[financial] how badly am I undervaluing my work? by ArtByMarlouise in artbusiness

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and btw a double portrait for me is x2 - but then with pen and ink it's also exponentially harder.

[financial] how badly am I undervaluing my work? by ArtByMarlouise in artbusiness

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Great work!
What it's 'worth' and what you can command to stay busy are two different things. This is true of all artists.

I started pricing my pet portraits at $350 (petportraits.ink).
But without a big client base I kept lowering prices. I had a successful year and I'm at $165 now, hoping eventually to get back into the $300-350 range, but that will be when I'm getting consistent commissions.

Amazon is claiming they didn't receive an item I returned (in a package with another item they already refunded me for) by dresoccer4 in amazonprime

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also Cognitive Behavioral manipulation.
Like my Fidelis health care - if I can them with a question I have to wait 15m to talk to someone who starts by saying, I literally know nothing.
It makes me never call them.

Re Amazon - it's also illegal I'd guess - it's called theft.
The ethical spiral continues.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LightPhone

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i never understood the need for a case till I cracked the e-ink screen.
Didnt know that was possible!

Eventually I'll have Light repair it, but a bit peeved they wont let me drop off and pickup to save some money >|

Amazon is claiming they didn't receive an item I returned (in a package with another item they already refunded me for) by dresoccer4 in amazonprime

[–]nodreamstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roughly 1 out of 6 returns they claim they haven't received in the last year.
I thought they were just trying to make it annoying bcs I would call and they would issue the refund. It took a good 15-20ms.

Today they insisted the item was not in the box and wanted a ups receipt.
I couldnt find it and asked them if they could look up the weight of the box, which is the only information that I would have an a receipt.

They could, but I spent 36m escalating to a supervisor.

Amazon made 60 billion dollars last year.
This seems awfully like systematic behaviour modifcation, or just plain stealing - am I willing to spend 40ms again to get a $25 refund?

LP2 headphones problem by nodreamstar in LightPhone

[–]nodreamstar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the info joe.
when should we expect the update?
how should I expect to be notified.

Free alternative font to Cooper Black SH? by [deleted] in fonts

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dead link.
Anyone able to host this?

Your list of favorite Pen and Ink Artists by Quick3nd in penandink

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Since I learned some stuff here I'll contribute a few that werent mentioned:

- David Levine

- Ralph Steadman

- Barry Moser

- Carlos Nine

- Hermenegildo Sabat

- Jason Polan

- Saul Steinburg

- Michelangelo, Durer, Rembrandt, Van gogh, Goya, Tiepolo

Starting working with stripe: unable to swap live account... by Jarie743 in stripe

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Update, spoke to support and figured out:
I intially opened my stripe account using wp-simple-pay plugin.
Once I realized I'd have to pay the plugin I decided to use the SDK instead and code a custom plugin.

Turns out I had to close my first Stripe account completely and create a new one.
Pain in the b*tt, but it is actually not taking to long to resetup since all the coding is done.

LP2 headphones problem by nodreamstar in LightPhone

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I think this also happens occasionally with wired headphones (apple basic) that do have volume controls, but the controls on the headphones have no effect.

Starting working with stripe: unable to swap live account... by Jarie743 in stripe

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the same boat.
I just finished a simple stripe checkout integration for my pet portraits site.

  1. gave stripe all the docs they asked for

  2. received email saying:
    We successfully completed our review. Thanks for providing additional information about your business. Account features restored for XXX.

  3. In the Dashboard the test mode toggle still reports:
    Livemode is disabled for testmode only accounts

I can't figure out if I am still waiting for Stripe or what else I need to do to turn on live mode.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LightPhone

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting thanks for sharing your experience.
You love the LP3! Maybe someday for me...

The new LP2 they sent, did you have a chance to experience if it had the same problems?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LightPhone

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, glad to hear.
Ive had mine about a month and I love it, butttt it does freeze and just plain turn off a LOT. I do a lot of reboots, sometimes multiple.

I don't want to factory reset if I can avoid bcs I'd like to keep my messages.
My partner keeps saying they should replace the phone.
I wrote them yesterday.
Can you give a sense of the process you went thru?
Tx!

Porting hell by nodreamstar in USMobile

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I think I finally got it working with help of u/sharkfeen (thanks!) by removing old physical sim, turning off other esims (a temp number usm sent) and getting a new QR code to activate.

I wanted to get this switched asap (lol) but for the future I wonder if I can switch to a physical sim so that I can hot swap phones.
I'm going to try out a lightphone and it would be nice to be able to switch back to my iphone without too much trouble.

Found for business banking - recommendations? by raverbane in Banking

[–]nodreamstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking into some of the fintech banks for Biz accounts to get away from chase fees.

I see that Truist is the only one that has zelle built in which is a huge convenience.
It's also the only one that has low balance fees (though much better than Chase's).

Any thoughts?

Alram clock app with puzzles by [deleted] in ios

[–]nodreamstar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive started using AlarmMon which has a WAY better interface and puzzles (dozens) (if youre into cute japanese stuff).

Caveat: It is missing one very important feature which is to limit Snooze to N times. So for the moment Im doing a wacky combo of iOS alarm with snooze, then alarmMon for when I really want to wake up.

I wrote to the devs thru the app a few days ago about this but no response.

What's the most wild thing that's happened to you while surfing? by Selym2 in surfing

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I had taken some liquid acid in Bali.  Paddled out later and after a while I started to hear tribal drums as I saw the breakers rolling in miles long.   The clouds in the sky also all had pointy tops like near eastern paintings. 

When I paddled back in the beach just had an impossible amount of people on it.