I've read this post multiple times, because wow wtf drama in the knitting community is absurd. And also just reflecting on all of this. The demanding nature people slip into without any concept of the realities of making The Thing boggles me. I think half of it is having gone through art school and knowing the time it takes to do this kind of stuff. Also, if I find an artist I love and pay them to make a thing for me, I like to leave a lot of the interpretation up to them. I want their take on it. Why demand every single damn detail be a certain way?
I've also only had two commission go badly, both of which involved me never getting the end product. One was a plushie commission I gladly shelled out a bunch of money for as a holiday present to myself. The person said it would take 4 months to do, which was fine. But when 5 months rolled by and I heard nothing? I pinged them multiple times and was initially told they were busy with cons, but then they stopped replying to my emails. All the while, they continued to make new plushies to sell on Etsy along with taking commissions. This was back in 2015 and literally summer of last year, I got a refund email from PayPal from this person.
The other one was someone selling art of completed pieces they did. There was a watercolor of Setzer I absolutely loved. We talked for five minutes and I sent over the PayPal money immediately, figuring all that was left to do was, you know, ship it to me. Long story short, I never got it. Again, when I pinged the artist, they gave me a bunch of reasons from busy cons to not doing well health-wise. Which is fine, but again they stopped answering my emails after 6 months when I asked for my money back if they never planned to ship it to me. I never got my money back.
I guess it boggles me when artists offer to do something, like commissions or sell their art, then never follow through 100%. I like to think I didn't do anything out of the ordinary that would warrant such behavior. But yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Etsy and other avenues for selling art are just Weird.
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Date: 2020-08-17 12:30 pm (UTC)I've also only had two commission go badly, both of which involved me never getting the end product. One was a plushie commission I gladly shelled out a bunch of money for as a holiday present to myself. The person said it would take 4 months to do, which was fine. But when 5 months rolled by and I heard nothing? I pinged them multiple times and was initially told they were busy with cons, but then they stopped replying to my emails. All the while, they continued to make new plushies to sell on Etsy along with taking commissions. This was back in 2015 and literally summer of last year, I got a refund email from PayPal from this person.
The other one was someone selling art of completed pieces they did. There was a watercolor of Setzer I absolutely loved. We talked for five minutes and I sent over the PayPal money immediately, figuring all that was left to do was, you know, ship it to me. Long story short, I never got it. Again, when I pinged the artist, they gave me a bunch of reasons from busy cons to not doing well health-wise. Which is fine, but again they stopped answering my emails after 6 months when I asked for my money back if they never planned to ship it to me. I never got my money back.
I guess it boggles me when artists offer to do something, like commissions or sell their art, then never follow through 100%. I like to think I didn't do anything out of the ordinary that would warrant such behavior. But yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is that Etsy and other avenues for selling art are just Weird.