Blacklist Information

These stores are not featured on the masterlist due to a variety of infractions. Because of their problems, I do not wish to put them alongside stores that have been consistently morally upstanding, creative, and polite. 

This does not mean I am going to hunt you down and slap you for buying from them, as I understand everyone has their reasons, but please keep in mind that these notes have been added because these are businesses, and as such must be held to a standard sensible for those expected to provide a service.

Source links have been provided when available, but all issues have been looked into prior to addition so those without sources are still proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

So that the rest of the list can be viewed easily, Bad Dragon has been moved to the bottom of the list, out of alphabetical order.

Updates are marked with a 🌟. 

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A Krow’s Nest

• Intruded on Tails & Portholes’ nautical theme after both had been open for an extended period of time; additionally, TnP was open before AKN at all, and so any plans to rebrand later on AKN’s part would have been intruding from the start.

Akifu Toys

• One of the two owners posted content on their linked personal blog in favor of sexism, transphobia, islamophobia, pedophilia, incest, further sexualization of children and racism. Links for all of the above.

Alderdeen / Alder’s Den

• Zoophile.

Blue Ritual

• Produced a tutorial for making toys using stolen information.*
• Copied colors from DamnAverage.
• Made multiple toy designs with similarities to DamnAverage’s previous work; the Leonius and the Devil’s Tongue; the Fornax and the Lumpy’s head shape, for examples.

Charon’s Tokens (formerly DogEatsKitty)

• Copied ideas from DamnAverage (Orc, Satyr)*

Cockbender

• Their product stories include written and drawn rape and bestiality.
• The product image for the Octopussy features bestiality.
• Dolphin toy appears more like ZetaPaw’s Dolphin than the real penis is it supposedly inspired by; company denies this.
• Have vanished off the face of the earth in relation to custom models. No contact through customer service. Do not order until contact can be made.

Elypse Art

• Elypse Art links to three separate bestiality forums in their sidebar, two of which have been shut down. 

Erasexa

• Fantasy designs are rip-offs of existing toys from stores including but not limited to Bd Dragon, Exotic Erotics, and BD Labs.

Exotic Erotics

• Exotic-Erotics does lifecast animal genitals for silicone replication. Their site goes over the process and answers potential concerns here. 
• The artist of the company, Killveous, is aggressive and demanding to other designers, and has stolen designs such as BD’s Kelvin for EE’s Mech.

Fleshlight and Fleshjack

• Fleshlight toys are not a body-safe material and will degrade over time.

Frisky Beast

• Long wait for items and lack of communication; this specific instance was resolved but many have not been.
• This blog has collections of order wait time issues.
• Miscommunication error on custom order, quality control issues.
• Miscommunication errors and color errors.
• Shipping confusion and lack of communication, coloration error (forum post thread); 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
• A concept similar to the released Mammoth toy was posted on the forums previously. Frisky Beast claims it was not used, and the problem was resolved; original designer did not get resolution.
• Wait times for customs, whether small orders or large, are often upwards of the advertised time frame and can take years; stock items are hit-and-miss.
• Hot Spot is similar to Bad Dragon’s Magma Drake in pour style and color usage.

Gespents’ Fantasy Gear

• Blamed customers for lack of sales.
• Has repeatedly claimed to be closing and then reopened to drive up sales and word of mouth.
• Shoddy quality control with air bubbles, rough bases, and shoddy custom results.

Godemiche

• Copied colors from DamnAverage.
• 🌟 Released a Snapchat video in which they called hairy vaginas disgusting.

Monster Delights

• Recent orders had tinsel(?) partially embedded in the surface.

Mr. Hankey’s Toys

• Sexism and slut-shaming on their Twitter account after refusing to pay reviewers properly.

Naughty Dog Labs (later, Inner Vixen)

• Took preorders on a design and never produced it.

Organotoy.de

• Attempted to discredit other creators by claiming metallic pigments would poison users with heavy metals; they do not. 

Station Beast

• Buys toys in bulk from sellers for resale; has no agreement with original creators to do so. This seems minor in comparison to other list entries, but it’s illegal.

Twin Tail Creations

• Copied marbles from DamnAverage.
• Started site with incredible similarities to Bad Dragon.
• Continues to defend other stores ripping off existing items. 
• Concept art for future releases has looked similar to existing toys; has not listened to criticisms on this.*
• Indirectly insults other makers, often over things they cannot control or do not have the funds to control.
• Artist and PR employee repeatedly uses r*tarded in casual conversation, despite being told it is inappropriate.
• Repeatedly has reached out to customers to do work with relation to designs; in most cases, does not offer payment.

Xenobiology Inc

• The Tentabulge is stolen from Frisky Beast’s Kaiju
• The Knautical is stolen from DamnAverage’s Tentacle
• The Gemini is stolen from RockPaperTentacles’s Riptide
• Named store colors after fictional characters who were underage.
• Has returned to selling items under the Tumblr URL sleeptalker-afterdark, an account which is also used for sharing drawn child porn.

Xenocat Artifacts

• Poured items in a similar style to DamnAverage. Reacted badly to being informed for the similarities, including false accusations of the person involved.*
• Claimed favouritism from the Masterlist despite submitting their own products to be shared on the Masterlist multiple times.*
• Claimed financial benefit to the Masterlist was the reason for blacklisting.*

Bad Dragon

This list extends to other sites Bad Dragon owns - e621, Furry Network, Dragonfruit and Dragonfruit Printing, Herpy.net, and twentypercentcooler.com.

Idea Theft and Knockoffs 🌟

• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s Blaze stolen from Eramos from BD Labs
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s Sofia stolen from Frisky Beast’s Snowbird
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s Kona stolen from Frisky Beast’s Kaiju
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s Rainbow Strawberry Yogurt Parfait coloration stolen from KuduVoodoo’s Rainbow Blizzard  
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s Leilani stolen from Pussy Orca from BD Labs
• 🌟 Bad Dragon releasing an Egg Plug shortly after Frisky Beast releases a line of new egg plug designs.
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s 2017 April Fool’s item, a fire hydrant, appearing similar to a design submitted to the forums in 2009.
• 🌟 Bad Dragon’s new Mary penetrable, the model stolen from Sidewinder Creation’s Hera and the character stolen from Exotic Erotic’s Cody.
• A post detailing the ripping off various ideas from other companies, including dropping marbles after DamnAverage, creating a canine/equine toy after Exotic Erotics’ Werehorse release, copyrighting the Chimera name while Frisky Beast is midway through designing a toy with that title, creating wearable toys after Primal Hardwere, and releasing mini sizes after Frisky Beast does.
• The history and theft behind BD’s Chimera from a forum user, and the original design.
• The theft of the Dragon’s Maw toy from the Labs.
• Shady terms of use for Bad Dragon Labs, allowing them to steal features of designs.
• A potential design theft from the forums.
• Copied colors from other companies, those mentioned in this post being DamnAverage (rows 1, 4, 5), Frisky Beast (row 2) and Krispy Petals (row 3).
• More color copying from DamnAverage.
• More ripping off other companies with a promotional logo compared to Frisky Beast’s.
• More ripping off of another’s promos with a marble event during DamnAverage’s.
• Even more ripping off of DamnAverage. More explanation. A bit more explanation.
• Butting in on Frisky Beast’s design themes. (And Blue Ritual’s color patterning)
• Released an April Fool’s item that was very similar to a product from DamnAverage.
• Allowed customers to identify an Exotic Erotics toy as theirs.
• Ripping off Primal Hardwere’s Neigh Sayer sheath with their new Chance sheath.

False Advertising

• 🌟 Inventory images may not reflect the actual product.
• Used badly lit photographs to advertise a returning color, making it appear vastly different from the actual color. No edit to the advertisement was made, and all attempts to clarify came from customers instead of staff.
• Continuing to advertise toys using images of colors that are no longer offered [ex: split lips on penetrables, colored tongues on muzzles; confirmation that they are no longer offered]
• Promised new color options with every release; the only update has been Nox’s natural, in May. [old naturals, new natural]
• Offering some ‘cool surprises’ every time a winner for their contest was announced; nothing was added or dropped, winners were announced quietly through social media and quietly throughout the forum thread.
• “Fun, extra surprises you will need a bigger boat for“ ended up being small plastic sea animals included with some orders. Nothing else was added.
• Pride Month promo was said to have something happening each week. Rainbow stickers were released the first week, and nothing happened until a rainbow drop at the end of the month. No other pride color aside from the rainbows was made available.
• Labs have been declared ‘under maintenance’ for over a year, meaning all designs submitted still belong to Bad Dragon and cannot be created or sold elsewhere, despite the Labs themselves not being used.  Nothing has been said about it being officially closed or a returning date.
• The review and reward system, which formerly gave store credit for honest toy reviews, has been removed for ‘updating’ for upwards of a year. Nothing has been said about it being officially closed or a returning date.
• Many toys are measured incorrectly. A forum thread measuring the differences can be found here.
• Bias between Labs winners.

Shoddy Quality Control

• CactusWren’s personal quality control experience with an Atomic Blue Fenrir. (Resolved)
• More shitty quality control with messy splits on custom orders.
• Awful color matching on custom orders, including an incorrect pour of a stock color, as well as a list of errors in other toys.
• Awful marbles after advertising images were higher quality.
• Duplicated a customer’s rainbow Dragon Tongue custom, and sent them the one that looked worse.
• Only fixed a customer’s order once the negative reviews were removed.
• Removal of toy warranty, and additional information about the removal.
• Poor customer treatment, and another one, and another one.
• Badly faded colors on expensive custom order, refusal to fix (Partially resolved with small amount of in-store credit)
• Company supporter describing expensive custom orders as ‘a gamble’.
• Please note that many accounts of incorrect colorations, missed flaws in toys, shoddy workmanship, etc have been left off of this list as there are too many to track. Those linked here are the most readily available.

Moral Issues [content below includes racism, sexism, transphobia, rape, bestiality, and mentions of pedophilia]

• 🌟 Early on in the store’s existence, offered a toy simply called ‘the Adolescent’.
• 🌟 Sent product to a sex worker for use in teenage porn, a genre known for underage fantasies. 1, 2, 3, 4.
• A major shareholder and now owner of BD, Kamo, has had rape charges filed against him. There is also backstory from the person filing charges. Link 1, Link 2. (Content warnings for rape, zoophilia, and victim blaming being the most prominent.)
• They own Herpy.net, a site known for encouraging beastiality. [Edit: Herpy.net has been shut down between April 9th and May 23rd, 2016. There has been an ‘apology’ put up in it’s place. An apology does not make up for years of bestiality endorsement.]
• A co-owner of the site sexually abused a dolphin and sent the video to his boyfriend, another co-owner. Neither were fired.
• There have been allegations of employee mistreatment, including transphobia on a co-site, e621. Additional link.
• Multiple instances of transphobic behavior.
• Said they were against the unhealthy BDSM in 50 Shades… and then dropped a ton of gray and gray-marbled toys into adoptions out of the blue. [Does this look like an anti-50-shades promo art piece to you?]
• Have multiple toys based around characters of children’s media, some appearing underage themselves.
• Toy descriptions and images have underage or non-consensual themes. Xar; Snowball; Sugar Star; Nova; Tentacle. Additional link.
• The character of Janine, their dragoness penetrable toy, is repeatedly presented badly; her short story has her nudes shared without her consent, and older art shows her appearing uncomfortable due to the mascot’s actions.
• Shady business practices in removing colors and toys without warning, making customers feel that they have to buy fast. Another toy has been removed.
• Racism on their Twitter and product color names.
• Misogyny on Twitter.
• Cultural insensitivity in having a toy styled after a Chinese dragon. (Note that physical features of the toy do not match up with Chinese lung, but instead resemble the Japanese ryu.)
• Cultural insensitivity in having a toy styled after the Aztec Quetzalcoatl. 
• Sends a cease and desist notice to an artist for a community-voted design at a charity event.
• Questionable tweets from a side account. [1, 2, 3]
• The thread that started the forum shutdown debacle, and the thread about the forum’s future. Additional link to a quote from the thread; Blaming customers for the company’s failings; Poor customer treatment; Poor customer treatment again; Explanation as to why Varka’s post uses abuser logic; Customer silencing; Additional link for the abuser logic 1, 2.
• Allows discussion and encouragement of pedophilia on their forums. Example thread that continues in that vein for multiple pages.

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* Items marked have had information removed by the request of an involved party, for privacy reasons, and explanation for the points can be given on off-anon request.