Breeder Classified Section Opens

[Nicklfire]

Hello All!

This maybe a very anticipated post as i know it has been asked of many many times before.

Up to this point we have only had Sponsor sub forums available to purchase for advertising. We have targeted mostly small-med sized business, retail stores, import/export professionals.

Over the years we have always had problems and many "gray" areas when it came to people selling fish. In many cases people were not aware of the rules or they just did not want to pay the sponsorship fee because of the cost. We have always done our best to try and enforce this but it just becomes too hard with the amount of people we have on the board.

Due to the reasons above i think we have come up with a GREAT solution. We have setup a "Breeder Classified subforum" located here :
Breeder Sponsored Classified - Aquarium Forum - Fish Forum - BCAQUARIA

This classified section will be used for people who are interested in selling stock that is not just the odd thing here and there.

This will be a SUBSCRIPTION BASED SERVICE which will cost 15$ per month and ONLY BREEDERS will be able to create threads in the BREEDER subforum.

The advantage to this is that people who could not afford a personalized subforum sponsorship will have somewhere they are allowed to post as well being able to pay month to month if they wish.

We hope that this will clear up any gray areas that we have had in the past and make everyone a little happier when it comes to being able to have a little breeder type business.

Additional Notes:

-Breeder subscription will come with a Title of "breeder"
-Pm storage increased to 250
-Also requested was to increase pictures per post which i will look into.


Interested? SIGN UP!

1) click on "user cp" in the main navigation (left side)

2 scroll down to the bottom and click on the link on the left side that says "paid subscriptions"

3)Under option 3 (BREEDER) choose your length of subscription (1,2,3 months) in the drop down box

4)click ORDER

5)confirm your order by clicking "order using paypal" .

Currently we are only accepting paypal orders.

Once you pay with paypal your usergroup will change to BREEDER and you will be allowed to post automatically into the BREEDER subforum here " Breeder Sponsored Classified - Aquarium Forum - Fish Forum - BCAQUARIA "

The same rules will apply that you will not allowed to post in regular classified sections as those sections are for personal ads.

[Nicklfire]

I must comment that this is a TRIAL to see how it goes, if we decide to pull the plug on the thing for whatever reason you will be refunded for the remainder of time paid for.

[Kei]

this will be great, i just noticed the posting.
finding things for sale and new updates will be a lot quicker. thank you

[Smiladon]

This is great news indeed. I am sure we will have some more people back selling different types of fish. The monthly subscription is also really cool

[Nicklfire]

Additional Notes:

-Breeder subscription will come with a Title of "breeder"
-Pm storage increased to 250
-Also requested was to increase pictures per post which i will look into.

[Ursus sapien]

Excellent! The by-month feature (do I read that right?) is especially cool, as breeding on a smaller scale tends to be episodic.

[Nicklfire]

Yeap, if you choose to do month to month then that's up to the person.

You can pay month to mont, 2 months in advanced, 3 months in advance. I can appreciate breeding might be only a 1 month venture at a time.. hence the month to month.

I agree, breeding can be smaller scale

[Nicklfire]

if anyone has problems with the the paypal function of buying the subscription let me know as it has yet to be tested, it should work as it works exactly like the donator one works

[Mferko]

its a start... seems like maybe a bit of a cash grab too?
what exactly is the reason for the 15 dollar fee? dont users of the forum benefit by having access to cheap local fry + it lowers your fishies carbon footprints (no shipping)

i guess what im saying is its good just to see the fry back on the forums available to members at good prices rather than flushed or used as feeders, why do u need to make money off the breeders too? often those fry that get sold are only paying for the food (+ perhaps other things like buffers) that were required for growing their parents to maturity and then growing them.

i know a few local breeders that refuse to sell on BCA as it is because in their opinions the members here are cheap and dont want to pay what the fish are worth, personally i dont mind selling fry cheap if they go to a good home because naturally i will run out of room if i try to keep them all alive (and id rather not be responsible for their deaths), not sure about paying to sell them underpriced tho, its not like they make me any money.

[Nicklfire]

its a start... seems like maybe a bit of a cash grab too?
what exactly is the reason for the 15 dollar fee? dont users of the forum benefit by having access to cheap local fry + it lowers your fishies carbon footprints (no shipping)

i guess what im saying is its good just to see the fry back on the forums available to members at good prices rather than flushed or used as feeders, why do u need to make money off the breeders too? often those fry that get sold are only paying for the food (+ perhaps other things like buffers) that were required for growing their parents to maturity and then growing them.

Good questions i'll try to answer the best i can. We have always had the problems of breeders competing with sponsors on the site.. hence we have a rule against breeders... we have always been asked for this option and now it's in place.

I dont think it's a cash grab, people have been requesting this. Does it supply extra income , sure does. Extra income means more for the site, more prizes for donators, more prizes for monthly giveaways, more prizes for staff members(keep in mind they are all volunteers and whenever i can i love to show them my appreciation)

Members of the site benefit from cheap fry sure.. but why would sponsors stick around when they are being undercut on every fish? what's the benefit of them to stay.. not much, there goes prizes and draws etc. What point do we draw the line at.. what stops breeders from every province signing up and selling via shipping.

I think the price is pretty fair to be honest with you. You raise 100 fry, sell for 10$ each... and your only paying 15$ per month for a target audience of nearly 100%.. seems like a steal to me.

People often get mixed up with the term breeder.. There is a breeder.. and a hobbiest.

-Breeder in my definition is someone who sets up multiple tanks.. breeds.. sells.... breeds... sells..
-Hobbiest... someone who is raising fry for the first time.. maybe does it 2 times a year... vs a breeder who is constantly breeding fish in multiple tanks and always has fry available. Someone who has 1 shrimp tank setup.. and is selling cherry shrimp for 2$ for the 75 that they have.. is fine.. that's cool.. it's going to take alot more time then 4 weeks to start doing it all over again.

Instead of punishing someone who is a breeder and now allowing them to post classified ads on bca.. now we are embracing it and giving them the option to pay a small fee to use our board to sell there stock. I'm just giving an alternate option.

i know a few local breeders that refuse to sell on BCA as it is because in their opinions the members here are cheap and dont want to pay what the fish are worth, personally i dont mind selling fry cheap if they go to a good home because naturally i will run out of room if i try to keep them all alive (and id rather not be responsible for their deaths), not sure about paying to sell them underpriced tho, its not like they make me any money.

They refused to sell on bca because our members are cheap or because it was against our site rules before yesterday. You cannot honestly tell me all 3000 members on BCA are cheap.. because i could put a big list of members together that are surely not in that category.

That's the other thing i dont get... "they refused to sell on bca because they are cheap", yet they dont dont want to pay to become a sponsor..because.. they want something for free.. seems a little odd to me personally.

Simply put.. we have put together a "Service" aimed at breeders.. if they choose to utilize this option i welcome them with open arms and hope they enjoy it.. if not then no worry.. i'm not forcing anyone to do anything