New Video! Please Watch. Cricket Media SCAM
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz I will try to find that episode... I think it was aired sometime in January, so I'll get back to you as soon as I find it again. Yeah, he mentioned he had done a few covers for them. It became a real sore point regarding getting paid, that he determined to never work with them again. There's an issue of their magazine with his flying hearts on the cover that he shows on the screen. Anyway, thank you again for getting back to me! Love your work BTW!!
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz FOUND it... the Episode here: Titled "Help! My Client Never Paid! And they are addressing Cricket Media specifically. Worth listening to again.
Let me know if you learn anything else regarding this particular client. Like I said, I am foreshadowing a bit and taking into account their past behavior is predictive of future behavior and I am preparing myself in the event I have the same nonsense. I will take @NessIllustration 's advice, and create a 20 ish email invoice reminder, probably will give them an opportunity to pay. If it exceeds 2 mos past the contract then I'll start this process.
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@ArtistErin thanks Erin!
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On your comment that SCBWI may have chosen to or been forced to take down their statement about Cricket Media as part of a cover-up, they didn't.
SCBWI re-did their entire website last year and were understandably selective in what they migrated over to the new site. Migrating content for a site that large to a new CMS is a huge undertaking. They chose not to migrate over ANY of the content in their "news" section where the statement on Cricket Media lived. You can still read the post in the internet archives here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221222092723/https://www.scbwi.org/creator-beware-payment-problems-about-at-cricket-media/
Here is another news post from around the same time that has nothing to do with any sort of scandal, just an obituary for an author that passed: https://web.archive.org/web/20221209153655/https://www.scbwi.org/remembering-ellen-wittlinger/
You can see that if you try and look up that URL (outside of the internet archive), it gives you the same 404. So does every news article URL created prior to their site migration.
https://www.scbwi.org/remembering-ellen-wittlingerThey did not choose to take down or cover up the cricket media thing. Their statement at the time was very clear on their stance, they just updated their website and two-year-old news articles didn't make the cut.
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@StudioLooong phew! Good to know.
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Oh man. I knew they were shady, but I took a couple assignments from them anyway because I'm still a newbie and I thought the exposure and experience would be a good thing, even if low paying. Do you think it helped at all with getting you some exposure to art directors/editors from other agencies? My husband is a lawyer so maybe I'll have him draft something nasty for me to email to Cricket everyday once my invoice is due.
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@Laurel-Aylesworth thanks Laurel! Honestly, I got zero projects from my “exposure” from cricket. A whole waste of my time, effort, and resources. I would love if you guys could take them to court or something. What they’re doing is just disgusting and illegal.
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So... Cricket just paid me. there's a lesson to be learned here. If a client won't pay you, make a a YouTube video dragging them through the mud lol
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz LOL that's hilarious! Too little too late though if you ask me!
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Interesting @Nyrryl-Cadiz ! Payday is always a good day!
Did they ask you to take down the video, and if not, do you intend on taking it down?
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@NessIllustration right?!
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@Jeremy-Ross I totally agree. they didn't ask me to take it down tho. but even if they did, I would not take it down without a fight
it's staying up as a warning to anyone who wants to work with cricket Portfolio: nyrrylcadiz.com
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz They would have no right to demand that - the payment is in exchange for the illustrations which you have already delivered! They're free to offer something else in exchange for that if they wish, and you'd be free to refuse
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Congrats on getting paid! I have an alert of my calendar in June to start pestering them about payment.
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@Laurel-Aylesworth all the Best to you Laurel. Keep us posted.
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@Nyrryl-Cadiz Congratulations Nyrryl!!!! That's my decision also! Pester them. @Laurel-Aylesworth would you mind posting your pester letter when you have put together? I may need it!
Erin Richardson
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@ArtistErin lol - yes, happy to
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@Laurel-Aylesworth Hey @Nyrryl-Cadiz - it's time for me to start hounding Cricket for payment of one of my projects. May I ask whom you contacted over there?
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@Laurel-Aylesworth hi Laurel!
️ Try this email accountspayable@cricketmedia.comPortfolio: nyrrylcadiz.com
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I am struggling with them now! I also did a few illustrations for them last year for their August Ladybug magazine and still waiting on payment. I've threatened a few times that I will name and shame them, but all I get in response is that they are having cash flow issues and that they assure me that I will get paid. When??? 10 years from now? They can't give me a timeframe. So frustrating! They owe me $1800
