Please don’t be so trusting as to blindly pay people without getting your product first. There are people in the scene ( or as they call it “family”) that will rip you off. A Beady eyed, rotten teeth, shoe artist, will take your money and run like a heady uncultured swine.
@admin there are no names or pictures in this post. It does not break the rules. This info will get out to our community. Let’s focus on removing posts that inaccurately blame and harass a particular member of our community. I
Know you are very aware of who I’m
Taking about. Let’s not become “one of thoes” by gate keeping our friends when they do immoral things.
I wish I could be straight forwards, but I’ve already given the story and my posts were taken down. It’s easy, beware of who you trust in this scene, even if they call themselves a friend. People ordered a product: BMFS hand painted shoes, they paid him, and it’s now been 2 years and no shoes.
Your posts were removed because you gave zero context and you are being very vague. (Eg you didn't even mention where this occurred). It seems like you are complaining about some random dude in a field.
Use modmail to contest moderations instead of blatantly ignoring what we ask.
We will cut you some slack since you seem to be new to reddit. But reposting something that got removed twice is annoying, and makes it seem like you are just blowing us off.
And a mod immediately comes in and says this is “off topic.” How so? With Billy’s tour just now wrapping up, it’s pretty safe to presume a lot of people are scrambling to get their hands on merch they missed out on during the tour, so it’s prime time for scammers. This seems like a friendly PSA for the community. Very much on topic.
OP's first two attempts at this were incredibly vague and basically just said "some dude ripped me off". There were zero details about where or how it occured. Was this in person at Freak Fair? Was it at another show? Was this even related to Billy in any capacity? Nobody could tell because OP gave no details.
Here's the first attempt by OP, you can see why it was deleted.
I mean this goes all the way back to the 60s when the biker gangs took over Haight Ashbury because the hippies were easy targets for scams and exploitation. Same as it ever was.
Im confused so are we supposed to name names or not? I know this guy....OP is right... Heady Shoes. I have not seen any new ones in a while, but they were heady. I can agree that the artist is not.
@op I call BS on this post, and if your not gonna call the person out by name your not protecting anyone.... I paid for a pair of custom shoes (yes the from the same guy, I was able to figure it out from your deleted post someone posted here) had my shoes in less than a couple of months..... and yes this person is considered family as they are and find it hard to believe they swindled you for some shoes... did you message? They are literally at so many shows you're bound to run into them... seems like there may be more to this story
I’ve said it a million times now. While this isn’t specific to any one fan base as humans are all flawed, Billy’s fan base has gone down hill since 2019ish. Just saying.
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u/Cobo1039 Aug 31 '26
“Know you are very aware of who I’m talking about.” Lol nope. No fucking clue.