do so in the end, and payment was discussed and sent. (http://i.imgur.com/72fN4vL.png)

Months passed, Iingo was active on DA with large giveaways, interactive journals, features, and running groups. She also submitted art on a decently frequent enough basis, at least one piece a month, if not more.
http://i.imgur.com/kuJMTCr.png
http://i.imgur.com/wPGwSqP.png
http://i.imgur.com/4DoWlTC.png
http://i.imgur.com/LG4kuk7.png
http://i.imgur.com/hN4BiCh.png
http://i.imgur.com/xgmobjq.png

In February of 2014 or so, she sent me a note asking for a new reference image of one of my characters for the chibi, as the dropbox link no longer worked. Nearly three months passed by before I replied, going by what I can find in my notes, and I am definitely to blame for the lengthiness in that situation. I replied in May 2014 with an updated link, and also asked for a fullbody commission, (http://i.imgur.com/Pgi170z.png) as I noticed she had opened some slots for them up(http://i.imgur.com/6aSuak5.png). She replied about two weeks later and I paid quickly after. (http://i.imgur.com/sLfKjk9.png) This would be the last contact for half a year. My name was never put down in the fullbody list. She continued being active during this period of time with more journals and artworks.
http://i.imgur.com/hRm7jIc.png
http://i.imgur.com/eVRJ9Bg.png
http://i.imgur.com/ReLnE5I.png
http://i.imgur.com/Z4LKTiY.png
http://i.imgur.com/EdMxKi7.png (A commission was posted around a month later.)
http://i.imgur.com/1L0sSsp.png
http://i.imgur.com/qprg5bZ.png (Again, no contact made to me, and the only one from this list she finished a commission in decent time was Choubidubinette's, of which she owed two chibis to the customer it appears and would finish the last one months later)
http://i.imgur.com/QPAUIuH.png (Was not done with commissions.)

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To summarize:
-I purchased 2 chibi commissions in December 2013 and a fullbody in May 2014.
-She has never contacted me on her own (as in, not having a deadline enforced, angry customer, etc, of her own volition), except once in February 2014 to request I send her an updated character reference which I took nearly three months to reply to and apologize.
-She has been fairly active this entire timespan with both art and journals and DA activity, only beginning to slow down somewhat in the beginning of 2015.
-Took down her to-do list twice, and current one is incomplete.
-Did not answer most of my notes asking for updates until I tried to enforce a deadline in February 2015.
-She broke her deadlines twice. Claimed she would finish by the end of February or March. She did not, and when I contacted her again at the end of March, she promised two would be done in a week, something that proved to be inaccurate.
-Does not listen to my concerns. Asked twice to be notified before working on the fullbody, that did not happen. I listed examples of the styles I wanted, no response was given and the finished chibis are in a wholly different style.
-This does not truly pertain to me, but I have reason to believe she is ignoring others as well. Also, in late 2014, she said she would be nearly done with Tirekins' commission, but it would take her many months before she was actually done. The same occurred for Choubidoubinette's commissions and many others.

Thank you for your time everyone.

Updated 8/2/15:
The situation has progressed some more since then. (http://i.imgur.com/xrpfLrX.png)(http://i.imgur.com/OQVvUPR.png) I ended up not replying to this note, it was clear we were in a disagreement over the situation and would not be able to reach a middle ground. I point out that it was actually three months and not four, and that she continued her lack of communication and updates throughout that process and the month-long reply was as earlier mentioned in this post, due to stress experienced from discussing the matter with her. In any case, this was my reply two weeks later, where I asked why she broke a deadline yet again: (http://i.imgur.com/1KK6les.png)
Iingo replied: (http://i.imgur.com/lb217Wa.png) I sent a note back essentially thanking her for the reply.
She finished the fullbody commission the next day! (http://i.imgur.com/ZF6umLQ.png) (http://i.imgur.com/QT4MjBT.png)
I replied that I liked the one with the background: (http://i.imgur.com/xOetHO0.png) A few minutes later, Iingo posted the fullbody commission to her gallery: (http://i.imgur.com/pM60k4o.png) / http://iingo.deviantart.com/art/Full-Body-Commission-for-Vespisia-545980631
Again, this is the commission sample when I purchased a fullbody commission from her: (http://i.imgur.com/H7atwRi.png)
I know styles change, especially with how long this situation has taken, but the two look different in not just style, but quality. To make sure I was not biased, I showed the pieces to others for comparison, and they agreed and noted that it looked like they were made by two different artists and I should ask for a partial refund. Which I did, I finally replied to her last night, having been silent from the hurt of receiving what to me, seemed like a subpar commission after she noted me the piece, which was unprofessional of me to do so. Here is the note I sent her last night at last: (http://i.imgur.com/VJi4utd.png) I thanked her for the piece and asked for a partial refund. Iingo would reply a few hours later with three notes: (http://i.imgur.com/SJedypc.png) (http://i.imgur.com/4qhW1h3.png) (http://i.imgur.com/6UVoOCW.png) I do not intend to reply to her notes. Again, no agreement can be made between us so there is no point. I am updating this beware to let everyone know what has progressed in the situation and I suppose it is resolved, somewhat. Because I got my commissions at last and partial refunds. However, my intention was really to warn people of her work ethic and behavior and in that regard, it is not resolved.

Again, thank you for your time everyone.