halogen. wrote:ariadne wrote:The "Dragon Cat PPS is not worth lists" part of the thread really sticks with me. I offered a mainlist omgsr for the PPS in someone's auction; they don't seem that impressed. I'd love to own a Drink Me but the demand is depressing. Maybe it's just me but I feel like CS would benefit from more transparent rarities. The rarity update was a good step, but people still don't really pay attention to it.
jeez, you're serious???!!! what'd exactly you offer for it??? but still, it's arguable that that particular pet has better demand than some of the OMGSRs. rats and fruits in particular though. so yeah, demand really overpowers rarity, but i can see too sometimes.
But that's the point, isn't it? If you go by what the demand asks for, you
end up in four nons per Raven Dog territory. Obviously we can't stop
people from valuing their pets as they please but I think that there's just no
real reference point for value which opens up the road for arbitrary
trades based on "demand" which is a nebulous concept that is hard to prove.
Personally if there was some kind of numerical value point the way there is
for C$ trades I would feel much better about trading and would have no
problem overpaying for a pet for the "demand" because that way it would
be a recorded fact that this is an overpay and not just what this pet goes for now.
For the record, what I offered was the Medium Speckled Rat which used to
be a mainlist but is OMGSR because back then nobody wanted to adopt rats. It
should be hard to get but I've somehow accumulated two, because even with it's
rarity, demand always pushed it down the list below new UR releases and now
way below even 2014 store pets in some people's eyes. That rat is a rarity higher and
six years older for anyone keeping score.