We live and learn.
After seeing a few comments posted in my chatbox and talking to several people on here I feel it is time I address a few matters and clear the air so to speak. Normally I would not even bother because most of it boils down to “he said she said” and becomes more of a pain in the ass than a reason to justify the issue. The word assumption or assume bears heavily on this plus the fact that maybe the term consignment needs to be addressed because a lot of things get misconstrued as to what is actually meant.
I won’t mention names or ID’s because all concerned once reading this will know who and what I am talking about.
First I would like to define or attempt to define what it means when you offer your services on a consignment basis and what is expected of you. When you sell your goods or services to someone and they have accepted your services to a specific type or amount of work, it is by their instructions or wishes you fulfill that request, not by what you think they would want or what you feel you want.
If a prospective client tells you for example they would like a painting that measures 24 inches tall x 60 or 72 inches long and has even given specific details as to what they wanted the outcome to look like down to medium and application of the medium, those are the instruction that you follow, you do not decide or take it upon yourself to alter those instructions and create something you think they would like or that you feel comfortable in doing. As a consignee you are obligated to that and the consignor is not obligated at any point to honor anything if that has been breached. In other words you do not come up with something that is of wall portrait size and out of the scope of medium, subject or application of medium and expect the consignor to pay for it.
As a consignee, you do not dictate when the work is to start, how it is to proceed or assume at any point that until agreed upon that the consignor is obligated to accept something that is not to what the instructions or wishes were. If you take it upon yourself as the consignee to start a project without the consignor requesting that you start it, the responsibility falls on you, not the consignor. You have a professional and moral obligation to your client in that respect. At no point should you assume that what you have done on your own volition to do is the client or consignor to be held responsible. And until the consignor is ready you do not make purchases, if you do then that too is your responsibility, you do not assume at any time that the client or consignor is responsible, that is just simple business practice.
Addressing your comments on my chatbox at this time attests to the professionalism lacking as a business professional or the claim that you are one. Your comments were slanderous and out of context and by placing those in such a public forum you have put yourself in a precarious and liable position. Personal comments such as you made should have been just that, personal and addressed that way. All you do in doing so is give that person that you directed those comments to is reason for legal recourse for defamation and slander. And personally, I would hope that they would not take it to that level if I were you.
As I have previously stated, normally I would not concern myself with such matters as this, but I feel that you assumed too much and you thought you knew what would be acceptable when not following the prospective client’s wishes. But you took things upon yourself to do that you shouldn’t have and now you expect to be compensated for it.
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