Is anyone else annoyed by the constant greed?

[weavile]

I'm just really bothered by how many people keep asking for outlandish Bells amounts and NMT for simple services. I've seen it a lot on social media and on nookazon. Almost every listing has someone asking for a NMT or a large amount of bells for like one hybrid or a piece of furniture.
As a personal example, I placed a listing for purple windflowers, hoping to trade two for two of a hybrid I hadn't gotten yet and some messaged me asking for SIXTEEN.
How is that even possible to have 16 purple windflowers by now without time traveling? Like, no shade to time travelers but not everyone is doing that lol

 

[thatveryawkwardmayor]

i was asked 17 NMT for 2 able sister items -_-

 

[voltairenism]

Yea that's insane! What really baffles me is people asking 10 NMT or 1M bells for visiting Celeste. There is literally no loss in their part on letting someone come and talk to her on the little fenced area they set up for her.

 

[Renivere]

I was looking for Celeste to visit and some people were asking for 5 NMT entry fee or 200k....

Another person was selling the Magic Circle Rug for a STARTING bid of 200k. Another person responded afterwards charging only 2k for it. Clearly you know who I bought from...

 

[Littlered]

i mean, i don't tt and i have a lot more than 16 purple windflowers because those are my native flower and the hybrids from the mystery island spawn them.

 

[niko2]

Don't visit their island/trade with them. I have no problems in finding people that enjoy playing normally and not like a wall street executive

 

[windloft]

considering how many new people are playing new horizons for the first time, of course there's going to be people that are gonna' be really greedy with prices LMAO. par for the course i guess. i usually ignore them and look for people who don't charge weird entry prices for just visiting their town !!

 

[Sudsofsplash]

I honest to god hate anyone who asks for entry fees (not personal, I just can't stand that) for things like turnips or meteor showers.
LIKE I wanna GIVE big tips, not be forced to give entry fees to briefly be at a persons town...It makes me not want to give them tips lol.

I've made 2 million bells, 15 NMTs, and some cute items from just helping out a friend during their turnip spike when they let people over without an entry fee. You honestly make more without entry fees LOL

 

[voltairenism]

Don't visit their island/trade with them. I have no problems in finding people that enjoy playing normally and not like a wall street executive

Exactly haha When looking for stuff for my island, I payed like 3 NMT for something I barely wanted, then I got for free or for an 1:1 trade something I reallyyyy needed. The greed is annoying but can be ignored!!

 

[Mairen]

Unfortunately, this is prevalent in all aspects of life. If someone thinks they can get a high price out of someone for something, most people sadly feel no guilt at all about doing this. The best thing we can do in the case of the high prices on this game is to simply take a stand and not pay them. If someone wants to charge 10 nmt simply to grant me access to their town, I simply won't visit their town.

I welcome visitors to my town for any reason, free of charge. I guess I'm just lonely and glad for the momentary company. If I can help you guys with anything, please let me know

 

[Hsn97]

Someone once wanted my to pay 400k for a stack of 10 Apples and Peaches

 

[avieators]

a bit...i feel that the outlandish prices really destroy/divide any sense of a unified community :/ i've been lurking around here for years so ofc i know all abt villager selling/trading and i can understand why ppl want a lot of compensation for them even if i dont really want to participate myself, but it does make it pretty stressful to even look at the villager trading board (as an example i got super attached to audie after the whole "named after the ac superfan grandma" thing but there is no way i could pay a trillion bells or 400+ nmt for her, nor would i want to)...but stuff like cataloguing? flower trading? it's a little silly.

flower trades esp should be equal, two for two sounds perfectly reasonable and it's definitely not fair to ask for 16 while only giving back two :/ cataloguing, i guess i could see charging for that, but only like. maybe 3 or 4 thousand bells above what the buying price of the item was?? my friends and i catalog stuff from each other all the time w/o any charge tho

oh i completely forgot to mention entry fees for turnips and celeste, that is so ridiculous like it doesn't cost money to open ur gates...u didn't pay to have good turnip prices or celeste ??? asking for tips is fine, i feel a lot of ppl would bring smthn just out of courtesy but good lord don't make an required entry fee?? its animal crossing not america's top capitalist lol

 

[Bk1234]

Simple... if you don't like the fee, don't come to their island. By accepting the price you're supporting their absurd requests.

 

[Fluuffy]

Is this normal on other websites? I haven’t seen any price listings that expensive but maybe it’s cus I only lurk here at belltree. I only hear stories of them

This is also kinda makes me curious if a lot of bells(50mil+) is really needed on hand. I’ve seen streamers with that amount and still do the turnip exchange. Surely people are satisfied with only a few millions. There’s not a alot of things to buy with bells pecially with nmt’s popularity. Atleast I think. It also makes me consious if I should start to try earning more bells.

 

[Sudsofsplash]

Is this normal on other websites? I haven’t seen any price listings that expensive but maybe it’s cus I only lurk here at belltree. I only hear stories of them

This is also kinda makes me curious if a lot of bells(50mil+) is really needed on hand. I’ve seen streamers with that amount and still do the turnip exchange. Surely people are satisfied with only a few millions. There’s not a alot of things to buy with bells pecially with nmt’s popularity. Atleast I think. It also makes me consious if I should start to try earning more bells.

I currently have like...32mil and mainly I'm saving incase we get any stuff we need to pay for (Like more expansions, etc.) I still do Turnip Spikes (Or well my friend does cause she always gets the good prices) and I get like 100% of the tips from visitors even though she says tips aren't required! I make a lot of bells that way lol

 

[staticistic1114]

if you lurk enough, you can get anything you want for free

the community is full of people who want to make money to support their island (which i personally dont really consider to be greed despite how much they're asking for) and there are also others who are willing to let you have whatever for free

theres also a thread for free/equal exchange and so many people are willing to give things away

i dont really visit people who ask for entry fees unless they were reasonable and always tip people who giveaway, that's just my preference

 

[Meira]

Yeah, I lurk the AC Discord and Reddit and the amount people charge is insane....
I think you gotta just find the right places and group of people. TBT is really good with pricing and I enjoy the community. People are a lot more understanding and generous! Makes you think that people are actually considerate and want others to have fun.

I would feel totally wrong to charge someone more than needed. Like if someone wanted to come over for a DIY or want me to craft something for them, I would do it for free because at some point in the game you will obtain that DIY. Don't see a point in charging people for something like that or even let them visit to talk to one of the NPCs....

Also I don't know who came up with the NMT conversion that 1NMT=250k. That logically makes no sense to me, but I guess people need to accquire them to trade nowadays including myself.

 

[Licorice]

I've gotten lucky and found a group where we give each other everything for free and do cataloging parties. I don't trade with people that try to charge me wild prices. It almost feels like they only care about playing for profit. It's not my play style. The only thing I've accepted payment for since the game came out is a few nmts for bells but that's it.

 

[*The Oakboro Mayor*]

I saw someone who was trying to charge 4 NMT for a common DIY. I try really hard to avoid any interactions with people like that, but I realize that some people are just trying to help their island. But charging fees to try and profit off of Celeste or a sweet deal at Nook's? It's sad sometimes to see people get greedy :/

 

[thatveryawkwardmayor]

Is this normal on other websites? I haven’t seen any price listings that expensive but maybe it’s cus I only lurk here at belltree. I only hear stories of them

This is also kinda makes me curious if a lot of bells(50mil+) is really needed on hand. I’ve seen streamers with that amount and still do the turnip exchange. Surely people are satisfied with only a few millions. There’s not a alot of things to buy with bells pecially with nmt’s popularity. Atleast I think. It also makes me consious if I should start to try earning more bells.

yesss discord and some subreddits are notorious bad for this. thats why i vastly prefer here if im gonna adopt a villager

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