Day 54 Question

[tripperfunster]

a) have you ever bid on a 'fandom' auction or purchased a commission?

b) did you get what you paid for? Or did you get burned?

I bid on three different artists/writers in two different fandom auctions (ie. help_haiti and help_japan) and I got burned on all three. *grumpy face* Do I have particularly bad luck? Or are artists/writers just that unreliable?

As for commish: I've only bought two or three and have been very happy with the results of all. I've been ripped off on ebay once or twice, but over-all have had a positive experience.

Comments

[gestaltrose.livejournal.com]

I came through for my bidder on help haiti but failed completely at help japan. I do have a story 3/4 written for one of my winners but I cannot even get a hold of my other winner and re request what she wanted because I lost the email (I have messaged both of them and one of them got back to me) (lots of loss in my life last year and then this one kicked my muse out of my head altogether for a while)

I feel horrible.

On the other side of things I won a vid and the vidder didn't like my music or any of the suggested pairings (it was harry/draco but I would have taken harry/sev) and she ended up making her own vid that I hated and I think she did too. The thing was... when I was bidding I contacted her to make sure that slash wouldn't be a problem and she said it wouldn't but (later after I won) that she couldn't picture harry/draco to the song I picked or harry/anyone male it seemed. *facepalm* I bid on the vidder so she could make a vid for my sister in law to her favorite song I think it was 'Hard to say I'm sorry' by Chicago but it might have been something from Journey. It was a long time ago and I was just happy to have given something to charity.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you CONTACTED (or attempted to) the people.

One person just never answered my emails (she did initally, but then stopped) and the other one was "Oh yeah! I forgot! I"ll get right on that" and of course, never did.

Really, a simple message of "I'm very sorry, but due to life circumstances, I'll not be able to deliver" would have made me feel better.