My rant about buying/selling villagers.

[BeezyBee]

I'm in two AC Discord servers, and while in the smaller one people just give away their villagers for free, the other one as it grew and new members came... Even people who had given away villagers for free started charging. There was this user that took a photo of her amiibo cards and her prices were crazy! Luckily I stopped her quickly from scamming some newbies, as she had stated there wasn't any other way to get those villagers than her amiibos. People can take advantage of new players and for a wholesome game like AC, it breaks my heart to see it

I'm in two as well. One of them is the very big one (last I checked it had 50,000 people) and another is only about 80 people.

I saw a twitter meme of someone saying they had Raymond, and to DM them for their VENMO!

 

[CodyYuki]

Totally agree with this really high prices being set becuase of some other greedy people, its just normal econ that runs through games like these where things can be rare and hard to get. Yet having a certain way to get something can ruin the fun at the chance of that happiness. Because of how easy it was to gain bells and such it's hard to having EVERYONE set a agreement on what the price of things should be.

 

[Kyneria]

I'm in two as well. One of them is the very big one (last I checked it had 50,000 people) and another is only about 80 people.

I saw a twitter meme of someone saying they had Raymond, and to DM them for their VENMO!

Oh yeah I'm not a law expert, but as far as I know isn't that illegal? Does someone here know if selling AC stuff for real money can be considered illegal? I meant it's Nintendo's property but again, I'm not on the smart side when it comes to legal stuff and business

 

[DJStarstryker]

I want Raymond, but he's definitely not worth 400 NMT. If I had 400 NMT, I'd rather go to 400 different islands to see what I get. I know it's not guaranteed to get him that way, but at least I think I'd have more fun that way.

Besides, he'll eventually get an amiibo. And regardless, I think the price will go down for him as time goes on.

 

[BeezyBee]

I want Raymond, but he's definitely not worth 400 NMT. If I had 400 NMT, I'd rather go to 400 different islands to see what I get. I know it's not guaranteed to get him that way, but at least I think I'd have more fun that way.

Besides, he'll eventually get an amiibo. And regardless, I think the price will go down for him as time goes on.

Plus, I feel like you have a much better chance of finding him on a mystery island then earning enough miles to purchase hundreds of NMT.

 

[JKDOS]

No- popular villagers shouldn't be free, but come on, 400 NMT's for Raymond, or Audie, or even Judy, is just ridiculous.

These villagers are new, so it's to be expected they will be infatuated in price.

Is there a specific villager I can help you obtain outside of these and Ankha?

I want Raymond, but he's definitely not worth 400 NMT. If I had 400 NMT, I'd rather go to 400 different islands to see what I get. I know it's not guaranteed to get him that way, but at least I think I'd have more fun that way.

Besides, he'll eventually get an amiibo. And regardless, I think the price will go down for him as time goes on.

Have you tried the campsite method? It seems to have worked for a few players.

 

[Cancoon]

I agree it's frustrating how much people want however, I don't like when people say that there isn't a way of getting so many NMTs legitimately.
If you go to the Museum Shop on this forum (the art shops), some artists charge 10+ NMTs for their work. There are also people who charge services or items for NMT on the Nook's Cranny of this forum.
So it can easily be artists or people with shops on this website.
When I wanted to buy Marshal, I just sold TBT for NMT so there's that way too, if I ever need more I'll probably ask for more in my shop that I recently made.

 

[Tiffany]

I agree it's nuts. I got stupid lucky cause Raymond is in my campsite today. I'm keeping him not selling him. And I even saw a couple youtube videos where a guy spent 200 nmt to find raymond on a mystery island. It's not just villagers though. Have yall seen what people are charging just to let someone sell turnips in their store? Ridiculous.

 

[Hesper]

Personally this makes me enjoy giving away highly popular villagers for free, just out of spite. Lol.

Edit: If I ever find Raymond on my random island adventures, that bad boy is getting some stupid contest created for him. Whoever comes up with the best hipster joke gets the kitty for free. No bribery, you're gonna have to be Actually Witty.

 

[Blueskyy]

Also, I hope Nintendo releases a Raymond amiibo soon. He is single-handed breaking this game's economy :^)

I won’t even need his amiibo. I’m not letting him move and villagers don’t move now without you telling them they can.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I hate NMT as a currency for the most part. I don't like spending a long time picking up/dropping a bunch of the same in game items, and trying to keep track of the amount needed for the trade (I am very bad at math). The reason I stuck around on this website was because of the very convenient, very quick out-of-game currency, and the review system . And now TBT feels like it's some forgotten currency.

NMT can be nice right now though when there is one or two very specific items that I want quickly, and people are willing to fly all the way to my little island to trade that item for a single nook miles ticket.

Personally I think Nintendo should make NMT non-transferable, and/or re-release Amiibo cards with the addition of cards for the new villagers. Fix this mess that the community's in.

 

[michealsmells]

Dude, I don't even understand what's so appealing about NMTs? Like do people just use them to roll for other villagers that are either dreamies or to sell? I don't get it.

That's why I always give away/sell my villagers for super-duper cheap. People should be allowed to have the villagers they really love and care about, not just gather villagers to sell to the highest bidder.

 

[Clock]

Nookazon is unfairly overpriced for overrated villagers for nook mile tickets and it’s ridiculous seeing people pay for turnip entry fee, because the people that pay lose some of their profit from turnips.

 

[toonafeesh]

I gotta admit I definitely felt the greed when I had Marshal and Raymond in my camp, thinking "HEH I'M GONNA SELL THEM FOR A LOT OF NMT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but ended up just giving them both to friends who were looking for them. I sold Beau and Whitney too for 5 & 10 NMT respectively, and I currently have Julian who I'll probably also sell for no more than 20 NMT :c it doesn't feel fair especially for players who aren't in the crazy NMT economics game and just really want their beloved dreamies without having to sell an arm and leg.

 

[JKDOS]

Nookazon is overpriced for overrated villagers and it’s ridiculous seeing people pay for turnip entry fee, because the people that pay lose some of their profit from turnips.

I checked out turnip.exchange the other day and saw some players were charging fees like 500k bells per trip. Which is actually more money than a trip worth of turnips costs through Daisy Mae at 110 bells per turnip.

 

[allainah]

I agree it's frustrating how much people want however, I don't like when people say that there isn't a way of getting so many NMTs legitimately.
If you go to the Museum Shop on this forum (the art shops), some artists charge 10+ NMTs for their work. There are also people who charge services or items for NMT on the Nook's Cranny of this forum.
So it can easily be artists or people with shops on this website.
When I wanted to buy Marshal, I just sold TBT for NMT so there's that way too, if I ever need more I'll probably ask for more in my shop that I recently made.

this ^^^ there is also other websites like nookazon for example where NMT don't cost an arm and a leg. I've traded basic items in my storage for 1 nmt each and i now have 100 NMT saved up. Only took me about 3-5 days to earn it all from trading. People who say it's not do-able without time traveling/duping are just not playing right ;3

 

[Lucky22]

Yeah get what you mean here op! Like I genuinely do find it fun to grind for nmt and all that jazz but it's starting to be a little bit scammy tbh lo

 

[voltairenism]

I won’t even need his amiibo. I’m not letting him move and villagers don’t move now without you telling them they can.

Well, with amiibos there will be more Raymonds in the market, so the price will go down. And, ofc, people who want him that badly will just buy the amiibo instead of grinding for NMTs

 

[Hatcher]

Plus, I feel like you have a much better chance of finding him on a mystery island then earning enough miles to purchase hundreds of NMT.

Well, actually, you don't because the odds for him are 1/805 at worst and 1/490 at best (with 9 other cat villagers).

However, that's just for Raymond. There are still other good villagers you can get on mystery islands so I'm certainly not discounting island hopping, just hunting for Raymond specifically if you can outright buy him for 400 NMT.

 

[Noctis]

I feel you. I assure you though but not common that there are kind people out there and I've seen their generosity that given popular villagers out for free. Thankfully I've got genji and maple for 20 nmt each which I thought was a good deal. Did have to throw 66 nmt for Sherb which is all I had and the guy was like you know what I'll take em