PSA: seoroui / ppuniya / kppkii

Posted 3 years, 6 months ago (Edited 3 years, 1 month ago) by Elissya

Update [05.02.2021]:
It has been brought to my attention that they have moved accounts once again (proof is on their dA) and go by these accounts now: https://twitter.com/kppkii https://www.instagram.com/k.ppkii/ and are accepting commission there.
My case and the case and YoYokai case remain unresolved and I doubt they will ever come forward so please be careful to not get scammed by them too;;;



Hello. This is the first time I'm writing a PSA, so I'm not sure If this is formatted correctly.

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I ask no one to harass this artist but just be aware of their doings and consider twice before getting involved with them. They may have moved accounts to start a new but I doubt that their actions have changed and wish no one to be scammed out of money by them as well. I originally did not intend to post a PSA, however upon reaching out to them publically and getting blocked on both their accounts I feel like this is not something I should stay quiet upon.
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Artist in question: seoroui / ppuniya
I ordered a halfbody commission from them back in 25th February of my OC, however I never heared from them after sending payment.
commission proof
I reached out to them on the 5th June after realizing they abondoned their DeviantArt account and were active on instagram and twitter instead (both instagram and twitter later got deleted/abondoned)
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However my dA note was ignored, so I copy pasted it to twitter. I *can't* show proof of the twitter conversation as it disappeared from my chat history and I didn't think to take a screenshot beforehand. I don't know if I have been blocked on twitter for this to happen, or they deleted their account, but I do know for sure their twitter account has been abondoned at some point since I would occassionally check in and it had all posts deleted before going into private mode. In the twitter conversation they told me that they had problems with the new deviantArt format, and couldn't read/open any notes as a tablet user. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and talked things out with them. They assured me to be working on my commission and offered to draw me an extra chibi as compensation for the long waiting time.
They successfully delivered the chibi drawing to me on June 11th, via email.
On the 20th emailing me again to show progress of the actual commission.

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I believed their words of finishing the commission, so I stayed quiet and waited for it to be delivered, which it never was.
Their instagram and twitter went blank, changed username, removed me from their follower list. They went mia on all social media.

Now they came back to deviantart, promoting their new account ppuniya via status (now also deleted). A while after the status got deleted I reached out to them via email once again already.
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(excuse my typo) There was no reply.

Yesterday, I saw them on deviantart once again sharing a commission journal of their new account, so I commented on the commission journal (and this time smart enough to take screenshots):

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the status <-------------------------> my comment

And their solution was to block me both on seoroui and ppuniya, hiding the comment from their commission journal:
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They are accepting commissions again on their new account, so I would just like to inform people to be aware of their actions and not fall for their same scamming as me.

YoYokai

OOF! YOU FELL VICTIM TO THEM TOO!
I was writting Statuses about them last year after they just vanished from DA, forgot my comission. I switched to Twitter. DMed them. Got no instant answer EVEN THO THEY WERE ACTIVELY POSTING IN THE TIME I DMED THEM! I had to reply on a Tweet of them to just look at the DM...PLEASE. They told me they dun wanna do it anymore and offered a Custom Adopt. I accepted it because I can understand artist not being in the mood for some stuff anymore. All I wanted was my Chara in the cute YCH they posted. A whole half a year passed from the day I asked for the YCH to the day where they just told me that they just...can't do it! Like...no updates, no WIPs. They allegedly had a WIP of the Custom I asked for but just DELETED IT because they didn't like it. BRUH! They offered me a refund but I would have to wait for it. And I was like...nah...the end solution is that I just get one of their trashed OCs. I just took it because I didn't trust them whatsoever about getting a refund of the 20USD I fuqin wasted on it!

And oh my god...They fuqin switch Acc on every site and go on and off about it with no warning whatsoever. As soon as their twitter was gone...I was like "WELP! Guess I will never get an answer" Because on Instagram...they told everywhere that they dun answer people that are not mutuals. Great communication with commissioners, dude! GAWD. This post just triggered my salt on them again XD So I once again had to make a PUBLIC COMMENT for them on an insta post of them to just ANSWER ME! I just wanted an answer because they seem to ignore me oisaosafhfo

Their communication is absolute garbage and they had the audacity to complain about a bigger artist before who also was pretty bad in staying in touch with their commissioners

Elissya

alcor Definetly-- I found their 'current' twitter that leads to an instagram that is also already deleted. Which means so far I've seen three accounts made and deleted, surely there were more in the past and will be more in the future (they even admit in one of their tweets to possibly not keeping the current account)

LittleEgg Yeah, I agree. I'm pretty sure taking money and moving accounts before completing them is what they usually do. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and I did I received something at all from them, but pretty sure If I hadn't kept contacting them they would've never been first to reach out, silently moving accounts T-T They did complete some of the commissions on their new account, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is just to appear trust worthy before they return to scamming and moving accounts. Doubt I'll ever hear from them again, but at least the PSA is out now to warn other people.

YoYokai Have you been scammed too? Or do you know someone who did? :0

YoYokai

Was the one being scammed. I had to jump from DA to twitter, then to insta. They left DA without giving me a notice. On Twitter they admitted they absolutely forgot about the YCH I asked for and told me they dun wanna do it anymore and offered a Custom Adopt instead. And months passed in that time. I got absolutely no update from their side about anythng. In the end I accepted the Custom Adopt. Gave them everything I asked for and afterwards they just never answered my Twitter DMs ever again. More months passed and we are at...half a year into 2019! I wanted an update, but woah! Look at that! they deactivated their Twitter...without any warning! Great! last resort: Instagram. BUt how am I supposed to get their attention if they DON'T wanna answer DMs made by none Mutuals! Fantastic! I dropped a comment on one of their posts to just answer my DM. a week or so passed till they got back at me! And they just "I was so scared to look at the DM" DUDE! e.e They apologized, gave me to solutions: I either WAIT for them to give me a refund because they dun have the money right now?? Or I take some trash old OC of them. I went with the 2nd one because I ABSOLUTELY didn't wanna wait for a refund that 100% would have never happened! In conclusion: I never got what I asked for. The OC I got from them is in no way a compensation for the bad communication I had to go through, no updates what so ever. Them ghosting me. and the 20USD I wasted on them

Elissya

YoYokai oh god--- I saw the comment edit too now T-T wow. This is so unprofessional, what really buffles me is the fact that they sort of choose which commissions to complete, and which not?
Clearly a simple refund would solve both our situations, It's honestly doubt they can't afford to refund (since they have commissions around the same prices open;; ) but instead they just block or run away/move accounts instead of being professional enough to refund or deliver.... posting a status when they returned to dA recently saying that they did a lot things wrong on seoroui and want to move on, not being associated with that name etc... but didn't even try to solve things they did wrong, just running away TT

I'm sorry you had to go through this too, I wouldn't be surprised if there are even more people than just us two. I had almost the same experiences, except to me they said that the new dA layout was causing them issues so they couldn't read my note, and gave a bunch of other excuses why they couldn't contact me; and hey- i decided to give them the benefit of the doubt because I know life can get in the way, but after their insta and twitter got deleted I didn't expect them to come back to dA (and before their twitter deleted they removed me from their followers and made it private---) I agree though, honestly wouldn't be surprised if all their accounts suddenly disappear if/once they find this thread;;;

SamSpyroxis

Just wanted to add to this, I almost got scammed by them. They eventually delivered 1 of 2 comms I had ordered after account hopping / deleting ( I talked with yoyokai during this time as neither of us were having luck getting a hold of them )

I was obviously one of the lucky ones with the fact I got 1 of 2 comms and ( eventually ) a character they had designed in place of the 2nd comm since I just wanted to stop chasing them around and they clearly weren't going to finish the artwork ( I figurer a refund would be out of the question as well, based on other experiences I had heard from a few users also trying to chase them down )

Oh I should also probably point out, I ordered both commissions at the same time / in a single order.


Since then though they've hopped accounts even more, and as you've mentioned, I'm going to guess they have already abandoned their "current" accounts or made new ones.

grimberriz

They put on their carrd, their social media accounts. I don't know if you guys have seen their active Twitter. Last activity was 4 hrs ago : o 

https://twitter.com/n_eulll


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