Board Thread:Animal Jam Talk/@comment-35871911-20180704235303

Everytime I go on AJ at least 1 person says something like "that was fair" or "you only accept overtrades" after I decline his or her trade and I always have the same response. For those who still don't understand why people decline their supposedly "fair" trades, I have made a list of the most popular reasons.

1) Your items are low-demand/uncommon/collector's items. As seen throughout this wiki, many unpopular items have disclaimers on their worth pages which say something like "you may not easily get full value for them" or "they might be traded for undertrades". Although the value of your item may be fair and sometimes over, many people don't want to deal with those hard-to-trade items because they can easily profit more with their own valued-less but higher-demand items. Examples include year banners, glossies, leap year items, etc.

2) I've been offered more. Even though your trade is fair, I've personally seen better offers that I could easily get later.

3) I'm not looking for your items. For example, I like spikes but sometimes I end up with more spikes than I know what to do with after a series of spike-heavy trades. If I were to have a party hat for trade right after, I definitely would not want pure spikes for it because I don't need that many in my inventory.

4) It's too similar too what I traded. This one doesn't happen as much as the others, but I have encountered it occasionally. For example, if I traded 2 black longs for my RIM HD, I would not trade it away for 2 black longs again because there wouldn't have been a point for me to trade for the RIM HD in the first place.

5) Some people just don't like certain items. Personally, I'm pretty open to most items except low-demand and collector's items (reason #1), but I've seen some people who just don't like party hats, spikes, promos, etc. for their own reasons.

6) Your trade is too messy. For example, I would prefer 2 good longs for my Founders' Hat over a combination of 30 short and long wrists and collars that are worth 2 good longs.

*Wanting overtrades just for overtrades is a different discussion.

These are the main reasons I came up with myself but if you think I'm missing anything, feel free to comment below to add anything you think is important. Also if you don't understand something, have any questions, or disagree with something, ask and I'll try to answer as much as I can.

Hope this helped.

Happy trading!

(I decided to write this post to help more people understand the trading community of Animal Jam and am no way targeting any specific person or group.) 