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Some Changes

To help people search for what they need more effectively, we've added some new tags.  "Sales" has now been split into "Art", "Item Sales" and "Dragon Sales".  If you have any more suggestions for tags, feel free to drop us an ask or message.  :)

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Wow

What an influx of followers!  We don't know what happened, but hello everyone!  We're in desperate need of reviews at the moment, so if you've done any business on FR that you'd like to share, please drop us a submission.  :)

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So i just got my first uh.

Fucko? I guess?? Hhaha i don't really know how to describe this, i went on FR just now and noticed i had a crossroads :L Weird, i thought, because i didn't have any dragons for sale. Lo and behold, some bazinga was tryin' to take one of my (very much loved, mind you) dragons for free :I

8I

Beware of Evaquil on FR, they just tried to swipe my lil Kristoff :U Their excuse was they saw a tumblr post about it, but i had to purchase him, and never once have i posted about him.

edit: if i did post about him, it certainly wasnt a freebie post

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We've Moved!

Since we're having some problems with the tagging system, we've decided to try moving to a new location.  If you're following this blog, we ask that you please hop over here and follow this one as well.  We'll keep this blog up for a week or so before deleting it.

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Our New Home

Due to issues with the tagging system, we've decided to move the blog to a new location (which is here).  Since Tumblr apparently doesn't show tagged posts from new blogs, however, we're going to ask our followers to reblog this post so we can get word out that we've moved (and that we exist in the first place).  We encourage everyone to send in reviews, good or bad, so we can keep this blog running and help make Flight Rising a safer place.

Thank you

-FRBeware

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Positive Review— Phantomlegions #41278

Who: Phantonlegions #41278

What: Nest Renting

Why: Quick replies, good communication, overall pleasant experience

When: January 11th, 2014

Explain: After finding the perfect project dragon and finally getting enough space for the hatchlings, all I needed was a Fireflight nest.  I used nika’s nest rental listings to look for a free renter and found phantomlegions.  I PMed them and got a prompt reply back confirming that they had a nest open.  I sent them my dragons and five days later I got them and two hatchlings back.  The process was quick and painless and should I need fire eyes again I will definitely be going back.

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Positive Review-- Xairathan #33178

Who: Xairathan #33178

What: Other (discount shop)

Why: Prompt replies, good communication, and professional conduct

When: October 23rd

Explain: After saving up for weeks, I finally had enough to buy a gembond scroll at full discount price.  At the time that this happened, Ice was holding dominance, and I wanted to find a discount shop that was both reliable and offered full discounts.  I found Xairathan’s thread and saw that they’d fulfilled many orders already, so I decided to entrust my money with them and asked for a gembond scroll.  The terms of the arrangement were very clearly stated on the first post: send half the money as a down payment, then the rest after receiving the item.  After making sure that they were online by way of pinging (to which they replied back very promptly), I sent them 90k in treasure.  No more than five minutes later, I get a message that has both my gembond scroll and a full “receipt” of the order, which showed the total cost, the amount paid, and the amount owed.  I was extremely satisfied with the speed and professionalism of the service, so needless to say, I gave a generous tip.  Should I need another scroll come the next time that Ice has dominance, I will no doubt go straight to Xairathan for all my discount orders.

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Negative Review-- lunusdragoness #17407

Who: Lunusdragoness

What: Nest Rental

Why: Poor communication, failure to return a loaned dragon, and exalting said dragon without permission.

When: October 11th-17th

Explain:  I offer free nest rentals and every time I offer compensation so people know I’m not stealing their dragons.  It also clears up some lair space for the hatchlings when they hatch.  On October 11th I was contacted by lunusdragoness, asking about a nest rental: [Image]

At the time I was slightly short on lair space, but was very close to being able to afford an expansion, so I offered a solution: they hold one of my hatchlings to make room for their dragons.  A boon was not offered, so the incubation period would have been more than enough time for me to expand.  The exact PM conversation from my first reply to her agreeing to hold one of my dragons:

My response

Lunusdragoness 

My response

Lunusdragoness

I then sent over an unnamed spiral hatchling on Oct. 11th to be held— said hatchling being a freebie from the breeder, who I knew well.  I also sent over enough insects to feed my dragons through the incubation period: [Image]

Her response was to ask for meat instead (as an additional note, the 60pts of insects was not returned with the request).  Gifting food is a common practice for me, so I didn’t hesitate to send over meat for her own dragons: [Image]  [Image]

The next day I was greeted with two PMs from lunusdragoness, one being a reply ([Image]), the other stating that she needed to send the hatchling back when one of her nests was ready to hatch: [Image]

Again, I expected the pair to be sent over.  I was very close to a lair expansion, so I assumed that once I got the breeding pair and bred them, I would be able to see how much extra space I would have for the hatchlings afterwords.  Considering that I would gain five extra spots, the odds were that I would have room for the hatchlings and room to take back my own dragon. [Image]

A day passes.  While it struck me as odd that the pair had not been sent over yet, I gave them the benefit of a doubt and chalked it up to being busy.  Then another day passes.  By this time it is the 14th, three days after initial contact, and I start to become a bit concerned.  I go to their lair and check to see that my dragon is still there, and she is, though now fully grown.  I decided to contact lunusdragoness in case they’d forgotten about our arrangement: [Image]

She responded almost immediately: http://oi40.tinypic.com/352lxuf.jpg

Three more days pass.  My concern had reached its peak, as I had not been contacted by lunusdragoness in the entire time.  On Oct. 17th I went to check on my spiral once again.  It was gone.

First I tried to contact her in case something had happened.  I didn’t know if she’d given it to a friend for holding as her own nest hatched, or if she’d sold it, so I wanted to hear from her why my spiral was missing: [Image]

I then tried searching the auction house in case it had been put up (though looking back that didn’t really make much sense if the dragon was already gone from her lair).  Thinking that it must’ve been sold, I went to the lair of the breeder who I got the spiral from in the first place and checked the father’s page.  There were three dragons under offspring, so I checked all of them, because for some reason all of them were named when I specifically remember sending over an unnamed hatchling.

I then found that my spiral had not only been named, but exalted by a plagueflight member: http://oi42.tinypic.com/slhb39.jpg .  As a side note, I also went to check the thread that kept track of which exalt bonuses were on what days: [Image]

If lunusdragoness hadn’t exalted “Soulcatcher”, she had given it to another plague member and they had exalted it.  It was doubtful that it was an accident, seeing how my dragon had been named before being exalted, but either way, I was not contacted at all during the time that this would have happened.  Lunusdragoness never PMed me to ask whether or not I could take the dragon back, whether it was okay to give it to someone else for holding, or even apologize for exalting it.  After finding this out, I sent a PM voicing my disapproval, which was also never replied to.  I’ve since been waiting for an explanation as to what exactly happened.