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8 years ago
I was just notified that a "Thomas Young" on Facebook has been stealing and reselling my adoptables. If any of you are on Facebook I would definitely appreciate any help in resolving this. I am not on Facebook at all so I'm not sure if I can do anything, but if you see your character floating around and someone else claims to have bought it know that this might be what happened.
How you can help me: Get on Facebook and tell this guy to take down my adopts! I will try to do it myself, but like I said, I don't have a facebook account.
How you can help others who were scammed: Please be respectful and gentle with them even if they are using designs that you bought from me. They are yours first and foremost, but these people paid legitimate money for them, so telling them that they can open a claim with PayPal to get there money back may be useful. They very likely don't know that someone else owns the design so just letting them know and seeing if they will change it up a bit may solve the issue.
If they do not cooperate: If they have an FA page, let me know and I will talk to them. If they don't it is possible that they may be willing to change the design so that it is different from your character.
How you can help me: Get on Facebook and tell this guy to take down my adopts! I will try to do it myself, but like I said, I don't have a facebook account.
How you can help others who were scammed: Please be respectful and gentle with them even if they are using designs that you bought from me. They are yours first and foremost, but these people paid legitimate money for them, so telling them that they can open a claim with PayPal to get there money back may be useful. They very likely don't know that someone else owns the design so just letting them know and seeing if they will change it up a bit may solve the issue.
If they do not cooperate: If they have an FA page, let me know and I will talk to them. If they don't it is possible that they may be willing to change the design so that it is different from your character.
I tried to ask one site to remove an image I actually commissioned and they refused unless the artist was the one asking for it, which was stupid since I was the owner...
Ahhggg that's frustrating. And stupid. People are incredibly difficult to deal with sometimes. Sorry that happened to you. :c
There is even a person on this text based roleplaying game that I play who is trying to profit from other peoples art. They have links to art in their profile but the links are adfly links, so they are trying to make money off of people checking the links but the art isn't theirs.