Trade Safety

[abaj]

These people aim for individuals who just want to buy a few pixels with their lunch money because they can't get TNT to do anything about 40,000+ bot accounts and the well known cheaters. They still behave exactly like the snitches that they are back in elementary. Truly the game for manchildren.

[birdies]

Oof. I'd suspected this was happening based on a couple of recent things I'd seen, but had hoped it was a one off.

Personally, I've had a couple of good experiences with newbies / new sellers but I have rules for it - take proper precautions and make sure the pets won't be going to your main/personal accounts. Know the pet's background and ask as many questions as it takes to be comfortable. If you're not completely comfortable, don't trade.

Also advice for new traders that helped me: buy first, from reputable sellers. If you get a reputation as a trustworthy buyer you're also likely to be a trustworthy seller. Ideally, interact around the forum and let us get to know you! And don't expect anyone to give you more information than they're comfortable with. I'm *still* always hugely grateful when I'm trusted with more than the essential details.

At the end of the day, neopets trading and likely neopets as a whole would be dead without the black market, and most people you'll encounter here are kinder and more trustworthy than people you may run into on Neo itself. Trying to out people here to 'protect' Neo is just a massive self burn.

Stay safe everyone and please don't be dicks.

[Synth Salazzle]

Update @(you need an account to see links) is now heavily involved in the safety guide and it is now a team effort.

It's a really, large, and very important guide with a LOT of work going into it so I hope it's as useful as we're projecting.

[Izakaya]

Bumping this up again because I believe this thread need more view just for safeties.

[Sakuras]

Update @(you need an account to see links) is now heavily involved in the safety guide and it is now a team effort.

It's a really, large, and very important guide with a LOT of work going into it so I hope it's as useful as we're projecting.

looking forward to this guide, please crosspost it here once it's done! thanks for looking out for the community.

[Buizel]

Bat stated prior the board doesn't require bumping since you're required to view this thread when you go to the Trading section.

[Synth Salazzle]

looking forward to this guide, please crosspost it here once it's done! thanks for looking out for the community.

We're both experiencing a little burn out. But the guide is past the rough draft stage at this point.

We still have information to add but I'd say the guide is about 60-70% done at this current point. We're both taking a bit of a break today because there was a lot of formatting work yesterday.
Also would like it personally approved by Bat before we post. Just in case we missed something important, or there's some sort of error that might hurt rather than help. Normally I wouldn't go that far at all but I want it to be as accurate and helpful as possible

[Meepit]

Man people care too much about stuff that isn't disruptive to anyone. Buying a few things here over dealing with weeks and even months of nothing on the site is such a relief when you already spend your days dealing with people for a living.

[Stsbroughtmehere]

I think she wants to smooch nT

[Rhaenyra]

I know someone is stalking me, but I think it's someone actually on Neo, not necessarily someone here. A side got frozen for "buying Neopoints," even though I've never used that account to buy items... (any tips to get it back lol?)