Auction Rant Thread

[Raven_Wolf]

When you guys talk about low demand pets, are you just talking about commons and uncommons and stuff like that or are you talking about rarer pets with low demand (like my pink September)?

[Jiloon]

Why does nobody bid on my 800C$ auction?!?! Lots of people wanted the C$ so I put it up for auction, saying that you can bid for just a little C$ or the whole 800 and the only bid I have is a winged wood angel? Why me?

[Decim]

URG this stupid Sorb has no demand X3 I cant auction it off, I got 3 bids, all auto cancelled, all including not even 1 list pet x3

[vetiverandclove]

No one wants a BMd! D:

[Decim]

No one wants a BMd! D:

I do ouo

[octoberwind]

No one wants a BMd! D:

I do ouo

More like no one will auction one off.

[~Wild at Heart]

When auctioneers don't post the bids so you have no clue if you are winning or losing or anything >.<
So now i just hang onto these pets in my bid and hope they are good enough?
Thats cool.

[Topiratti]

["DaDwarf"]["Lament & Nostalgia"]rant; People who auction pets that obviously have no demand. You are wasting everybody's time, since hardly anybody will want to pay fair for it. Would you pay fair for a sorbet while you can get one with a BA? i think not (just an example btw). No demand means don't auction it e.e

Considering I came here to rant about my little demand-less auction, I figured I better respond to this. .-.

Some of us really don't have any other way of getting valuable pets. I'm not expecting any sort of fair bid for a speckled rat, but I don't have any other main list pets or september lists, and I don't like the rat. A lot of users can't pick and choose what they're trying to trade off. >_<"

I'm sorry, but i don't see why you would say the things i underlined. As if i get rare pets floating my way and just pick randomly whatever i have for trade. If your intentions are to get me riled up then nice try but that didn't work ^.^ I don't pick my fodder either, i traded my way up to what i have now, i put allot of time and money into trading.

I recently traded a light speckled rat for a balloon dog, and i traded the balloon dog for a rainbow mare. How? Simple. I had the rat, i send out close to 100 trades for it and someone accept it just for a blue balloon dog. I swapped the balloon dog with my friend since she needed blue. I looked around on the trade and auction forums, trying to find a suitable pet to trade for. I stumbled upon an auction with a woodwing and i read the user saying something about having a rainbow mare bid. I then put up an auction thread to see if i could get this anon user to bid on my pet, and sure, within 2 hours they bid their rainbow mare and i accepted. and that's how you trade smart.

Like i said above, putting up an auction for a low demand has little use. It only gets you frustrated and leaves you with many unfair bids (And an occasional fair one). I wouldn't put it the time of holding an auction for a sorbet or a speckled rat unless i had a target (Such as extreme underpay). Then maybe. But never if i wanted a fair offer, you'll be way faster sending out a bunch of trades.

Note: I changed my username back, but this is still Lament & Nostalgia.

That's not what I was trying to say at all. I'm using myself and my account partner as examples, but we're probably part of a fairly large group. We don't have pets to pick and choose from to auction and try to trade off; we're got a grand total of one list pet, save for one that was a gift and won't be traded. It's not like we can pull a pet with demand out of nowhere to auction.
Some of us don't have a lot of time to put into trading, and aren't here completely for pets. And many more users either don't or can't -in my case the latter- buy C$, so there goes the money aspect.
As for 'trading smartly', I ask you to take a look at our respective join dates. Technically this account has been here over a year, but I joined onto it about six months later, and my account partner who started the account never trades. Still a long time, but nothing compared to your three years. Some of us really aren't capable of trading fairly; we haven't had hours and hours to send trades and learn slowly. You say sending out trades would be faster; you're a highly experienced user(considering I've seen you help around the FFT and not be called out for giving bad advice, I'd say it's a safe assumption). If you send a trade ,chances are it won't be scamming anyone. If I did with this rat, I'd either get someone angry at me for an 'attempted scam' or scam myself worse then I possibly could in an auction. That's what happens when you get a rares list out of the blue.
And which is really worse? To quote your first post:

You are wasting everybody's time, since hardly anybody will want to pay fair for it... No demand means don't auction it e.e

Just to start, this was pretty rude to all of us who only have low demand pets and can't send trade for them(reasons previously mentioned).
And tell me, which is really worse? Getting a terrible trade with said low demand pet on one end because the sender doesn't know better, or seeing one more low-demand auction? I imagine most people would say the former.
In my case, I'm not hoping for fair bids, but I think holding that auction is a lot less rude then sending out potentially disastrous trades to users who actually understand rarities and all/scamming myself and my account partner badly.
And the scam trades is assuming the user even has time to send 'hundreds of trades' as you put it. Which I imagine 95% of users don't.
Auctions are much faster.
Note #2: I'm skipping over your story about the rainbowmane/ballon dog, since that's not the original subject.
Note #3:

If your intentions are to get me riled up then nice try but that didn't work ^.^
I find it really rude that you put that. I was just trying to state an argument. Why would you find it necessary to say that? Even if that was the case, it would be assumed from how you worded your response if my 'attempt to rile you up' worked. What were you trying to accomplish? Make me look like I was trying to do something I wasn't? That still wouldn't change anything, so I just can't see the point, other then to bother me, and I can't imagine why you would feel the need to do that to a random user you've never spoken to before.

[DrinaLestrange]

i am auctioning the pet
http://www.chickensmoothie.com/viewpet.php?id=61862717
send as suggestion
vr bids only

autos
very rare advent dogs
red cerberus
raven dog
joker dog
speckled husky advent
border collie advent
rose advents(whole set)

......that pps horse.....is from this year...

[vetiverandclove]

http://www.chickensmoothie.com/trades/viewtrade.php?id=22033516&userid=332450&signature=Y8EpqbXWO_LtecxiUNXMYg

A bid in my auction... What?!