MarzGhoul: Ghosting/Stole My $

Posted 3 months, 1 day ago (Edited 3 days, 5 hours ago) by starscout

That's it I'm done with this, marz has taken my money. everytime i pull this up I lose sleep and cry over it, I love commissioning people and it hurts to be treated like this by an artist. im just gonna unsubscribe from this please dont ping me i dont want to be reminded of this anymore.

6/17/24 Well i was very busy with college and still nothing from the artist. I assume nothing will come out of this and the artist stole 160 bucks from me at this point. They removed me off their queue and have ignored my messages on instagram. Thanks dude, you have ruined this character for me and now officially soiled them by this bad experience. And yes theyre ignoring me, it shows theyve been active on insta yesterday very messaging...i will be posting on artistbeware and twitter about them at this point. I just want my money back

Currently artist is ignoring me on instagram despite me commenting letting them know i dmed them on a recent ych posting. I will keep bumping this until it is resolved
Artist has posted an IG story about how they see peoples messages, but are ignoring them for mental health https://sta.sh/2avgq2q73u3 (courtesy of Toobles ). I will work on fixing up this thread since it's a bit of a mess at the moment.

Below is my insta convo with the artist (spoiled cause bulky images)

Initial post with updates:
Commissioned them back on September 4th 2023 paying $160 for two ref sheets (anthro and feral) of Auriel https://toyhou.se/20088091.auriel

Saw in their TOS that queue is roughly 3 months which I was ok with.

Last thing I heard from them was a TMI message about an accident back in October and I haven't heard from them since.
Cropped message due to what is written.

They have a new updated queue which I wasn't told about which I'm on, but haven't heard anything. It's been 6 months and I'm already finishing my 2nd quarter of college with no reply to my message asking about the queue and I left a comment as well a few days ago.

Has anyone that has commissioned this artist heard anything from them at all? Their queue still states roughly 3 months and I've never received any wips and it seemed like I was supposed to a long time ago.

3/24 - Update: No response via instagram or toyhouse still (message still shows as unread). I'd be cautious commissioning this person as their queue goes way beyond the 3 months they state in their TOS they try to keep it under and keep posting more ych slots on various sites.

3/28/23: Update
MarzGhoul is actively ignoring my messages and another user is also being ignored in regards to an art trade. Paypal refused to open a dispute, but thankfully I paid via paypal credit so I was able to open a dispute that way (seems paypal will outright refuse to open any dispute if it's not on credit past the date). This artist has a huge backlog, doesn't communicate, and continuously post new ych slots via Deviantart and Instagram.
Thread title has also been updated to reflect the situation better now that I know the user is ghosting commissioners and art trades.

Update 5/6/23
My paypal credit claim got denied a week ago and only found out via an email :v contacted the artist again, since I haven't heard anything from them since the last post.

Artist is ignoring me on insta :/ I got to open another dispute. First one was denied due to no evidence, but I wasn't told to send in any. Will be sending in stuff now.

starscout

mondegrun I agree, I would've been ok with waiting for the art since I love their art and would've liked to have seen Auriel in their style, but the lack of communication worried me especially when I was finishing my classes and never hearing anything via TH. Just tiny communication would've been nice. And now they're just ghosting me and telling me to kindly fuck off via instagram stories is super shitty. I'm not sure if I'll be able to post anything on artistsbeware as well due to my denial letter from synchrony bank (they are behind paypal credit) being sent to my old college email that was deactivated at the beginning of the month (the school decided to wipe all emails of students that were no longer enrolled a year after they graduate). The site wants the denial email, but that was sent to my old college email.

Same, I feel super bad, I have a commission someone here is waiting for from me (I took no money since I was in school and didn't want to take their money and have them wait on me), I can finally work on them since my quarter is finally over so I can get art out now. But the anxiety drives me bonkers and I feel bad for making people wait on me for it. I honestly didn't anticipate the work load this degree was gonna have on me with working graveyards on the weekends and then classes 4 days a week without an actual day off.

starscout

I just want some clarification, is what marz sent me and the other user in regards to details in their kids accident considered TMI? I feel it was very inappropriate and TMI in regards to the accident, we didn't need to know the personal details?

Thats it im tired of crying over this shit. they stole my money at this point and telling me to kindly fuck off is petty asf. thank you marz for ruining this character for me and making me not wanting to commission people anymore.

hakaisatsu

imo it was not only tmi, but was a little bit … scapegoat—ish? trying to put out a convenient excuse to just be ‘slow responding’ when in reality they just don’t want to continue talking & are content to sit with the money they stole. your transparency is very good, however, & i cannot even begin to fathom how frustrated you are with this situation. it sucks when your love for a character gets ripped away by someone who ruins your experience trying to commission art of them, i’ve seen it happen too much on this site & it SUCKS. :/

at this point it’s gone far enough. that’s a lot of your money that they basically got to get away with stealing by saying ‘shrug emoji fuck you’.

BigBootyCheeks

^^^ If I were you I’d have been very uncomfortable hearing about all that. If someone told me a long story about how their kids were really sick and how how their sister got in a bad car accident, then listing all her injuries and the seriousness of them… I would have felt sick to my stomach!

It was really out of left field and TMI to me, and just reading the messages they sent made me really uncomfortable.

ALSO, since this situation, they have hidden their “last logged in” thing. I’m not sure if it was brought up before; but it’s a clear sign of bad business practice, essentially hiding from your clients.