How do you help customers find a new artist after being scammed?

[Rex1173]

This site does not have a section that would help the unfortunate buyers after a big loss of their funds to find new artists who are trustworthy and in need of artwork that's the same category of style, character, design, and ideas that they failed to obtain from their mistaken first choice.   What I would call something like an "Artist Redirect", a directory of real artists that would be listed in groups of style classifications that makes the search much easier to compensate their bad luck.  Maybe that would require a whole new web domain, and that is beyond the funds to keep this site running on monthly bills?

[Eden]

8 minutes ago, Rex1173 said:

This site does not have a section that would help the unfortunate buyers after a big loss of their funds to find new artists who are trustworthy and in need of artwork that's the same category of style, character, design, and ideas that they failed to obtain from their mistaken first choice.   What I would call something like an "Artist Redirect", a directory of real artists that would be listed in groups of style classifications that makes the search much easier to compensate their bad luck.  Maybe that would require a whole new web domain, and that is beyond the funds to keep this site running on monthly bills?

We have our positive reviews forum for this, but we've never thought to categorize people by style.  I suppose we could use tags for this~

[Rex1173]

Just thought of another way.  Ebay's marketplace has a public voting system for buyers on the trustworthiness of sellers who can rate up or down their real experiences on transactions, shipping, payment, etc.  If only DeviantArt and other artwork platforms would implement something like that. 

I suppose I should also add format.  Style and format.  If a client wants a drawing of Scooby-Doo not in a style of Hanna-Barbera but Milt Kahl lines that would be one category.  They list that this Scooby won't be in an animation graphic, but redone in a format more fitting for something like out of the pages of a comic book.  We have a Scoob that's reborn with the fluidity of Kahl-ic lines and lives in the domain of a world governed by comic sequential frame view.  The pipeline in the search to find all kinds of artists HOWEVER would be always first based on style, the format would come as the second step and more of an optional selection.