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FurBuy's Restrictions are Going to Give Me an Aneurism
10 years ago
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First off, I'll start by saying I'm a contributing member of FurBuy.com (I pay a fee to use it) and generally I don't have any criticisms. What I do find ridiculous is all of the restrictions they put on bidders. I get rules, but I hate stupid rules. And while in theory, FurBuy's rules may seem sound, in reality they are ineffective and are close to driving me to another auction site.
The restrictions I'm talking about are the ones geared towards reducing the number of auction winners who do not pay and the unethical people who drive the prices up on their own auctions by bidding on their auction with a fake account. They do this by first stipulating that an account has to be at least 14 days before a bidder can direct buy an item, or bid in the last 24 hours. I speak with three years of experience using the site when I say that neither of these restrictions actually stop auction winners from skipping out on payment, or sellers from driving up their own prices. Even with these restrictions I still get fraudulent bidders and any idiot can make a fake account wait 14 days and then bid up their auction. All these rules do is put me in a awkward situation when I get an email from a potential bidder telling me that FurBuy won't let them buy the fursuit or that they lost the bidding war because FurBuy wouldn't let them bid in the last 24 hours.
One particular situation (of many) comes to mind. A few months ago I had a head listed on FurBuy. A minor fell in love with it, so she and her mom entered bids for it. In the last 24 hours another bidder placed a bid. When the mother and daughter tried to up the bid, FurBuy refused to except it and the other bidder won.
The mother contacted me and explained what had happened and I became very annoyed with FurBuy, because their stupid rule had cost me what could have turned into a last minute bidding war. I contacted them with my concerns, but their reply was standard fare and left me with no where to go and with no hope of any future change. I told the mom that if the winning bidder skipped then she could have the fursuit. Lo and behold that supposedly "safe as in older than 14 days" bidder skipped out and didn't even respond to my messages. The mother and daughter paid in full and received the head, the supposedly "unsafe" bidder.
Moral of the story? You can't judge the quality of a bidder by the age of their account. Why else would you get a furbuy account unless you saw something you wanted to buy? I know there are a lot of people who started an account to buy a specific item, but were unable to because they didn't start their account 14 days ago.
Now I'm hearing from a potential customer that they can't direct buy my auction because the don't have any feedback on their account. FEEDBACK?! URGHHHHHHH! FurBuy I swear if you cost me one more customer that's it!
The restrictions I'm talking about are the ones geared towards reducing the number of auction winners who do not pay and the unethical people who drive the prices up on their own auctions by bidding on their auction with a fake account. They do this by first stipulating that an account has to be at least 14 days before a bidder can direct buy an item, or bid in the last 24 hours. I speak with three years of experience using the site when I say that neither of these restrictions actually stop auction winners from skipping out on payment, or sellers from driving up their own prices. Even with these restrictions I still get fraudulent bidders and any idiot can make a fake account wait 14 days and then bid up their auction. All these rules do is put me in a awkward situation when I get an email from a potential bidder telling me that FurBuy won't let them buy the fursuit or that they lost the bidding war because FurBuy wouldn't let them bid in the last 24 hours.
One particular situation (of many) comes to mind. A few months ago I had a head listed on FurBuy. A minor fell in love with it, so she and her mom entered bids for it. In the last 24 hours another bidder placed a bid. When the mother and daughter tried to up the bid, FurBuy refused to except it and the other bidder won.
The mother contacted me and explained what had happened and I became very annoyed with FurBuy, because their stupid rule had cost me what could have turned into a last minute bidding war. I contacted them with my concerns, but their reply was standard fare and left me with no where to go and with no hope of any future change. I told the mom that if the winning bidder skipped then she could have the fursuit. Lo and behold that supposedly "safe as in older than 14 days" bidder skipped out and didn't even respond to my messages. The mother and daughter paid in full and received the head, the supposedly "unsafe" bidder.
Moral of the story? You can't judge the quality of a bidder by the age of their account. Why else would you get a furbuy account unless you saw something you wanted to buy? I know there are a lot of people who started an account to buy a specific item, but were unable to because they didn't start their account 14 days ago.
Now I'm hearing from a potential customer that they can't direct buy my auction because the don't have any feedback on their account. FEEDBACK?! URGHHHHHHH! FurBuy I swear if you cost me one more customer that's it!
I use Dealer's Den now though. Seems better.
Switch to The Dealer's Den, seriously. I've heard good things about it. I'm not sure about their policies on new accounts, but it's certainly worth looking into.
And yeah, sometimes the rules just don't make sense..
Lesson for bidders; if you're even remotely thinking of buying something on Furbuy, sign up now. It doesn't cost anything..
I go look there when someone posts something, but TBH, I have little intention of impulse buying a random suit, considering the ones I all ready have. Two of them were impulse buys for specific reasons.
It's the last 24 hour bid thing that I can't understand.
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Another thing is they say they're not business so they could care less about thier users, but HELLO paying user here! I think I deserve some consideration!
But yes, those are some of the things they've said in the past. They're on FuFu's beware list for a reason.