User blog comment:Fantasylover4life/Trying to understand the SPIKE rarity system/@comment-34588471-20180525174937

All you need to know is that the Spike System is messed up and weird and we just have to deal with it. Oof.

People trade differently, so not everyone is going to trade the same way. Personally for me, I like trading both ways:

1. Actually trading for the amount that the spike page says. (I rarely do this because people don't know how to read "Trade me 3 Good Short Collars" etc. and it takes forever. I usually do this when I busy doing other things, though. I like having backround things happening). For example, wanting 3 Good Long Collars for my Black Long Collar.

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2. Just accept an equivalent amount of den beta worth for my spikes, because people actually do that, and it's easy. Sometimes they would overtrade, via, den betas, so I'm ok with that. (I'm a den beta hoarder) For example, I'll take a Pink Long Collar and 4-5 den betas for my Blue Long Collar.

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Luckly, there are many people who would accept those trades that you have listed for their better spikes, sorta depends. But there are also people who really want to be really rare (or they do, but don't realize it), so they just sit and just advertise that they want ,,whatever spikes,, for their spikes, or something.

If you look at the comments of the Rare Long Spiked Collar page, I guarentee you at least once, you will see someone "breaking the rules" and trading both den betas and spikes for something on that page. For example, I scrolled down just a little bit, and someone commented (rephrasing) "15+ den betas and some spiked wrist for a Good Long Collar" and someone else trading their "Short Collars, Diamond Collars, fake den betas for a Decent Long Collar"