Working up new ideas

Several people have asked me and been curious about why I decided to reopen CashDuck. (Just a note: I am under 30, and not going through menopause, as has been suggested.) First, and most importantly, I decided that the ideas that I had been thinking of for new ventures, while not originally part of my plan for CashDuck, could still be implemented through a redesign. Then everyone who was part of CashDuck could continue to participate and especially keep their referrals. Second, I really like the little community we have built up here and I don't want to lose it. It just seems like it would not be as good when starting over, as some people have been here from the very beginning. Third, part of the reason I decided to close initially was that CashDuck had grown so large that I just did not have the time to keep it up anymore, and I especially won't have time during school (I also have a full time job, that I will continue at while going to school.) I have two very-part time helpers, but a lot of the work was not easy to farm out to other people, nor does everyone have the space for a LOT OF DUCKS in their house.

So in the new CashDuck you will see a different emphasis on the offers, more opportunities to form groups and communities, and a different variety of prizes. I hope to make CashDuck something that you can invite others from your own communities into, and that CashDuck can help you meet goals for your own groups as well as earning money and prizes for yourself. You will also see a lot more opportunity for philanthropy - the breast cancer donation drive was so successful that I think that if we all had the opportunity to participate in things like that on a more regular basis that a lot could be accomplished.

So I guess we could sum it up as this: What we have here at CashDuck is valuable and unique, and I believe that we can all benefit from a little change in focus, without throwing what we have away.

Update on the return of CashDuck

As you may have read in your inbox messages, CashDuck will be returning in a new form in mid-October. Some answers to questions that have been asked:

All August withdraws are going out this weekend.

If you have any cash or feathers left in your account, you will have to wait until the reopening to do anything with it.

I ran out of pens, Fourth of July ducks, and magnets, so some of those prize requests were deleted and you got your feathers back.

There will be very little going on that you can see until the reopening. I will send out another inbox message to notify everyone that the site is now reopened for business.

Yes, if I have emailed you and asked for a W-9, I will not send payment till I get it. Though I have been lax about keeping track in the past, it is evident that some people are taking advantage of this, and this will not happen in the future.

The new site will have shopping rebates and freebies, for the most part. Quackers will remain, but will have to be changed due to members abusing the game.