anyone else starting to hate nookazon

[mayortiffany]

Nookazon is a place to make trades and sales. The purpose of the site isn't to act as a community. I'm not really bothered if people are not as kind or polite over there, and it puts a lot of the pricing into perspective. People are looking to get the best price for their items, and they are absolutely not obligated to let go of their items for a price they're not willing to accept, just as you are absolutely not obligated to say yes to a ridiculous offer!

It should also be noted that the most favourable offers (eg. the cheapest items) are likely to be snapped up very quickly on Nookazon, whereas the worst offers (eg. the most unreasonable) are likely to sit around for days because no one wants to offer on them! The really great thing about a site as busy as Nookazon is that you can find multiple offers to sift through. If you're patient, you'll be able to find a good seller and/or price.

I will say, I do prefer to stick to TBT for trading because I appreciate the community aspect of trading, and I prefer the in-depth feedback system we have. I think that that's missing from Nookazon, and what perhaps enables more scammers/griefers to be able to operate, because the repercussions for their actions aren't as bad.

If I were to trade outside of TBT, I'd probably go through Discords, like Nookazon's discords. Things just move so much faster there. What I don't like about TBT is that trades can sometimes take a while to complete, especially if two people don't happen to be online at the same time.

 

[psiJordan]

I’ve used Nookazon maybe about 10 times and they were all very nice and quick. I usually just watch the discord though, not really the site

also:: the economy is completely different there, as it’s full of users who are stacked with NMT so the prices that may seem extreme are more likely easily affordable for the frequent users

 

[Karmahri]

So far I've been using it occasionally to find specific variants of furniture or fossils that I'm missing and have had an ok experience so far since I look for sellers with good ratings and I assume they are just clearing out their storage lol. Most of the furniture/fossils I bought were like 1 nook ticket each which I think is alright in terms of pricing.
Although I have looked up a couple of statues and art pieces and the prices for those are pretty steep

 

[sleepless]

i've never had an issue with nookazon tbh. in my experience, people are usually polite and leave reviews right after. sometimes i prefer it to tbt bc my threads on the nook's cranny forum tend to get drowned with how busy it gets.

 

[Toasties]

I use Nookazon quite a lot, not just sell things but get specific items and helps me keep track of what I have and my wishlist. From personal experience not everyone is bad, you do meet some very nice people and I've even made a close friend when I was looking for Vivian for a friend. The prices can be crazy sadly but I try to be fair with my prices and don't pay for more than I think something is worth.

It's 50/50 for everyone, you'll either like it or hate it. The only real thing I dislike is seeing how much Raymond goes for and the amount of scammers there are. If you're buying furniture and stuff that is probably the better side of it?

 

[pitchtheripoff]

i personally didnt have an issue with nookazon, though i see why people hate it and i personally stopped using it cuz none of my stuff sold there anyways lol
i'll just stick to discord and tbt in terms of trading

 

[Celinalia]

i never really used it because i went on there, saw the prices and was super shook. after that i heard some rumors so yeah i don't need that in my life. i only trade via this forum and nobody ever scammed me on here

 

[Uffe]

I've been there but never made any trades or anything on that site. I saw a few prices that people wanted and it was just way too extreme for my liking, so I never bothered with it. I'd prefer trading here, anyway. I don't know about rating systems there, but at least I can see if I want to trade with a person on here or not based on how good their feedback is.

 

[popstar]

i've made about 30 trades using nookazon, most of the time i have offered more than i usually would so that the offer would be accepted quickly and we could quickly trade, i've never been griefed and never had to fence around the airport, and a few times i've been given an extra gift too i've also had one person come over to water my flowers and they were super kind, i would absolutely recommend reading reviews of the users before trading

it's been mostly positive for me and super easy to trade fast with people, i've made so much progress on my house interior because of nookazon! i would think of an item i need or might look nice while working on a specific room, get on nookazon and usually receive the item within 15 minutes

edit: the only time i ever felt anything negative about nookazon was when i visited a person to make a trade and saw on my flight over they had those hacked star fragment trees, i felt very uncomfortable to be on the island and during the trade even though the trader was friendly, i was afraid to be there

 

[aloherna]

I’ve been using Nookazon more than the forums lately because Nookazon has higher activity. I do prefer the forums because the community here is so sweet and reasonable. I really just see Nookazon as a quick trade. It’s easy to find any specific thing you’re looking for but unfortunately most time you do have to offer way tooo much. I’ve never been scammed and I’ve done more than 40 trades on there for just about everything Villagers, DIYs, furniture, etc. I usually do read reviews of the persons profile before making offer or accepting an offer to be sure.

 

[Rosaline]

my experience with nookazon has mostly been a disaster :/ between people not responding after i've messaged them (which i get, the platform is difficult to get notifications on), to trades being cancelled, to having a seller tell me "sorry i reset my island hahaha" after i had waited two days to trade with them? i much prefer forums like TBT or other groups, i find them to be much more friendly, responsive, and less greedy than sites like nookazon.

 

[EpicGamer12]

Obviously I am biased since I co-created VillagerDB, but I think the Nookazon community can be quite toxic. When we created VillagerDB we wanted to allow users to simplify trading within their own communities, such as TBT and Animal Crossing trading subreddits. This way you can trade with people you know and trust in your own community but still have the convenience of an external tool. There are a few other great sites out there too!

 

[TheRevienne]

I stopped using Nookazon properly a while ago, being scammed for items (I knew they were overpriced, so my own stupid fault really...), people ignoring you, declining trades for ridiculous higher offers, the list goes on and on, and is seemingly never ending... :L

 

[Shukie_Bunfox]

Nookazon is a double edged sword.
Depending what you want, you CAN get decent deals on stuff.

I managed to get a dreamie, Reneigh for 25NMT on nookazon, vs having to try to find her myself, which was neat!

However, certain things like.. Weirdly, Nook Mile Shopping items (In the various color varients) can get absurd.
Sought-after lighthouse colors sell for 12NMT, when it only costs, what....4000miles? 2NMT equiv?

So yea, theres some BS price gauging happening, for sure.

But, i will say, i've done... about 100 trades (Mostly selling off spare flowers now, the rain is destroying my town with all the extra flowers)
And in all that, i've had ONE person who tried to pull a fast one on me.

I cant say i've been involved with the "Community" as a whole, but i've seen enough from their discord of people charging absurd prices just to step food on their islands... whether its to see celeste, shop at their shops, sell turnips, whatever.
Theres deffinately some greedy turds on there, but the same could be said about anywhere really (Unless a platform speciflcy has rules in place against charging entry fee's)

But I do like nookazon's layout, and think its handy as heck for getting the odd item here or there that i need for a project.

 

[marea]

It has more users, no? Maybe that playes a part on why you are finding more people of that type there, because tons of all kinds of people are using it. I never trade outside of this forum and it was like this too in nl, but i helped my brother set up a trade in another site and it went really well.

 

[Tiffany]

I haven't tried to buy/sell anything on there. My friend got me to make a profile on there and we made wish lists so we can each see what the other is looking for. Then if we come across any of the items we just mail them to each other. I will say that as I made my wish list I did feel that things were extremely overpriced for what I saw. This site is so much better.

 

[windwake-me-up-inside]

I donno, I've never had any bad experiences on Nookazon, but that's just me. I offer all my stuff for 1 NMT each, no matter what, and I seem to get a lot of people quickly picking up my things that way. All of the people I've traded with have been super nice and kind, and I've had no scammers, even when I was buying things.

It's like the Pokemon GTS: there's a lot of good trades, but the ones that are decent get taken really quickly, leaving only the ridiculous trades up to rot.

Also: when people have offers up asking for multiple things, it's usually read as THIS or THAT, not all of them for that one item/villager.
An example: person offers raymond for 1xgarbage pail, 1xgarbage heap wall, 1xgarbage heap flooring. That price is almost always read as one garbage pail, OR one garbage heap wall, OR one garbage heap flooring.

 

[mightyenites]

I only buy things if I'm having trouble finding it on here, same goes for listing, if no one on here is willing to buy it I just ask for offers and take whatever one comes first xD

Haven't had a bad transaction although I state to not message me on discord without offering on Nookazon first and someone still did it and when I kindly asked they make an offer on Nookazon they said they didn't have an account and then got mad at me and said my "service" is bad and blocked me xD

your "service"?! youre not a retail worker we're playing a goddamn talking animal game what the hell man

 

[Imbri]

I only use Nookazon to see what items look like and the variants. I don't shop there at all.

 

[FireNinja1]

I have used it for a couple of quick trades. To be honest, I'm not exactly a big fan of the format of having a large number of "make an offer"s for the same item being thrown at you; it's difficult to make so many offers at once, especially if you need an item on short notice. I think an advantage of having a message-board style is that the threads at the top are very likely to give you a fast response; that isn't necessarily guaranteed with Nookazon.

There's several other issues I have with the platform, but overall, it's okay, I guess.