Uh, dude... I appreciate you're trying to stick up for somebody, but you need to back off as you don't know the history here.
I'm going on A YEAR of waiting. A year. Really? That's okay with you? And someone having too many orders is okay with you, too? Someone agreeing to do something for you and net telling you know they might have 100 other projects ahead of yours and you're going to have to wait for almost a year when they didn't tell you that was the case is cool - so I should just give him a break. Let's say you ask the body shop to repair your car and after repeated attempts to contact them, with no response, MONTHS into their promise to deliver, they tell you to "cool it, man, we have other cars too."
Once you take someone's money, it's a JOB, not a hobby. You've agreed to do a JOB. If you have a life where you're not going to be able to do this in a timely manor, and not ever update your buyer, DON'T TAKE THE JOB. It's unfair to all parties involved.
And no, he's not in a hospital. I've been doing business on-line and in person with artists/prop guys for a LONG TIME. As for other people waiting a long time, I DON'T CARE. They're deals are NOT my concern. This one is. He made a contract to paint something for me and when you give people your hard-earned cash for services rendered, communication is key. All I want are updates. Even if it's "I haven't had a chance to work on it this week 'cuz my plants died."
I've had to PRY any response from him at all and publicly seems to be the only way of doing it.
As for people not gettin' gripped off, really? Might want to review the boards and amend that statement. I'm STILL waiting for a blaster from someone (and I'm sure we all know who that is) who's been banned and guess what? He still have my money and I have NOTHING.
Like I said, I appreciate you trying to help a brother out, but next time, maybe you should send the person a message asking why they're so upset before you call them out in public as you DO NOT have the facts.
I'm going on A YEAR of waiting. A year. Really? That's okay with you? And someone having too many orders is okay with you, too? Someone agreeing to do something for you and net telling you know they might have 100 other projects ahead of yours and you're going to have to wait for almost a year when they didn't tell you that was the case is cool - so I should just give him a break. Let's say you ask the body shop to repair your car and after repeated attempts to contact them, with no response, MONTHS into their promise to deliver, they tell you to "cool it, man, we have other cars too."
Once you take someone's money, it's a JOB, not a hobby. You've agreed to do a JOB. If you have a life where you're not going to be able to do this in a timely manor, and not ever update your buyer, DON'T TAKE THE JOB. It's unfair to all parties involved.
And no, he's not in a hospital. I've been doing business on-line and in person with artists/prop guys for a LONG TIME. As for other people waiting a long time, I DON'T CARE. They're deals are NOT my concern. This one is. He made a contract to paint something for me and when you give people your hard-earned cash for services rendered, communication is key. All I want are updates. Even if it's "I haven't had a chance to work on it this week 'cuz my plants died."
I've had to PRY any response from him at all and publicly seems to be the only way of doing it.
As for people not gettin' gripped off, really? Might want to review the boards and amend that statement. I'm STILL waiting for a blaster from someone (and I'm sure we all know who that is) who's been banned and guess what? He still have my money and I have NOTHING.
Like I said, I appreciate you trying to help a brother out, but next time, maybe you should send the person a message asking why they're so upset before you call them out in public as you DO NOT have the facts.
