Trade Safety

[Bat]

It has come to our attention that we may have some users in our midst that are attempting to link seller activity in this community to accounts, pets and commodities on Neopets. We are currently working to track these individuals down and remove them, however we wanted to remind you to be careful about what sorts of information you share privately and publicly. Please be especially cautious when it comes to engaging in compromising discussions with newly registered users that you don't know or trust. Remember to report posts and private messages that break rules or probe for information. For those of you who are posting advertisements to communities outside of clraik, please be mindful to make sure that you aren't inadvertently outing yourself. If your posts to clraik look similar to your posts on other sites, then the people that are after you will make that connection and use that information against you. Using different usernames, avatars and contact information will not protect you from being identified if you aren't rewriting your advertisements.

Let's weather this nonsense like we always have. Stay safe, everyone.

[Synth Salazzle]

I'm going to write an entire guide to internet hygiene and having good opsec thanks to this post.

Edit: if anyone wants to collab let me know, I'm doing a write up in notepad as we speak.

[Zenitsu]

Kindly bumping this up again for more reach.

Thank you for looking out for us, Bat, and all those who have been shedding light, dedicating their time and resources to protect us, and working to remove these perpetrators. It's a shame that some people don't have anything better to do with their time than prey on and cause trouble for our lovely members and sellers. It's quite sad, actually.

You can never be too safe, so exercise great caution and stay safe, everyone. I will be extra wary of newer users, unknown faces, and those with low iTraders, and I recommend that all of you do the same. Remember to promptly report any posts or private messages that violate the community rules or attempt to extract personal information in any way. Let's look out for one another. Thank you!

[♥ pppp3 ♥]

BFA! it's SO funny (in a not so funny way) that there are some people out there with enough time on their hands that they become neopets unofficial FBI. it's honestly SO chronically online. go outside and make some friends, pat a dog, sniff some flowers.. it makes me feel sorry for the people doing it. lol

[SourSkittles]

BFA! it's SO funny (in a not so funny way) that there are some people out there with enough time on their hands that they become neopets unofficial FBI. it's honestly SO chronically online. go outside and make some friends, pat a dog, sniff some flowers.. it makes me feel sorry for the people doing it. lol

What drew me to this site initially was the trading area. I didn't want to jump in right away. I have done quote on quote trades similar to this site but only as a receiver. I don't have a lot to offer but trying to get my ducks in a row so to speak before I even attempt to do so. I want to get into it eventually but will proceed with caution. I am hoping to first do some "trades" with long established players/members of this site as the receiving party!

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My reply brought me this cute userbar that matches my changed user name!

[Bulbasaur]

A perfect time for this to come up. I now dont feel as bad with wanting to sell/trade with familiar faces and those with a decent amount of feedback.
I want to not only be safe myself, but to be safe for those around me.

I come here to enjoy and play the game in a way that we all share.
So its disappointing to know that there are these little rats moving around here that just want to act like fools.

[Evelynn]

I will never understand people who do shit like this. Like c'mon, we're one of the places that keeps Neopets alive. What do you get in return? Internet clout from like your 3 anti-cheating friends?

[Rebel_Minx]

Literally laughing out loud and the internet/neopets cheating police! I haven't initiated any trades yet, as the receiver, mainly because I don't have the $$ to do so, but when I do, I will be taking to utmost precautions! These people are lame!

[Buizel]

It's insane behavior to do things such as this, especially since most of the hate that the userbase spreads about us is based on their own imaginations. Sorry to break your hearts, but no, there isn't a ck staff member that is some underground TNT member like you all wildly theorize. TNT giving users hundreds of items has absolutely nothing to do with us, so why don't you just ask your hero n_t to reveal whoever it is doing it? It's a kids game y'all.....please touch grass and try not to think so hard about our community lol.

Especially when it's a free site to register to! Actually join and engage with the community and make your own personal judgement about clraik instead of just believing the word of some hivemind.

[SourSkittles]

In my own defense I do a lot on neo to. I wouldn't be Surprised if some people on here actually know of me on neo.
I am trying to find away to participate without my main account being involved in the intermingle or everything.
Like no direct trades from that account.
I would have to get to know someone pretty well on here to even phathom mentioning my user name on the site.
Might start utilizing a handful of shell accounts i have in the future.


I really really want to downsize my pets. Max on main and 4 sides. There all converted pets never really been a fan of UC lol.

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Un-Related (I am pulling out Userbar's like crazy today,) 3 Popsicles & The Besties and when I submitted this post Pokemon master popped up? The newbie one doesn't look right in that setup. It will have to do though,