Trade Rant Thread

[DaDwarf]

I understand your point, but the thing which irritates me the most is that in my art topic people say that also, leaving me to choose.

I clearly state to Offer something in return for my art, and i won`t start drawing unless we agreed on the payment.

Though some artists cross the trading line!

[Atwood]

Yeah, it drives me crazy when people say 'Look in my trades' when my art thread rules clearly state do not tell me to look through your trades! If it's just one or two people, that's fine, but when it's six or seven people, each with five hundred pets in their trade groups and usually not one pet that I want, it's a huge waste of time for me. If an artist doesn't have any wishlist or guidelines on what they want for payment, then okay, directing them to your trades is fine, but when they have it written out in detail, with pictures and values? Then it starts to look like avoidance - half the time, the person doesn't have or isn't willing to offer anything the artist wants, so they say to look in their trades in hopes the artist will settle for something cheap that they didn't even want. I'm not having much trouble with this anymore, but it used to be horrendous, with ten or fifteen people in a row saying 'look in my trades', which were all stuffed to the gills with warriors, b-wolves, horses, 2nd Gens, and a billion other commons, none of which I was interested in. Only on rare occasion does a 'look in my trades' offer give anything really worth even the time spent looking through them, let alone something worth the art, so a lot of artists no longer even bother. It's a lot like sending a blank trade - if it takes the other person a lot of time and effort to go through your trades, it's far more likely to just be cancelled or ignored.

I always cringe when people say 'take any of my pets' as offered payment, precisely because of what you guys say about crossing the trading line - does 'any' include your 'Favourites' folder? Does it include your packs, your collections, your specials, your rares? For some people it does, others it doesn't. I usually end up sticking to their trade folders anyway, just to avoid getting an irate message saying 'Obviously I didn't mean that you could have Missy or Spot or Bree or Dragon or.... [insert long list of specific names that includes every single pet I might have been interested in]'. On top of that, I feel bad about asking for non-trade pets. Life is so much easier when people just make a decent offer right off. By the way, I know that some artists can be a bit stroppy and annoying about payment, too, like saying they'll take any dog and then getting annoyed at people who offer commons and saying 'Obviously I meant rare '08s...', so it's not always the art shop patrons that are the rant-worthy ones.

[~Kaleidoscope~]

=.=
Their side: about fifty-two common pets from either this month, or second generations.
My side: One common Malk dog from January
UGH. The message was what really annoyed me:

hey lynx i loooooooooooooooove fire sky yh i know im being risky but i looooooove him and i also know where u got billy from my bff vampire1998 but any way i drove off subject plz lynx tiger is my fave pet and its alot for me to give tiger away but yh i looooooove him so plz m8 can i have him any way reply soon.. cya

(Firesky's the pet) It was so n00b-chatspeaked and begging that I could hardly understand it. And it was one big run-on sentence. And who in the universe was she talking about when she said billy?

[Atwood]

Wow, that message is like a checklist of what not to do. >.< Chatspeak, begging, attempts to be your friend, offering their 'favourite' pet to make you feel guilty, trying to get favours through what other people have done for you, etc. Billy is your August Green B-wolf, by the way. Incidentally, the very first pet people see when they go to your collection, so I wonder if the person who traded it to you really is their 'bff' or just the first name they saw on something you'd traded for.

[~Kaleidoscope~]

XD Now I'm finding this funny... because you're probably right about her referring to the first pet in my first group.
Oh, it is the b-wolf... how did I not remember that? I need to change that name, it's the one it came with. XDD

[Midnight_Shadow18450]

*sigh* Why do people think my items are for trade when they're not.....

[Jimmy]

Lol, that's my major pet peeve about CS.
After going through the trouble of sorting pets into groups clearly marked as trades you shouldn't have any need to disable trading from any other groups. People should just put two and two together and only make offers on the trade groups. Not difficult. >__>

[T. Faulkner]

Lol, that's my major pet peeve about CS.
After going through the trouble of sorting pets into groups clearly marked as trades you shouldn't have any need to disable trading from any other groups. People should just put two and two together and only make offers on the trade groups. Not difficult. >__>

And then you get the complete and utter noobs who just don't care or are too stupid to bother with that silly little thing called "thinking". Perhaps you shouldn't need to lock your groups, but it usually can save you a lot of trouble with idiots who don't bother to read, sending you trades you don't want.

What kills me are the trades sent for items. Like my candies. <.< Is there a way to lock trades on your items, and I just haven't found it yet? If not, I honestly think there should be...

[Rissa]

Yeah, I had everything but my trade groups disabled for trading, then I did some reorganisation and made some new groups and suddenly I had trade offers for things from the new groups! Darn, I'd forgotten to disable trading! But geez.. I have quite a few groups, do people have an 'enabled trade group' radar or something? I didn't think my group names were that tricky to understand, all my trade groups have "**** TRADE" right at the start, lol!

Oh well, tis all disabled again now..

[Rainbow Dash]

AUGH.

Their side: Nothing.

My side: Boar PPS.

Message: ?

My reply: I don't hand out freebies, especially to beggars. Read my trade rules and other stickies around the forum to learn to trade properly. Plus, in general running around and begging for scraps from others is irritating.