You are free to exchange your information with anyone you would like. No one is stopping you from that. YorkieTalk members may post threads, add attachments, post photos in the YT Photo Gallery, or Privately Message (PM) other members as long as they stay within the YT Guidelines (no spam, no personal attacks, etc). Talking about you and your Yorkie with everyone through posts and pictures can help with making friends, which is what this community is all about.
However, as we stated earlier, we can't allow someone outside of YorkieTalk to handle any YorkieTalk events or functions that involves money or gifts for many reasons, including the fact that they are using the YorkieTalk name, they could be harming YT members, and the fact that people have abused the trust of YT members in the past. There are also privacy issues and we want to make sure that the privacy of all of our members is safe. There are also many members that just come onto YT for a few months and then just leave out of the blue.
When we put together the YT Gift Exchange, we put in many safeguards, to ensure that each and every person that participates will get a gift. In fact, YorkieTalk guarantees that each person will receive a gift, even if their Secret Buddy fails to send a gift, YT will fund the gift and ship it to the participant. We would hate to see any program where there may be potential problems and it is in the best interest of our community to make sure someone on the YT staff oversees and runs the program to minimize all potential problems.
Thank you for your feedback. If there is enough interest, we may look into starting up such a program. |