Selling Villagers for Profit: Thoughts

[Shattersnap]

People can sell or buy whatever they want, it's their own business. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

The only issue I have is if people get something from someone else for free from a giveaway or raffle, and then immediately sell it for a profit. You should probably have let somebody else who actually wanted it have it, that would have been the decent thing to do.

In the end though, if someone wants to sell a villager for an astronomical price and can find someone willing to pay it, that's between the buyer and seller. Despite what some people on these forums say, villagers are not "people" or even "animals", they are data on a handheld computer in a game that we all play to waste time. If people are willing to spend fake data money to buy fake data animals, I don't see why that should be an issue.

 

[Sorairo]

Ultimately, it's a game. I don't really understand applying ethics and what not to virtual worlds that have no outside relevance but hey. Everyone is different. If someone wants to spend 4 million bells on a villager they like, that's their choice. I wouldn't do it, simply because I find it kinda silly. It's a way to make a considerable profit for the seller and the buyer gets something they want that perhaps would've taken a long time to do on their own.

It's not like you're trafficking real life animals and certainly doesn't denote that the person who sells villagers would traffic human beings/animals in reality.

 

[Beary]

I just wasted 20 minutes if my life what is this

Honestly, people can do what they want, as long as it is not hurting you. If seeing Marshal being sold off for 20 million makes you stab yourself in the face, THEN you have a problem. But THAT problem can easily be solved by not looking at villager auctions.

You don't have to have influence in everything. Oh, one kid 29 miles away is getting beat up. WE MUST MAKE A GIGANTIC OPERATION FO FAH FOO ahahaha no.
When you can't do things, you don't throw a fit. Respect why people do the things they do.

In my own opinion, people can do what they want with their villagers. If they spend hours TTing out villagers for profit, it's their problem, not yours.

The one rule in real life applies to AC:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T DO IT.

 

[VioletsTown]

I have no problem with either buying or selling villagers. As many of you pointed out, its fake money buying fake villagers.

I frankly dont have a problem selling for profit either. What you do with a villager after i auctioned them off is not in my control and after you pay for the villager, that villager is yours. You can do whatever you want. The only thing is, again, as many of you pointed out, is selling a villager off you got free from a giveaway or a cycling thread. That, to me, seems to be taking advantage of someones kindness.

 

[a potato]

I thought Animal Crossing was supposed to be a game where you can play how you want. If someone wants to pay for a villager, that's fine. If someone doesn't that's fine too. Same thing goes with TTing. All you're really doing is exchanging pixels for more pixels when you buy someone.
The same thing goes with furniture. It's fake! It's not like someone is becoming the next Bill Gates.

 

[itzafennecfox]

I've auctioned villagers before, so I don't have a problem with it. It's one of those things where my opinion is that it's the specific person's choice whether they want to sell or buy a villager.

 

[Kit]

I see no problem with it. It's the easiest way to make bells. And people aren't gonna stop.

 

[Byngo]

When I first saw this I thought it was another "comparing villager trading to slavery" thread, which some people know I can't stand. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't much about that, but then that pleasantness quickly went away. lel

People worked for their money, and they payed for their game. Therefore, since they worked hard for the money that purchased the game, they should be able to do whatever they want with the game, without being questioned. I'm going to be very blunt: If someone judges someone based off how they play their game or what they do with their game, than in my eyes, you'll come off as extremely controlling and ****ty.

 

[yosugay]

Dont sell villagers, they are living things (kinda) not furniture.

i hope ur jokin

 

[Selky]

I don't mind what people do with their villagers. Now if it's a villager I'm giving away then there's exceptions.

I used to run a cycling thread and I completely understand cyclers not wanting people to sell villagers they adopted. It takes a lot of work cycling and it's extremely tedious. The cycler honestly gets no benefit from it other than making people happy by getting their dreamies. If I cycled through Marshal...I could of sold him and made the profit myself...but instead if I give him away for free then I expect the person to either really want him or give him away for free as well. Same goes in general even if I don't have a cycling thread and am giving away a free villager. Ultimately I wouldn't get super angry about it but I would not give another villager for free to someone who just takes them and makes profits that I passed on trying to do a good thing.
If the villager was being traded for another villager, items, etc then it's up to the receiver to trade them again for something if they wished.

 

[CR33P]

i personally don't find anything wrong with it, and think that we should be able to do what we want with the villager.
but if they say so, i really have no choice.

 

[PurplPanda]

If you got them from a cycler, then you should ABSOLUTELY NOT sell them for profit. But, if you got them from an auction, I think it's fine if you resell them, unless the person auctioning them said you couldn't.

 

[Miss_Alex]

Its just pixels...

 

[Starlightz]

I agree, if they come from a cycler (who are VERY generous people) do not sell them for it's like stabbing them in the back. However, if they are an auto-generated animal or someone from an auction, I see no problem with it.
I respect everybody's opinion on this topic, let me just say. Although, personally, I don't find selling a villager that bad. If someone wants to spend millions and millions of bells on something/someone, that is their choice.
What I don't like though is how I've seen some autions/selling of villagers get so tense and the prices going SO high that people can get reduced to tears, which is so sad.

 

[Milano]

I feel like if you got the villager for free, be it a raffle or from a cycling thread, you should not sell it. Especially if you got it from a cycler, mostly because we provide people with dream villagers for free when we could easily get tons of bells for said villager. Example, I have Fauna in my second town right now. I could get at least 10 million bells for her but I decided that I'll be giving her for free.
I have sold a villager before, but it wasn't at an expensive price. I'll probably be selling more since I need the bells, but once I get my town settled I won't anymore.

 

[sarahbear]

my opinion: it's just a game. people can play however they like.

 

[monk]

i don't see a problem with it if they paid or if it's their starting villager but if they got it for free i don't think thats very fair to the person who gave it to them

 

[Leopardfire]

These are pixels, not people, so I don't get to worked up over it. If I want a cute character in my video game, and to do that I have to buy them using fake currency, then so be it. I prefer giving villagers away, because I know how expensive some of them are.

You definitely shouldn't sell a villager you got off a cycling thread or giveaway, because if you do then you potentially made some people miss out on dreamies they would have kept forever, just to end up having you sell them for bells. That's incredibly unfair to the people who also were lurking/entering.

 

[Cariad]

I only pay for dreamies. I often get good campers, like merengue, which I sell because I didn't buy. I wouldn't want people to sell off the people I sold to them though.

 

[Cthulhu]

My girlfriend was the first one to tell me about people buying and selling villagers for bells. I honestly felt at first that it was really bad and it just kind of seemed like a really silly thing to do. But I, like everyone, have villagers that I would really like to have in my town. It's hard to resist buying a villager when you have the perfect chance to do so for some limitless video game currency that you can receive relatively easily. I do prefer to wait for my dream villager to come naturally to me, but when you have enough bells to just get the villager immediately, I don't see any reason to not take that chance. But I can see the counter-argument side to this as well. Admittedly, I'm the kind of person who gets pretty personal and attached with my villagers/game characters. It might be sad to say, but even if I don't really like the character, I feel really bad about getting them out of my town and all that. For example, when a villager is saying that they are going to leave and you give them the okay to do so, when they come back with "I really expected you to ask me to not leave." or "I thought we were friends." or "I guess I'll be staying so we can be the friends that I, uh, thought we were.", it really hits me in the heart and it makes me feel like a jerk. =( So I don't know. I guess I'm kind of in between.