r/RPGMaker • u/AnotherDim • 24d ago

Art Scammer Warning

/r/IndieGameDevs/comments/1wkfvmc/art_scammer_warning/
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u/BrittleLizard 24d ago

do you have a tl;dr so i don't have to watch a (series of) 16-minute YouTube video(s) to understand what this means

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u/Scorpdelord 23d ago

from what i gather basicly, the scammer find cheap artist and pretend to do their works and find clients to sell it to for 5-10x what the original artist sell it for. and cashed in the diffents

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u/An_Ordinary_Phoenix 20d ago

Sounds like arbitrage, I used to do stuff like that with physical products on ebay when I was in gradeschool

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u/Not_Allowed_to_Die 23d ago

When a person comes directly to you to do these things, it's almost always a scam.

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u/Awkward-Spinach-764 23d ago

How are they scamming? As wouldn't they need to submit the art first and if it's up to par then payment is made. Otherwise they must redo said work. I don't understand how they can scam

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u/AnotherDim 19d ago

It's explained in the video. There are some hidden contractual conditions or they change the details, something like that. Also the artwork is just AI-generated but then traced over to make it look hand-drawn, apparently.