Vinyl Will Kill

I never felt so ripped off in my life. I was asked to get involved in this little project called Vinyl Will Kill, by Jeremyville (I dare to say not the very nice person I have encountered with). It is a book about toy figure art and design, fills with loads of interviews with the designers and shit. As far as I am concerned, I got involved is because the maker himself was lacking of HK and JP designers contacts, so pretty much I was told to incharge of all the interviews I got contacts with, which is around 6 or 7 of them. Now the catch is, they have warned me there is no pay for doing it, but they can give me 10 books for doing the interviews, and maybe some other agreements if I get involved into the Art Direction for the book.

The saga begins, I got all the contacts they want, did all the interviews and shit, since last year, trying to organise and put a date for some discussion for the art direction, but all they told me is delayed, on hold. So I thought yeah, whatever, so long I got 10 books I don't care if I really want to have my feedback in the design. The book was finished end of last year just before Xmas, sold out. Emailed the maker to find out where my book is, he said sold out, have to wait for the 2nd batch. Early this year, still no books, the excuse this time was they were moving office, so is a mess but once finished will have the books send out to me.

Eventually after a few emails to them, with lot more excuses, I dropped an email and asking whether I can just buy a fucking book from them if is soo much trouble to send out a free one. I think they got the idea, and within few days, they've sent the book out, but yes... JUST ONE BOOK! Not 10 books that we have agreed on. This time their excuse is, they have not enough books to givaway, and every contributors to the book only received one, so no exception for me as well, and even told me out of about 40 something interviews, and I only did about 6 or 7, so they called it a book for free "FAIR"! Fair?! Fucking not!! If want to compare in ratio, most of the interviews are done by the maker himself, and other contributors only did one interview each, and I have done about 7, is that not enough effort I have put in to deserve fucking 10 books?! Besides, without the interviews I've done of the Asian region designers, the book will be unexciting and all about American thrash!! I felt so ripped off, I can never believe people will be so low to do such a thing. That's one of the reason why I am so tired of the vinyl figure world out there and decided to close down my Figuro online toy store. I hope people out there read this and realise this whole scam is just another fraud making big bucks out of someone elses talent and credability. Vinyl Will Kill? Pfftt... sure it did kill me big time! I probably sounded so sour with this rant, but fuck yeah! I deserve to be sour over the whole bullshit!