[QuickSilver]

Okay, (deep breath), here is the idea in my head so far. I am really excited about this, and want to thank admin for considering it!

Part of the reason I don't use the trading forum is that it's so many descriptive links, but it's not easy to browse photos. Also, there are so many different things, and they aren't grouped into clothes, toys, carriers, etc.

SO: How about a Virtual Treasure Box, which Boxes for Clothes - S/M/L, M/F; Toys; and Carriers and other large items.

Any qualifying member can sign up for any and all Boxes. If one box gets extremely popular, maybe it gets broken into two boxes.

All the boxes have an album associated with them (or something similar), so that all pictures are listed. I assume that someone would have to administrate the albums, to prevent people from accidentally deleting other peoples items and such.

You take turns according to your sign up order. When it is your turn, you send the moderator pix of your stuff, with a brief description of relevant info. You must submit at least one thing, BUT not necessarily to the same box. Why to a different box potentially? Because if you are starting out, you might not have any carriers, but you still need one.

Once you've submitted something, you can pick some reasonable number of items from the box you belong to. I vote for allowing up to 10 picks, with the stipulation that five things ALWAYS have to be left for the person next in line.

You post your picks. Either YOU or admin PMs the person/people who listed the items you want. They have ? 10 days to mail it out and provide a tracking number. Once all the tracking numbers have been collected, it's the next person's turn.

When you get the stuff you asked for, you post pictures of your yorkie enjoying it.

If there's nothing you want, you may "pass" (though I think you would still need to post an item). Hopefully there will be something fab next time.

You can quit your box any time, as long as you send out any stuff that's been requested. No takesies backsies.

I would suggest keeping relative value out of it if possible, because I think it's fertile ground for arguments.

One of the benefits of this is that your shipping burden should be reasonable. If you sign up for one box, even if you post tons of things into it, you will only be mailing to one person per week at most. The more boxes you sign up for, the more you may need to mail, depending on how popular your things are.

Clothing and carriers should be in "Excellent" or "Like New" condition. Toys should be WASHED before sending, and in at least "Very Good" condition.

If it's your turn and you don't post any pix or ask for items for five days, it's assumed you skipped your turn.

If someone asks for an item and you don't send it, you are suspended from TB. However, since it could be a long time between posting an item and someone asking for it, you can be re-admitted if you get back in touch and send your requested item. If this happens several times, you are permanently banned from TB.

People will be asked not to re-sell items that they request, since they are supposed to be gifts.


I know this could be a lot of extra admin work, so I have two suggestions: first that we start with a "pilot" program, maybe 2 dozen people for one big Clothing TB and see how it goes. Also, I would be very happy to offer my time to help with the administrative part in terms of saving tracking numbers, keeping track of who is in line, etc.

HOW DOES THAT SOUND??