• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

!!!BAD GUY!!!! Tampa Bay Exotics

If nothing else... this should illustrate the importance of clear and specific communication. Eighty nine posts into it and people were still looking for clarification about what had been said or offered because... well... someone just can't seem to communicate in written english. Hell, it sounds like the complaining party was even confused about what exactly was being offered as potential compensation simply because they couldn't understand the garbled mess of incomplete thoughts and sentence fragments that had been handed to them as an offer.

Feeding is, unfortunately, a muteable characteristic. It's more like a statement of past behavior and condition than a permanant quality unless the word "guaranteed" is stuck in front of it. It's a condition that can and will change unlike say... gender, genetic color traits or (when looked at over a short period of time) length or weight. Selling a male animal as a female is misrepresentation because the quality can't easily change. Selling an animal as "feeding" isn't the same thing. Now... as I mentioned... stick the word "guaranteed" in front of it and it's a whole new discussion.

And uh... Rick Leverock... in all seriousness, in the future, stay away from the keyboard and let Donna Rigby there communicate with the customers. I don't know if english is your second (or third or fifth) language or if you're dyslexic or just illiterate or what the deal is... but you're barely comprehensible and it's going to lead to more problems like this when people you're dealing with can't understand a damn thing you say... or misunderstand everything because they're filling in the blanks for themselves. It's just bad business to encourage ambiguity.
 
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