Adoptables RULES by Piffi-sisters on DeviantArt (original) (raw)
Please read carefullly the rules before buy an adopt from me , if you buy an adopt I assume that you have read and agreed to all the rules
How can you buy an Adoptables?
★ Skip this part if you know how auctions work★
★ I sell some of My design on Piffi-Sisters Discord Server so if you don't want miss some important Auctions, Join the Piffi Family ヽ༼◉ل͜◉༽ﾉ ! Become a Piffini <3
★ If I write "Auction" In the description You have to reply to my comment "BID HERE #" with your offer . Please bid in chain to let everyone to keep track of the bid replying to the highest bidder, I put in the description the starting price ( SB = Starting Bid ) and sometimes I put a price called "Autobuy" ( AB ) for people who didn't want wait for the end of the auction and want that adopt instantly ( in this case you have to reply AB or Autobuy in the comment ;v; )
Important
In any case you have to put your bid ALWAYS in the proper comment, I can't accept offer through notes and comment out of place
★ If I Write "Set price" in the description you can buy the adopt without auction , follow the instruction in the deviation to know how to Bid
★ If the adopt is "offer to adopt" read the description and don't be offended if I don't choose your offer even if you think it's better than the other, the decision is entirely up to me <3
★ Mostly I use "DYNAMIC PRICE" to sell, Something invented by me that means The design start with a price and after 24 hours if no one claim the design, the price WILL BE REDUCED, again after other 24 hours if no one claim it, the price will be reduced and so on day by day, until a minimum price I consider for the design ( it depends on the design some more some less ;u; )
★ I'll try as much as I can to warn you if someone did an offer higher than yours , but I'm not at home everytime so please check the auction also by yourself ;v; <3
★ About Snipe guard ( A sort of "help" for people to prevent someone arrives at the last minute placing a bid ) , I write in the description the Snipe guard time , if an offer is placed in the last hours before the ending time , I have to wait the indicated time in the description until no one place other offers. If I wrote "The action ends 24/48 hours after the last bid" the snipe guard is not necessary because if someone arrived and put another bid, have to wait another 24/48 hours to finish ;u;
★ You MUST HAVE the money on hand. After winning I'll note you asking your paypal mail to send an invoice and the payment must be done within 24 hours or I'll put this up for sale again
★ You can ask for a Payment Plan if you reach the proper amount, read the info here : About Payment Plan
★ Payment is in $ USD in € Euro or 
. I accept Paypal only ( or Points where available 1$= 80 )
★ ONLY after sent the full payment the character belongs to you the same as if you buy a MYO slot
★ I can accept anonymous bid but you have to write your offer at first in the proper comment, then when I reply I'll hide your comment, don't hide by yourself in this way I will always have track of your bid, I don't accept bid within note because the time it's not precise and I don't want fight ;;, if you sent me a note for the bid I can't accept your offer and I will accept the offer putting in the proper comment - this is mostly for AB offers, or offer near the end of the auction, if there is enough time ( like auction with ending time 24/48 hours after the last bid ) and you have problem with an auction, I can write the bid for you putting the reference of your note hiding your name as proof
★ Anonymous bidder is ok, anonymous owner not, so in case you choose to resell or trade the character, people have to know the owner name
After Buying an Adoptable
❀ WHAT YOU RECEIVE ❀
★ I'll send to you the unwatermarked and bigger version of the adoptable.
❀ YOU CAN ❀
★ Use the character for personal use
★ Give to adopt a name, a personality, you can change clothes a little, gender, anything you want like your Original character ( but if you have to change evertything maybe you have to search for another adopt ;v; ). Please credit me for the design where necessary.
★ You can use it for a story , for an avatar , for a signature , in rp story and so on
★ !!!IMPORTANT!!! You can resell the adoptable if you don't want it anymore for THE SAME PRICE you bought it, no more,
About Commissions/request or other art you bought, you are available to resell also the extra you paid
ONLY
if you give me the proof about how much you paid
and
the permission to resell their art from the author of your extra, i don't want broke other people's rules if they don't want their art being resold, so please if you don't have proof about the price or the author permission, just resell the adopts at the same price you bought ( forgive me but a lot of people add a very lot of money to a design, even if they got free request and this is not fair )
★ You can trade or gift the adoptable you bought, but you
can not
trade or sell an adopt you received
in gift
by someone else, only gift it again
★
!!!VERY IMPORTANT!!!
I have a (little) Personal Blacklist with people I don't want they have my designs, if happens you give your design to them, I'll contact you to cancel the transaction
★ Is required if you resell or trade one of my adopt , to
tell me the new owner name
, Always, If I lost track of the adoptable you will be put in the blacklist
★ You can ask my help to features your journal/poll/deviation where you resell/trade one of my design here : People who RESELL/TRADE My design or in Discord Server
★ You can draw for yourself and for personal Use only a humanoid character based on one of my pet, Just please do not use this permission to do a character with the same features of my humanoid Personal Project, you can ask me a Transform Me Custom for this purpose
❀ YOU CAN NOT ❀
★ You can't claim the art or the original design as your own.
★ You can't claim a refund , buy the adopt only if you want it , if you don't want it anymore you can resell it by yourself
★ You can't Resell an adopt that you won in a raffle or in a "offer to adopt" if you didn't spend money, as well you can not resell a design you obtained for art, for trade or for a gift
★ You can't drop, hide a bid comment or edit your bid. Be sure when you bid on my adoptable, If you break this rule I can put you in the Blacklist and deny you to buy again from me in future.
★ You can't resell/trade/gift a character you gain from me for free ( like a gift ) or in a raffle, so keep in mind it if you don't want a character for yourself, because you cannot give it to anyone else. This rule is applied also if you spent money on this free character in commission, so you cannot ask for money EVEN IF you spent money on this free design. Free designs are not for trade/resell/gift,
never.
★ You can't resell a MYO slot and if you receive a MYO in gift don't trade your character, MYO it's only for your personal use
★ If you receive a character in gift, the character can only be giftable, not trade or resell is available, this rules is applied even if you spent money to commission, gift, included all the commissions you receive, it's only available for gift
❀ ABOUT OPEN SPECIES❀
★ I Have a lot of Open species you can do for yourself for personal Use
★ You can
NOT
resell/trade/gift a character you drawn by yourself or by others ( this is for MYO ) if there is an OPEN SPECIE, it's only for personal use, this rules is applied even if you spent money to commission the design to someone else; this rules is applied also if you spent money to commission art for this Open Species character. Only characters done by me belonging to the Open Species Projects are available to trade/resell/gift ( where rules are applied ) . ANY commercial use isn't allowed for open species, you can't sell gadgets from MYO or design you made from my open species, you CAN'T use the MYO or design made on my open species for comics, artbook, videogame, vtube, anything other than a personal use for you own fun ; if you plan to commission a big amount of art on a character made by yourself/others than me, consider this rules.
★ If someone sell/trade/gift you an unofficial design please tell me and I will put this person in blacklist, because no one can sell a character made by themselves ( like MYO or Opens species )
★ You can do, for personal Use only, a humanoid character based from my pet belonging to open species, Just please do not use this permission to do a character with the same features of my humanoid Personal Project, you can ask me a Transform Me Custom for this purpose
❀ About Co-Own ❀
★ From 2023 onwards the maximum users who will be able to co-own a design are reduced to 2. This includes both new and old designs
Unfortunately the co-own is used not to share a character in most cases but to divide the price as much as possible, this is a great advantage for me and for you (I have more chances to sell, you have more chances to be able to buy ) but in the long run it becomes really difficult and inconvenient, both for the users and for me who constantly have to solve problems.
It's much safer to co-own max in 2, sorry for this change.
If before 2023 you made a co-own of 3 you can keep it
★ Co-own is available for a max of 2 users, please co-own responsibly .
Be careful about the people you choose to co-own,
Because if something going wrong with payment or if some drama comes, you will be
equally responsible and will be banned from my future auction
, so try to co-own with someone you consider friends, not with people around not trusted.
★ If you are available to to co-own a character and both of you want change the ownership I need the confirmation from both side to the renounce of the ownership, If the person you're co-owning with doesn't agree to letting you to sell your part to anyone, or doesn't accept the person you've decided to sell your part to, choose another person until you both are agree.
★ Co-ownership is split equally in everything, including the extra art you choose to commission or receive as a gift. If a user orders a commission on its own initiative and the price is not split in half, in the resell that commission will be excluded from the price.
It is not possible, for example, that a design has been bought for 200 dollars, 100 dollars each, and one user keeps it without commission and its value is always 100, while the other user orders 10 commissions and in case of resale its part is worth a lot more.
this would not be fair to the one who buys in resell a design, they would end up paying a very high price for that design, while the other owner who only bought the base design gets a lot of free art for their character.
If it happens that you, by yourself decide to ordered a lot of commissions of a co-own design and now you want to resell it at a higher price including the commission price you can only :
1- ask your friend to pay half of those commissions so you both will have the same value of the design and you can resell you part including half price of commissions you paid.
2- sell only the design and for the commissions you paid there is two choice : give them to the new owner and your previous co-owner as a gift or keep them for private use.
So again my advice: see the co-own option as a chance to create something nice and fair with a friend, not just as a resource to split the expense.
★If you own a design and want to co-own with someone but you give the co-ownership to a friend for free as a gift, in case of resell you can only resell your part, even if your friend gives you their part back, because it is considered a gift and the gifts may not be resold.
★ If you are available for co-ownwrite in the pages of the adopt or in Discord server, just "I'm available for number # to co-own" and then talk privately with interested people**.**
★ If you noticed someone is interested in a design you desire or you lost it and someone else obtained this, please don't beg them for co-own if they didn't wrote they are available for it
★ I'm not drama lover so if you have a problem with other users don't include me, solve your situation and tell me only if the owner changed, this is the reason why I removed the co-own in past, so please again co-own with trusted people**.**
★ Since I got some problem in past with that, I will send half invoice to a user and the half to another, the character will be yours only when all people paid their amount, if the other part drop the payment or being blacklisted for some reasons, I can ask to the remaining one if they want buy the unpaid part, if not, both will be blacklisted, no refund will be sent and I resell the entire design, so again, just co-own with trusted people.
★ If you co-own a character and you desire to use it for a commercial purpose, but the other owner is not interested in it, you cannot also split the commercial fees, you have to pay the entire amount and prove the other owner is ok with your purpose. Then if in future the other owner desires to use the character for commercial purposes too, they can split the payment with you, but the commercial use to me has to pay in full.
❀ ABOUT COMMERCIAL USE❀
★ Commercial use Required an increment of Price, minimum +100% of the original Price , to +350% Max. I do not accept payment Plan for Commercial use fee, payment must be done in 24 hours.
★
For commercial Use
it's not 100% sure I give the permission to all my designs ( especially the older ones ) to being used for commercial purpose if you haven't discussed with me before, so first my design are for personal use, with the option to commercial use, ask me
★ If you use a character for a story or for a comic , you can sell your personal product ( contact me first to know about commercial use price increment ), but you can't sell my original drawing of the design ( for example you can't put my drawing on a t-shirt and sell it , but you can do a drawing by yourself of the design you bought from me and sell it on a t-shirt if you paid the commercial use ) you bought the design, not the art or the intellectual propriety, this will belong always to me, I will be always the Author.
★
For commercial Use
I need to know where you intend to use my designs to decide about it and be credited as the creator with a link on my page, in any case contact me
ALWAYS
before and tell me about your projects, the price can change depending on what you have in mind to do, Big or small Project.
★ The Use of the design as Vtuber Model is considered Commercial Use, so if you Intend to use it, ask me about the Price. The increment for vtube purpose or commercial use start from minimum +100% the original Price to max 350% the price you paid , depends on the original adopt cost and your purpose, the less the original price is, more high the commercial fee should be
★ Minor change is accepted but need a check by me, the main features of the character ( eye color, horns, ears, tail, hair color, tattoo ) Must be preserved also in commercial use purpose, you can give to your character a new outfit and in any case I need the credit on the pages you intend to use my design
❀ I WOULD BE HAPPY IF ❀
★ You refrain yourself to bought my adopts just like
trade fodder
, steal the chance to other people to bought a design just to resell/trade that design a week later it's something makes me really uncomfortable and sad ;//n//; Yes I understood it when you buy an adopt for the "rush" and later you regret, but there is people who bought from me or in trade from other people my design just to put them in the "trade" folder 5 minutes later to gain something they really want...it's very sad I would be happy if you avoid that
★ Please, if you want, send me everything you want about one of my designs ;///v///; ( commissions/request ) I really enjoy see every art or stories about them >///v////< <3 <3 Thanks ;v;
★ I'm happy if You really appreciate the character or you can give them a good home , I'm not offended if you don't want anymore a designs and you want to give it to others >v<
❀ EXCEPTION ❀
★ Reserving/hold is only for trusted people who bought something from us before, but only for 2 weeks maximum, if you need a Payment Plan, read info here : About Payment Plan
★ I Have my personal black list with not trusted people , people that scammed me, or my community, or didn't pay for something , I reserve the right to NOT sell anything to that people , I need money but I need respect as well , if they are a disgraceful person I don't want have transaction with them. My Blacklist is not public so if I discover a blacklisted/striked people broke some rules I will find the way to help you.
★ If a person are in blacklist or in strike, cannot buy from resell center anymore, cannot buy or sell a co-own, cannot ask for payment plan anymore if they are available to buy something from me.
★ If I change my mind and I don't want sell an adopt anymore ( for example I decided to keep it for me or gift to a friend ) if the auction isn't closed or if you didn't pay for it yet , I reserve the right to do whatever I wish with my design until it is in my possession.
★ It rarely happens but there have been scammers a few times in the community who have sold piffi-design that didn't belong to them and didn't send the refund on time to scammed people.
If someone drops my payment I usually don't give the refund back, but if you get scammed I will try to help you as best I can.
The person will immediately be blacklisted as soon as I have proof that they are a scammer, if the person who scammed you own some piffi designs, exceptionally I will sell it instead of them in order to give you a refund.
This is an exceptional and necessary move if I have no alternative, I will be forced to do so in order for the scammed person to get their money back.
★ If someone is already blacklisted and happens to break the rules again (create a new account to buy again, resell something they shouldn't, scam people, co-own) because they can't be blacklisted again, they will have their rights removed from all the designs they have purchased from me and they will return to me so that this person never comes into contact with my community again. I will be able to decide at that point to resell their designs to give them a better home.
❀ ABOUT PERSONAL PROJECTS ❀
★ Remember that "Personal Project" doesn't mean I own the particular single trait of the specie ( for example the blindfold or the monsters ) It just mean that a particular trait+another+another+another+another+name+story make a Personal Project and it's something really hard to be a coincidence if they are the same of yours ;u;, so I don't own that trait but I just invented my personal way to express them ;u;, read more about what I think about common "Closed Specie" tag here : Personal Project - INFO
★ I put some guide about my Personal Projects but if you want you can use a character in your personal story without follow the "species info" , that's only for a general guide , I would happy if you follow their "soul" but if you have something else in mind I'm ok >v<
★ the only thing you can not do is "transform" your other characters to the same species of my designs , if you need another character of the same species you can buy another from me or ask for a custom adopt ( when I'm Open for it ) but you can't do a Personal Project character by yourself or ask to another artist to make that.
---I reserve the right to change these terms if necessary, I advise you to read the rules again if it has been too long since the last time, for a few months I will put the tag next to the news ----
--- If you don't know what an adoptables is or have question about price or use of an adopt , please read my journal here :Adoptables F.A.Q.----
★If you need to use these rules as example of yours I have no problem, I'm happy to be helpful ( forgive my English ) but it's really appreciate asking before and credit me ;u;