Trade Rant Thread

[Midnight_Shadow18450]

I sent a trade offering some decent pets for a green dragon.

They edit the trade, asking for a pet in my 'For a Galaxy ONLY!!!' group >.<. My cancel message: 'It's in a group called 'For a Galaxy ONLY!!!' for a reason...'

[Fishie]

Ugh! I really don't understand these 2 trades. Maybe it's because I just opened free adoptions again, but the rules aren't that hard to understand :/
Trade 1:
them:nothing
me: PPS cocoon (not in my trades)
message: nothing
my cancel message: please read my rules -_-

Trade 2 (same person):
me: common butterwolf (in trades)
them: nothing
message: something like 'this one is mike' What?? That wasn't the exact message but something like it X3
cancel messgae: 'read my rules! Sending me another trade like this will put you on my foes list. '

Not to mention the endless amounts of trades asking me to edit, which isn't against my trade rules, but the people asking usually have nothing I want.

[adakie]

....... X\

[DharSii]

....... X\

Wow. Did they think the smilie face was going to help?

[Wildmagic_warrior]

maybe, cuz everyone know Smilies make everything better (lol but really, I didnt sent that trade)

[adakie]

I have nooooo idea. *sigh*

[Fishie]

another one! these bad trades are just rolling in.
Them: red dragon (malk's)
Me: bobtail non-PPS valentine (not in trade)
them: something like 'dragon for an advent?'
cancel message: none

Them (same person): nothing
me: February blue rainbow dog (in trades)
message: something like 'then can I have this one? And if not tell me why'
cancel message: 'because pets in my trades aren't free -_-
and you obviously didn't read my rules. '

[GipsyRose]

Okay. I'm a regular stalker of this board... even though I don't post often... But I just want to know, how in the world do people just find your open groups? I don't even know they are open for trade most of the time! But the people who do find my open groups never want to trade (or at least not seriously) no, they just want to adopt. And while I can understand wanting to get something for free or a good deal. I'm a pretty nice person and I DO have an Up for Adoption group (which is sparse for the moment, but I may feel like adding pets to it soon). So I don't understand why think an unlocked group automatically means that they are up for grabs. And I'm not saying this about one person, it really does happen to me all the time, and I DO try to keep my groups locked except trades and adoptions. I guess the one today was the one that just made me want to bang my head against the table, because if it had been one or two pets that I had had duplicates of, I might have let them adopt it. But it was quite a lot, and duplicates of some of those as well. And since the person was nice, I was kind in return, after all, they would have left me with one of each pet. But, I really, I'm beginning to wonder how people find unlocked groups like that?

(Sorry, I rambled... >.<)

[Shai]

Why is it people always think Christmas lions, from this years Advent Calender, are free? I just got a trade for my Card Lion, and this one (not sure what it's nickname is)

The person said,"cuz ts xms s00n cn u gv mi th3s p3tz s0 i cn gv my frnds xms preznts."

Firstly, the group was clearly labeled that they are not for free, because I value them very highly.
Secondly, the message is almost impossible to read because it is chatspeak.
Thirdly, they want these pets as Christmas presents for their friends? Why don't they try to trade for the pets, rather than try to get them free.

[Kari Lion]

I often wonder how people come across my pets. I mean, now it makes some sense since I'm on the forums pretty regularly, have a trade thread, post in lots of places, have trade info in my signature, etc...

But before, I used to get OUT OF THE BLUE trades quite often, and I always wondered how on EARTH they found me to send me a trade.