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beware Beware : koenvgraphics / Koen van Vliet
Rendrassa commented on EpicWerewolf's record in Artist Bewares
While Wise doesn't seem to take the same proactive steps PayPal does with fraud protection, it does list some things you can do about this: https://wise.com/help/articles/2978048/i-may-be-the-victim-of-fraud-or-a-scam -
I appear to be blind. Thank you for double checking.
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So as of this message, I could not find a copy of their ToS anywhere on their FA account. Not in a journal, on their profile, not linked in the above conversation. A ToS can't be enforced if the client had no way of seeing it.
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I'm probably not doing it 100% properly myself, but the IRS hasn't come down on me, so I'll give my experience. I mostly use PayPal, which allows me to easily track my business income as invoices and send it as an exported report straight onto my taxes as an attachment. I get a few dollars straight to my bank account through commiss.io that I add to my total income (which my bank records already make note of.)
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For more info on contacting the artist and PayPal, see here:
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If it's only been four months, you should be within time to file a claim with PayPal. I would send another message stating your intention to open a claim. You'll need to decide if you still want to try to get the art or push for a refund.
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I'll never understand when an artist/maker finishes a product but then refuses to send/ship it. This is never acceptable behavior and I'm sorry you were taken advantage of. As advice to anyone in a similar situation, begin pressing for the shipping number a week after the supposed shipping date and by a month after, begin talking about opening a claim. Always be aware of your protection window.
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When doing YCHs it can be tricky due to our responsibility to multiple people at once. In this case, the YCH probably shouldn't have been uploaded to auction until payment from the first two. I see that there was some haggling over price and Chloe bringing up how they should pay less if the auction went high, but that's not how auctions work. Bidder A doesn't get a discount if Bidder C pays the full amount. This is a bit of a red flag for me, personally, and I would caution working with clients that haggle like this. Something else you could do in the future is make it clear that if they don't pay in X time, they forfeit their slot and you are free to auction the slot or add your own character to it even if they were the "inspiration".
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Seems like a classic tracer who can't do anatomy on their own. Mirroring CrimsonVexations to open a claim and immediately escalate it.
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Since the client had paid without issue previously, you weren't wrong to begin work before receiving payment. However, upon finishing the artwork it would have been best to watermark the art with the words "unpaid" on it and only posted/given the unwatermarked art after receiving payment. I do hope the client pays the rest of what they owe.
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This is probably why the artist solicits customers in DMs. Just one more reason to do one's due diligence to look up who you're working with.
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beware Beware : Alastra #5807 / Angel Dust #3999
Rendrassa commented on Mimichuu's record in Client Bewares
I honestly didn't even notice the watermarks, and had you not mentioned adding them, I would have been oblivious to them. It's fine to take payment after (though yes, you should stick to your practices) but if you do, make the watermark very clear. I would also advice the watermark say, as well as your username, "unpaid" prominently so that it can't be posted around without people pointing it out and questioning the poster. -
More inquiries about making artist beware posts
Rendrassa replied to khianve's topic in Site Questions
If you paid through PayPal, you should be able to find the transaction and (assuming you didn't pay through Friends and Family) can open a dispute for not receiving your order. -
It's possible your original interaction came off in some way that either upset the artist or made them feel uncomfortable. Impossible to know without a (heavily censored) screenshot of your conversation. But as Xaila said, assume this was how it would have been if you had sent them money and move on to a new artist.
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To rephrase it more clearly in case my ramblings were unclear, I don't send through PayPal but the email connected to the buyer's PayPal account. (The one that PayPal uses to notify them of invoices/payment receipts/ect.) PayPal prefers direct links to the PayPal email for communication in order to verify it was, in fact, the PayPal account holder. (Their logic is that anyone could use a third party social media site and pretend to be someone by giving an other's email as part of a scam/theft.) Because of this, we should all be using only email for commission communication, but there's still the issue of NSFW discussion threatening our accounts. A step below that is my suggestion of having proof that something was sent to the buyer, as a lot of scammers will claim nothing was sent to them at all. I can't tell how this buyer actually paid you, but I would further recommend sending an invoice with an attached ToS, making sure "shipping info" is set to not required and specifying the payment is for digital goods/commission work. While I hope PayPal decides to pay you back out of their own pocket, I would start prepping for a lose just in case.
