thats rediculous. why did that happen? theres porn ALL OVER THAT WEBSITE.

do you usually get good traffic at furbuy? i notice only \"known\" artists seem to get bids and im not really known or popular by any stretch of the means.

lol - Am I even allowed to comment on this one? ;D

of course you are! ( even though i know what you're gonna say since im pretty sure ive posted a journal almost idetical to this one before... ) i still like knowing! and reading. yes reading

Well, I guess my obvious bias should be kept in mind, but... FurBuy's just plain better. In every way. It's faster, more reliable, safer, more secure, has active involved admins, better policies, is easier to use, gets more traffic, provides better support for it's users, helps sellers promote their work better... I mean I could go on forever.

Some people will say "But Furbid has over 450 auctions right now, FurBuy only has 140". That's right, but keep in mind that 200 of Furbid's auctions are by ONE SELLER who has 200 Comics and DVDs on permanent recycle that never sell! Another 50-100 of the auctions at any given time are two of the comic vendors at furry cons doing the same thing. (Don't take my word, go look yourself!) Those auctions aren't generating traffic of any interest in YOUR work at all, and they're also never getting bought because those sellers aren't being seen anyway. So once you remove the 275 or so "floating items" from Furbid... How many REAL auctions do they have again? Ahhh, prolly only around 150 or so. No better than FurBuy - and FurBuy is Search Engine Optimized, using Google Analytics, and traffic-ranked with Alexa and Quantcast too. All of whom reliably say that FurBuy is getting more traffic.

From a realistic standpoint (and maybe I do more research and preponderance of this stuff than most) I feel that Furbid is on it's way out. Their site hasn't been updated in ANY way for over 4 years now, they have no developer "on staff", the site is LOADED with bugs and broken features, they have no marketing strategy, they're making people PAY for simple features that cost them nothing, and they have a non-communicative administrator who bans auctions and users willy-nilly without even sending them an e-mail explaining why. In my estimation, Noriko doesn't even want to run Furbid anymore and is just slowly killing it so he can finally say that it was a failure and wash his hands of it.

If you'd like any clarification or references for any of my points, please just ask. I'll point you to them.

you bring up some really awesome points. i LOVE how Furbuy hosts images for you without CHARGING you for it.

i think your points have put me over the edge on that. i had not one, but TWO auctions scammed on furbid. the site owner appologised and did all they could but other than that.. i was left in the dirt even though i thought i have over 150.00 us coming to me from those auctions.

i do have one additional question which i will be noting you with shortly ^_^

Host images, resize images, make you thumbnails (wanna know something really sick about Furbid? Those "thumbnails" that appear in their homepage and listings are NOT thumbnails - they load the whole full-sized image, then just use the HTML width and height attributes to make it small! Total cheat and stupid waste of their system resources because they were too lazy to code a simple function to create thumbnails...), manage your images easily, let you set an Avatar for yourself using those images... And we have an image editing suite coming up too, once I get some other more important upgrades out of the way.

As for scammers... Yeah, when I started hearing reports about scammers on Furbid, I started scrambling to get plans in place to eliminate that threat on FurBuy. And I can honestly say that we're ready and willing to deal with that issue pro-actively. We've already nailed 2 Nigerian scammers on FurBuy and put the kai-bosh on them before they were able to do any damage at all. Sadly, if you build anything that gets serious amounts of web traffic, there are plenty of people who will try to cash in on your hard work either legally or illegally, and they are things you have to consider and keep in mind. We'll do everything in our power to protect you from those elements, but keep in mind that they ALWAYS manage to slip through now and then. =/

Can you clarify what's going wrong a little better for me? We've made a lot of updates to the Image Management system on FurBuy in the last week, especially to the uploading functionality. We will no longer reject ANY uploaded image for being too large, instead we give you an option to have the system automatically resize it or allow you to cancel the upload. That's a new feature and may solve all of your troubles. The only other thing I could think is going on is that you're trying to use a URL instead of uploading the image, and you're linking to an FA/VCL/ImageShack image that's not allowed to be linked to from other sites. We now also have THAT fixed.

So, let me know what's wrong and I'll help you through it or we'll get it fixed for you ASAP. =)

Okie doke, poke me anytime. ;D I'm on AIM, YIM and ICQ as well, contact info is on my userpage.