Your Received Medallions

[Trickie]

I think it's one thing to try to fulfill her request and not do so good a job at it, it's another thing entirely to just ignore that and do whatever you want just because you don't feel like putting in the effort to do what the customer asked for. If you don't feel like you can give the customer what they want, you should give them a refund, not slap whatever lesbian jokes come up on the first Google search result on it and call it a day.

@Flufflehugs , I would definitely leave negative feedback, or do anything else besides simply accepting what he gave you.

 

[telltaletwix]

Leaving negative feedback will finalize the sale, and if I remember correctly there will be no way to receive any sort of compensation after the fact. As everyone has been saying, we should treat Chris like we would any other eBay seller, which means both not opening cases prematurely against him over petty, insignificant things, but also that we should approach him professionally when we're dissatisfied with his work.

Were this any other seller I would first contact them to tell them this was not what had been agreed upon, and if they refused to amend this or even reach a compromise I would open a case. The applicable option is "I received the item but it was not as described". Granted, you may have tired of his theatrics at this point, so if you foresee no desirable outcome by prolonging this exchange then by all means, leave him negative feedback and be done of it. He certainly didn't fulfill your wishes and you were nothing but patient while you waited for his ever fickle "inspiration" to motivate him.

 

[Stud2Stud]

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Title: Heeere's Mimi

Someone had to do it...

 

[Bridechu]

Well, the comic I bought from Chris arrived. It is disappointing. More than a month ago, I had asked for two black and white commissions and two colored comission. I asked for the uncolored ones to be comic pages about male lesbians and the colored ones to be comic book pages about anything at all, as long as it involved my OC. He couldn't come up with dialog, so instead of what I asked he sent me three colored pages of lesbian jokes and one laminated and certified image of my OC. At least I have the first drawn image of Chris as a lesbian.

I was kind of excited for "new Sonichu" but this is pretty lame, even by Chris's standards.

 

[Flufflehugs]

I'll try to negotiate something with him. Maybe I'll try getting a refund.

 

[Stud2Stud]

View attachment 9140 I'll try to negotiate something with him. Maybe I'll try getting a refund.

"Yeah, sorry I didn't give you what you specifically ordered and paid for, but at least your Recolor got to make out with Robbie!"
Amazing, this is just... wow.

So, will you persue this further or take a case against him? I feel just opening a case wouldn't do any good. Maybe you can offer him to send back his art in exchange for a retry or something different? That might show you genuinely want your product and it doesn't look like you try to get bonus stuff for free.

Out of interest, what did this cost you?

 

[Flufflehugs]

"Yeah, sorry I didn't give you what you specifically ordered and paid for, but at least your Recolor got to make out with Robbie!"
Amazing, this is just... wow.

So, will you persue this further or take a case against him? I feel just opening a case wouldn't do any good. Maybe you can offer him to send back his art in exchange for a retry or something different? That might show you genuinely want your product and it doesn't look like you try to get bonus stuff for free.

Out of interest, what did this cost you?

I think it was 150 dollars total. I had birthday money to spare.

I'll offer to send back his art in exchange for a retry. If he says no I'll open a case.

 

[Marvin]

I think it was 150 dollars total. I had birthday money to spare.

I'll offer to send back his art in exchange for a retry. If he says no I'll open a case.

$150? Shit, definitely send that shit back.

 

[Stud2Stud]

I think it was 150 dollars total. I had birthday money to spare.

I'll offer to send back his art in exchange for a retry. If he says no I'll open a case.

That's pretty much what I'd do. I fear he's going to blow a lid, but hey, maybe he'll surprise us.... Or should I say: surprise us in a good way, for once.

 

[Bridechu]

On the bright side, you have confirmation Robbie wears falsies instead of having True and Honest breasts. I still have no idea what's going on with his "bangs", though.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Get your money back.

 

[4Macie]

I think it was 150 dollars total. I had birthday money to spare.

I'll offer to send back his art in exchange for a retry. If he says no I'll open a case.

In your own defense, this is shit work. You ordered comic pages and pictures. These were crude sexual jokes (of fail) and nothing like you were promised.
And you spent $150. If this had been like $20 of work I'd say he did as well as he could, but for $150, he seems to have spent no more time on this than anything else he does.

 

[Himawari]

Ask for him to show you scans of his black-and-white pages so that you can give him the OK on them before he colors them. (iirc he doesn't do pencil sketches before inking, but if he does have him show you those.)

This is, after all, what most competent artists offer to do to ensure customers will be happy with commissioned work...

 

[Stud2Stud]

Ok, here's two things that just crossed my mind:
1) Did you specifically describe 'Mimi' to have tan-colored boobs? Also could you give us the description you gave him, just to understand how close he got to it?
2) Dude. Chris drew his tranny-self with a Bruce Campbell-style Manjaw... Not even in his little fantasyworld does he get to look any bit feminine...

 

[warongiygas]

Well, the comic I bought from Chris arrived. It is disappointing. More than a month ago, I had asked for two black and white commissions and two colored comission. I asked for the uncolored ones to be comic pages about male lesbians and the colored ones to be comic book pages about anything at all, as long as it involved my OC. He couldn't come up with dialog, so instead of what I asked he sent me three colored pages of lesbian jokes and one laminated and certified image of my OC. At least I have the first drawn image of Chris as a lesbian.

So... Chris is not working very hard to dispel the notion that all he knows about lesbians he picked up from porn.

Also, I love how the punchline to one of the jokes is on the left. Maybe he just messed up and started writing the joke in the right bubble, but instead of redrawing, he just decided that this particular joke should be read like a manga.

Get your money back.

I would offer him another chance to make up for the drawings he messed up. No guarantees they would be any better though. In any case, if Chris couldn't be bothered to come up with four lines of dialogue over two months, you don't owe him that 150$

 

[Honeyrabbit]

I can't believe Chris could be guaranteed $150 in his pocket for about two hours work while in massive debt, take two months to do it, and still do such a subpar job of it. Just... damn, I hope you can get your money back. You should explain to him that you're not just fucking around with him like that one A-Log who "scored" a free medallion, but that you actually feel that he didn't put in $150 worth of effort.

 

[Marvin]

I say you should give him an opportunity to fix it. Heh, and of course, he's going to bitch constantly about having to pay postage again.

 

[Stud2Stud]

The herculean task of drawing 4 pages of fridge-art and going to the post office...

 

[A-№1]

I think it was 150 dollars total. I had birthday money to spare.

I'll offer to send back his art in exchange for a retry. If he says no I'll open a case.

You spent a yard and a half on Chris stuff out of birthday money? (Clearly I picked myself the wrong parents.) Here I was thinking we were talking only a few sawbucks. Get your $150 back. Donate $10 to the Autism Research Institute.

You could try sending it back to him demanding he fulfil your order as specified, but given what Chris sent you in good faith I wouldn't have high hopes for what he'll send you in bad faith. Angry eyes might well happen. Also possibly a doxxing. At the very least there will be a lot of whining, and you will be called a troll. If you're willing to risk that and the time involved, well that's your business, but I don't think giving Chris second chances, third chances, and so on will help him to learn to provide his customers the promised products the first time.

If you do try to give Chris a second chance, I would recommend you still get your money back first, and then make a new order from him with the clear understanding that he needs to actually deliver what he promises this time. That's what I would do with any eBay vendor who failed to deliver the promised goods but might have a chance of doing so given a second chance.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I say you should give him an opportunity to fix it. Heh, and of course, he's going to bitch constantly about having to pay postage again.

I agree that he should get a fair shake to fix it. By that I mean, you can diplomatically say "I respect that you had unforeseen personal circumstances that obstructed your work process; I don't blame you, but either you'll need to provide the product I requested within X days or you'll have to refund my money".