Santa-Wolf wrote:muggafinn wrote:I am so mad at most of the site now. As far as I am concerned "ninja trading" is just as horrible as scamming. When I was new, people ripped me off at every turn, some even told me the trade was fair. I just don't think it is okay to collect the December 18th pets by getting them from newbies who are new and would have had a nice pet or two to start off with until it was tricked away from them! I am just so angry right now, and it didn't even happen to me. Three months from now, if the poor people don't leave before then, they'll be kicking themselves over and over for trading with some one who lied through their teeth and offered an unfair trade to a newer user in hopes that they could get a better deal than by doing it in a fair way. I understand that scamming is a banning charge, while this is not, and there is no way to catch all of the people who do it, but I still don't think it is fair!
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Truthful rant. My sister's a newbie and she knows how much her pets are worth already, and then there's other users who are older and still don't know true, fair trades.
This. This so much. I was horribly scammed when I was a new player - lost both my Sunback, Moonswirl, Green Sorbet....All because I had no idea they were worth anything, and the older players told me it was fair.
Now, I go out of my way to avoid ripping people off. If someone sends me a trade I know is unfair to them, I will tell them so; and either cancel because I don't have anything that's actual worth the value of the pet, or edit until it's fair. If I ask on the 'Is This A Fair Trade Thread?', and am told the trade is unfair to the other person, I will edit to make it fair!
Like in my above trade - someone offered me a Very Rare '09 Easter Hunt Bunny for a re-release Common Malk Owl. I canceled, because I couldn't, in good conscious, accept it.
I have since sent them a trade offering the owl for free - they haven't accepted it
