arahir:

so just in general with fandom, but good life advice, too, is: if you pay for a zine or product or service and it never gets sent and oh… say it turns out their art account is actually a sockpuppet for a known scammer with 30k+ followers, call your credit card company and cancel the charge. they will go after the scammer directly and return you your money immediately. please don’t put up with being treated that way. fandom economy is the wild wild west right now, but you do have recourse. likewise, artists, keep receipts of services delivered and accepted because i know people have tried the reverse (cancelling charges on legit deals) as well.