Comments on: Facebook FarmVille Gifting Groups are Scams.

By: merz

merz — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:17:25 +0000

what can i do my farmville cant open, its says this site not found how did i do?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:21:51 +0000

Heyy. they are not all fake, i just made one 2 days ago, i have no people there, yet only three members, but it is not fake, i have a lot of time to waste, so people paste their links, and i send them one, than i get a thank you gift.

but it will be hard work So REMEMBER NOT ALL ARE FAKE

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:39:45 +0000

I can’t believe people fall for this garbage. I get a few of these invites every week as well, and I just ignore them. But then I also get tons of emails from friends thinking Bill Gates will send them money if they forward the email to a million people. Wake up people! It’s called Snopes.com – bookmark it! (Ok, so I went a little off track…) =)

By: riibu

riibu — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:37:08 +0000

The “Secret of the Day” SCAM book is NOT a Google ad. It is a static ad that is part of your code (I looked). And I use an ad blocker that would block it if it were a Google ad. I turned the ad blocker off for a minute to see what I was missing and… ew.

Anyways, it’s also either a lie that this site costs you tons of money or you’ve acted on some really poor judgment to pay someone way too much money for this thing. I’ve run a successful blog for almost three years and the only money I’ve spent on it is the annual fee for the domain name, which is maybe $10 or something.

Also, please learn to write and spell. It hurts to see how bad it can get.

By: farmgoddess

farmgoddess — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:02:06 +0000

@Stephen,

I understand your concern in wanting to maintain FarmVille Freak as a trusted website, as it is our goal as well! I will do an update post in the near future addressing this issue concerning the scams. Just to re-iterate, almost all of the present ads are automated by Google AdSense, they are not hand-picked. There is a way to filter ads, but it is a little more complicated as these ads are dynamic as are the developers of these scams which happens to be plentiful. Unfortunately, most people interested in directly purchasing advertisement space on FarmVille Freak (outside of GoogleAdSense) are those that make these FarmVille guides and bots, so we actually turn down many offers.

I understand your point and reference to Zynga’s old practices. However, we are in no way on the same scale of Zynga. This website is actually expensive to run and maintain. We need dedicated servers to host due to high traffic. Furthermore, it would be impossible for us to maintain this website without the revenue from ads.

Thank you for your reply and support,

FarmGoddess

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:27:07 +0000

@farmgoddess.

Perhaps my tone was a bit harsh, so sorry. After searching a bit, I did find a post related to these ads, but it was nearly 3 months ago. Seems like an update might be good, since the ad is more prominent and consistent now. Also, it still seems to me that it’s the same logic Zynga used when they allowed scammers to post their offers – “We needed the money.” Is there no way to monitor the ads that are published on your site? If not, then it might be good to refresh people that these ads may appear without your consent, given that this is a trusted website for many people.

By: farmgoddess

farmgoddess — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:08:32 +0000

@Stephen: Did you read our response to this post concerning the ads? Ads are necessary for us to maintain the site which is FREE to you and everyone else. We do not endorse these ads. For all of those that hate the ads so much and wonder why we have them, I wonder if any of you have ever or would ever consider donating to the site for hosting and maintenance costs?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:04:27 +0000

Yeah, scams are stupid. So maybe farmvillefreak.com should stop advertising one at the top of their webpage! (referring to the “Secret of the Day: Grow Your Farm at Light Speed!”)

By: BoNeZ

BoNeZ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:40:36 +0000

ahhhh wake up folks… Hasn’t anyone ever told that nothing in life is free???? and please quit crying about farmville cash… its a game, at least you didnt have to buy it at walmart for 59.95. So dont buy the cool stuff if you dont want to spen $1.26

By: Jensen

Jensen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:55:42 +0000

Just a note, with that farmvillebook you have a video

he says:
hi i’m tony sanders… Look at the farmers name!

And a quick tip: ask for neigbors on the farmville fanpage!