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I'm done
10 years ago
Till further notice I will no longer be buying commissions. I'm just done with it. I have been waiting for stuff to be done now for years, I paid for the commissions and was promised that they would be done by a certian time, then given exçuse after excuse as to why they aren't finished. Have I been to nice and understanding of people's life outside the fandom? I don't know why it is others get their commissions done before mine I try my absolute best to be nice and understanding, but I just can't do it anymore I work my very hard for the money I have and I can only afford to buy a commission every few months so it really hurts when someone takes my money and gives me the run around.
So for now I'm not going to put myself in this possition again. I know not every artist out there is like this and there are plenty of good ones but I just can't do it. Not only am I out the money that I spent but now I can't even look at the stuff these artist draw, I love their work but now all I feel is cheated when I see the new art they produce. I don't want to feel that way with any more of my favorite artist.
Even at this point I can't bring myself to report anyone to fur affinity, its not in my nature to do that, maybe that's why it keeps happening to me. They know who they are and I have serious doubts they will even read my journal, but if they do let me just say I'm done. I can no longer hope to finaly get my art from you and all it's doing is tearing me appart, so congrats you got free money enjoy it all you had to do was make promises to a man who works a honest job and gives his blood and sweat for every dollar he makes.
So for now I'm not going to put myself in this possition again. I know not every artist out there is like this and there are plenty of good ones but I just can't do it. Not only am I out the money that I spent but now I can't even look at the stuff these artist draw, I love their work but now all I feel is cheated when I see the new art they produce. I don't want to feel that way with any more of my favorite artist.
Even at this point I can't bring myself to report anyone to fur affinity, its not in my nature to do that, maybe that's why it keeps happening to me. They know who they are and I have serious doubts they will even read my journal, but if they do let me just say I'm done. I can no longer hope to finaly get my art from you and all it's doing is tearing me appart, so congrats you got free money enjoy it all you had to do was make promises to a man who works a honest job and gives his blood and sweat for every dollar he makes.
But if i did forget to put you on my list, there must of been some mistake and i apologize.
I've had a mix of experiences on FA. Sometimes I'll get a commission super quick. Sometimes an artist will tell me up front that it will be a while, but when that time comes, they have it done by then. Sometimes an artist gives me a general expected time but it ends up being later than that. In most cases they usually apologize for that and they just had things come up in their lives. Some artists don't give me an expected time at all but it ends up being a very long time... I think my longest wait was about 8 months.
In only one case did I never receive the art at all, and after it had been a long time, I checked in with the artist and they said they wouldn't be able to do it, but they gave me a refund.
There have been a few cases where an artist forgot about me. After it had been a while, I sent a note to remind them and it turns out they had forgotten to add me to their queue. But after my reminder, they dug up my info and did he commission.
So even though I haven't gotten tons and tons of art, I've never had an artist completely rip me off.
So first, I don't think there's anything wrong with checking in with artists...sometimes they just make honest mistakes. I don't bug them all the time, but unless I know the wait is going to be extremely long, I have no problem checking in once a month. If they had said it was going to be finished sooner, I might even check in more often than that. I don't think that is unreasonable, and I don't feel guilty letting them know.
If an artist truly is ripping me off, and they don't do a simple piece after a year, won't give me a date after a year, or won't offer me a refund....even if I don't formally report them I would feel no guilt telling as many people as I wanted what happened. To me that's just like rating something on yelp. If they truly have given me subpar service, I'll let other people know. Unless they were just singling you out, then they're probably doing it to others....and eventually that's going to hurt their business. So in the long run I feel justified.
I also learn artists habits and base my commissions on that. If I like an artist's work but I feel they take too long, I just won't get art from that particular artist. But I won't stop getting art from those who consistently do my commissions in a timely fashion, or who at least tell me what to expect.
So like I said, I understand that you want to be cautious, and it's your money so you should do what you want with it. Just make sure that you've thought everything through and are making the right decision for you. If you really want. A commissiion from an artist who consistently sticks to timeframes, most likely they'll continue to do so in the future.