Talk:Rare Long Spiked Collar/@comment-33906070-20180222000518/@comment-33755989-20180222002546

A pink long collar, as said by the wiki, is 15-16 den betas. Assuming that one of the longs is orange, that's another 10-12 den betas. That already sums up to 25-28 den betas which are just over the worth of a red long collar.

The basis normally goes as follows, blue longs are worth 2 bad longs (like orange + green,) purple long collars are worth 1 bad long and 1 decent long (e.g. green + pink) and then red long collars are worth 2 decent long collars (normally yellow and pink, meaning people can trade as much as 30-31 den betas for a red long collar.

Even if this doesn't give a good explanation, an orange long collar + a pink long collar is a bad long and a decent long (meaning it is about the worth of a purple long, despite the number of den betas summing up to the worth of a red long collar.)

If you wanted 3 long collars for a red long, you would probably have to ask for all of them to be orange or maybe 2 orange + 1 green since a decent long, a bad long and a long "between" is a huge overtrade. For example, an orange long, a pink long and a green long. Nothing more basic than a trade like that. Overall, the trade sums up to 42 den betas which goes up to the worth of a BLACK long collar (sadly, nobody accepts trades like this and looks more towards 3 good long collars.)

To put it in the most basic way possible, 3 long collars for a red long collar with the rules of 1 must be pink and only 1 can be orange is an overtrade, no matter which way you roll it. You can skip through all of the people who play Animal Jam and the only fair trade of 3 long collars for a red long collar would be 3 orange longs or, if you're lucky (as I said,) 2 orange longs + 1 green long.