Back in April I saw someone on discord offering to craft cherry blossom lanterns for 500k each, and you had to provide the materials. Me and someone else I was trading with were laughing at them in our messages lol.
Gonna go with Chow. I feel like Snake and Chow would outlast the other two because they look like skilled martial artists. But Chow just has the weight advantage on Snake, and unless Snake knows some secret-anime technique or something, I don't think he's winning lol.
I honestly barely talk to my villagers anymore because of the repeat dialogue so I pretty much just go for all my favorites regardless of what personality they are.
Luckily I've never ran into a scammer on it but yeah some people charge way too much. Also I personally never really liked the whole "make an offer" trend people follow.
This is honestly my number 1 pet peeve with this game! Like if I tell Isabelle I don't like a villagers clothing, that means it needs to be gone forever lol.