Yes, they could - except that Chris said its a bonus offer, which isn't allowed by eBay rules, so they really cant complain, other than to say chris was making an offer he wasn't allowed to make and didn't follow through
i think all the orders came from 3 or 4 people, so i guess the fool patrol, no one's really out anything
Like, to explain what I'm complaining about:
I like to see Chris flip out in situations where there's zero blame on the side talking to Chris. Like if they took every precaution to make sure it was all on Chris.
They don't necessarily have to. They're perfectly fine to treat Chris has a normal person and ditch him as soon as a reasonable person would, and that'd be 100% fair. But to be honest, it's kind of boring.
Like imagine if Chris managed to get a fast food job. The manager would obviously be in the right to fire him as soon as he fucked up. But that would be boring, content-wise. Imagine, Chris would come home one day, send a one-off tweet about how he got fired by a jerk, and then ramble about ponies for another twenty minutes.
What would be a lot funnier, is if they gave Chris warnings and breaks and tried to get him to buck up. We'd get weeks of Chris whining about work on twitter before the manager finally gave up and fired him. That's way more funny than not even trying.
Likewise, with these patreon rewards, almost no one bothers to complain to Chris about this. Like I'm pretty sure for the past few months, less than 50% of people who were supposed to get something from Chris said anything at all. With the people who do complain, most of them just make a public post on Chris' patreon, posts that kinda sound (to me) like they're asking for the sake of the group, not personally. And Chris responds with a generic cop out and comfortably forgets about it for awhile.
Without pressure in the form of private messages, there's no real motivation on Chris to actually deliver.
Honestly, the most stress Chris gets from patreon is internal. He knows he's going go miss a deadline, and he knows people follow his patreon for the prizes, so he gets stressed about making his excuse each time his comic book delivers are late. But even that stress is becoming weaker nowadays because people fail to keep up the pressure on him.
The most notable example (there's been a handful of them, not many) I've seen of someone pursue Chris for not delivering was Coty Smith, and he spent most of that time weening Chris after he got his merchandise delivered.
Who has ordered an actual comic from Chris lately. Who does it say published it and all?
I would imagine that if the printer's name was on the comics, it would've been leaked by now.
