question about selling/trading/giving away villagers

[cloudmask]

hey guys, so i'm really sorry if this has been answered somewhere or if this is the wrong place to ask this, but i cannot find the answer anywhere and i'm having a hard time figuring out how to navigate this site.

what is the protocol for selling, trading, or giving away a villager that you currently have in your town but has not announced to you that they are moving? for example, i want to trade away cheri, deli, and iggly, but none of them seem to be interested in leaving anytime soon. how does this work? if i put up a thread advertising them for trade and someone offers what i want in return, but my villager still wont move out, do the other user and i just hold our respective ends of the trade until my villager decides to leave? or am i not allowed to advertise villagers for trade that i cannot guarantee will want to move anytime soon?

i'm sorry if this question is confusing; i'm not really sure how to word it.

 

[Bowie]

Well, selling/trading/auction/giveaway threads are usually pretty casual. You, as the host, tell the circumstances of the transaction, and that's really it.

I would personally avoid people who weren't prepared to go ahead right away, but I'm sure there are people patient enough to agree to that.

I think the only real rule regarding that is you can't cancel it. So, if you say you're going to do it, you'd better do it.

 

[cloudmask]

so as long as i'm upfront about the fact that the villagers haven't announced that they're moving yet (though i have 10 currently so one of them has to decide to leave eventually), then it's fine?

thank you for your response ^.^