>>100156603Im probably the only person here who watched the video and I literally dont understand how even on that telling you can come away with this being anything other than the artist being, at best, a retard.
Fwiw in it the matter was considered closed by the artist on the 18th of june with them saying they'd need a quote and scope to begin work but they understand if doki went with 'plan b' of commisioning someone else or refunding the bidder due to them going awol for 3 months over health issue.
Doki got in contact with them on jan 10th to figure out what to do about the pc as the bidder had contacted them and she wasn't sure what the state of things were. She got into a discord group with dokis manager on jan the 13th at 10:40pm, which is the same day she claims to have done 8hrs work on the project in the invoice despite that being literally impossible as this was the first thing they even did related to this that day.
What follows is them trying to untangle the mess and figure out what the quote would be, the artist initially saying her rate was the london living wage (£13:85/hr) for labour, the first quote being 7200$, the second being 6600$ not including shipping after the artist said she'd contact someone to see if they can get a part offered cheaper and did so, with the manager saying it makes more sense for them to just refund the bidder as the cost would exceed the charity donation the bidder made.
The bidder asks if they could potentially pay the difference for better hardware, they say on the 22nd they cant do anything till knowing what the budget is and on the 23rd she says 7400$ (more than both the initial and lowered quote) of the artist, so this should sort things right? Apparently not.
On the 25th the artist comes out and says actually my normal rate is £32 and i've been unvervaluing it in my quotes up to this point.
On the 26th her manager says we aren't looking to underpay you, what we just want is you to tell us what the cost would be since we have no idea how much this theoretically would cost and thus if it makes sense to refund the buyer or commision it from you, as the initial estimate from incompetent manager 1 was 3500$ which is what the auction was set at as the cost price of the item, same as the other items were listed at, and they dont really want to pay more than the charity got paid since that doesn't make sense over paying to cover the donation.
Two new options for quotes were provided. One at the £32/hr rate claiming 4 weeks of work would be taken, and one at the initally offered $13.85 rate but the artist included 2 weeks of 'additional work fees' in the quote.
Both were substantially above the $6600 donated and somewhat above the 7400 absolute limit budget doki said.
They discuss fruitlessly a couple more days then the artist says actually the second quote at the lower rate doesn't allign with their 'creative ethics' and is being withdrawn, leaving only the much higher first quote.
Doki is very much not feeling inclined to go for this suddenly much higher quote but asks if they might accept splitting the difference and having half of the increase be donated to the charity so it wasn't overwhelmingly more than the charity got paid by the bidder and she might accept instead of going for refunding it to which the artist says she has already included a discount of £3840 in this new quote offer of £8622.97.
Her manager steps in and and says we've now recieved a few different quotes with big difference is pricing (only going up) and you asked for our budget, which we said ~7k and you've now offered a quote of 15k excluding shipping and taxes, asked if they could show anything that had been agreed before hand to justify this fee and if anything had been delivered under it.
The on the 30th of jan the builder posts the invoice doki showed in her doc, claiming 120 hours of work had already been completed to be billed at the £32/hr rate they only provided to them on jan the 25th, despite two thirds of this work having 'occured' in the prior two working weeks.
They demanded payment for this, despite the only thing having been shown to have been done even in the builders own google doc is them going back and forth trying to figure what the artist would charge as a quote and nobody having agreed to any rates/payement costs at any point, nor the builder even informed the 'client' that they were charging 40hr weeks at £32/hr this whole time try and offer a quote for the work.
They also added that this may be less than you think because you could get a tax write off to which doki seemed to view as a moral evil to suggest, then withdrew from the group and leaving her manager to try and figure something out with the artist with whom he didn't have much sympathy over these antics given he'd basically contacted them to figure out what the quote would be and the artist was now trying to claim 5k usd for no agreed upon work.
