Sick of everything being labeled hard to trade

📰・Trading Related Rant

Sure, some pets like the Golden and Diamond pets genuinely are hard to trade, and I have no issue labeling those as HTT. But lately it feels like the community has fallen into this mindset where every pet is either “easy to trade” or “hard to trade,” with absolutely no middle ground. At this point, offers get auto-declined if they aren’t packed with SSBDs and cows.
I’ve started noticing people calling so many random pets HTT, even though they traded perfectly fine just 2–3 months ago. Here are some of the pets I’ve personally offered that were declined for being “hard to trade”:
Kangaroo
Aussie Eggs
Pink Cat / Blue Dog
Chicken
Arctic Fox
Regular Unicorns
Mushroom Friends
Butterflies
…and the list goes on.
Are any of those actually hard to trade? In my opinion, no. At worst, some of them like Butterflies or Mushroom Friends are just mid to trade and might take a little patience. But calling every non-exotic non high tier pet HTT is getting ridiculous. Not every pet has to be either instant overpay bait or completely impossible to trade.
And honestly, if you’re labeling everything HTT, that just comes across as lazy trading. Some players don’t even try anymore if a pet isn’t one of the same five “preppy” pets getting overpays, they immediately slap the HTT label on it instead of actually finding the right trader. A pet taking more than 30 seconds to trade doesn’t automatically make it hard to trade. Some pets just require patience and the right audience.
I also think this mindset is a huge reason inflation and value manipulation have gotten so bad recently (in addition to the bot issue obviously). When people mass-label decent pets as HTT, it artificially lowers demand for them while funneling everyone toward the same small group of “accepted” pets. Then those pets get insanely inflated because everyone’s chasing them, while perfectly fine pets get treated like garbage for no real reason. A lot of values nowadays feel less based on actual rarity or demand and more based on community echo chambers. The more people blindly call things HTT, the easier it becomes for values to be manipulated.

Posted May 6, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

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