I joined EF in July of 2012. it was a great time. I was so obsessed w/ EF. I was constantly online reading & reading reviews. I learned so much from those reviews. also, the forum was a great place to get educated as well as have some fun. since the huge changes from last June 2013, that all has faded to nearly nil. most of the reviews being published since last summer are poorly written & useless. I still don't understand why EF wants them published. they cast a huge negative light on EF. too bad everything has changed so drastically. this used to be an exceptionally fun & learning place to come to.....

Also it seems their are way less reviews, way less items for sale (especially lingerie). I was preggers and took a break and now I'm back and lots of things and different, uhg.

There have been many changes to the site, programs, etc. With no administrators, things really slowed down and there are some frustrations to the retail side of the site. HOWEVER--it is now up to us members to rebuild and keep the community areas going and informative--as well as fun and supportive. I will be contributing more later on, right now I am dealing with my husband's death last week and am here for the community support and friendship. I have found it very comforting to know there are people that really care when I need friends (and do not want to wake up or 'bother' my daily life friends).

It seems like there aren't as many items as there used to be for sale. Everything I've had wish listed over the years either never came back into stock or was discontinued. The new point system sucks. And... I don't find myself stopping by more than once a few weeks to check out the sales.

I joined the sight around mid 2011 and it was a beautiful, supportive, and bustling place. I learned so much about myself from being here with wise people who mentored me and helped me become a better writer. I had so much fun back then. Then, I got extremely ill, died twice on the operating table, and was hospitalized for a long time in order to recover. I recovered and finally decided to come back to my former happy place: EdenFantasys

What I found though was an unrecognizable, empty store. There are hardly any items for sale. All my wishlist items are discontinued or never in stock, people I once knew and was close to on here have vanished as well, and the atrocious point system has been implemented. I have seen some new reviews on here and was like WTF?! Who allowed this poorly written garbage through? It's like nobody really cares anymore. This is disheartening...

This place made me feel alive. I actually didn't feel like I had an incurable painful rare pancreas disease; I felt like a beautiful woman who learned to explore herself via this site and its products. It all seems like the old EF was a distant dream now.

I am in the same boat (almost). When I first started, EF had this rockin' review program. I could tell some people abused it, but for the most part, there were a lot of good writers who were creative and informative and definitely deserved whatever perks they were getting. I wasn't getting as many because I truly did not have the time to dedicate. That said, I felt like people earned. Eden had great intentions and started expanding things. Sadly, this made the review program easier to get into and other programs began. Eden also started branching out into articles and printed materials. This was almost too much. There weren't enough honest people to maintain such things and that made the perks too easy to earn and they were abused in such a way that I'm sure EF was losing money. I can understand why many things needed to change. Toward the end, when a lot of people were leaving and several people were essentially "fired", I had changes in my personal life that took me away from the site. I tried coming back a few times, but it seemed like NOBODY was manning the wheel and I would get no response to messages. Nobody seemed to know anything that was going on.

Simply put, I would love for things to go back to how they were when I first started reviewing. Simple guidelines, perks that were limited to certain parties who submitted reviews to people who REALLY read them and "OK'd" perks and a community that was streamlined and easy to follow and maintain.

Again, I think the intentions were good, but someone has to manage these things to make them work. Too many people ran wild with the ideas and maybe the community didn't deserve so many freebies.

NOW I have tried to request reviews and get involved and it seems like I don't exist anymore. I get no responses when I make an effort and I just wonder what has changed that I missed? Is it really all that different? I feel like I'm being punished when I wasn't even that involved.

I get your inquiry and I saw the program relaunch for reviews, but I had some things sit on request for over a month. Frustrating for sure.