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Greedies buying EVERYTHING!!!!

I don't know if this has been posted before, but i desperately need to be able to set a limit on what you can but from 1 SBD. I recently ran an SBD sale for 500 currants each (it was only for newbies) and took 5 approaches to making sure no one would take more than what they were supposed to. 1. it was expressed on about 5 note poles and 11 notes scattered on the floor; 2. I censored and patrolled the entire sale, watching very carefully; 3. asked anyone who i noticed was taking too many to leave; 4 tried selling directly to newbies; and 5. lost it and started yelling at the greedies. After this discouraging experience, I feel it is of high importance to try and set a limit for what 1 person can buy from a specific SBD. Now that I am running a food pantry, this is more important than ever. Thoughts? Comments? +/- 1s?

Posted 89 days ago by Francie Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • How about writing on the note pole advertising to have newbies contact you through your butler and trade in person (as I see you have been doing in no.4?)
    Or even writing in the marketplace forum to get newbies to find you?

    You generosity is cool though :D
    Posted 89 days ago by purple goldfish Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Generosity is good but the only way to control who gets what is to hand things to people yourself. Your street and your tower are public which means anyone can walk in and buy as many of whatever as they want.

    I commend your desire to be nice to the new kids but you might want to look for another way that causes you less stress and requires less management.
    Posted 89 days ago by Oblivia Dollface Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Everything that allow us to control how do we want to give/sell has my positive vote. +1)
    Posted 89 days ago by Kul Koba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You're not alone in wanting to batch sell. I don't think SDBs are ever going to be the best way to do that.

    This is why I keep hoping my idea for a Home Street Spirit (a vendor/buyer whose menu of goods and prices YOU can set for whatever items, combination of items, or limited number of items you get to set) will catch on.
    Posted 89 days ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+!+!+!

    http://www.glitch.com/forum/ideas/25474/
    Thread already going about this here, we have to band together and make this idea exist! For every shop owner out there that wants to just set it and forget it for a day or two so they can sell to many glitchen and not one greedy glitchen. 

    This could easily be a toggle-able option for the SDB, it doesn't HAVE to have a selling limit, and even then it  could be so high it would be flexible and fun for the whole economy!
    Posted 89 days ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ Subscriber! | Permalink