A Word on Monthly Birthstones and Shop Exploits

[Justin]

Afternoon,

As many of you are aware, the Monthly Birthstone series of collectibles are considered unique items. If you already have one in your inventory, the Shop will not allow you to purchase another. The Monthly Birthstone series exists as a fun incentive to stick around on the forum to obtain every month's collectible, and purchasing many copies to sell later on the Marketplace severely undermines this. Quite simply put, the Monthly Birthstone series of collectibles should not be used as a vehicle to make a profit from buying low and selling high. There are plenty of other opportunities in the collectible market for this.

Unfortunately, there was previously an exploit in the Shop allowing you to purchase multiple birthstones at once, and some members chose to abuse this, therefore bypassing the unique requirement. The exploit has been fixed and members who abused it have had their birthstones obtained by the exploit removed from their inventory without any refund.

It should without saying that we do not take kindly to anyone trying to abuse any function of the forum, especially aspects pertaining to the Bell system, and we will continue to shut down abuses of the system such as the ABD interest and the birthstones.

Thank you for reading and understanding,
Justin

 

[sej]

Thank you for this message.

 

[Sholee]

*sad face*

goodbye my beautiful 5 Octobers

 

[Lassy]

Ouch. That hurts for the people who owned like 10 of them :/

 

[Sholee]

Ouch. That hurts for the people who owned like 10 of them :/

*raises hands*

But i never intended to sell them for profit, I only wanted 5 of each so I could make it all pretty and interchange 5 Months with different 5 Months which could give me a lot of color combos under my profile. I am a little upset that i didn't get a refund but I knew that it was sorta against the "rules."

It's fine though, you can always make more btb bells~

 

[Cuppycakez]

Oh wow! I didn't know it was considered cheating the shop. Well I didn't buy any, mine was a gift so.

 

[Skyfall]

*raises my hand too*

Yes, I was one of the people who bought 5 this month. But I bought 5 because, well, I like having 5 of things and also, I love the color this month because it reminds me of my wedding color, lol.

It was never my intention to profit later on with a sell off. I hope the admins reconsider someday for those of us who like symmetry and "same-ness" in our collectibles.

 

[aleshapie]

Bummer...all I want is my own birth month stone...May...Now anyone who has it will not be willing to part with it. I understand (and appreciate) the desire to cut down the "scalping" of collectibles, but ...but...well, now I am just bummed.

 

[PandaNikita]

Thank you for doing this Justin!

 

[Chris]

Bummer...all I want is my own birth month stone...May...Now anyone who has it will not be willing to part with it. I understand (and appreciate) the desire to cut down the "scalping" of collectibles, but ...but...well, now I am just bummed.

Wait until May comes around and you will be able to buy it directly from the shop yourself - probably for cheaper than on the Marketplace too. I don't think this exploit was known of back in May anyway(?) so it doesn't make a difference.

 

[Sholee]

Bummer...all I want is my own birth month stone...May...Now anyone who has it will not be willing to part with it. I understand (and appreciate) the desire to cut down the "scalping" of collectibles, but ...but...well, now I am just bummed.

They will have May 2015 in the shop, you just need to wait 6 months to buy it

 

[Gregriii]

So... for example: I bought the November one bc is my month birthday, but, I changed opinion and I want to buy another, but this one the day of my birthday and sell the other one for the same prize in the marketplace but in december, so it's imposible, no ?D:

 

[Coach]

This is a good announcement, but annoying at the same time because I bought 2 by accident. D:

Oh well.

 

[Peisinoe]

So... for example: I bought the November one bc is my month birthday, but, I changed opinion and I want to buy another, but this one the day of my birthday and sell the other one for the same prize in the marketplace but in december, so it's imposible, no ?D:

You can not buy another, no. Only 1 at a time.

- - - Post Merge - - -

As in 1 per month. Until you have all 12 months

 

[Maruchan]

But i never intended to sell them for profit, I only wanted 5 of each so I could make it all pretty and interchange 5 Months with different 5 Months which could give me a lot of color combos under my profile. I am a little upset that i didn't get a refund but I knew that it was sorta against the "rules."

It's fine though, you can always make more btb bells~

Yes, I was one of the people who bought 5 this month. But I bought 5 because, well, I like having 5 of things and also, I love the color this month because it reminds me of my wedding color, lol.

It was never my intention to profit later on with a sell off. I hope the admins reconsider for those of us who like symmetry and "same-ness" in our collectibles.

^ My thoughts exactly too.
Nope, I do not have any of the birthstones - will probably get 5 of August Peridot if I am to collect them.
Seeing how...restrictive this particular collectible is, I'm glad I did not started in the first place.
*is a little sad* -__-

 

[Skyfall]

^ My thoughts exactly too.
Nope, I do not have any of the birthstones - will probably get 5 of August Peridot if I am to collect them.
Seeing how...restrictive this particular collectible is, I'm glad I did not started in the first place.
*is a little sad* -__-

I was actually thinking about you! I have noticed you also like 5 of things and green collectibles, so as I was purchasing mine I thought, I bet that Maru will get 5 when it's May... You never know, I have found during my 1 year here that the forum fluctuates a lot in policy (most of the time in response to users) so nothing is written in stone.

 

[Amissapanda]

I think it's less of them accusing everyone of buying them to make a profit and more that you can't just let specific people bypass the exploit, whether they may have done it for profit or not. Anyone can say they didn't, but there's always going to be some that did or had planned to. It's all or nothing---they can't just choose specific people to allow to keep them.

In my opinion, this was a smart move. I have no problem waiting until April to get my birthstone.

 

[SharJoY]

Although I was planning to buy 5 Emeralds in May (my birthstone), I understand why the glitch was fixed, and appreciate the thought of having them be unique as to their rarity.

 

[LambdaDelta]

I kinda get the feeling this will actually make the older birthstones even more valuable than they were before.

Not that I'm bothered by it, but lel.

 

[Sanaki]

Lol get rekt people who did this