How do i get more people to trade with me?

[Mackenzie.smoothie]

Hi, Im MAckenzie. I try trading all the time but I dont have the best pets so its pretty hard for me to trade. ANy tips on how to get more rare pets? Thanks

[*JACKAL*]

You just have to keep building up by trading a couple of pets for a higher rarity e.g 2 commons for an uncommon etc. It takes a long time to build up. Make sure to adopts all available pets from the adopts, Adopt from the lost and found and look here for some free pets from other users. Remember that you've only just joined so be patient and more pets will come.

[Shinryu]

zzz this took so long to type that some thing were probably already said, but I'm too lazy to go through this wall of text now to pick out stuff, sorry haha

When you're new it does usually take a bit of time before people start sending you trades, since chances are you don't yet have the kinds of pets they're looking for. But don't worry - that doesn't mean you have to accumulate rare pets in order to attract traders - even just having a bunch of fully grown pets from the current or previous month will help already, as people will still be out there looking for outcomes they missed.
For that you can try the monthly swap thread, as it gets quite a lot of traffic from people looking for new-ish pets.

You can also stock up your collection by visiting the Free Adoptions board. Lots of people are giving away pets for free there, some even reserve those pets specifically for newer players. This will make it easier for you to obtain especially recent pets, but if you keep an eye on the board and check back regularly for new threads, you may even end up finding some much older pets.
There's also usually a fair few giveaways, which you can enter for a chance at winning rare or even very rare pets.

The Pound is another great way to grab old pets. If you keep an eye on the Pound page and get there right when it opens, there's a pretty good chance that you'll see pets in there that are from the earlier years of the site. They all have their adoption date displayed under them, so don't hesitate to grab something if it says 2011, 2010 or even 2009 and 2008! There are a few common pets from those years, but your chances at grabbing uncommon or rare pets are quite high.
You can even check this group beforehand to see what will be in the next opening. You can memorize certain pets that way so you know to click them if you see them.
Some people also put all the rare+ pets on their wishlist, so that they know that a wishlist star on a Pound pet = rare.


Last, but definitely not least: We are about to hold our annual easter event very soon.
During the event you will get to pick up many free gifts (we get new ones every day), but what'll really help you as a newbie are the so-called token pets.
The basic idea of the easter hunt is this: you browse the site to look for a clickable banner, and when you find and click it, you receive a prize. Usually this prize will be one of four different coloured egg items. These eggs are 'tokens', and you collect them to trade them in for prizes on our easter event page.
These banners always appear at the very bottom of a page, so to find them you really only need to click random pages and see if the banner is at the bottom. You can also only find one banner every 20 minutes.

You can not only trade tokens in for event pets, you can also trade them directly with other players. That way you can, for example, swap for token colours you need, or even trade them for pets, items or C$, not limited to things from the current event.
Especially during the first few days of the event, people tend to pay quite generously for those tokens - it's not unusual to see offers including rare pets for bulk tokens.

That said, the pets that you can trade in for on the event page can be great trade fodder as well! Most of them end up uncommon and even rare. Grabbing doubles of them to save for trading later can help you build up trade fodder that people might be interested in in the near future.

I hope that helps a bit! :)

[Xina]

Also add pets to your wishlist! Its how I mostly trade, as if I have something the other person wants, I am likely to take time to trade with them!

I have noticed that when I post more, I get more trades too.

I often click on the recent posts on the home page and trade with those people who posted recently, as I know they are online and likely to respond!

[AlphaLeonis]

I thought I'd add to this with my own experience from when I started to now! It takes so long to get to a point where trading not only helps you, but helps other players too. One thing that's helped me is creating a doubles group with all of the pets I have duplicates with; a lot of players are happy trading older pets for newer ones, if they're the same rarity and something they really want. I built up my collection through this!

I also participated in a lot of pounds (both the site's own and other people's on the forums), a lot of quitting posts offer a certain amount of rares if you're quick, and some users also do givewaways for rares that you can enter for! When I was newer, this was a great way for me to build up pets for me to trade or keep in my collection until I had enough pets to trade off.

[Sekoiya]

Here’s a list of ways you can get rares.

-participate in giveaways or forums games with prizes.
-create adoptables on the oekaki board and auction or trade them.
-Get rereleases of rare, old pets on December 18.
-get free pets from people who are quitting or are giving away free pets
-participate in events
-get lucky when adopting pets from the pound (look for old pets)
-trade many common and uncommon pets for a rare (but most people prefer rare for rare trades)

I hope this was simple and helpful.

[Hyensa]

I got a lot of the pets that I have now by entering give-aways on the free pet forums, offsite trading with Flight Rising and Eldemore, and participating in events as much as I could to get rarer things I could trade up for better stuff. Like others have said, the Pound is a good place to find rarer pets and items.

There is supposed to be an Easter event starting around or on the 21st of this month so that could be a good place to start for you.