Board Thread:Trade/@comment-36136788-20190219014642

This is my first discussion, so I just gonna hope I did this right. D:

Okay, so I really need a good long, preferably blue. My friend really wants this masterpiece from someone named Majiquepretzal. But the masterpiece is a limited copy, so she charges a good long. (Just some background info) The problem is we've never traded for longs before and we're both kind of confused with, like what are the best ways to trade for (good) longs.

When I first looked at the long spiked page, I felt like going the den beta path is cheaper than going the spike path. Because blue long worth 2 bad longs, each bad long worth 2 good shorts, each good short worth 7-8 dbs; so basically blue long would then be 49 - 64 dbs. So, I tried to trade my spikes for den betas, because 20 dbs a better trade than 49 - 64 in spike worth. But when I scroll through the chats of the long spike page or wander around in Aldan and Wootmoo's den, I never see anyone asking for dbs for their longs. I usually see a lot of people asking for spikes for their longs or people asking to trade dbs for their longs, so I'm kind of worried that trying to trade for dbs for my spikes to get a blue long is just a waste of time.

At this point, I'm not really sure what to do to get a good long, and neither is my friend. What I have right now is 1 red short wrist, 1 pink long wrist, 1 blue long wrist, 1 purple long wrist, 4 red long wrists, 1 black long wrist, and 1 red short collar. (I prefer to leave the last 2 off the list for trading, and deal with the other long wrists and short wrist first.) My friend has spikes too, but I want to leave hers out for now. I also have den betas: 2 scarecrows, 1 RC Car, 2 Rocking Horses, 1 Pot O'Gems, 1 Television, 1 Open Sign, 1 Art Easel, 1 Planet Walls (Wall). Again, I might have more, but the ones I listed are the ones I want to deal with. I also have multiple clothing betas and things worth cbs, but people usually don't want to trade those for dbs, so I'm not going to list all of that. :l

That was pretty long, I apologize for that. If I could get any advice on what I should do, I would really appreciate that. :)

Oh, and the one minor question I have is: (it's long, :(  sorry)

I know that on the rare long spiked collar page, it says that when trading for den betas, there is usually a mix of member and nonmember den betas. Does this logic also work for the other rare spikes (ex: 7 dbs of member and nm for blue short collar), or for the other rare spikes, it's whatever many dbs add up to the number given on the page? because nm dbs are worth 1.5 dbs. So basically I'm asking if a total 7 member and nm dbs for a blue short collar fair or for the add-up of dbs, an example: 4 nm dbs (1.5) and a member db fair for blue short? 