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Dec 13, 2005, 6:22pm

For those of you that read my post about needing custom avs a few weeks ago
or even if you didn't. I chose aura lily to make the avs as a 600 dollar
deal, we made the deal I would pay her 80$ every month (this was about 2 and
a half weeks ago) and so I sent her the 80$ to start and then she sent me a
gram the next day saying she would have a rough mesh to show me the 4th of
dec. however she didn't. I was patient and sent her grams as well as e-mails
and no answer, I was also patient to post this but apparently with no answer
what so ever from her I feel a need to post this. And I am really starting
to feel she ripped me off, I am going to keep being patient but if I get no
answer in the next couple of weeks I am going to take further action about
this... 80 dollars is a lot of money, not to mention I had a lot of things
to pay this month and was out money so I used my credit card. If anybody
that is reading this knows her, please help me. thanks.

Dec 13, 2005, 6:55pm

It is a lot of money... why didn't you get her **Phone Number**? :P
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Dec 13, 2005, 9:22pm

Or better yet, usually how people do business deals now over the
internet .. it's best to wait until the artist or other person shows you
some form of work or product result before money is put down on the table.

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Dec 13, 2005, 9:46pm

ive heard of aura lily but dont know her so cant help you out sorry John.



i use an escrow service for all my transactions
it garantees both sides of the transaction
fees for $600 = $25 which is normally split
so both parties pay half.

https://www.escrow.com/index.asp

Dec 13, 2005, 10:17pm

Yeah, this service sounds good but the seller could send you a blank rwx
file and they would get the payment
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Dec 13, 2005, 10:31pm

I recon at some point over christmas I will set up a few pages on my website
where people can register, and people leave suitable comments about their
production service.

Kinda like eBay ratings.

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of us who do"
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Dec 13, 2005, 10:53pm

Thats why I only deal with proven reputable modelers. I rather pay more for
an object that is done by the best modelers. You never know what u r getting
from unknown modelers. You dont want a model thats gonna freeze up your
puter either. And the modelers I use make great objects with low verts.
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Dec 13, 2005, 11:30pm

Well Aura Lily is well known by some good modelers like Star Heart she got
him interested in wings... But she might be a bit psycho I guess.
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Dec 14, 2005, 12:10am

Dear John,
So sorry to hear of your unfortunate experience. Just thought I would share
some of my own views. Making business deals, especially of the sort where you
are investing $600 of your own hard earned money, I would require a written
contract with that person.( Snail mail) Something concrete you could use in the
circumstance they would fail to follow through with their end of the deal. This
would become your legal document to follow up recapturing any investments you
put forward. This is a way to protect yourself from fraud. Email is good but
might not be as good as a paper in your hand legally(although Im not a lawyer).
Having handed over $80 to a stranger and recieving no reply to your
concerns. I would consider the negotiations to be ended, since they have shown
themselves to be unreliable. I wouldn't continue with them. Granted,
circumstances happen in life that cause us to be late on emails, but they made
sure to get the money didn't they?
Unfortunately, you might have learned the hard way that everyone is not what
they seem online. Some are not as honest as others and even some people have
lessor morals and rip people off. Good luck resolving this and I hope you keep
yourself safer by using a contract.
Sincerely,
Pamela
(CoLor)

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> file and they would get the payment
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Dec 14, 2005, 12:55am

Yep, paying blindly isn't the smartest. usually, in such places are
Rentacoder, the buyer doesn't pay fully until the whole project is complete,
and approved. unless ofcourse,t hey agree to pay in stages. but seeing how
this is a single model, should only pay when you get something and are happy
with the product.

-SWE

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Dec 14, 2005, 3:40am

I just sent refund of your 80 dollars.

Circumstances beyond my control have delayed your avatars. You might be
better off buying them elsewhere.

Thanks you

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Dec 14, 2005, 5:59am

Way to go, Aura Lily, for stepping up and refunding his money. :)

Chris

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Dec 14, 2005, 1:09pm

Well I guess this post helped but honestly I'm quite dissapointed that you
just faded away for 2 weeks not answering grams, e-mails, etc.
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Dec 14, 2005, 1:58pm

Perhaps it couldn't have been avoided. She did say, "Circumstances beyond my
control..."

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Dec 14, 2005, 5:08pm

True true, sugar... Lets say her internet had a major outage... she could of
worked on them meanwhile it got working and once she came online had a bunch
of stuff done, or go to an internet cafe for 5 mins to email me back.
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Dec 14, 2005, 8:06pm

there are other circumstances not involving internet or computer problems.
Could have been way too preoccupied to even go next to a computer. Could
have also been something that got her too depressed to even want to go next
to a computer.
just saying, don't be quick to critisise.

-SWE

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Dec 16, 2005, 4:23am

For the record, I've been a customer of Aura's in the past ... her dragons
rock! She dealt quickly & honestly with me and has gone way out of her way
to make me happy. And I do mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of her way. I thank her
for what she has done for me :o}

If Aura says "Circumstances beyond my control have delayed your avatars..."
you can take that to the bank as far as I'm concerned. And she did refund
your money.

All I can say to Aura is I hope she's ok ... now she has me worried :o|

*waits for gram that she's ok*

Lady NightHawk




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