#vanalden

I posted some examples and noted my interest in one of their characters, Toby. They valued the character around 1000g, and I gave them the value of my art, and we worked out a deal for 1 waist-up and 7 character icons.

On August 15th, I realized that I should check in with them and check on the character because it had been much longer than I normally take to complete art. Upon checking on the character I noticed that it was tied to a different account than it had been before. I went to VanAlden’s thread to contact them about this. They claimed to have sent me a PM about it, but I had never received one; they also spelled my username incorrectly when they pinged me, so this may have been why I never received a PM. I let them know that I would be fine with taking 1000g instead since I had already completed some of the artwork.

(Sorry for spelling errors.)

Today, the 16th, I went to their profile page to see if they had been active since my last message. I noticed that they had left a bump on another thread where they were trading away characters in exchange for dragons, items, currency, etc. I then edited my last message to include a ping, in case they were no longer subscribed to the topic.

I found that they had taken an offer on July 24th on the same character they had promised me on July 22nd.

They then accepted an offer on that character and transferred them to another user on July 28th.

Currently, I am still waiting for a response from VanAlden, but I wanted to warn other users of their behavior.