[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by genesmasher

You missed the point of my post. The goal of Vadzilla.com is to enable people looking for purebred puppies and kittens find a breeder. Nothing more, nothing less. As I emphasized in my post, it is up to the customer to evaluate breeders that advertise with us. Does Amazon.com guarantee the quality of all products sold by various merchants through their site ? I don't think so. They also get commission from the merchants that sell through them. Does this automatically make Amazon a team of scam artists ? Can you honestly say that you have never purchased from Amazon ?

Be careful making quick judgements, after spending 2 minutes on site. One difference Vadzilla.com has over other similar sites is that we have breeder reviews. So if you really feel strongly about a certain breeder (the one that you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, for example) and would like to warn others - PLEASE, REGISTER WITH US AND POST A REVIEW! That would do way more service to the community than simple bashing of a service provider.

The main reason why I am posting at this site is so that people like OP are aware of the tools available to them, and ultimately post reviews for breeders they find. Hopefully with time, enough review data will be accumulated, that it will be much easier for potential buyers to simply go to our site and make a quick and easy call on each breeder, instead of going through endless sources searching for recommendations. And we do have some specific pointers in our FAQ on how to interview a breeder, with a more information coming in the near months. Our site is still very new.

Finally, I never claimed that Vadzilla is a Yorkie-specific site. I dont see why it automatically makes it a scam site, as you portrait it. It is likely we will feature the breed in our blog at some near future, but if you are only looking at sites that have helpful articles on Yorkies, you might want to look elsewhere.

Originally Posted by genesmasher

Thanks for taking the time to read my replies completely.

Just FYI - our breeder database was created from multiple sources and was published just a few weeks ago. None of the breeders actually paid anything to Vadzilla.com for current listings. This free trial period will expire in about 2 months. At that time, it is likely that majority of breeder listings on Vadzilla will become inactive and will not be visible to site viewers. It is also very likely that IF customers make and effort and start posting DESERVED negative reviews to certain breeders, those breeders will no longer advertise with us. It is simply not worth the effort for most people to pay for advertisement and fight negative publicity at the same time. So, you see, from our business perspective, it is NOT in our interest to have reviews. But we implemented them anyway, because we knew how sensitive the community is to the "puppy mill" issue. Of course if everyone keeps closed-minded point of view, and prefers bashing instead of acting, nothing positive will come of it.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, believe it or not, it is helpful. We will try to think of ways to implement improvements to our system to address your concerns.

I"m confused. So your website sets you apart from all the others already out there and Google bc you want to have reviews of your listed breeders or bc you don't want to have reviews?

Also what's stopping your paid advertisers from posting their own raving reviews? On Yelp they have a "complicated math algorithm" that filters out "fake" reviews, and that often does NOT work. How will you deal with this issue? Alternately, how will you deal with those trying to "out" bad breeders without actually having done business with them?