While I agree that people should use caution when trading and/or selling, I'm not sure I agree with having post limits before being allowed to trade. I've been a member for almost a year now and have traded many times, but my post count still has not reached 50. I'm getting close, but not there yet. I hate to think that I would not have been allowed to do my trades just because I haven't posted enough. I'm a very quiet, introverted person and I just don't post as often as more outgoing people will, but I'm here almost every day reading everything.
As for not trading with people who don't have enough feedback... if no one will trade with them, how are they ever supposed to get feedback? Also, everyone who trades with you doesn't always leave feedback. I've definitely done more trades than my feedback shows. Everyone has to start somewhere. I wouldn't do any high value trades with someone who just recently joined and has no feedback, at least not without extreme caution, but I would do regular trades where there's not much to lose.
Also, don't assume that everyone making a trade for something they don't need is being shady. I hate seeing people being taken advantage of by other people charging outrageous prices for things, so I've been frequently trading things I have for DIYs or items other people have, not because I need them but because I then turn around and GIVE those items to people I see asking for them. There's been many times when I see someone desperately trying to trade for something and being denied because they don't have a specific item the trader is looking for. If I have that item the trader is looking for, I will make the trade and then turn around and give the desired item to the person who originally wanted it and was denied. I've even had people on Facebook get mad at me because they see me turn around and give something to someone that I just traded them for. What difference does it make? If you got what you wanted from your trade, don't worry about what I do with the thing I traded for. It's MINE now and I can do what I want with it. Some of us really ARE just trying to be nice by giving things, even highly valued things, away.
I am assuming that post includes anytime you post a thread of make a comment on a thread? I am not sure. If it is, then 50 for a year is actually pretty low. If they would a limit on how many post you had to make before trading, it doesn't had to be 50. But Posting 50 times is actually very easy. I have over 1364 post. I haven't made that many threads, so that is why I assume they count comments to. That would be at least 227 comments a year.
I’m not talking about assuming or not talking about people getting things to be nice and give to other people. I’m not assuming. I can see the trail. It’s so easy to see if you look at some of the profiles. They sell and rebuy top tier villagers. Reselling for lot of money is not “helping someone out”. The specific profiles I am seeing (specially the one I made this post for) had 50% rating. Only had two ratings. And they got one bad rating, because even though someone apparently won an auction for Raymond for 1500 NMT (which is nuts), that person ignored the winner to sell the animal on Discord. My friend paid REAL money to get 400 NMT from someone just so she could get her dreamies, because we are now I’m a ridiculous place of paying at least 200 NMT for a popular villager. She thought she was going to lose the auction because this other person clearly had more tickets them her from buying and reselling the same popular villagers over and over again. I would just rather the villagers go to someone who actually wants it, some someone looking for a profit.
I am not assuming. You can see it. And I am not saying every new person is shady. I am just telling people know they should look into someone before trading with them. It's very easy to see who you should and probably should not be trading with.
And yes. Everyone needs to start somewhere to get ratings. But you start small not big. If you want good ratings:
- make small trades (furniture)
- open your gates for people to get diys from villagers
-open your gates for people to sell turnips
-give new players some fruit to start off with (don’t ask for a ridiculous amount of money for starter fruit).
- follow through on deals you say you are going to
That’s how you get good ratings. But I am I’m no way every trading with someone new, who only had two ratings and one is bad. That already tells me what I need to know.
I am not responsible for them getting a good rating. They are. They do that when the make an effort. They do that when they give as much as they take. They do that by being reasonable, and not greedy. They do that buy being nice. They do these things, they will get good ratings. I think that's why people say, maybe there should be limits on certain things before they can trade. They actually want to see people making an effort that they actually wanna be positive contributing part of the community.
