Artist Beware >> Boopeep/cupcakesheep

Posted 6 years, 7 months ago (Edited 6 years, 7 months ago) by lolita

first and foremost, i want to thank you for clicking on my thread. i'm deeply grateful, as i'm going through something really shitty... i hope you can all help to put my mind at ease just by knowing the details regarding what happened in this instance before you decide to continue giving a very unappreciative person your money. this is a person who already has an art alert about them on a livejournal artist beware group from some years ago. i will be providing all details i have surrounding this issue for transparency's sake:


on 07/07/17 i had purchased a custom slot from an artist for one of their very popular closed species, and the design involved a lot of things aesthetically that i wanted for my custom character. this made it feel really personal, and like something i could easily connect with. i have emails of me talking at length with this person about those details, business as usual, which you may find here:

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when they sent me the finished, full resolution design and her hair wasn't really quite what i had asked for, i sent an email back asking for some possible changes to her hair (which i gladly would have either paid for/made myself later on without editing their artwork/just accepted as is) and was met with a very, very unexpected response... instead of giving me the ability to either pay for more edits or just keep it as is, the artist told me they were too busy and proceeded to force a chargeback on me, tip and all, and put my adopt up for resale on fA, dA, and twitter very very quickly after. those images can be found here, as well as the dA post made on our mutual friend's dA account (unbeknownst to them that they were reselling my design) so that they could assumedly sell my design quickly and probably under the radar.

finished design: https://i.imgur.com/JFga6Ur.jpg

my email with her response below: https://i.imgur.com/nZL8F3q.jpg

my confusion: https://i.imgur.com/Dnde6h4.jpg

the receipt: https://i.imgur.com/UkEoJgV.jpg

fA sale: https://i.imgur.com/zrM2GaT.png

twitter sale: https://i.imgur.com/pWHMGjK.png

our friend's dA post: https://i.imgur.com/69GKJHN.png


never once was i asked or given any chance to say it was okay and nevermind about the edits because i wanted to keep her anyway... i never even said once that i didn't like her design, in my email i said she was beautiful and i'm not quite sure how this translates into me not liking her design at all, i had just requested drill curls and a head bow. our mutual friend had no idea at the time that they were helping this person screw me over like this. the resale went down while i was trying to do my work, but a friend thankfully kept texting me wildly until i picked up to let me know that my custom which HAD been posted in an earlier customs batch that said "SOLD, THESE ARE TAKEN" was being reposted:

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the fA thread i WAS able to comment in... i begged and pleaded for them to please not sell her off and that i was sorry i asked for the edit, it never meant i didn't like her, but they were so angry i had asked for that edit at all she spitefully refused to sell it back to me:

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this sale page didn't stay up for long before it was deleted:

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i have the design, full resolution. i feel i've been wronged... i still wanted her, what can i do? she deleted the fA thread to hide how nasty it got, but i have all the emails, screenshots, screenshots of threads, proof of me not agreeing to this and begging for her to change her mind because this was an adopt i waited a long time for.


it's now in the hands of an awful user who was basically using the design to mock me for wanting it and not having anything they want to get her back even though i never agreed to get rid of her. the artist is also being very smug still about the whole situation and is not at all remorseful or apologetic about what happened one bit.


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here are some more testimonials from other people they have wronged, and links to art alerts others have written. thank you again so much for your time, and please let me know how i might be able to make this information more readable, somehow.


artist beware from 2014: http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/755348.html


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link posted by user: http://toyhou.se/~bulletins/18658.commission-issues 

more about their issue:


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another person:

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and many, many others who have sadly experienced either directly or indirectly her unprofessional way of handling her clients..... it's a bit heartbreaking so many people came forward and told me what happened to them


edit: the people who owned my baphobabe led me on in a thread on toyhouse leaving me to think i was finally getting her back. they ended up telling me that they actually gave the design back to boo despite telling me this in front of several other posters on toyhouse.

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they tried to offer me their art as a consolation, but i'm definitely not interested in their fetish work they like to draw. they already had lied.

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CreamAri

Sorry if I missed it in the post but was this posted on FA? I would like to get the word out to help other people before they get in similar situations with this artist. So I'd like to take it to DA and twitter if you didn't have plans to.

mothgf

Honestly, it does still matter, even at this point. It's important to spread what kind of shady, toxic, and just all around unprofessional of a person BooPeep is. Especially considering how popular they are in the art/design community. Lolita has every right to still be upset, considering the fact they've stated multiple times the design was very personal to them, and that they were a huge fan of BooPeeps.

Ariicchi

I think this entire situation is totally crappy. Boopeep doesn't deserve any business and Lolita doesn't deserve this stress. Something that was personal to her was taken and now was being passed around to other people, and those people are acting like fools and jerks. This is just one crappy thing after another.

That design was everything she wanted, it was personal. It's hard to drop something that was taken so unfairly for such a dumb reason. It wasn't like she asked for this artist to redesign the entire thing. It was just the hair, which if Boopeep didn't want to change it, all she had to do was be like look, sorry I don't want to change it, do you want the character still? Not just refund and take it and resell it. Essentially taking concepts that weren't theirs and profiting from it.

My analogy a few posts back still stands. This is still why I feel like Lolita can't drop it, and still wants the adopt.

It would be like if you go and get a beautiful custom jacket made, the jacket of your dreams. Your one of a kind jacket, and you asked for a minor alteration of a different style button, and rather than work with you to come to an agreement, they say "Screw you", give you your money back, and now the jacket of your dreams that only had a minor issue is now going to someone else. Well that jacket had all your ideas and concepts in it and now someone else has it.


lolita

i'm catching up on the thread now. i dipped out for a few days to take a break, but have checked my messages and thus far, boopeep has not reached out to me in any way. an anonymous user came to me of their own volition, offering to be the medium between myself and her. their PM was sent roughly three days ago, but nothing else has come of it. i'll give her a week total before i post up on the livejournal AB. i just really wanted to be cool and offer her some time to do the right thing, but i think i expected too much from a person who really just does not give a shit about anyone else but themselves lmao

lolita

thank you so much to everyone who's been bumping the thread and been super apologetic, it really means a lot to me to know that aside from one person in this thread, i've been unanimously supported by everyone else. <3 <3 <3 <3