"By continuing to post them on these salt forums/blogs you people are also hurting their on-site business. Need I remind anyone that when I took over one of their adoptables suddenly the ping list exploded. Orders filled up instantly. I’m not blind to that. It’s very obvious that this stuff is hurting their business and that’s also not okay"
No, having a million rules with "NO REFUNDS" and NO guarantee that the product paid for will ever be received, from a person who is frequently "murdered/dead" and is "actively dying" because they don't have internet is hurting their business.
I would also think screaming "FR and it's staff is Fascist!!" over a 24hr suspension right there in the tag openly visible to *everyone looking at the tag* certainly isn't helping their business either. Maybe they should tell AC to stop being a twat in public and people wouldn't feel the need to comment on their outrageous behavior and maybe their business will do better.
Cause and effect. If you throw a very public tantrum on top of [*gestures above*] all that I'm gonna take my business elsewhere, simple as.
I could have sworn I saw, earlier in this thread, a copy/paste from one of their places where they said that they weren't going to fulfill their obligations and they weren't giving refunds?
To me, that would be much more likely to kill business than saltmines.
Knowing that the person you are about to order art from does what AC does when they don't like what is said/done is much more likely to kill the business (all the rants about fascism and how people who don't actively help them are actively harming them and so on)
There are a lot of things that can kill a business, and one of them isn't a place that is showcasing all those things, it is the person *doing* those things.
imo you need to have a certain level of dedicatiom/interest to be involved in the FR community off of the site, on places like tumblr. and you need to be even more locked in to the goings-on to actually know of the existence of places like SMR/DRR. but to know of ARR takes an admittedly significant amount of involvement and familiarity with FR's community; you don't just stumble across an anon dreamwidth comm. its absurd to claim that the chatter here is to blame for AC's lack of commissions when probably <5% of FR's playerbase even knows what dreamwidth is, much less ARR's existence. most FR players just stick to the game and its forums.
...y'know, the place where AC throws public tantrums and has dubious customer service.
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Re: AC at it again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-18 12:14 am (UTC)(link)No, having a million rules with "NO REFUNDS" and NO guarantee that the product paid for will ever be received, from a person who is frequently "murdered/dead" and is "actively dying" because they don't have internet is hurting their business.
It's business not make-a-fucking-wish.
Re: AC at it again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-18 01:01 am (UTC)(link)Cause and effect. If you throw a very public tantrum on top of [*gestures above*] all that I'm gonna take my business elsewhere, simple as.
Re: AC at it again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-18 01:36 am (UTC)(link)I could have sworn I saw, earlier in this thread, a copy/paste from one of their places where they said that they weren't going to fulfill their obligations and they weren't giving refunds?
To me, that would be much more likely to kill business than saltmines.
Knowing that the person you are about to order art from does what AC does when they don't like what is said/done is much more likely to kill the business (all the rants about fascism and how people who don't actively help them are actively harming them and so on)
There are a lot of things that can kill a business, and one of them isn't a place that is showcasing all those things, it is the person *doing* those things.
Re: AC at it again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-18 02:38 am (UTC)(link)Yea. Their poor business is their own fault
Re: AC at it again
(Anonymous) 2025-02-18 02:13 am (UTC)(link)...y'know, the place where AC throws public tantrums and has dubious customer service.