Useful feature of furry is that among competing services the most popular will always be the most crap. Such is the case in furry auction sites. Via
K'sharra's journal:
Most of the time I try to get people to use [Furbuy], they say they don't want to because there's no traffic. Traffic takes people. People willing to go and try it out without being led by the rest of the herd. We can't get traffic if everyone refuses to go until everyone goes! Why don't people understand this?? We get auctions that get loads of bidding and competition and views, we've proven that you CAN get good results on a lower traffic system, and even created a page with hints on HOW to do it! But people won't try it.
Every time I turn around, I hear about someone who has been screwed over, burned, or had a bad experience with Furbid and/or it's admin. I personally refuse to use the site because of my own personal selling experiences with the site. I won't use it, period, not even if FurBuy and every other auction site on the internet site fails. Why, if people have so many issues with the site, do they stay? All it takes is a collective decision to use a different site.
Now K'sharra operates
Furbuy with site founder Jurann, and there will be a conflict of interest evident when either discusses rival site Furbid. This is natural, and one can be judged on how he treats his enemies. In this case, Furbid administrator Noriko is a
raving hell beast, seen kicking Jurann off the site in a very loud and public manner over a few mistakes then hitting Jurann's WikiFur article to masturbate over the
bidding section. He seems to protect shacked-up artist Kacey with near-paranoid fervor (the AFF auction fight seems to have started because K'sharra was getting bids while Kacey was not). Other quality artists on FurBid are not unfamiliar with pulled auctions for strange reasons: "Okay, that Ayaka chick told me I'm not allowed to sell my
Blueberry Morning prints on FurBid because 'it's a cartoon bear and looks like Brother Bear' and I'm sitting there dumbfounded because I see TLK-style art all the time on FurBid."
Noriko has local infamy in the convention circuit for threatening Conifur staff with frivolous legal threats and using restraining orders as weapons against convention attendees. Conifur frontman Flinthoof shares:
There's something to be said for honesty. Furbuy has it. FurBid does not. I recall being at a con where a dealer had to ask the organizer to change tables because the administrator of Furbid was hanging around too much, driving away people and was just generally 'creepy'. Go make of that what you will. I know I certainly don't trust my business with that individual. Go with someone you trust to be honest, attentive, and cares about your business. For me, that means Furbuy.
If anyone needs a second character reference on Noriko they just might look at Sage Nadia's history, as they really are
the exact same person, from the control freak personalities, petty character assassinations, passive-aggressive refusal to accept blame, down to the mindless naming routines. And Oregon IP addresses. Furbid has the benefit of numbers and popularity, nothing more; Furbuy's interface, administration, transparent rules and regulations should alone be enough to encourage anyone sane to jump ship, but if furry worked that way we'd certainly not have FA or fchan today.
