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Artist Woes (rant)
5 years ago
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Small rant because I'm honestly pretty upset about it.
I don't usually have issues with my commissioners, and those who have worked with me know that I am a really nice person to work with and am more than accommodating in most cases. I'm very reliable and always give exceptional results.
I had a new commissioner send me a note, asking about my PWYW sale commissions.
Those of you who got one for the sale price, KNOW that I was charging my normal commission fees for extra things such as items, internals, extra characters, etc.
This is also explicitly stated in my PWYW upload description.
None of you had an issue with this. But this person did.
Another thing to note: They offered to pay full price for the commission, so I told them I would just put it down as a regular commission. Why take a PWYW sale slot if you're going to pay full price anyways? That's dumb.
My regular commissions are usually always open. The PWYW sale is a limited time thing.
Anyways, they had asked me to add a prop to their piece, a sword. So I asked for an extra $5 on top of the $30.
They gave me shit about it, and decided not to have the sword added. I bluntly told them not to ask for extra things if they weren't gonna pay extra.
Now I will admit that I don't have a "prop" fee listed on my regular price sheet (I forgot to add it while creating the new sheet), but I DID explain this to them and they chose to ignore it.
They then got pissed at me and decided to cancel the commission, with their reason being "the artist doesn't know what PWYW means"
Yet they didn't read my rules. They didn't listen to anything I explained to them about how my PWYW sale worked. They then proceeded to block me, calling me a "snarky bitch" and acting like I was the bad person.
When all they had to do was politely explain to me why they shouldn't have to pay $5 extra, and I would have likely accommodated them and let them pay just the $30 with prop included. Politeness goes a LONG way with me.
It comes down to this: Don't act entitled to my services. I am under no obligation to follow whatever rules you think I should follow.
Be respectful to me, and I will be respectful to you. I don't take shit from anyone, even if you're a paying customer.
I'm not the cashier at your local grocery store, I don't have to follow any corporate policies about how "the customer is always right." That's how it goes when you manage your own "business".
End of rant.
I don't usually have issues with my commissioners, and those who have worked with me know that I am a really nice person to work with and am more than accommodating in most cases. I'm very reliable and always give exceptional results.
I had a new commissioner send me a note, asking about my PWYW sale commissions.
Those of you who got one for the sale price, KNOW that I was charging my normal commission fees for extra things such as items, internals, extra characters, etc.
This is also explicitly stated in my PWYW upload description.
None of you had an issue with this. But this person did.
Another thing to note: They offered to pay full price for the commission, so I told them I would just put it down as a regular commission. Why take a PWYW sale slot if you're going to pay full price anyways? That's dumb.
My regular commissions are usually always open. The PWYW sale is a limited time thing.
Anyways, they had asked me to add a prop to their piece, a sword. So I asked for an extra $5 on top of the $30.
They gave me shit about it, and decided not to have the sword added. I bluntly told them not to ask for extra things if they weren't gonna pay extra.
Now I will admit that I don't have a "prop" fee listed on my regular price sheet (I forgot to add it while creating the new sheet), but I DID explain this to them and they chose to ignore it.
They then got pissed at me and decided to cancel the commission, with their reason being "the artist doesn't know what PWYW means"
Yet they didn't read my rules. They didn't listen to anything I explained to them about how my PWYW sale worked. They then proceeded to block me, calling me a "snarky bitch" and acting like I was the bad person.
When all they had to do was politely explain to me why they shouldn't have to pay $5 extra, and I would have likely accommodated them and let them pay just the $30 with prop included. Politeness goes a LONG way with me.
It comes down to this: Don't act entitled to my services. I am under no obligation to follow whatever rules you think I should follow.
Be respectful to me, and I will be respectful to you. I don't take shit from anyone, even if you're a paying customer.
I'm not the cashier at your local grocery store, I don't have to follow any corporate policies about how "the customer is always right." That's how it goes when you manage your own "business".
End of rant.
Thank you for your kind words! <3
Not my loss, there's plenty of other people who would happily pay for the extra things.
I'll just work on my other commissions, maybe play some games. Good thing I was only doing a limited number of slots, so next time around I can go about my sales a bit differently.
It's not like they were doing me a favor by paying the normal price either, because several people still would pay for my art regardless