When I first joined the site 6 years ago (wow, that feels like ages ago!) I made my goal to collect ALL the pets. The sad thing is, I though this was possible. I was very organized for a while and managed to trade for monthly outcomes I was missing, as well as to collect a lot of the more common pets from 2010 and 2011. I was also lucky enough to find a lot of nice users who were willing to help me out and gift me some pets. I don't remember ever receiving any crazy scam trades - then again, I was pretty new, so maybe I didn't realize how bad the trades were? Still, I didn't get my first "list" pet until 8 months later, and I kept all of my favourite adopts in locked groups.
Six years later and still, every list pet I own (which is not many, lol) was either a "gift", a pound adopt, or an 18th adopt (with the exception of one pet I traded for). The "gifts" were actually ones that I won in contests or giveaways. Aren't contests not allowed anymore? I used to enter a lot of writing and drawing competitions to win pets, but I think those have since been forbidden...anyone know why?
I don't understand how users who joined in 2016 or 2017 manage to trade for multiple December 18th sun pups, when all of my rares list pets combined couldn't even reach the main list (considering what people expect for their main list pets). I want to think that no one's being scammed in the process, but I guess that's the sad reality...how else would it be possible? Even after I gave up on collecting all the pets on the site, my dreamie was always the sunback. I kept up hope for a few years, then realized that I could literally offer every pet I own, and it still wouldn't be "enough".
I took a "break" from the site for about a year, but still came on just once a month for monthly adopts, if I remembered to do it. I'm back on now - particularly because I'm on break, haha - but I'm really just here to enjoy all the cool new designs & species, as well as to try and complete monthly collections. It's so satisfying when I have all of the pets from a recent month or event!
Alright, I'm done rambling.
But I agree with y'all. Trading shouldn't be this exhausting and demanding. Yeah, I want fair trades, but c'mon, some people are ridiculous!