AS Forum animator took my money, never delivered
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:51 am
Really sad news.
I'm in the middle of a non-receipt paypal dispute (scalated to a claim already).
Board user "Maestral" accepted a small job offer. I checked his background here at the forum and he's been a member for quite a while and has posted over 100 posts.
I also checked his profile at deviant art, etc.
He accepted the job and was fully aware that I needed it urgently. In fact, he said he'd be able to complete it before the alloted time.
Now, I don't want to put this user down, but some of his messages were a little "strange". He said he'd lost all the files he'd been working on and had to start over, and would need some extra time. (sounded like a terrible excuse to me, but I gave him some extra time).
Then he kept giving excuses.
I think he's a good animator, but he never sent me any files as he promised. He only let me take a look at a small animation that he'd made with the instructions I'd given him (it was surprisingly good, I must admit), but no .anme files whatsoever!.
More excuses followed. Why couldn't he send the files that he'd done already so that we could work together to polish them? he didn't want to.
Then he stopped comunicating with me. Tried to contact him several times, not a single reply. Been five days already since his last email.
I'd only sent him the first part of a payment ($100).
Currently awaiting instructions from Paypal.
I do not wish to put anybody down. Maestral does look like a good artist / animator. It's just that until this issue is resolved (if it is resolved at all), you should think twice before hiring his services. Just my opinion.
I'll be more than happy to edit / delete this post if the issue is resolved, but I'm not optimistic...
I'm in the middle of a non-receipt paypal dispute (scalated to a claim already).
Board user "Maestral" accepted a small job offer. I checked his background here at the forum and he's been a member for quite a while and has posted over 100 posts.
I also checked his profile at deviant art, etc.
He accepted the job and was fully aware that I needed it urgently. In fact, he said he'd be able to complete it before the alloted time.
Now, I don't want to put this user down, but some of his messages were a little "strange". He said he'd lost all the files he'd been working on and had to start over, and would need some extra time. (sounded like a terrible excuse to me, but I gave him some extra time).
Then he kept giving excuses.
I think he's a good animator, but he never sent me any files as he promised. He only let me take a look at a small animation that he'd made with the instructions I'd given him (it was surprisingly good, I must admit), but no .anme files whatsoever!.
More excuses followed. Why couldn't he send the files that he'd done already so that we could work together to polish them? he didn't want to.
Then he stopped comunicating with me. Tried to contact him several times, not a single reply. Been five days already since his last email.
I'd only sent him the first part of a payment ($100).
Currently awaiting instructions from Paypal.
I do not wish to put anybody down. Maestral does look like a good artist / animator. It's just that until this issue is resolved (if it is resolved at all), you should think twice before hiring his services. Just my opinion.
I'll be more than happy to edit / delete this post if the issue is resolved, but I'm not optimistic...