So I was on DeviantART just minding my own business when this user BruteForce19 was being a dick towards me. He paid me money to draw his Transformers OC, but when I drew it for him, he wasn't satisfied. He kept telling me to redesign him and when I made this post telling people that I won't give my clients their money back until I have more money on my PayPal, someone in the comments began accusing me of being a scammer and a criminal. They started bullying me while spreading lies and falsehoods about me on DeviantART. It got to a point where my friends had to report these people for slander, defamation, fraud, bullying, and harassment. So in a nutshell, I have decided to just leave DeviantART because people are witch-hunting me. After all, they misunderstood me and got the wrong idea and started accusing me of being a criminal when all I did was make mistakes. If any of you are reading this, please report Zaymerax and BruteForce19 for the drama they put me through and if you have PayPal, kindly donate money so that I can have enough to give my clients a refund because I don't want to do PayPal Commissions anymore! Please do what you can to help me out if you care that I'm having trouble right now.
I gave one of my clients a refund and I have to prove to people that I am not a scammer or a criminal or a bad person because I am capable of learning from my mistakes, making better choices, and taking responsibility for my actions.
These are the people who bullied me, slandered me, harassed me, and spread lies about me. This person Zaymerax is spreading lies and falsehoods about me being a scammer and a criminal and BruteForce19 is an asshole who treats artists like me like crap because he can't draw his own OC:
This is the post that I deleted out of embarrassment because people got the wrong idea that I was "refusing to give people their money back" when I made it clear that I can't give my clients their money back unless I have the money to refund them.
Yatsufusa
From past accounts of other users concerning "adventures on dA" the mention of "someone in the comments" immediately made me thing "sock-puppet account", since that seems to be a rampant problem there ("big numbers make right"). It's possible that somebody just wanted to scam some free art out of you.
Being "dissatisfied" with a product that's easy to copy is something that even happens in the bigger business world. A good indicator for such attempts are contracts/agreements that are intentionally vague and open-ended.
The only advice I can give is to look at how other artists word their commission thingies in order to get some pointers. In doubt, ask the Art forum here.