Neopet Exchange in Beta

[Izzy ♥]

It seems that TNT are finally trying to combat all the scamming on the Pound boards by introducing an exchange option for Neopet transfers. The service is now in Beta for Premium users, and basically allows you to switch your pet for one of another user's via the Safe Transfer!

 

 

When Premium users visit the transfer page, and enter the username of the person they wish to send their pet on to, they are now presented with two options - a normal transfer directly to the user, or to exchange their pet with one of the user's that they are transferring to. If the other user confirms the exchange, pets are transferred simultaneously between the two accounts: preventing any opportunity for scamming in pet trades! The service counts as your one safe transfer for the month, and if the other user accepts the exchange, it will count for their transfer as well.

 

The new system is great for switching pets between your accounts as well, since you do not need an open spot to use it! Unfortunately, you will still only get one transfer a month, whether you use it on an exchange or on an ordinary transfer.

 

User preferences have also had an update, and you can now block people from trying to sent your their Neopet or exchange your pets via the safe transfer option.

 

Special thanks to Missy (mizz_meanie) for the screenshot above ^_^

[Phrenchie]

Do you know when it will be let out for non-premium users??

Thank you!

:rolleyes_anim:

[Angaelicy]

Everybody will want to exchange rather than the regular transfer, don't you think? Personally, my pets stay with me for life, so it doesn't affect me much. But I know a lot of people will be grateful.

 

 

Click my !

[Superfly]

Do you know when it will be let out for non-premium users??

Thank you!

:rolleyes_anim:

 

We never know for sure with Neopets. They usually take all the time they want fixing bugs before it's released. Give it a week or so, hopefully less.

[Phrenchie]

AH kay... Thank you !

 

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[Sugar Gar]

Transfers will still remain good for those users who have pets to give away. I've had to get rid of a lot of pets when I was tired of having so many side accounts, and I definently wouldn't have wanted anything in return. xD

 

I'm very excited for this feature though, seeing as I have a friend I know offline who watns to borrow an avatar pet, but she's not on that much. Plus, we both have a full number of pets right now. So it's really hard to coordinate things x_x

[Ashley Rose]

Brilliant Idea! I do hope it is released, I run into the problem that my accounts are full and I need to switch pets around all the time and this would really help! Thanks for letting us know it's in premium beta!

[Moncsi]

Wow it sounds great. I am waiting for the non-premium users beta version.

[Macabre]

This sounds great! Stops scammers and fixes the already-have-four-pets problem. C: Hope it becomes avaliable soon.

[neokrzed14]

I really think that pets shouldn't be given away all that often. After all, we play for OUR PETS. Between side accounts may be okay, but otherwise I think it's kind of weird.

[Sugar Gar]

You know, that's a really good point that I haven't considered in years.

 

See, when I first joined Neopets, I was ten years old. I was already very much of an animal fan, and that combined with the fact my pets were named after my real life pets... my neopets would get sick and I'd run to the healing springs freaking out. XD I'd be browzing the pound, and even if the pets' names were bad, I adopted two gelerts just because they looked so sad. xD

 

Obviously it has to do with the fact I'm not ten anymore, but at the same time... seems like Neoepts hold a lot less worth then you'd think they would on a /pet site/ these days... sometimes.

 

...like the fact Neopia has toilets, but no toilet paper. You don't notice anything wrong until someone points it out? XD

 

Still, there are a lot of dedicated pet owners. More then not dedicated, I'd say. And most of the moving of pets around is for avatars, so they come back to the owners eventually?

[Strategos]

This seems to be a good idea on TNT's part, but unfortunately, I don't transfer pets that much, so, I'll just say good luck to TNT on combating scams. :D

 

...like the fact Neopia has toilets, but no toilet paper

Where'd you get that? I can't remember toilets of any kind.

[Sugar Gar]

You can put toilets in your neohome, but there is no item called toilet paper? D;

Concerning.

[~warriorcatsforever~]

i think its a nice idea, i love all of my pets very much and although im going to adopt other pets for avatars, i will always keep the ones that i think of as MINE. i do get freaked out when my pets are sick or hungry and i want them to be cared for and happy at all times. there are way too many abandoned and sad neopets out there!!

 

and it is really weird that there is no toilet paper. someone should seriously do something about that!!!

[Cara]

This exchange option couldn’t have come sooner, imagine how many scams could have been prevented had this option always been available, oh well better late then never, very good idea from TNT

[Sugar Gar]

I haven't seeen any scams with the transfer option, but maybe that's just because I don't ever use transfers with people I don't know? XD I could imagine there would be a lot at the pound board though

 

As far as the regular pound goes... yes x_x I'd still have my asparagus chia if it wasn't for that.

[taekwondomomyn]

My sister tried this feature moving a pet from a side account to her main account. Her desert hissi's paint brush clothing was left in her side account closet. She is gonna send it back next month and then try again the month after. She cannot send the clothes as they came with the painting of her pet. Just thought I would pass on the info. Jessie