[ SECRET POST #2815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2815 ⌋

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[John Green]


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(Hemlock Grove)


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[Russell Edwards' Naming Jack the Ripper]


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Comments

[cindyanne1]

OP, I had something like this happen to me too. It really sucks. In my case, it was an artist in WoW who has actually done some work for Blizzard. She was on my realm, and was doing commissions, so I commissioned her to do a picture of my husband's character and me together, in a non-smutty but loving way. She contacted us in game, took some screenshots of us, sent me a preliminary sketch and I paid her half (this was the agreement) with the understanding the 2nd half would be paid upon completion. The work was never completed. Even half the money was nearly $200, and I don't even have the sketch she sent me any longer because it was saved to my old computer which stopped working. I contacted her a few times via in-game messages and emails, but nothing. It's sad. :( I mean I wish I was talented enough to do such work myself but I'm not, and it seems I can't even pay for it. I'm wishing now I'd put that money toward getting Figureprint statues of our characters. Maybe I still will, but I'm afraid that $200 is long gone.

[(Anonymous)]

That's terrible. No way to "give feedback" anywhere so that others don't get ripped off?

(That is the rate for pros, it seems: I contacted a really good artist a few years ago and was quoted $400, iirc.)

[cindyanne1]

The only place I could is on her website but no comments get posted there until she approves them so I doubt anything negative would be allowed.

I try to think what might have happened. She was a really sweet person to talk to. She confirmed she did get the money I sent... that would be my first thought, that she didn't get the payment, but she did confirm that right away and said I should get another update soon... and that was the last thing she ever communicated to me. I waited three weeks or so and then started sending her a few messages via email, then in-game... then when I saw her online I whispered her... just politely saying, "Hi, just wondering the status of my commission... how are things coming along?" Stuff like that. And she'd never reply. After a few weeks of that I just dropped it. I don't know why she decided to never finish the piece. I thought for a while that maybe she'd had some kind of personal thing and just wasn't doing art any longer but I would see on her website that she'd done new works and she's still doing stuff even now. So I don't know. /shrug

[(Anonymous)]

It's your fault, because you didn't have a contract.

[cindyanne1]

There was, though. Well, it was a "commission form" that she emailed me that outlined what I would be getting (two-figures, the style it was being made in, overall size of the work) and how much I would be paying. There was a time frame of a month but it said that could vary and would be communicated by the artist. There were several things like that in it.

Would it hold up in court or anything like that? I don't know.

I could have pursued it a lot more, but I just let it drop. It's been a few years now. It just would have been nice to have because it was coming along really great.

[(Anonymous)]

DA. It probably wouldn't be worth the time and money of court, but I would contact them again.

Regardless of how long it's been you could still ask for that sketch (if they still have it) and maybe a partial refund depending on the agreement.

Sometimes artists drop commissions for whatever reasons and it sucks... but them being a professional I would think it'd be worth it to try again. I've known some artists that went through major traumas and it delayed commissions by a whole lot, so they might just need another poke and maybe now is a better time to do it.

[diet_poison]

I'll chime into say that if a commission is dropped, a refund should be in order, unless (as in cindyanne's case) there was a partial payment for a partial product, in which case cindyanne is entitled to have the partial product and it sounds like she doesn't even have that. She got ripped off, big time. :(

[dazzledfirestar]

Seriously what planet do you live on? This is first year law school contracts stuff. Accepting a commission is entering into a contract. Full stop.