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There is a person who is using images from elsewhere (because I recognize some of them) and after searching further I can prove they are pretending to be an artist and scamming people for their money. BUT I was not in any transaction with them. I did not lose any money, but I'm seeing people give away their money to this person they have faith in. Can I make a beware of this person?

I commissioned a fursuit maker for something (an item they had in their sales post) and they clarified they either had those same materials they used to make another of what was in their sales post or could get more.I see the final result and the materials used look nothing like what I asked them about. I was told I'm wrong and the item is the exact same (Its not, i've asked around in case it was just me). I requested a refund. They told me I will not get a refund until they've made a profit and the item sells. They have not replied to my latest message since but I am giving them a few days.

MY QUESTION: How do I avoid a situation like this for next time? I thought my using their example and simply saying "Can you do another just like this." was enough.

I feel awful for doing this to the artist but I'm also not happy that they felt the need to try and lie to me that what they finished was the same as what they used in their example.

Thank you.

An update!

We did make contact back in September. They've opted to push back my work because of weather and bigger projects they've already slotted for completion. Gave me an estimate of Jan2020 (I had to ask for a date because initially they didn't give me one). So I didn't prod or push between then, only making sure things were still on track in October to make sure they'ed follow through.

I haven't heard anything since October and have sent an email sometime mid January and another as of today.

On 9/17/2019 at 12:39 PM, theodor said:

Their Facebook page links to this; https://www.missrarscreatures.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0nVYPBmZZ-o-kKcj6Msca6N7pp8CtG60L-Y51NW43X5fsTl3oYSsPzHvU

Which links this twitter; https://twitter.com/Missrars

(which was updated in june)

And an instagram; https://www.instagram.com/missrars_/
 

 

It looks like they attended cons/are attending cons. You can always try and contact the cons and tell them the artist has run with your money. Cons dont like to allow dealers that scam in, and our cons actually encourage customers telling staff if sellers do this.

Twitter was where I was contacting them before their email got spotty and quiet. I had a friend try and reach out to them via Facebook and they were able to contact them to ask about my stuff until around May. Not that it was helpful anyway as they just kept telling them I was "Next in queue".

I'll try and DM them via Instagram, thank you!

Haven't considered contacting the cons they sell at, didn't know it was an option. I'm giving it until Friday before I try as I sent an email through their website Monday and DMed them on instagram.

Someone showed me a link to their website and an email that is different from the ones on their FA, so I'll try both I suppose and see what happens.

4 hours ago, VosurAekira said:

There is an email listed on the shouts for the FA page [email protected] . Then there's also https://www.deviantart.com/yuki-moon and https://www.youtube.com/user/Naokishi listed on the FA page as well

Thanks for that! Looks like their DA hasn't been used much compared to the other ones, I'll keep a eye on their youtube and may try contact there since they seem to stream sometimes.

Hello, I am in need of help finding an artist by the name of Missrars (originally going by Kurauno). The way of contact I had with them via Twitter/FA does not seem to work any more. I paid them 3 years back for a head mold, two RTF bases and a resin base for me and a friend and have not been able to reach the artist for some time. The last post I saw from them on Twitter was back in May 2019 (Direct messaging was back in November 2018). I'm aware they're still active somewhere as they update their Twitter tag for cons and I've seen posts where people have purchased parts from them at cons as well.

The accounts I am aware of are:

FurAffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kurauno/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Missrars

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/MissRars/

Any help is appreciated.