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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I am wondering about people that occasionally come on YT, and advertise to sell their puppies from YT. Does YT review/screen these posters before they are allowed to advertise their puppies? Unfortunately, just the mere fact that someone is on YT advertising puppies, in SOME people's minds, validates that person and automatically means they are "good breeders". There are members that will come on close to the advertisment, and question the infrequency of the poster's contributions to this site, doing nothing more than using this site as an advertisment vehicle, etc....which is a review, to be sure....but I do not think YT assumes the responsibility of screening that person.... Regardless, I strongly believe in individual accountability. BUYERS must assume responsibility for what they do! They are continually bombarded by breeders for them to go through, check out, and decide on their own, if this is a breeder they feel comfortable with. This is necessary for ANY site, including Vadzilla. Buyers can not be coddled and protected and have knowledgable people continously run interference for them....buyers have to educate THEMSELVES what makes a breeder reputable and ethical.....NOt any site breeders choose to advertise on. I have no problem with advertising on Vaszilla....I will give them a try and let you all know what kind of results I get. I screen my buyers, so I will see if the majority of people that hit this site are looking for quality babies from ethical breeders, or if this site draws people that would be just as happy buying a cheap puppy from a newspaper ad or a flea market. |
Great post. SOME of My thought processes have changed since this thread began..and here are some of my random thoughts here....
The internet as a whole is the way to go...it is what it is...and very soon we are coming to a time that MOST people alive won't remember a life before the internet.
Also, I see threads here where folks are going on and on and on and on and on about a pup for sale on ebay....craigslist....etc....we flag, we email, we wait and wait and wait...it seems sometimes they are there for hours....people trying to call etc...etc...etc....wouldn't be great if we could get someone from ebay to come on here and answer our questions or explain to us why this keeps happening....????? We have Vad here we can reach him....
My thought is we have a guy (albeit somewhat cocky at times
) here who is embarking on a website, whether we like it or not, it won't be perfect....(just like YT is not perfect after all we have some prominent BACK YARD BREEDERS POSTING here everyday...chatting etc....because they have a right to
) the owner of Vadzilla is a member here, he is trying to accomplish something no one else has...to be a reputable site for animal adoption...sure he is looking to make money (maybe will donate some here and to YHR when he finally makes it????) but I don't care, I care about the pups...and when I look at his site and check out some of these people or review them etc....if I see something that I really don't like I know he is a member here and I can reach out to him...unlike ebay, craigslist etc...
I'd LOVE to see a site BETTER than Petfinder and ebay etc...hopefully it happens...hopefully the $$$ doesn't go to his head and he leaves his scruples at the bank!
just my random thoughts...