Dealing with unreasonable custom order requests
Sellers dealing with custom orders face endless, nitpicky modification requests from demanding buyers who become unreasonable and impossible to satisfy.
What people tried
4 itemsEvery workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Canceling or refusing the orderDid this help you?
- 2Stopping custom work entirely and only selling ready-made itemsDid this help you?
- 3Setting strict limits on the number of free revisions and charging for extra changesDid this help you?
- 4Refusing to replicate previous workDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“He seems to want a factory made doll not a hand painted figure with realistic skin tones or imperfection only viewed through a magnifying glass. I want out.”source ↗
“She nitpicked them, didn't like the way the cat's tail was tilted .0000001 inch off the original.”source ↗
“This is the kind of nitpicking that made me stop doing custom orders all together.”source ↗
“I had to do like 15 modifications and he still wasn’t happy and kept asking for more and more.”source ↗
Where this came up
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