they do consistently overprice their dragons, especially oldies. and then ping the collectors list repeatedly for the same dragons, just slightly lowering the price every time. i'm not sure how much they actually sell? because i swear to god i'm getting pings now for the same dragons i was getting pings for a year ago LOL (but that could be hyperbole). i'm not sure if Alyxsandre does any of the "scamming users by PMing them directly about old dragons they may not know the value of" style BS, though i know that topic was discussed here recently regarding the user @/After. with the language Alyxsandre uses in their posts, though, it really seems like they could use a break from FR. they have all these cool things - old dragons, fancy items, and a community of people who love talking about it all - and just still seem so miserable??? like, if it's not fun any more, you don't have to log in every day.
replying to myself, Alyxsandre sent out ANOTHER ping today. decided to check their post history to see if i could find how many other times they'd pinged for a certain dragon, by searching their mentions of the dragon's ID# in the "Dragon Sales" forum.
June 2022 - this dragon "must go," priced at 70kg. (in another post on the thread made July 1st they said they'd ping again - sometimes they'll edit an old post in a thread to add more pings & then point to the first post, which can be confusing)
thread made late August 2022 - a post added on the 7th page says this dragon was added to the first-post sales list in early October 2022 for 70kg, tentative
early November 2022 - 55kg. gets an offer for 30kg, says someone else offered 50kg. sales close after 4 days because they reached a funding goal. genuinely happy for them to get a dream dragon! (not sure which dragon it is)
mid February 2023 - 80kg. a handful people show interest but say they don't have the funds. a few days later OP posts saying ABs have been lowered - unsure if this dragon's AB is one of them because the 80kg price tag is the highest it's ever been, increasing by 10kg from his first appearance. RE-ping in the same thread mid-May 2023.
early August 2023 - 80kg.
that's at least 6 pings across a span of 10 months for the same dragon, priced at a range of 55-80kg, with one public offer of 30kg. (if it were me selling, i'd probably expect 30-50kg for him, with the upper range kinda pushing it since he is bred. 30 feels maybe a smidge low, but @ 35kg i'd feel very happy to have made the sale, and i do think he's an awesome dragon with a cool ID, so i'd be motivated to keep him - my pricing estimate doesn't come from a place of being a hater.)
according to my currently-visible alerts, i also got two other sales pings from this person on July 10th & July 16th, for old dragons other than this one. not sure how many other sales pings i've gotten from them in those ten months, but it FEELS like i get multiple pings every month. but i don't want to remove myself from the pinglist & i don't want to block them, because they do a lot of buying and selling in a market i'm also active in.
now, just to be clear, i don't hate this person. i want them to be happy & healthy & all that jazz. but this is TOO MANY PINGS. and if your dragon hasn't sold in a year when you've been consistently pinging the collectors. i'm pretty sure that means your prices are too high.
just wanted to provide some actual data with my salt this time.
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Re: Alyxsandre
(Anonymous) 2023-08-03 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)i'm not sure if Alyxsandre does any of the "scamming users by PMing them directly about old dragons they may not know the value of" style BS, though i know that topic was discussed here recently regarding the user @/After.
with the language Alyxsandre uses in their posts, though, it really seems like they could use a break from FR. they have all these cool things - old dragons, fancy items, and a community of people who love talking about it all - and just still seem so miserable??? like, if it's not fun any more, you don't have to log in every day.
Re: Alyxsandre
(Anonymous) 2023-08-04 02:09 am (UTC)(link)Re: Alyxsandre
(Anonymous) 2023-08-04 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)June 2022 - this dragon "must go," priced at 70kg. (in another post on the thread made July 1st they said they'd ping again - sometimes they'll edit an old post in a thread to add more pings & then point to the first post, which can be confusing)
thread made late August 2022 - a post added on the 7th page says this dragon was added to the first-post sales list in early October 2022 for 70kg, tentative
early November 2022 - 55kg. gets an offer for 30kg, says someone else offered 50kg. sales close after 4 days because they reached a funding goal. genuinely happy for them to get a dream dragon! (not sure which dragon it is)
mid February 2023 - 80kg. a handful people show interest but say they don't have the funds. a few days later OP posts saying ABs have been lowered - unsure if this dragon's AB is one of them because the 80kg price tag is the highest it's ever been, increasing by 10kg from his first appearance. RE-ping in the same thread mid-May 2023.
early August 2023 - 80kg.
that's at least 6 pings across a span of 10 months for the same dragon, priced at a range of 55-80kg, with one public offer of 30kg. (if it were me selling, i'd probably expect 30-50kg for him, with the upper range kinda pushing it since he is bred. 30 feels maybe a smidge low, but @ 35kg i'd feel very happy to have made the sale, and i do think he's an awesome dragon with a cool ID, so i'd be motivated to keep him - my pricing estimate doesn't come from a place of being a hater.)
according to my currently-visible alerts, i also got two other sales pings from this person on July 10th & July 16th, for old dragons other than this one. not sure how many other sales pings i've gotten from them in those ten months, but it FEELS like i get multiple pings every month. but i don't want to remove myself from the pinglist & i don't want to block them, because they do a lot of buying and selling in a market i'm also active in.
now, just to be clear, i don't hate this person. i want them to be happy & healthy & all that jazz. but this is TOO MANY PINGS. and if your dragon hasn't sold in a year when you've been consistently pinging the collectors. i'm pretty sure that means your prices are too high.
just wanted to provide some actual data with my salt this time.
Re: Alyxsandre
(Anonymous) 2023-08-06 10:17 am (UTC)(link)