PSA - Commissioners Beware / Overlord_JC

Posted 5 years, 8 months ago (Edited 5 years, 8 months ago) by rephlanca

Who: Overlord JC. Patreon http://www.patreon.com/OverlordJC - Twitch TV http://www.twitch.tv/overlord_jc - Tumblr http://overlordjc.tumblr.com/ - Shop http://juby.bigcartel.com
What: $180 commission
When: April 1st
Status: Resolved.

Firstly, I would like to implore that you do not harass this artist. What they've done is bad, yes, but that doesn't excuse attempting to right a wrong with another. Share this with your friends, on your social media, on dA, wherever you'd like. Let people know what happens when you commission him, but don't go after him personally. Thank you.

I'd like to begin this post by saying that I've finally received my money back, but I still felt it necessary to make a PSA about this artist because this spree of not fulfilling commissions has apparently gone on for much longer than I expected. I greatly respect their talent and think their posted art is absolutely beautiful, but their lack of communication and responsibility for someone who is supposed to be a professional leaves much to be desired.

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This was when I first commissioned him and he took the payment. Perhaps I should have done half and half, but he assured me it'd be done within a week, and I always like paying artists upfront, delays or not. Unfortunately, a long time went by when I received no word, despite my attempts at contacting him through email and other platforms.

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Eventually, I managed to find his discord server and tried contacting him there too. While the first time I got no answer, I sent a message right when he was about to stream and managed to get somewhat of an answer.

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Eventually, however, the result was the same as before. Complete radio silence after the fact.

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He opened up 2 commissions at this point, and I managed to get in contact with the second person that commissioned him, only to hear that they went through a very similar issue. Here is the conversation they allowed me to share.

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rephlanca

At this point, I put in a dispute with Paypal that was resolved in my favor, so I thankfully received a full refund, despite the fact that he didn't even respond to the dispute itself either.
I also found a thread on dA where he had commissioners wait years for their commission and he never went through with them. Here's a link for you to see for yourself. https://overlordjc.deviantart.com/journal/Commission-Refund-Journal-Apology-571912176?offset=0#comments

Thank you for reading.

January

Not directly related to an issue, but I had actually been watching this artist for a long while and was eventually planning to buy a commission from them, so thank you for warning others about this.

I usually Google the names and previous names of artists I'm about to order from with the words "PSA," "beware," and "scam" for each separate search and this pops right up there on Google results (and is actually the ONLY result I can readily find that properly warns against commissioning this artist, despite others going through a similar problem), which is why it's absurdly important that you made this PSA even though the issue had already been resolved for you and why PSAs should not be taken down even after an issue resolution because others rely on previous, available records to avoid the same problem.

Really dodged a bullet there because prior to this PSA his search results looked fairly clean.

ktails

I'm glad you've heard back from him. I'm still waiting on a commission from 2015 lol. In fact, this PSA brought it back to memory.