Ok, so I am sure a number of the folks in this community have gotten custom content done by various SWs over the years. I do, and personally I have been screwed over/scammed about a half dozen times over the years. That is, I politely make a request, I am given a price, I pay up front, and then...nothing. Ghosted 100% of the time. Up to and including being blocked on whatever platform I contacted them through. And this has happend once again. I reached out to @psychoDsick on X/Twitter this past Thursday, made my request, they agreed to it and gave me a price. I paid through Cashapp, we chatted a bit on Saturday and she informed me she woudl be recording my request that same day. As of this morning she has me blocked. No refund of course and no explination either.
All told I think I have been scammed out of a total of $300 roughly over the years. The single largest amount was $170, I paid for outfit and props (a half dozen very large balloons).
Now, to be clear, I am VERY polite VERY specific about what I am looking for. While I don't demand anyone use my scripts I do prefer it for two reasons. First, and more importantly, if they see the scritp up front (before money changes hands) they know what they are getting into. Some ladies have not been comfortable with the entire idea once they see the scripts and that has never been a problem either. I simply say thank you for your time and move on. It's a weird ass kink, and I know this. So I have no cause or reason to get upset if someone else is not ok with taking part.
All that being said, I follow this pattern EVERY time. And in each of these scam cases they knew ahead of time what they were getting into and exactly what I was asking for. None of them reached out to say, 'Sorry, I changed my mind.'. Had they done so, I would have said ok no problem. I'd like my money back. Which is of course the issue. I have a feeling that in all these cases, they never intended on going through with my request at all and just decided to be theives and steal/scam me.
I am not placing the blame on SWs here. More then 75% of the time I have gotten what I asked for, and if there was any issue concerning timeliness, the SW in question reached out to me and let me know. But, this is the sort of behavior that makes many of us not want to pay in full up front. Or even ask for custom content at all.
Hi KorgFal,
I'm sorry to hear of your experiences. It must be really annoying, especially as I doubt there are many options for getting your money back.
I'm yet to be scammed in that way, and I have commissioned quite a few videos over the years. It could be that I'm just lucky, but it also might be because I tend to commission via "I Want Clips". With IWC you have to upload money to your IWC account, but you can pay the exact amount needed for what you are buying, so there's no waste.
When you commission something, the money leaves your IWC account straight away, but I'm pretty sure that the money goes into some kind of holding area, and the artist doesn't get the money until they deliver the goods. I've had artists not produce anything before the commission deadline, but I always got the money back into the IWC account, for me to use again.
I realise that you may already be aware of IWC and that you may want to use specific artists that are not on that website, but I'm hoping that this may be of some help to you.
Cheers
Eggs