VosurAekira

Definitely if you're able to, contact Paypal or your bank pertaining to the transaction for this. I wondered why I removed this particular artist from my watch list (used to watch them before, but now I don't), and I think it was a situation similar to this, so she may have done this to other people too.

On 10/10/2019 at 6:56 AM, Celestina said:

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Alright. Thank you.

On the side note, if geckorobot1 did admit to being a minor, would there be any way to report that to Paypal (as the minimum age to use Paypal services would be 18)?

On 10/6/2019 at 9:51 AM, Moxxxie said:

So, apparently hes a minor. He was using his parents card/account and they issued the chargeback. At least this is the excuse he has given recently. He has at least $600 in chargebacks from what I saw and I only added up totals that i saw paypal screenshots for 😕

Just to help clarify and cross-reference (last comment on here)
https://artistsbeware.info/beware/submissions/client-bewares/client-beware-geckorobot1-r331/

Also, would it be an idea for the Beware here to be in the Client Bewares instead of the Artist Bewares?

Since he just proved who he was with that setup, would it be an idea to include his twitter-tag as well?

1 hour ago, Celestina said:

PayPal only punishes merchant accounts for selling stuff against TOS as far as we've seen.

Quoting from https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal’s-policy-on-transactions-that-involve-sexually-oriented-goods-and-services-faq569 (since it is in their FAQ's)
 

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We don’t permit PayPal account holders to buy or sell:

Sexually oriented digital goods or content delivered through a digital medium. Downloadable pictures or videos and website subscriptions are examples of digital goods.

If this holds true, then Dumas~ puts himself at risk as well for trying to buy it. Whether or not Paypal enforces it is a different matter, but I'm just specifying this because of Paypal could just as easily use this mention against both of them if Dumas~ ever reported it and takane brought the evidence forward that Dumas~ was intending to buy such material.

Something does seem a bit off about their 'threat'. If they threaten you with reporting NSFW content, then they would end up putting their own account in jeopardy as well (as Dumas~ is the one who ordered the NSFW content). 

Also, posting the situation here is well-warranted (not wanting to pay, threats, ect).

Alright. Might be an idea to check to see if the other individual's transaction is still valid as well?

Did the other person pay? It mentions "for my half" when they gave their email, so I would guess that the other one did pay if you finished it. And if that is the case, then maybe you can reach out to that person to find out what is going on?

Payments done through Ko-Fi do not hide the names of the recipients (or the sender as well) depending on if they are a business-account holder or not. Business accounts tend to show only the business name rather than the individual's name. I would show a search I just did in my own account, but that would showing of private information. 

If you go into your account activity, put "ko-fi" in the search function (along with the time frame the transaction took place), you should be able to see the details of the person you've sent it to (or received from if you are a recipient). In those details, you will see "Ko-Fi Donation" or "Ko-Fi Support" as part of the Purchase Details.

29 minutes ago, Vashaa said:

I would give them a deadline, and if they don't respond or give you the art until then, you should open a paypal dispute.
You have 180 days to do that from when you sent the money, and don't close that until you get the art.

To further on this, you have a 20 day window after the start of the dispute to escalate it to a claim or else it can get auto-closed. Do not close the dispute until after the item is in your hand (and in viable condition too if a physical item).