But I am concerned about all the negative reports. this chat should serve as an aid! Plogix Gallery is an online art gallery and art group made up of the finest modern artists. Do you by any chance have any suggestions of what I can do to make this more public? 1,080 Likes, 34 Comments - Plogix Gallery (@plogixgallery) on Instagram: "Absolutely incredible painting and abstract talent @w_abstract Untitled" I mean so many people have given their money out believing that they are working with bunch of hard core professionals and will be getting sales and exposure. They still seem to be in the scamming business, even after a year of this post being put up. My beautiful page is all good and running and the link works. Plogix artists are chosen by renowned modern artists and collectors who really admire top level work. Read through this chain and you will see you have been very rude and defensive when I have simply asked questions and supplied an article which was sent to me asking your opinion. so I was scammed by them too. Plogix.com has global traffic rank of 4,572,916. They need to be sorted out. To me it looks like most the positive feedback here is fake and from someone behind EAP. How can there be such contrasting opinions? this is a forum that protects users identity, therefore asking for instagram account will likely not get an answer. I want to thank everyone for speaking out here. Keep the comments coming They just want as much as money as they can when the year is up and your subscription re news. Prime online art gallery and physical NFT marketplace showcasing top-talent to the world. 1) Invite hundreds if not thousands of artists to join. I wont bother getting back in touch with her after all. I told them first i would be happy to join the platform and since then, they literally harass me by e-mail and on instagram !! Once money is paid it is usually impossible to get hold of them, or diverse excuses are given. Your page has been created and hard work has gone into it, you will NOT be provided with a refund for this reason. I explained untill I received confirmation of payment i wont be giving her my work or anything about me. I have not been rude to you or unprofessional it is you who has been rude and clearly has a chip and do not offer a service that you are paid to do. Could you please link it again. Ive suffered the same. I am signed with them, have a solo exhibition lined up and a virtual exhibition and I havnt had a problem with them? She promote me once and I didnt really get enough audience. The gallery is in the habit of sending unsolicited emails just as many other vanity venues do. who we are seems to make it clear this is written by staff at The Emerging Artist Platform, I am artist. Hello jazz. The gallery is rented. Scam means dishonesty in the sense that for example a service isnt what the buyer has been told to. There is my name and link to my Instagram. The points of the criticism were that. I have an exhibition lined up with them in a couple months too and I have never had a problem with them? London addresses are paid for messaging services and phone numbers dont work. WALTERBORO, S.C. ( NewsNation) Alex Murdaugh's likely prison is dangerous, according to ex-inmate Larry Levine, founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants. Just post it anywhere you can. Your answer is very rude and not professional at all. This is my experience too. I was busy with school and did not contact them as well. Anyone who does not think this is a total scam needs to wake up. Normal people would apologize and try to do better next time. The last blog post was from August. Have you noticed that Hansford and Sons Instagram account has disappeared? Someone in the UK should report this company to the police. Several people have already written to me telling me that they are scammers. I recently sold a painting and a month later the website said it was still available. Ive also lost 50 to them. Wish Id found this link first. Does anyone have experience of the UK based Emerging Artist Platform sponsored by Hansford & Sons Fine Art? It all makes perfect sense. What is the best strategy to fix this? I was scammed by EAP too. the gallery has not been available for weeks .. unfortunately i didnt have a very good feeling from the start .. i would have preferred to listen to it. Ive heard they dont pay clients as well and they ask for testimonials or give people exposure if they complain to keep them quiet. nobody from the team seems to be a real person. We need to keep reporting them. Doesnt it sound wonderful and such a lovely compliment to oneself. if so, for how much, if I my ask? Im excited to share the link to my page when its ready as well. then once it was up it had a ton of mistakes. Ive heard the previous gallery owner was shady in his own right! Im sceptical about the situation. Have you sold any of your paintings, Karina? If the comments here seem of value use them, and if not disregard them. I agree with the previous speaker inform yourself well about this gallery and do not unsuspectingly bind yourself and your name to any company! They have damaged my work in their gallery. I have received no money, no email, nothing and I have someone who is now hundreds of dollars out of pocket . Off the back of someone elses information? I have never had to deal with a business as unprofessional and rude as this one. It wasnt until I threatened EAP to make the whole story public that they finally got in touch very quickly. I know someone who has sold, got their money and and also been recently interviewed by them for a YouTube channel and Instagram page. How would you know if our service is poor and unprofessional if you havent even had it yet? . They told me that i should feel lucky to be part of this shit ! We changed a credit card last year, reported the scam to the bank, and still got charged! Their Instagram still exists and I write my experience there on each of the posted pictures. It looks really great, and Ive had exposure as well. I was supposed to contact Jazz and informed EAP at the same time that I no longer wanted my site to be published by them because I didnt want to ruin my name. Horrific company. OMG! They dont deserve to still have a presence online, please report them on Instagram for fraud so their page gets shut down. But I think we should all post on social media and let everybody know it is a scam. I have made great things happen for many artists and Im so Jolly because despite your claims I will continue to do so! I agree- I have seen their exhibitions and met a couple of them & they are lovely people . I told them to calm down as i am working. Ive searched butt cant seem to find it, It was taken down within 12 hours but I will continue to try making more. 1) why is this not mentioned when getting people to pay and sign up, 2) why are artists pages on rotation instead of always appearing under the featured artists section (no one will search my name to find my paintings as I am not famous), 3) if this works in rotation when will my page appear under this section. They are 100% fake and this is 100% a scam. The curator who set up my page advised me about getting more work put on my page, but the link he set up did not work because of a typo! Very disturbing to read such conversation. He took government funding to help the business during corona virus and put it straight in his pocket. If any of you have any ideas of how to fix this, let me know! After my page was up they never replied to me anymore. I almost wrote back but thought I would do some research first. So Im hoping they dont again. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Source I work close by. EAP faked posts in this chat, which is supposed to have a positive effect on the company!!!!!!!! This is so obviously written by Jazz Jade herself! Dont go near this company! Did you manage to fill out that form she sent? Theyve probably been signed up a month with them. We have created your page, I have answered your questions this isnt the greatest foot to get started on really is it? Only when I threatened to file a report with the police did she promptly write back to me. There are many different types of features so it isnt just limited to one featured artist page. The people from Emerging Artist Platform wont be answering your emails and you wont be able to cancel the plan. Please share this information widely. Its web server is located in New York, New York, United States, with IP address 198.185.159.144. Im going to collate every experience / bad review and do something about it! These people are crazy, downright insane. 4) what promotional work will be happening to promote my paintings and when? I just have my profile. INCLUDING MYSELF. And I appreciate that. Deeksha did not answer and this is when I again started researching and finally found this thread. I havent gotten involved yet, but I know they are interested in wanting me to do something as theyre gonna get back to me any time soon. Theyre opening the gallery again on 12th April! Didnt even pay his debts in the gallery! Plogix Gallery . I think its so easy to let the negative overcome the positives that a lot of artists seem to be having. spiteful. I logged into my Instagram account but could not find the person, who convinced me to sign in with them. I hope you can learn to be kind. You do not need to pay to be promoted. It is unbelievably immature and unprofessional how the group of young ladies are now all fuzzing and mocking in the IG about how they really arent fake people after all. To my dismay, I get home and unwrap the print and it had scratches and dry splotches of some substance. The London address is fake. I am an artist and I would appeal to any artist or art purchaser not to work/ Buy or to be associated in any way with this company. They all post on their stories and you can meet them- Iv had a video chat with one and that helped. This is where you make a claim for any money that the emergingartistplatform has stolen from you. I only know it had been sold because the person who purchased it contacted me curious as to why it had not been received. !!!!!!!!ATTENTION! Interesting. And yet you as a representative of your company bully a mentally Ill paying client. Is this how they want to present themselves to the public? Lauren didnt answer them either, but quickly deleted the comments so as not to look bad. https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money, Report them, they seem to be doing this to hundreds of people. Luckily the collectors new this whole show wasnt on me and our collaboration continues without the EAP. In my educated opinion The EAP is not giving you anything you wouldnt get somewhere else and you dont need them to have your career flying. Me too. I dont like your attitude towards woman, I have mirrored the way you have spoken to me. They did the usual to me, took my money and then I never heard back from them until finally getting this Jazz character for a brief back and forth. EAPs explanation was that this page is being written by only one person a liar named Anonymous. They are a fake company after every penny that they can get. They really werent interested in our art but our money. How a Vanity Gallery makes its money: We trust you will make smart and intelligent choices. Investigations and Enforcement Service: https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/externalonlineforms/CompanyComplaint.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3O9yCpTfbyX6nGe8g2epzO3oceqPtLHwW_oLlrj8wIDJ7svWOvSXlQ0zQ They have been claiming for over 2 months that there was a buyer but this supposed buyer kept changing their mind, or they travelled and the latest excuse was the lockdown. I am loosing my patience and think I will cancel. Ive been there. Everything is in writing Ricky, so its quite evident that I have answered your questions and you have a chip on your shoulder. andIve told you the procedure, if you dont want to do it darling you wont even be considered for a refund.. I have now filed a complaint with the police and also contacted a friend who works for an online magazine and is very interested in this story.. Seen it? The exposure on their Instagram page brought me lots of DMs and new interest. I still feel as if questions are unanswered how long were you on the platform? I am self taught artist, if I can call myself this way. Until I paid they were very active I must sayI contacted my bank and reported the transaction as being a scam, got my money back and learned my lesson. Dealing with disputing their charges right now! Please keep sharing and contacting artists. There is no LinkedIn entry, no Xing, no Facebook, no Instagram (besides the company account). When I ask them How they proceed the shipping, they told me i ask too many questions and do not to worry about !! I wonder how she sleeps at night knowing that her entire existence is about how she can con you out of money and then verbally beat you up when you decide you have had enough. A few of us have suffered similarly. But heres an example of one of her milder ones, on the subject of my 49.99 refund request: Darling your 50 wouldnt even pay for my dog food let alone my petrol. Your attitude is very anti and to be honest Im sensing that it will be very hard to work with you! All I can tell you on my side is that I am well established criminal attorney, I dont make things up or appear twisted as Jazz has put it. The issue is you have SOO much to say about something you havent even begun? (Even when I was just asking to add more art to my page!). This feed has me now v anxious!! This is despicable behavior from these people. Im ashamed to say that I used to work for this company. This is a page to review The Emerging Artists Platform its got nothing to do with Luke McDonald (the previous owner of the gallery in Stony Stratford) if you want to comment on his dealings, you should do so on another page dedicated to his dealings not here. Police have visited more than twice but I dont specifically know why, but assume its about them scamming people. I have reached put to multiple organisations and artists already. They seem to retain work online even after the yearly subscription finished, which adds to the concern that they are committing art theft.