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Considering for commissions
7 months ago
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Hey folks, SomnoFeetia here, and as the title suggest, I am possibly considering making commissions for my gallery. The times are changing, and with my personal financial crisis, I need income.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have a stable job in real life, but there have been too many problems and quite frankly, I’m sick of it. So, the only way to save myself is starting to consider doing commissions.
I recently opened up a Paypal account but I haven’t touched it, so I thought it’s best that I start giving it a try. But there are a few roadblocks that I must figure out…
How does it work?
1. Now, I remember seeing a comment that foreign money becomes US Dollars if sent to America, and turning dollars can turn into either European Euros and British Pounds, depending on the preferred currency. But if someone is from… let’s say Italy for example, and send money to someone to the United Kingdom, does it turn from Euro to Pounds and even viceversa, and if two people came from Europe, they send Euros to eachother easily? You see, I’m a european who is living in Italy and the account is set on european euros, and I want to know if it works that way too.
2. Now, I know for a fact that if someone is requesting you to make something for them, they'll have to pay you the money for that commission request. However, if you're requesting someone to make something for you, you will have to pay the money to them so they can make something for you. But I remember one thing: Paypal will shut down your account if they find out you do NSFW content, but I saw NSFW artists actually use Paypal and get away with it. So, how does that work? Now, I’m not a hard NSFW artist, but given I make feet pictures, it does worry me a bit. So, how do they get away with it?
That’s all I want to know. I want to speak to a commission based artist and/or a regular commissioner and explain to me how it works. Thank you.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have a stable job in real life, but there have been too many problems and quite frankly, I’m sick of it. So, the only way to save myself is starting to consider doing commissions.
I recently opened up a Paypal account but I haven’t touched it, so I thought it’s best that I start giving it a try. But there are a few roadblocks that I must figure out…
How does it work?
1. Now, I remember seeing a comment that foreign money becomes US Dollars if sent to America, and turning dollars can turn into either European Euros and British Pounds, depending on the preferred currency. But if someone is from… let’s say Italy for example, and send money to someone to the United Kingdom, does it turn from Euro to Pounds and even viceversa, and if two people came from Europe, they send Euros to eachother easily? You see, I’m a european who is living in Italy and the account is set on european euros, and I want to know if it works that way too.
2. Now, I know for a fact that if someone is requesting you to make something for them, they'll have to pay you the money for that commission request. However, if you're requesting someone to make something for you, you will have to pay the money to them so they can make something for you. But I remember one thing: Paypal will shut down your account if they find out you do NSFW content, but I saw NSFW artists actually use Paypal and get away with it. So, how does that work? Now, I’m not a hard NSFW artist, but given I make feet pictures, it does worry me a bit. So, how do they get away with it?
That’s all I want to know. I want to speak to a commission based artist and/or a regular commissioner and explain to me how it works. Thank you.
2. This one I can answer with confidence as someone who’s gotten a ton of commissions. And it’s basically to be a discreet as possible when taking the payment for the commission and never openly stating its NSFW. Make sure that and tell every single person that commissions you to not ever mention anything about the commission in the note section or what the payment is for on Paypal itself, just have them send the payment with no bells and whistles. I know some artist also ask for commissioners to use “For Family & Friends” option instead of the “For a Payment” option for this reason since it makes the payment seem less like its for a transaction and more like you’re sending money. Also try to not link directly to your Paypal account or the email you use for said account on your pages since I believe Paypal very rarely track down people based on that. But yeah, as long as you and whoever the Commissioner is never brings up the fact that you’re taking a Commission for a fetish / NSFW picture you should be fine.
Either way, I hope I was able to help a bit. Would be super excited to get a commission from you if you decide to do it have absolutely adored your stuff over the years!