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yea i figured its only been since the anniversary ball... with all the probs with maintenace we had, im just curious about if that was the only old item they added new positions for. imagine the endless possibilities! surprised


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"im so mad i wear socks on my hands, and hats on my feet! hahaha!"

"hey, im so mad i wash my hands 100 times a day because they smell like my mother. hahahahahahaha!"

"what did u just say??"

"i said im mad, wonderfully funderfully mad!"

- ana gasteyer/rat & steve buscemi/mad hatter
saturday night live

there is its called shift+tab XD

look! im drinkin!! xd glub glub!

*stands ready with hammer in hand*

I tried buyin a Sketchbook, but it took twice the amount of gold, and gave me fresh air!!
Dude.. where did ya get the bottle? Do they do Vodka or Sambucca? blaugh

The dirge of the shopkeeper.

Does anyone else ever feel like customers have this strange idea that we're nothing but a bunch of desperate pixel-people who need to sell avatar edits in order to survive instead of actual human beings who are online to have fun? ^^;

I get told things like "if it's good enough I'll pay you" and other things that make me feel that these people think they're doing me a huuuge favor by asking me to create graphics for them in exchange for pixels. Basically what they're saying is this...

Customer: I'll give you my pixels in exchange for your pixels, hard work, and free time. Oh, and I'll throw in some ingratitude and bad manners to sweeten the deal.

Meriko: Um...eat me?

/sulk

*hee* I get compliments on how nicely and patiently I deal with the rude and ungrammatical. On the other side of the screen, however, I'm chewing up my keyboard and spitting it out four letters at a time. XD

As for how I handle iffy requests...if it violates the mini-shop guidelines I just politely say no and point to the guidelines as the reason why I won't take the request. If it's something that I personally don't want to do, then I say something like, "I'm sorry but I prefer not to do [insert squick here] edits."

As for customizing, that's part of what I offer at the avatar edit shop that I run with my friend Kimini. ^^ But it's part of the guidelines of the shop that if they don't make it clear to me what they want, I won't be held responsible if the edit isn't exactly what they were envisioning. I am not, after all, telepathic. *hee*

Some people actually think that there are programs out there that we use to make these...and I mean no-skill-required making. o_O; Like I load up the program, paste in an avatar, and then start clicking buttons that say, "Gothic Lolita" + "Pale Blue" + "Blouse: Short Sleeve - Puffed Variation" + "Skirt: Full - Long Variation" + "Lace: Quantity = Lots."

I've been blessed so far. Kimini and I have gathered up a nice little group of loyal followers who help us field questions and incorrectly placed orders. And when the finished product hasn't been exactly what the customer wanted, they've still liked it well enough and paid us without complaining. ^^

The ones who give me migraines usually don't make it past my repeated requests to read my rules (there are only three, for crying out loud) or follow my ordering instructions, so I never get to the point where I have to battle them for payment.

I did have one person scam me though. =_=; They sent me a trade, but when I sent them their edit and confirmed the trade, they cancelled it. It disappeared from my pending trades, so I thought they'd confirmed it, but when I looked into the completed trades list it wasn't there. I sent them three PMs, which they read, but they never replied or re-sent me the gold.