Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30450022-20180413021718/@comment-35391772-20180413214525

Deertine wrote: Kitsoon A wrote: Deertine wrote: I am personally a collector, and while I do expect spikes/den betas for my collector items at times. I typically just get them from trading popular items for uncommon items I.E: "My spikes for uncommon carnival items."

I just like collecting, not seeing who has the most spikes and headdresses. But I don't think it's right to get '''frustrated when people are expecting the worth of an item. '''Collectors who expect the true worth of an item are usually trying to reach out to OTHER collectors. The anger is not justified and you should just ignore these people if they bother you. (Unless they're like bothering you personally aka spamming your jags or smth.)

Also if there is any other collectors and you want to chat or smth you can jag me at Deertine ;^)

Edit: Also, people can ask for whatever they want, someone can ask for a long for their necklace. Sure it's quite unlikely anyone would trade a long for a necklace. But it's not illegal. Honestly, i probably should've written this post, i would've got the point across better. The point of the post is to say how unfair trading an item with almost no demand is to an Aldan trader. Aldan trading is based on demand, if it has no demand then no Aldan traders want it. So look at uncommon items, they usually have no value to an Aldan trader because of no demand for Aldan and only among collectors. Since most of the time they don't hold value to an Aldan trader, attempting to trade them to an Aldan trader for "only full price or over" (Which is what this post is aimed at) isn't the best trading choice that can lead to some conseqences. Such as never getting to trade the uncommon items because no Aldan traders want them, and guess what? Tons of Aldaners trying to trade uncommon items constantly complain about "Uncommon items being hard to trade". And what do they expect, you're trading the item away from it's main demographic (There are hardly ever actual uncommon item collectors in Aldan at the exact moment you're trading them), and into a different demographic which choose to view the item as "junk" for having low demand. Aldan has values based solely on demand, and uncommon items don't have that same (Aldan trader) demand.

Uncommon item collectors tend to hang out and trade as friends, friends that don't go into Aldan as much as your average AJ trader. The biggest uncommon item collector friend-group i know of are the collectors on this Wiki who I've become friends with, and alot of them are friends with each other. Having this large friend connection between different uncommon item collectors forms one of many "uncommon item collector friend groups", which are basically a bunch of uncommon item collectors who're friends, and hang out and trade with each other. This is the main method for trading away uncommon items. ​​​ It's defiantly an opinion sort thing. It's not 'unfair' to trade a collectors item for a high demand items. If they person wants it, let them trade for it. I wouldn't say "''no aldan traders want them." ''I know some who don't want them, and some who do. Some people may just think they're cool. Not caring about their worth.

I personally don't know any collectors. I am just a hobbiest. Wish I did, but not everyone has the advantage of having collector friends. All I like about AJ is being able to decorate my den and animals. : )

I probably don't make any sense but oH WELL Actually, most people don't think they're cool or care about their worth. And these people who do are obviously not uncommon item collectors. The main demographic who likes uncommon items are well, uncommon item collectors, we're just saying you should try and trade uncommon items to them and not Aldan-traders who usually have little interest. Trading uncommon items to Aldaners never really works out because most of them don't know the value, or care about it's value because it doesn't have high demand.

You misunderstood me, i never said "Aldan shouldn't trade for them". I said you shouldn't expect to trade them away easily if you're trading away from their main demographic, that's all. We had to make this post because most people on this Wiki go around asking full value only for uncommon items, expecting to get it willy-nilly. And then they go trading them in Aldan, where they're much harder to trade because there aren't that many collectors there. Finding collectors is really hard, because they're a near-extinct type of AJ trader; making up around like 1% of the AJ traders. Aldan is the trading spot where you find them the least, yet it's where everyone goes to find them. It had to be addressed, somehow.