To be honest there really isn't anything wrong with trading names, but if user a is paying user b to change the pets name so user a can user b's name, that might start to cross lines. If user a is just paying user b a wand in order to change the name, what does it matter? All that happens is csc might inflate and get purchased more with real $. That's good for the site =/

I actually like the idea of pet trading. It seems a lot easier than all this name trading nonsense. In most cases it would be cheaper just to trade the pets entirely, but I guess it's not my business what people do with their money.

It does seem shady though, since there have been a lot of pet snipes recently, that someone could adopt a pet and not disown theirs though. I think if a system was introduced sort of like trades it would be alright though.

Like for example you could create a trade, having your pet be the 'item' and someone else would offer their pet, and it would be an easy switch without having to worry about the pound or not receiving your pet, etc.

I just think it would be simpler to have pet transfers, lol.

CSC is already at 10m. If it inflates anymore, people might revolt.

Then they can use real money if it bothers them so much :O And I think people would do that just to sell the credits if it became so worthwhile (and thus dropping the price back?) As more sP enters the site I think csc is a good victim for inflation anyway since the most popular items (mct, ga) are bought with it. Plus name trading would cost so much I hardly see this as being a huge trend.

The thing is, I don't really care about the pets being reduced to items, if they END UP on a good account. The pets on neo mostly all END UP on an account that will really love them. I've traded for a lot of my pets, and now the ones I want are with me, they have good homes and I adore them. It's not the idea of pets being tradeable items that bothers me at all.

And I wouldn't say that the people without 'good' pets are looked down upon on neo. The people with pets with numbers or underscores in their names that are unpainted are probably slightly looked down upon, just as they are here or anywhere. There are still plenty of names available on neo, you just have to be creative!

Yes, there are still scams, but only if you're silly enough to not use the 1for1 trade system on neo. It's safe and there for a reason, so I don't pity anyone that doesn't use it and loses a pet. I do agree with the 'if someone cancels, your trade is used up' thing. I don't like that, but I do agree with the once per month rule. I think it stops a lot of unnecessary trading!

I don't have a problem with trading pets... It works fine on Neopets if you like it. I personally don't like to comb through noob to acquire a pet of my dreams, but other people do it and love it.

I think with everything that happens, there are complete morons or users that are far too young to comprehend some things. Pets just happens to be one of the things the younger population enjoys (NOT saying everyone who loves pets/care about their name/colour etc. are morons/young/etc. and not saying everyone young is immature) BUT that's just the way things generically go, and I personally don't see a problem.

Much like scamming here isn't against the rules so to speak as it is up to the users to be responsible, I believe pets can be done in the same way, should the users be happy with it.

I mean, I don't care for the treating of pets like tradeable objects, but I don't believe everyone who trades pets don't love their pets. Maybe they are used to further add to a user's status/pride in their account... But probably only some of the population look at it like so, cos I most certainly don't care that much how 'well named' something is or how great a real-word name snatch is etc.

But if most users will benefit out of it, why not?

I think if anyone is going to go into the drama of pet-trading or anything alike, they should be aware and responsible that it's their own cause and that staff are not responsible.

I think the only extra work from staff side would be programming and boards, but to my understanding, there's a lot of work in the current pet boards already anyway :/

That's pretty much where I am coming from. Just because you are trading pets doesn't mean that you're viewing them as 'objects' or something (although they are... fictional creatures, but it's the sentiment, I know.) Like I said, picture user A owns a pet user B absolutely loves and visa versa. Both user A and user B aren't doing much with their own pets, so they decided to trade; this way these pets aren't just sitting there, they're actually getting some love. You know? ):

If someone is willing to trade their pets out to just anyone, then it's their fault if that person is just using their pet as a 'status' or does something they don't want with it. It's really the same as adopting out a pet.

what's the difference between pets and items again?

one is 480x480 and the other is 64x64.

fucking pixels. xD haha i hope this turns out as loving pixels.

I actually also like the trading thing. I like the pets I have now but if someone had a pet I liked and I had one they liked, I think it's fine to trade. And personally I think that as fun as this site is, and I do love it very much, Pet here are just images. If I had the choice of a pet here and my cat, for example, I'm going to go with my real flesh and blood kitty every time ;) Just my two cents.

Though of course, any time it's against the rules, I would not go and break them ;)

It's perfectly fair if the two users trading are consenting, which they would have to be in order to trade. And, well, if one of the users didn't consider such a thing before they did so, and then went about crying about it afterward, then they're dumb.

I understand that it profits the site, but it's not like people aren't going to spend that money anyway (as is obvious by the amount of CSC bought every month.) Like another user said, if something like this is so expensive, it's not like it's going to be a terribly popular thing. I also believe it's not a 'small group of people' who desired it (changing their pets name, I mean); when I and another user made boards announcing that we were willing to try this and would be paying for the wands ourselves, we got a whole lineup of people who were all over it. They just can't, won't or don't want to pay for the service, whatever the reason for it may be. As was proved if it was offered to them for free it's something a lot of users would do in a heart beat.

If they introduced a transfer system similar to neopets here than that nonsense could be done away with. (:

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It can't be that hard if neopets pulled it off.

That's what I'm thinking. (I would really love staff input on this, sob.)