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I am tired and feel disrespected
4 weeks ago
Just a bit of a rant to vent out frustration.
I'm sick and tired of artists treating my commissions with absolutely zero regard to me or my time. It is extremely fucked up that in the internet art community you are expected to give your hard earned money in advance and the other side can just not deliver their end of the deal and they will hardly face any repercussions at all. Oh what's that? You have not received your commission after 6 months? Well, tough luck!
I get it, life gets in the way, situations happen, plans fall apart. All of these unexpected things are often the reason for delays and I am not saying "aargh stupid artists, I don't care if you broke your leg!" But what I AM saying is that there needs to be communication and accountability. Medical emergency? Sorry your commission will take another month to finish. Not sure when it will be finished? Here's your money back.
I have commissions that I paid for YEARS ago and I'm still waiting on them. At this point I don't even want them anymore because even if I get them, they'll just remind of all of the frustration I went through with the artist. It honestly would have been nicer if the artist mugged me at gunpoint in an alleyway and took my money, at least then the trouble would have ended right then and there instead of stringing me along for however many years they want.
Anyways, I'm gonna close this with a quote from author Bernard Cornwell:
"Writer's block???? writer's block is nature's way of telling you you're not a writer. If a nurse could have a block, then I could have one: that's how I feel. Nursing is much more difficult than what I do. And they're not allowed to phone up and say: Awfully sorry. I've got nurse's block today."
I'm sick and tired of artists treating my commissions with absolutely zero regard to me or my time. It is extremely fucked up that in the internet art community you are expected to give your hard earned money in advance and the other side can just not deliver their end of the deal and they will hardly face any repercussions at all. Oh what's that? You have not received your commission after 6 months? Well, tough luck!
I get it, life gets in the way, situations happen, plans fall apart. All of these unexpected things are often the reason for delays and I am not saying "aargh stupid artists, I don't care if you broke your leg!" But what I AM saying is that there needs to be communication and accountability. Medical emergency? Sorry your commission will take another month to finish. Not sure when it will be finished? Here's your money back.
I have commissions that I paid for YEARS ago and I'm still waiting on them. At this point I don't even want them anymore because even if I get them, they'll just remind of all of the frustration I went through with the artist. It honestly would have been nicer if the artist mugged me at gunpoint in an alleyway and took my money, at least then the trouble would have ended right then and there instead of stringing me along for however many years they want.
Anyways, I'm gonna close this with a quote from author Bernard Cornwell:
"Writer's block???? writer's block is nature's way of telling you you're not a writer. If a nurse could have a block, then I could have one: that's how I feel. Nursing is much more difficult than what I do. And they're not allowed to phone up and say: Awfully sorry. I've got nurse's block today."
Unfortunately, its a sellers market. If you dont put up with the bad practices, you just cant partake. The seller decides their policies and theres nothing to keep them in check. For more popular artists where there is always demand, they could have the worst practices and people would still line up to buy.
There is also a distinct lack of any marketplace with any good form of review/rating/feedback system. FA is a horrible marketplace, so is twitter or discord. FA and Discord the artists just squelch/mute/delete any negative feedback and you can't know what youre getting into.
Its become more and more a gamble for me to get art over the years, ive had to put a lot less into it and i stick to a (thinning) select few artists that i know work. If smaller artists are wondering why they're not getting work, well, this is it. Theres a lack of confidence to buy.
Really sorry you had to go through this kind of frustrations too.
I'm sorry to hear that from you too, especially because i went through related cases as well.
Hope you will make better experiences soon!