I am in the same boat as I have spent years working and trying to get new items as well as hang onto duplicates of certain items never knowing if they will be needed for a combo, need to be eaten or needed for the next event.
and I too do not remember seeing or hearing anything about this prior to yesterday and I feel a week's notice is pretty lame especially since I have been trying to save up more items to do things like combos and baking.
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this limit is really low. There are a lot of items on site that people may want to collect in galleries. Limiting unique items to only 250 for galleries and 500 for shops doesn't seem even barely feasible. As it stands right now, I have over 300 unique items in one of my galleries (Kumos/Wolf Den and Family) to date and almost 300 in another (Hamsters Rats and Other Cuties). This is limiting the amount of items people want to show off and it makes it really unfair. Please let unique items be unlimited! There are literally thousands of items on Subeta. Why are we being forced to have so few? What's the point of galleries if we can't show our loves off? What's the point on shops if you vend/RS and can't sell as much as you'd like to? This limit needs changing and fast. There are thousands of items on Subeta. Let us have thousands of unique items in our galleries and shops!
Edit: I just now saw that we're only allowed a maximum of SIX shops/galleries?!? That's even worse! We paid for up to 10! Now we're having 4 taken away?!? This is going from worse to atrocious!

- All I can hope is that they will be able to expand the limits to a more reasonable level for the needs of folks like us (surely there are more than just a handful who hoard like we do, lol) sooner rather than later. That's why I'm just going to ride it out and wait until the dust settles and the new system is in place "officially" and see where to go from there. :)
I have about 63m in my shop cause I'm aiming for the achievements. Do we have to take all the sP out of the till before the 24th? Are we going to lose it or will we be able to carry it over? I've been working on this for a long time, and seeing how the notice doesn't say the Shop Til achievement will be retiring as well.
Is anyone else having trouble with the autopricer? The 'load shop items' button doesn't work for me.
What's even worse is that these extremely awful low unique item limits in galleries outright removes one of the most important Community Guidelines:
These galleries are literally invaluable visual guides for people! There are items on site that some people may not even know exist and can't find them on SubetaLodge simply because they don't know what to look for. These visual guides (aka galleries) are exactly what these players need to find something on a visual scale that they are so desperately looking for! Many people have Minion Galleries (I know that has nearly a complete one, if not complete already), has a cat gallery! I'm working on three galleries myself (Canine, Critter {aka hamsters, etc} and a combination gallery featuring all birds and aquatic animals)! There will be quite a number of guides done once I finish getting these galleries complete. However, I'll never get to finish these galleries/guides, and other people will never get to finish theirs, due to these unique limits that are so low, they're laughable! In fact they're so low they're beyond laughable, they're more than likely going to bring a lot of upset and even anger to a lot of players (which is happening already).
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<li>Make a minion collection, like the plushies. The minion zoo just isn&;t cutting it and isn&;t even available to all users. It was a cute idea, but it separates out multiple copies of the same minion, cant be shown off, and is just a mess visually once you have more than a handful. In addition, the new collection pages are just so awesome anyway.
Sadly, I made a suggestion thread for a minion collection and Keith himself said there are no plans for anything like this XS

I missed it, maybe, but what will happen to the sP we have in our old tills? We will still be able to access that after the change won't we? Also, if we make 6 shops with a gold account and then our GA status runs out will all 6 shops display on the search shops or only 3?
Some beta testing
I noticed that there is no PIN when I remove items from the new shop - would be good to have that available again in the future ^_^
Also, what about the shop till saver and making a living achievements? I've already achieved the highest tier of making a living but I'm half way for shop till saver and don't want to have to start all over again in a new shop.
I certainly hope the brilliant minds that came up with this super idea realize this will be a huge step back in us spending pure dollars, right? I mean, no point in GA since the no need to autoprice, or quests - not worth the bother. No point in buying CSC to sell and buy stuff we can't show. No point in buying CW for our galleries...Oh, this idea seems better and better...
How long will the old shops and galleries be accessible to their owners?
This answer dictates when I actually take care of everything. If its only a month or two, then everything gets dumped into the vault abyss the day after this all goes live. If indefinitely, then I'll be back in August or so to deal with it properly when the system and prices have stabilized and the limits are hopefully more within the realm of reasonable.
How many catagories can I have in the new shop/gallery?
What about my poor holiday gallery. I've worked my ass off :( Peeved to say the least
I am also having trouble with the Autopricer feature in the new shops, not sure if you are still having the same issue or not. I have transferred over the inventory from my old shop to my new shop and I just went to Autoprice and I cannot get past the "load shop items" step. It's like the button doesn't work. Not sure if this has been logged or not but just wanted to make sure! :)
I think I must have missed something.. is the only way to put something from old to new by first putting it in inventory then quick stock? Is there a more direct way to move from shop to shop?
or anyone else who may know. Currently, shops & galleries have a 500K/item limit, meaning, you can have under 500K of one item, but as soon as you hit that, or go over, the items all go into a black hole of sorts and are "gone" but not gone.
I have almost 850,000 free beers between my gallery and vault, will I be able to add ALL of them to my free beer hoard gallery or is the limit still in place ? Also hahahahaha jesus fucking christ hahahahahah I am so fucking not looking forward to quick stocking the 470K I have in Psychedelia's Shinies. Fuck me.
collecting How long does it take for a new shop to show up? I made a new one hours ago and it still doesn't show up on the new shop search?
Sorry for the ping, but I just want to make sure. Are there going to be limits on the number of categories in new shops/galleries and if so, what are they?
I've got 21 categories in my new TC gallery but some of those need to be changed before I start moving items if that will be over the limit :x