User blog:Floppyears AJ/AJ Shops: Good or Bad?

Hello! I know many people have already touched on this topic. Are these new shops good, or are they bad? Do they help AJ? Are they needed?

I personally think these are mostly bad.

Okay, okay. I know that they are good in some ways. For example, now you can become rarer, you can have other ways to get gems or diamonds, and you can buy items not in stores. I think that's good. Some people are adding spikes or den betas to their shop, and I might not have good items to trade but I might have a bunch of diamonds to use so I can still get it! Yay...?

Issue 1

So far, I've seen lots of people overtrading. This honestly messes everything up. Nobody knows how many diamonds or gems something is really worth, and they can overprice it or sell it for whatever they think. However, some people, like my friends, don't know how much it is worth, so they guess and undersell it but then later see someone else selling the same item for 50 more diamonds.

Issue 2

Another issue is that now that's pretty much the new trading. Everywhere you go, people are saying, "come 2 my den good items for good prices", "everything 1 diamond in my store! come now!". Now that's all people are doing. If you don't have a lot of diamonds or gems to buy things with, your losing out and can't buy anything.

Issue 3

I only have like 3 diamonds right now. My friend tried buying a shop and then gifting it too me, but for some odd reason you can't trade or gift these, so they were just stuck with an extra shop.

Issue 4

Finally, nonmembers can't use it! I think it's very stupid that nonmember's can't use them. I can understand that they can't buy them, but non-members can't even buy anything in other peoples shops! I feel like that's kind of dumb. I feel like animal jam just wanted to promote members and diamonds so more people buy memberships and diamond packages so they can buy more items in jammer's stores.