Pistils transfered ownership of Breedbay quite some time ago. Ignotius runs the show now. The site used to be on Vbulliten forum software and moved to a new platform. Those big changes appear to have caused a bunch of problems with the functionality of the site. I’ve seen a lot of site bugs, missing content, broken images, etc.
Breedbay used to be a marketplace and the forum itself supported the auction site called SeurBidz and the storefront (forgot the name). Now there’s no seeds being sold whatsoever and haven’t been for quite some time… years. I think I remember seeing posts where the new site owner said he can’t have any documented income for some reason and that’s why they don’t technically sell anything anymore. They haven’t been able to come up with a way around that.
In its heyday Breedbay was the best site out there. Had the most active community but they didn’t have preservation projects or anything similar to what Overgrow does… in fact the mere mention and discussion of buying seeds anywhere else was forbidden and considered disrespectful. Community members would often times send in seeds that would then be given out as Breedbay freebies for the auction.
Bodhi, Subcool/TGA, Professor P/Dynasty, SOG, Sonic, Hothouse Flowers, Outlaw Genetics, British Hempire, Alphakronik, Heaven Scent… these were the breeders that sold their seeds on Breedbay including Pistils own in house brand… it was a great selection of high quality genetics. The freebies were fantastic too. In fact the best C99 I’ve ever experienced from Seed was a Breedbay freebie made by a guy named Neferti who undertook an amazing C99 reproduction project using old Brothers Grimm seeds in a thread entitled “Back to the Ball.”
One of the things I admired about Pistils was he had strict criteria for what could and could not be sold with testing requirements and mandatory breeder descriptions and data that he forced his network of breeders to provide… which is why the older Bodhi descriptions are so detailed and why today they are not… lol. But that was all to benefit the community as Breedbay strive to be better than the others, the best of the best… and it was at the time. The only place like it was ICMag. I preferred Breedbay myself. As time went on more places like Cannazon/Cannetics, The Seed Depot, Sannies Forums, and lesser known Bulliten Boards would come and go.
The fact that Breedbay is still here today and survived really is amazing but it’s mostly in part of Bodhi making huge cash donations to keep the server running. He has funneled a lot of money into that place which shocks me… especially considering there’s only a few people that post over there regularly. I think Bodhi still supports them because he probably feels Breedbay was the place that helped him launch his seed business… that and he’s just a kind soul that believes in Karma and the Golden Rule and all that goes along with doing good deeds.
Sorry for the rant. But for anyone who never used Breedbay or doesn’t know much about it… thats the general gist of things.