LG streamer in tears after claiming she was scammed by merch company Tori ParenoUpdate 2\/4\/20: GMP has responded to Dexerto and said the situation with Pareno was a \u201cmiscommunication between the gentleman that was trying to manage Tori, The GMP and Tori herself.\u201d \u201cWe designed, printed, and hosted Tori\u2019s website free of charge,\u201d GMP told Dexerto in an email. \u201cWe had an agreement between the GMP and Tori\u2019s manager that was supposed to be a once-a-month payment of 50% of the revenue that was made. Her 1st payment would have been today [Feb. 3] based on the launch date of her website, which was January 1.\u201d \u201cAfter seeing Tori\u2019s video of her pouring out her feelings to Twitter, we then reached out to her to see where all this was coming from, and she stated the problem was not with us \u2013 it was the promises she was given by the gentleman that was trying to manage her,\u201d GMP continued. \u201cWe have rectified the situation with Tori and we are sending her a payment this week. We never got any customer complaints about merch being delivered on an untimely basis.\u201d Pareno has yet to comment on the situation at the time of this update. The original story can be read below: Luminosity Gaming streamer Tori Pareno gave an emotional apology on Twitter after fans complained that they weren\u2019t receiving merchandise they bought from her site and a had lack of customer support. Pareno joined Luminosity in 2019 and continues to grow her fanbase on Twitch, Instagram, YouTube, and even TikTok. As with most content creators these days, Pareno decided to set up a merch store for fans, but things didn\u2019t seem to go smoothly as the streamer begged fans to not order any more items from her website on February 2. due to a few inconveniences, my website will NOT be active for the time being. please don’t make any purchases from this point on since im not sure if the “”team”” i was working with will continue to send out merch or fix my website. im so sorry. i will try to fix ASAP. \u2014 Tori (@ToriPareno) February 3, 2020 \u201cDue to a few inconveniences, my website will NOT be active for the time being,\u201d Pareno wrote on Feb. 2. \u201cPlease don\u2019t make any purchases from this point on since im not sure if the \u201cteam\u201d I was working with will continue to send out merch or fix my website.\u201d She followed up the tweet with a couple of tearful videos addressing the issue the next day, while apologizing to fans who hadn\u2019t received the items they had purchased as well. \u201cI was working with a team who wanted to help me start up my merch site, and they said I was going to get paid in a month,\u201d a tearful Pareno explained. \u201cThe month happened, I didn\u2019t get paid for any of the merch you guys have purchased.\u201d \u201cI wanted to do this for you guys, you know?\u201d The streamer told her fans. \u201cThis was my first merch launch and it failed so badly, because like, all the red flags just flew over my head.\u201d Pareno reiterated her warning to fans that they shouldn\u2019t purchase anything else from her website, since there was no way for her to make sure they would receive the items they paid for. \u201cPlease do not purchase anything on my website. Do not. I\u2019m not sure if you\u2019re going to receive anything, I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m going to receive anything,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the end, the people who \u201chelped\u201d me, they didn\u2019t even take down the website, and I can\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d Dexerto reached out to the company that set up Pareno\u2019s site, GMP distribution, for comment on the allegations, and have included their response in an update at the top of this article. Hopefully, for Pareno and her fans, the merch issue can be easily resolved, but it does go to show why content creators should be cautious about who they decide to go into business with online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LG streamer in tears after claiming she was scammed by merch company Tori ParenoUpdate 2\/4\/20: GMP has responded to Dexerto and said the situation with Pareno was a \u201cmiscommunication between the gentleman that was trying to manage Tori, The GMP and Tori herself.\u201d \u201cWe designed, printed, and hosted Tori\u2019s website free of charge,\u201d GMP told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}