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Also guess who just replied to both suspended accounts their other manager Sakoda.

Also not helping that there's a flood of the same YCH on said account as well not being very honest about it. I really think both partners should be added as well just for this alone.

11 hours ago, rikki said:

Note that when this happens, their partner always spams their shouts, and then they begin advertising commissions through their account.


They both seem to be keen on advertising new work, but not addressing the backlog. As much as they want to claim its a minor issue with the mods, they continued to make accounts to skirt their suspensions. This is just blatant disregard for site policy and its astonishing how cavalier they both are when she's getting shut down like this.

At this rate i would'nt even trust SebastianMorgenstern or Sakoda at all encouraging this behavior it's only going to make things much worse for everyone else with stricter rules.

And look another suspension and spamming from their coworker. This is starting to become common from her.

5 hours ago, WinterFaint said:

a lot of bewares on this artist. Glad I had looked them up when I saw the same ychs for quite some time pop up on my home feed.

 

I'm a little shocked that this artist just keeps taking on com after com if I'm reading correctly, and just not completing her previous ones before accepting more? Seems very purposeful at this point

Considering their alt accounts are suspended. wouldn't be surprised at this point if there's another alt on FA doing the same exact thing.

Fighting with the mods again the previous caution beware on her really revels what she meant when her alt accounts got discovered and suspended repeatedly in such a short amount of time.

I'm surprised from looking at her profile that she is suspended again in such a short time along with her alts though the comment from one of her crewmembers on the bottom of the main page is rather concerning.

14 hours ago, Flynne said:

Be aware they have a second FA account (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/cielkuro/) posting the exact same YCH's in mass

And that said account is banned as well it's not a wise thing to ban evade when your main account is suspended.

The caution is well warranted especially that no refunds, and the aggressive wording on the tos is really enough for customers to steer away from.

Artist you really can't enforce a no refunds since that in itself is a major red flag.

On 12/30/2020 at 12:19 PM, GeneKruger said:

Yeah I just had a pretty similar experience with her. Same dogpiling, same emotional manipulation, same everything. Including making fun of my recently deceased dog. She purged the discord channel most of the dispute happened in, otherwise I'd make my own post here. So this is her on paypal trying to charge back a "refund."

 

This is quite alarming though you should never close a paypal dispute over excuses like this.

On 2/27/2021 at 4:17 PM, WindTide said:

Good day. I am updating this beware post with a image that displays the updated Terms of Service for the artist. Here, there is a huge red flag that is applicable to this situation, to which I felt must be shared to this ongoing dispute:

 

CODE OF CONDUCT: I will politely communicate with commissioners and keep you appraised of ongoing progress in a timely manner, responding to requests for update(s) within one week of the request. Inappropriate behavior on a commissioner(s)' part will result in a forfeiture of refund rights, display and usage rights, and termination of an ongoing commission (if applicable). This includes but is not limited to: Threats, targeted harassment, defamation, verbal abuse, and sexual misconduct.

 

 

If I understand this to be true, then my attempt to address a situation with the artist by bringing this problem with the artist means that, under defamation, I lose my refund rights and my commission is terminated. I unfortunately do not have a copy of the original ToS that I agreed to, but as it stands it is highly unlikely at this point that I will get any sort of resolution if this is their ultimate stance.

 

Apparently any sort of criticism means I lose my money and my commission.

 

I don't know if BC or Lobosan are even watching this Artist Beware post. But if they are, I have a message to them:

 

I understand you have valued my standing as a commissioner at $520. If this is what it costs me to understand your character not only as an artist, but as a person with a thread of moral fiber, then that is the price I am glad to pay. This is precisely why I have decided to post this complaint on Artist Beware, when I have on record my attempted communication on a resolution.

 

I probably don't expect to hear from either one of you at any point in time. It would probably be for the best at any rate; it is clear to me and all that will read this Beware post the kind of people the two of you are.

Well that really is going to making things much worse for both of them that's code of conduct is going to stain both their reputations permanently.

I don't think she realized beware can't be removed here but only resolved despite she still have a previous beware here that hasn't been resolved.

1 minute ago, ToastyPoodle said:

She is still, however, charging a 6% PayPal feel on other YCH’s, as a heads up.

Wait isn't that really against paypal terms of service. Considering her own list of commissions and doing that as well she really digging herself deep in trouble.

7 hours ago, Cryptozoo said:

The purpose is to strip complaints and criticism from her FA page because her business model is to rope in new customers that have not seen the warnings she's already cleared out of her shouts. 

Also if anyone noticed her recent journal about updates she really not doing herself any favors on taking more commissions than she is doing.

Maybe is she actually communicated with her customers better not guilt tripping, and lying she wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. 

50 minutes ago, Tayuta said:

Adding to this post I'm another victim she scammed. Her scam is to ghost you long enough Her scam is to ghost you long enough that once enough time has passed, paypal has difficult cracking down on it (The default refund period is 180 days from the transaction date.) 

She has ghosted me completely and I don't expect to ever see this commission, it's been 8 months. Lesson learned from me, I am never paying upfront unless its a well trusted and well known artist.

 

This is really quite irresponsible of her to do this to you. Would be best to make a beware on this since more of these pop up the more often they show up on google search.

This looks a lot like spam from the way she posts her reminders. it's every few minutes. would be better to just post one reminder with a link to all of them.

Though she seems to be pretty active on her twitter from looking at it.

8 hours ago, Cryptozoo said:

I had a similar situation with her. The six-month point for acommission was approaching so I filed for a refund with PayPal. She finally responded to that and was very angry about it. Things broke down to the point that I no longer wanted to speak to her.

I let her keep the money (I didn't think it was worth potentially making someone homeless over, as she claims). So despite getting money from me for doing nothing and even recycling the YCH I'd claimed, she posted a 'blacklist' on her TOS calling me out by name that I had to get taken down by the FA admins.

I seriously doubt that a TOS where the artist tries to forbid chargebacks under any circumstance is valid, especially when journals on FA can be edited at will. PayPal certainly doesn't agree with the idea.

She seems to have no idea how running a business works and has a strong sense of entitlement.

Between this beware, toastypoodle and now your experience with her this says quite a lot about her buisness practices.

5 hours ago, HeartCollar said:

I have seen journal about this situation and she left out these important details so i was adviced her to make artist-beware but after reading this i understand why she said she's not "able" to do this post herself. Hope you get your money back.

I looked around and saw that journal you replied to and really don't appreciate her lying and getting pats over it especially the TOS with no refunds is just plain illegal. 

Well even if this is still a WIP you can still get it taken down since he didn't pay you at all.

On 12/8/2020 at 9:39 AM, bunartist said:

Sorry, but I think youre more in the wrong here. this artist is a 15 year old, for starters- which of course doesnt exempt them from receiving a beware, but i am naturally more hesitant of judgement. 

i do not see how this artist ghosted you, they took awhile to reply- yes, but in these screenshots it shows that you were contacted semi regularly atleast, it doesnt help that you left them with a completed sketch concept for a month for you to turn to them and say you dont want it anymore and you want a refund, and they can just resell it themselves, that is very unfair on the artist especially since theyd already done custom work for you.

i dont take issue with you filing a dispute, especially because of the wait, but i think youre projecting your frustrations of being scammed onto this 15 year old child.

looking through their instagram, their art appears to be the same quality as the custom and i personally feel like youre being overcritical because youre upset with this kid.

i think its honestly really kind that they offered to create you more art for free, they dont owe you that, if its something you want there id be grateful.

Actually i can see why this is a caution considering the communication issues and the artist who is 15. really shouldn't be doing them at all which is a huge risk in itself.

On 9/2/2020 at 7:45 PM, MorgueBuddy said:

Here’s her new account https://www.furaffinity.net/user/beyer.m.alex/

Also you might want to add their itch.io account as well here. Considering the user posted it on their FA page.

https://beyer-m-alex.itch.io/

And there's quite a few interesting find on said  itch.io page too.

20 hours ago, Vindictiive said:

Sadly from the 7 people who reached out to me since this beware they said the reason they haven’t spoken out is fear of being harassed - exact words were “did you see what happened  in Her server when duccidraws asked about her same day commission when it wasn’t done 3 weeks later? I don’t want them jumping on me like that” “ I’m smaller than her they will bury me” “the mob that comes down on anyone critical of her business practices scares me” it’s all sadly seeming to stem from a toxic environment from her watchers which I’ve been subject to myself, I had to report several people for threatening me with physical harm for reporting this.

I'm somewhat not surprised by that behavior. considering that kind of what happened in the livejournal but it really backfired on her  fortunately which made the beware even more valid.

This is not really surprising to me considering the previous beware before back in 2015 on livejournal which was quite awful with the excuses she made.  Just really disappointed in this I was hoping she would improve.