#scam shops

[xerxeswitch]

Spirit Companion Reminder

People have been approaching me about this. I said it once, and I'll say it again -- I highly recommend you do NOT pursue spirit companionship as "spirit keeping" or turn towards Creepy Hollows. (As in binding spirits/entities to objects/strangers -- mostly without consent -- and using them to fulfill fantasies/sell them off.

Creepy Hollows is a scam with the founders who are intolerant to opinions and feedback, and they are known to hex people who disagrees with them openly. They'll either give you an empty vessel, a servitor to assume a role temporarily, or...on the rare side...a spirit bound against their will. Sometimes they also just create servitors to function a role of what the customer wants. Spirits and entities are also not yours to use for your own entertainment to get attention, or to take shape in feeding your personal desires. Because of this, I have to rehome yet another entity just days ago due to this. ... That's all.

[simder-talia-blog]

Just a general reminder that these kinds of posts are spam. I’ve been told so by Tumblr Support. These “shops” are buying products from aliexpress/alibaba sometimes charging 20x the price or more. They are scams. Look at all of these items that they have done this with, see below.

*Notice the warnings on some of the products on the original Aliexpress website where these items are from. A lot of them contain BPA, which is a dangerous chemical that is connected to birth defects and harm to your body. This warning is not posted on the scam shop.

These accounts that reblog this garbage incessantly are linked somehow: either owned by the same person or people, because they have all blocked me so that I can no longer reblog, for speaking up about this in the post’s reblog notes.

[grandapplewit]

AU where Shen Yuan, soon after Binghe falls into the Abyss, loses all his memories of Shen Qingqiu. He assumes that he transmigrated into some no name NPC, and enjoys his life as a rogue cultivator completely oblivious to the Heavenly Demon and multiple Peak Lord’s tearing the world apart trying to find him.

[awesomecooperlove]

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[slightlyleft]

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

YouTube creater MegaLag has just put out a video revealing several facets of how the "free" browser extension Honey has been scamming influencers, affiliates, and consumers across the Internet and it's not even the whole story.

TL;DW

0.5. Honey is absolutely stealing consumer data.

1. Honey replaces any affiliate link with their own so Honey gets the commission from the retailer instead of the actual referrer. (Even if no coupon codes are found, any click on a Honey pop-up replaces affiliate information)

2. Retailers who are partnered with Honey get to control what coupons codes are used by the extension, so even if better coupon codes exist, consumers won't go looking for them.

3. It is heavily implied, and going to be expanded upon in a follow-up video, that taking affiliate's commissions is not even the only way Honey is stealing from their own partners.

If a product is free, you are the product.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[reality-detective]

Black Friday Deals 🤔

[protect-namine]

hey so. random thought. what are the odds that liu xiao was the client that approached qiao ling for the S1E1 case

[wahroh]

Plus postage and handling and national and state and county and city taxes.

[shiftythrifting]

Went to a charity shop in London and well... Left this one behind.

[indiesellersguild]

New article: Is Dropshipping Indie Selling? (No.)

There has been a recent influx of social media accounts made to advertise The Wonders Of Dropshipping on any post mentioning ecommerce. Many of these seem to be bots, but a real person must be behind them -- so our very own Alex R. of @handmadehazefromtheheart decided to write up an article responding to the idea that these ecommerce "guru" types overlap with our member base of online indie sellers.

Excerpt:

To a consumer, the process of buying from big name versus indie online storefronts is the same: see the pictures, read the description, click “purchase,” and wait for a package. That standard makes it pretty easy for another kind of online seller to present you with a product on an original-looking webpage, accept your money in exchange for the promise of shipment — and then turn around and give (some of) that money to an actual supplier that sends you your purchase. [...] Ultimately, the Indie Sellers Guild seeks to be an online extension of the labor movement. In capitalism, things are often divided into a working class and an owning class, and we’re here for the working class. [...] [D]ropshipping is a way to claw at the benefits of being part of the owning class: gaining profit for nothing more than inserting yourself into a transaction that doesn’t need you to operate fairly. We don’t condone that, and we don’t represent that.

View it in full here.

For some insightful thoughts on print-on-demand selling -- something that we don't all agree falls under "dropshipping" but does overlap -- you'll find a link inside to another article by Valerie of Artisans Cooperative.

[xerxeswitch]

New Spirit/Entity + Spirit Work Mistakes

Before I start, this is not to take a jab at anyone directly, despite reblogging a post of an incident that happened to multiple people...and wanting to spread the awareness to keep people spiritually safe. This is more for an educational awareness with my experiences to save people the trouble.

---- I am currently working and vetting a new spirit/entity once more. He has been rehomed to me a while ago, and he serves as the example of what I mean when I say spirit work isn't a game of feeding a fantasy/your ego. Here, I'll call the spirit/entity "N." I will not release his real name or the name of the human due to the safety reasons, other than he was a former servitor spirit to an inexperienced consumer. By consumer, I mean that the person "bought" him on Creepy Hollows, then tried to turn "N" into a tool to fulfill that person's deepest, fantasy. With the notion of being taken advantaged of, the servitor became sentient (a "tulpa") and "N" flew into a rage and started to ruin the person's life, relationships, and even threaten to ruin the person's career. (I'm slowly just starting to believe less and less in the concept of servitors as this happens, but that's a whole other story that I'll get into later....)

The very angry spirit is currently rehomed with me, but is away from his situation.

I actually psychically channeled the arrival of "N" a couple of weeks before this, along with seeing a dream of him angry and malicious towards his host without context. When the person reached out to me about the situation, matching the description and the names involved, you can imagine the hairs standing at the back of my head! ...Which is one of the main reasons why I was willing to rehome "N" with me to be honest, along with seeing his condition. This is as far as I'll go for the details of this story. ... But anyways, please, take this with a grain of salt. I'm hearing and experiencing so many stories of people recklessly buying and binding spirits/entities to themselves to start with spirit work. It usually ends with the relationship falling short inevitably with no closure, or being attacked and hated by an angry/scared spirit. Spirit work isn't really beginner friendly in my eyes, but I can understand why people are enticed to it. But it's the fact you are inviting a stranger into your energy and home. Please be aware of that. Please do lots of research of this if this still calls to you if you are starting out. I do not recommend buying spirits/entities and their supposed vessels off of Etsy/Ebay/Tumblr, etc. Most of these are SCAMS! Especially Creepy Hollows whom are known for scams, servitors that act as counterfeits to behave and portray what they supposedly are, and are known to house angry spirits. If you want to get into spirit work, or at least the way I would get into it, is to just meditate and channel. (Don't forget to discern.) Go for walks! Get to know your local spirits and land spirts around you! You'd be surprised. Make offerings with the intention to invite spirits to come to you in their own will in wanting to be around your energy.

I know I keep talking about spirit work this way, but this has been connected to my spirit work too, like with "N."

[simder-talia-blog]

Just a general reminder that these kinds of posts are spam. These "shops" are buying products from aliexpress/alibaba and charging 20x the price or more. They are scams. This item is 1 dollar. This scam shop wants to sell it to you for 25. See below. Please reblog.

See my #scams on tumblr tag for more.

[mrpenguinpants]

I am attracted to men but at what cost

[fobnsfwdoodlesbackup]

Hi y'all, I just wanted to talk a little about the behind the scenes of what I've been up to, to give y'all a little transparency and to open myself up for any tips or input! 🙏 Thank you for your continued support and for taking the time to look at my art 🫶

First and foremost I wanted to give some transparency about my art capacity.

As og followers may remember, I started this blog when I was doing art full time. Eventually my living expenses grew and I had to go back to work. I find myself in a cycle of "I'll make more art soon, once I get a job!" And "I'll make more art soon, once I am done with this job!" I lost my most recent job suddenly, having had an extension waved over my head until the last day(October 7th). Now I'm excited to have more time for art, but I am also feeling a rush to get a new job ASAP as I've been living paycheck to paycheck. I dream of doing this work full time, I'm just scared it's not quite there yet and I worry that I come off as scammy or dishonest when I anticipate more stability around the corner.

Second, I've been struggling with the Patreon. It's taken me a while to come to terms with this, but from what I've seen Patreon is not intuitive at all from the creator end. It doesn't do a good job of organizing addresses, emails, showing who or who isn't subscribed to me, or organizing and displaying the work I put on there. I've been really shocked by this experience, since lots of big names use Patreon. It's been a great way to streamline support, but it's been unhelpful in every other regard. I would like to continue using it, but I will most likely post more wips or process videos there in the future.

Which brings me to my third point, zines. I love making zines so much, it feels personal and fulfilling and fun! However the Patreon issues make it harder to keep information in order about where to send zines, or even where to message folks about them. In addition to this, the post office has been a big barrier to me, oftentimes only being open at the same time as my dayjob. Making zines can take days, then sending them out is a whole other monster.

This work is so important to me. Drawing peoples fantasies, representing body types, creating work around sexuality and the human experience feels like what I'm meant to do. I've made comics since I was a kid. This is the dream to me. The friends I've been able to make through this work are so important to me, and the conversations have been invaluable. Not to mention fun! I wanna doodle, I wanna draw hot stuff, I wanna thirst over these dudes! I want to play!

But I also just want to be transparent about the barriers I'm working around to share that experience. I'm completely self taught, both in art AND in running shops, building websites, running 8 accounts, etc. I take a lot of time to learn the logistics of these things, and try to make them make sense for my relationship with y'all (I do not want to paywall my art!! I don't want to!!!). This year my desktop broke down (the main one I use for all paintings and digital art). I've paused my Etsy shops and my Patreon to try to catch up with things. Trying to learn to paint in a completely different program. Then lost my job with no savings.

At the end of the day I don't want anything to come between me sharing my art with you. I wish I could doodle a thing, take a picture, and post it here. No third party site, no shop, no subscription. Just sharing my art with you. I promise I'm trying to figure out how to stay as close to that as possible, and I want to thank y'all for sticking with me as I untangle all of that.

So, what can you expect in the near future?

I'm working on a couple of painting commissions right now, which you should be able to see in the next couple of days! I want to catch up on kinktober and get those posted as well. There's a comic commission in progress which I'm very eager to work on, and which I think y'all will be excited for! To ease the weight of the Patreon I think I may do less zines/polls there and more wips and process videos! If possible, I want to do more full colored work too.

Thank you again for enjoying my work, and if you have any input or tips my inbox is always open 🙏🫶💕