How does it work? Paperclip

[MothStarCreates]

paperclip challange... how does it work lol i want to know!

[Shinryu]

The "paperclip challenge" is a trading challenge inspired by the story of the One Red Paperclip, in which a man gradually bartered his way up from just a paperclip to a house within a year.

What it means in the context of CS is that a player starts off with just one or a few low value pets, and tries to trade them for more and more valuable pets, until they ultimately reach a goal they have set for themselves (for example a very rare pet).
The only "rule" of a paperclip trade is that the pet you receive needs to be more valuable than the pet you give away. So, for example, you could trade a 2012 common for a 2011 common.

However, it needs to be said that a lot of players aren't particularly fond of receiving trade requests like that, since essentially, you are asking them to accept a trade that is unfair to them.^^ So it's usually best to stick to one of these options:
- Make a paperclip group that people can choose to offer on. This way the overpay is on their terms and nobody feels annoyed about being sent unfair trades.
- Trade up very gradually, by sticking to the so-called "three month rule". Generally speaking, pets of the same rarity that were released within three months of each other are considered a fair trade for one another. So you could try to trade, say, a July 2014 pet for a May 2014 pet, and then the May pet for a March pet... and so on. This way the trades are still considered fair, but you'll still end up slowly raising the value of what you have.

Hope that explains it a bit! :)

[MothStarCreates]

how do i delete this thread?

[Shinryu]

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