wani Hi! Sorry, things have been kinda hectic irl for me. Have you still not received any updates? Let me know. I'll also contact them.
The offender seems to be sorry about what happened and geniuinely wants to fix things. They are actively going around offering refunds to everyone involved, to my knowledge.
However, if you have any inquiries let me know in this thread or via messages. I'll be happy to relay messages over to noi!
I'll be keeping the history of what happened under the spoiler tag so that those involved in this situation can look back at the info. However I have removed some details that I feel is better left unknown now that they are actively trying to redeem themself.
Moral of today:
1. Do not commission people who seem to have a long, unmanageable waitlist
2. Do not pay via Ko-Fi(without the commission module) or other donation platforms
3. Do not assume that people will simply forget after a year or two. If people remain silent, it is from grace and not forgetfulness.
More than a year ago, a bunch of people and I bought an icon commission from NoisySpaceship (they have now changed the name of that account) and paid via Ko-Fi.
As you can see in the waitlist a lot of us haven't received a comm. They swiped at least $140 (if everyone but I ordered exactly one icon without any additional fees (which, i know for a fact that many if not most people ordered at least two.) After re-reading the thread, it turns out people on the waitlist paid upfront as well. That brings up the absolute bare minimum to $190. I believe that the actual amount we're talking about is around $250.
They posted an update on page 7, promising stuff to be done 2~3 weekends later. This was the last public update ever given.
Now if you check page 5 and 6, you can see that nitocris (now sleepey, do NOT contact them regarding this matter) had a conversation over comms that they didn't receive in the past. noisyspaceship handled this badly and pulled the "i gave you a refund after an eternity without a real apology/notification, what's the problem i returned it lol" card on page 6. Nitocris, being the bigger person, ejected themself from the conversation respectfully.
This leads me to believe that this person is a repeated offender of accepting commissions as interest-free short term loans. Except this time they didn't repay their loan.
I have tried to reach out to them via the thread and messages and they didn't respond. I sought out their dA and they didn't respond. The dA page is now deactivated.
I was unable to chargeback since this payment was done on Ko-Fi before the commissions feature, and every payment counted as a "donation". Besides everyone was too kind and gave them eons of time to get this sorted out and I'm pretty sure the payments were ineligible for chargebacks by the time people started trying to contact the artist.