Proposed TBT Marketplace Change - Comments

[Jeremy]

As we mentioned in the last Bell Tree Direct, we are planning to make a change involving Animal Crossing items in TBT Marketplace:

Proposed TBT Marketplace Change​

Currently, users (and their shops) selling Animal Crossing items and services for TBT Bells are posted in the TBT Marketplace away from the rest of Animal Crossing trading in Re-Tail and Villager Trading Plaza. While it has been working this way for a while now, there may be a better way to organize it.

We've been considering moving all Animal Crossing trading with TBT Bells out of the TBT Marketplace and into the rest of the Animal Crossing trading in the Re-Tail and Villager Trading Plaza boards. This means that both AC Bells and TBT Bells would be traded inside of these boards, and neither would be traded inside of the TBT Marketplace. All Animal Crossing transactions would take place in one place.

If you're a user of these boards and like to trade Animal Crossing bells and items, you can let us know what you think about the proposed change in this thread.

 

[uwuzumakii]

I think it's a really good idea. A lot of people just sit here (including myself most of the time) not connecting with the rest of the forums, but is this section just going to be deleted?

 

[SharJoY]

I think this is an excellent idea.

 

[Gracelia]

It's about time. There was such a disconnect (or at least that's what I felt) between the ACNL boards + TBT marketplace (when it comes to acnl related shop stuff**). At least now they're all in one place. @ above, any shops involving acnl items would be moved over, don't think the tbt market will be deleted. If that's what you meant.

 

[Zandy]

I think that merging the forums will have an equal number of pros/cons so it would be really hard to decide whether merging the purposes of the forums into one is worth it or not.

There have been many times where I have wanted to buy/sell items for IGB or TBT and didn't know which forum was the most suitable making a forum merge less confusing in those situations. Also, I've noticed that Re-Tail generally gets a lot more traffic than the TBT marketplace which would give people who wanted to sell or buy more views and reduce waiting times.

On the other side, it would be a little more difficult to distinguish at a glance which threads are looking to buy/sell for IGB and which are looking to buy/sell for TBT. New users probably don't know TBT too well and might be confused. I'm relatively new to the site still and on the first few days of joining - I was rather confused with "TBT" bells but fortunately the learning curve is not too steep.

 

[LaBelleFleur]

I agree with grouping all Animal Crossing transactions in one place. Many people currently use Re-Tail & the Villager Trading Plaza for TBT trades anyways because their threads get a lot more attention there than in the TBT Marketplace, since people in those boards are specifically looking for items/villagers. Plus there are many members who are only here for Animal Crossing & don't care about collectibles or TBT, therefore they don't look in the TBT Marketplace for AC items/villagers.

 

[Pokemanz]

I think this is a great idea, although maybe a [TBT]/[IGB] tag should be introduced for the shop titles so everyone knows what's going on. TBT IG shops will do a lot more business in Re-Tail.

I just hope people will pay attention so I don't get IGB offers in my TBT shop...

 

[Ariel.]

I don't like it, personally. Sometimes when I sell things in the Re-tail forum, I get people asking "will you take TBT", or in the villager trading I'll only sell for TBT but people always ask "will you take IGB"

TBT is the only place where people don't ask those questions, and it makes it a lot easier to find people selling for TBT, which I regularly do.

I say keep it separated.

 

[Rosie :)]

I say keep it collided.
People have already been using TBT Bells in Re-Tail, and other sections on the board.
It's not going to change, and you might as well just delete the whole TBT Marketplace, or make it into another board.
I mean, it IS kind of annoying seeing a villager thread in the TBT Marketplace.
Just my opinion.

 

[Ariel.]

Maybe you should make it a subforum if you add it so it's still separated but still all in one place.

 

[Cadbberry]

I so support that! Please do it so I can finally sell my items XD

 

[Red Cat]

So as I understand it, all buying, selling, and trading of ACNL items and services (except villagers which will remain in the Villager Trading Plaza) will be moved to Re-Tail, while other stuff like collectibles and Pokemon will stay on TBT Marketplace? If that is the case, I'd be fine with it as long as those two categories don't get mixed together in Re-Tail. It may be a good idea to make the thread prefixes more specific: i.e. Buying (IGB), Buying (TBT), Selling (IGB), and Selling (TBT) so that users know what other users are looking for or willing to pay with.

 

[Mustin]

So as I understand it, all buying, selling, and trading of ACNL items and services (except villagers which will remain in the Villager Trading Plaza) will be moved to Re-Tail, while other stuff like collectibles and Pokemon will stay on TBT Marketplace? If that is the case, I'd be fine with it as long as those two categories don't get mixed together in Re-Tail.

Yes, to clarify: We're only talking about Animal Crossing here. TBT Marketplace would remain the place for collectible trading among other things which don't fit anywhere else. It's not going anywhere.

 

[Skyfall]

I like this idea a lot. When you guys made a subforum for the Club Nintendo stuff, it made the marketplace cleaner and easier to navigate. So this is great.

 

[The Pennifer]

I agree with Skyfall's comment ... And I think Red Cat summed it up very well too. So, add me to the list of those supporting the proposed TBT Marketplace Changes! A big thumbs up!!

 

[Bulbamander]

I really think the Re-Tail shop works best for trading, selling and buying in-game content for ACNL for IGB. And like A r i e l said, you do get people asking "do you accept TBT". I propose this idea, though, if you do decide to merge them. Add prefixes that will make it easier to navigate and find a thread accepting the currency type you have to offer.

e.g. [BTB only] [IGB only] [BTB and IGB] etc.

 

[Skyfall]

Not advocating this idea but throwing it out there to mull it over...

So the 4 big categories in tbt market place is collectibles/btb to igb conversion, pokemon sales, in-game items (hybrids, furn, villagers), and nintendo club stuff.

I agree the in-game items rightfully belong in retail, and nintendo club got its own subsubsection.

Does it make sense to give pokemon its own subcategory too? Or give them a prefix so that those threads can identify themselves? There are people who dont care at all about btb conversions or collectibles but come here just for pokemon stuff. Maybe a sub category or a prefix of some kind will help them wade through and identify the threads they need more quickly

 

[p e p p e r]

I think it would be great to merge the shops selling ACNL items into retail, so people don't have to look in two different places. right now, new users don't even know to look in the TBT marketplace for ACNL items...

 

[piichinu]

I agree with this idea

 

[matt]

If so, I want things marked under a category tbt or ingame so I'm not scanning through villager sales which are for rediculous tbt prices instead of in game bells. They still need to be separated some way in the same forum