As long as he is only doing this on the new accounts I am fine with it. It is when he suddenly starts discrediting us ole timers that I get upset!
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Iâm curious how he can verify Authenticity. Itâs he referring to selling authentic kits, not fakes? If so how could he know? Is he physically looking at every reborn and COA to verify its an authentic one? Does he mean a real seller? I donât see how someone paying him money verifies anything, except that they have $20. What about sellers who sell a few good dolls and then start scamming? Itâs impossible to completely prevent all scammers on his site and I feel like itâs going to backfire when someone he verified as authentic scams someone.
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Thatâs actually a good point that I hadnât even considered. He did all of this to protect his reputation. What would happen to his reputation if someone verified did scam someone?
He canât possibly look at every doll posted, and even if he did it wouldnât help because he doesnât know what heâs looking at. All that really can be done is to create an environment that is inhospitable to scam artists. They can be deterred, but not completely stopped.
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Itâs almost like heâs trying to make it his store and serve his customers (buyers and collectors) but he gets NOTHING from them. Artists and sellers stock the site and pay to support it being there. It is seeming he is forgetting this a lot lately. He needs to be focusing on taking care of the people who put food on his table because without them he would have nothing to offer buyers and collectors. Those people are of zero concern to him it really confuses me why he caters to them at all. 
He should be taking care of making it convinent for sellers to sell as that is what they are paying for.
Itâs like a co-Op antique store where each person has thier own booth and does with it as they please. If they have a cluttered and ugly booth full of over priced junk thatâs on them. If they donât sell thier stuff that is thier own fault as long as no one is creating a fire hazard or dangerous conditions or inappropriate for general audiences then whatever.
Variety is the spice of life
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I donât have too much to say on this matter but I have a free account. I have had it for a while. This disclaimer is on my page. I direct people to reborns all the time but now they will look and see this and think that I may be a scammer. I already decided not to sell because of another matter but I send my friends and family there to see what is available. Seeing my page was letting them know that they were in the right place but now. . . I am going to give him some time to hopefully come up with something different for long time Free Accounts. Please someones hurry with your sites, lol!!! 
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SO I guess that means long time free members who have never paid do not get a pass on the disclaimerâŚso how many times do you have to pay to lose the disclaimer I wonder?
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Why not require proof of identity for new free accounts?!!.
Just because " most people wouldnât want to be forced". âŚBut they are setting up a selling account⌠They should have to?!
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I have never been asked proof of identification on any selling platform and will not be comfortable doing that. They have my banking/PayPal infos thatâs all they need.
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I may be in the minority, but I would have no issue verifying my identity in order to sell dolls. Itâs the shield of anonymity that emboldens the scammers to behave the way that they do.
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@anjsmiles I am not going to try to figure that out, lol!
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So, if today I went over there and signed up for a free store until I have enough dolls to list to necessitate a paid account so that I can sell, he would slap that stupid banner on my account? That deters new sellers who know this, and those who donât know about it yet will see it when they get a free account, and they may decide to leave. Heâs shooting his own foot.
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I canât help but wonder if this is a tiny bit of Karma coming his way. I mean he preached for years that the feedback system on his site was not something he wanted to do or was ever going to do. Then he says, we are doing it out of the blue. Artists brought up concerns about what if a buyer leaves bad feedback that isnât warranted or used it as a bargaining chip for refunds or whatever. He said donât worry. 1 bad review wonât override all your positive feedback. Well, we could now say the same to him. 1 video saying he had a scammer on his site shouldnât completely undo all the good and positive transactions on his site right? Just saying. 
Only difference is, he can add disclaimers and do whatever he wants with the site because itâs his. We donât get that luxury. We get stuck with the bad feedback even if it isnât warranted. I think he acted too quickly to do damage control and it wasnât in the best way. Iâm glad he is fixing it but now he knows the feeling we have when a buyer says negative things about us. I hope it has opened his eyes to this industry a bit more.
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Oh totally ! Itâs not the same when it happens to you, right ?
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Omg this!!! Someone needs to make him see this cause it is exactly what happened 
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I hope he reads this thread! He needs to. Just wonder if much would sink in.
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Itâs funny cause i donât think he cares about free nurseries cause they arenât making him moneyâŚ
But they are advertising for him 
And obviously one free nursery can do some damage
Oh wait he doesnât care about the paid nurseries either
Disregard
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