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Client Beware: Solomon King Thompson

By Eden (edited)

January 19, 2019

Who: Solomon King Thompson

Where: Email

When: 09/18/2018

What: Commission

Message added by Eden

Mod Note: Real life names and email addresses have been permitted on this as this user seems to primarily do business under their real life names and email addresses.

charliessd (

charliessd) wrote in

artists_beware,
@ 2019-01-15 12:09

Solomon King Thompson

WHO :

his nickname is Solomon King Thompson / siwell16 aka Nigel Porter, etc you name it. In this case, the commissioner / client has committed a theft. He has a lot of different names. He contacted me by this email

[email protected]

[email protected] (his paypal)

WHERE :

https://www.freelancer.com/u/siwell16

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117527282677078313904?prsrc=4

WHAT :

Digital art for business purpose (t-shirt design for mass produce)

WHEN :

September 18th, 2018

EXPLAIN :

hello, i have been scammed by a client recently. I thought i want to share it with the others artist to warn them.He first approached me via 3rd party work website & then contacted my email called [email protected] / Solomon King Thompson . He was looking for artist with anime style to design his t-shirt, he saw my portfolio & interested in working with me. I replied him that i can work with him if agreed with my ToS. I gave him the link to my price list & ToS in it (which stated that the client has to pay right away after i showed them the first draft)

He used a trick where he paid for the first work and then he said he's very satisfied with my work & asking for more commission, pretending wanted to work with me for a long term. The first commission went pretty smoothly (even though he's bit late for the payment). After the first commission was completed, he asked for the second one. I quote him $XX+ for the work & he agreed and said will do the payment soon. For the second commission i gave him the work first because he need the work to be completed asap (next week) and promised to pay on Friday (2 Oct 2018) & i thought he can be trusted since it's his second commission , yet on the due date there’s no news came from him.

He didn't reply after i gave him the work & asking for payment. He replied in between 8 Oct when i asked if he wanted to cancel the commission after that, he didn't bother to open & reply my email from 12 Oct - 29 Oct 2019. He only replied after i warned him that if he doesn't reply my message shortly after 24hr I will make this public. I've been really generous to extend his payment due more than 10 weeks. What makes it worse, recently he open a dispute/report to his previous payment that make my account got locked for some reason & i can't access my paypal, despite i have sent the high-resolution file & he said he satisfied with my work.

He chooses to run away from his problem & didn’t even try to resolve it until now thus i decided to make this public so you can watch out for him if he's approaching you.

if any of you were commissioned him by any chance. It'll be safer to just reject him. Don't fall for his trick pretending to be a good client. He only “paid” for the first work just to make us trust him (also his paypal email look way too fishy [email protected]) . He might be still out there looking an artist to draw him 2B, bowsette & another lewd female character ..for his T-shirt design ..

*edit 2019 : I saw an upwork post stating looking for lewd anime style character for t-shirt here https://www.upwork.com/jobs/_~014e58b8f2f291e674/. Please be warry. From what i know according to the conversation we had he need 4 design for his t-shirt. I have completed one and a half of the design. So there are 2-3 design left needed. If any of you see this image used around for merchandise please let me know

https://imgur.com/M8lzaEb

https://imgur.com/BOEQU0i

PROOF :

https://i.imgur.com/XKkUeAu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dhIOZxR.png

https://i.imgur.com/DKXE6ro.png

https://i.imgur.com/uNzneHW.png

https://i.imgur.com/PPnbApE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4Qf0L4X.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RvMLYzg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pHb4C3S.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/D8pvVKz.jpg