Pink Poogle Toy Forum

Say you have a krawk. You really want a Draik. Or say you have a faerie pet and you'd really like a rainbow pet. Well, is it legal to switch pets with your friend or troll the boards looking for someone to switch with?

The reason why I ask is that I see lots of boards these days, some saying it is legal and some saying it isn't.

Both people are pointing back to last weeks editorial, which is kind of confusing.

The people who say it isn't legal point back to the same editorial as the people why say it is legal.

The people who say it is legal are saying "But no neopoints, items, or valuables are being traded. The only thing being traded are the pets themselves. We aren't doing this for money or valuables. We are doing it for free because we want to switch pets with someone."

The people who are saying it isn't legal count the pets themselves as a valuable commodity.

The people who want to switch pets say "But this is what transferring is for!"

And the others are saying that transferring isn't intended to help people switch or trade pets with someone permanently. Yeah, maybe people can safely lend an avator pet now, but they should give it back.

Then transferring is also for maybe moving pets around on side accounts or giving away a lab pet if you run an adoption agency.

But they say that transferring isn't supposed to be used to swap pets with your friend.

So it is still kind of confusing and I wish the staff would say what was really legal and what they really intended it all for.

I was just reading a board on this on the BD Chat Unfortunately, since there appears to be no clear answer, this will end up being debated as much as the -4^2 incident. I hope TNT addresses this issue in this week's Editorial

I wish they'd answer it in the news as soon as possible because the many people who think this is legal may be surprised to find themselves frozen if it isn't legal. Well, I actually haven't heard of anyone getting frozen or warnings just yet and I have seen a lot of boards like "I have a cybunny I'd like to trade for a-" type boards. So I don't know, if people are getting frozen or warnings we should start to hear about it soon. I'll just have to keep a look out.

Personally, I would never switch my pets with anyone else's. I worked hard for mine and I like them too much. But I don't begrudge others the chance to do that if they want to.

I don't see why it wouldn't be legal. Fostering and adopting is legal, yes? Well, what's the difference between two people switching pets, and two people adopting out for each other? The way I see it, you are just trading equal things. If you trade items, that's ok. If you trade art, that's ok. They don't want you paying for your art, and they don't want you buying pets. Two people freely gifting each other pets shouldn't be a problem either.

The FAQ implies it can be permanant quite clearly.



Seems pretty clear to me you can exchange Neopets "legally" without any problems.

Editorial answer for reference:


I think it's legal, or at least it should be. Saying it's illegal means if you give someone a pet, they absolutely cannot give you one. That would make what I did illegal: Sending one of my 4 pets to my side, and sending another pet from that side to my main (for an avatar).

I think the editorial was just saying "Yes you can, but beware. Once the pet is out of your account, it's not yours. Be sure you trust who you send it to." It used to be like that when people would send avatar items to each other, but recently they've said that if there was an agreement and someone walked off with the item is now considered scamming. It's a pretty gray area, but I don't think trading pets is illegal. I don't know why they shoved that PSA about items/neopoints into the answer, but that may be the part that is confusing everyone.

If you are trading pets, I'd get it in Neomail or on the boards, somewhere in writing so that you can prove there was a mutual agreement. That way you could maybe report them for scamming if they don't hold up their end of the deal.


And the FAQ in the post above mine just seals the deal to me.

Everyone on the Help Chat thinks otherwise (not me included). Some have even taken it upon themselves to 'translate' the words of the Neopets staff.

What I don't understand is, why can't TNT skip the Editorial and just edit the FAQ. People clearly don't get it and need everything spelling out (me included) so why not cut to the chase and say a clear 'trading one pet for another pet is fine, so long as that is all that is being traded' along with all the spiel about how it's up to them if they want to trade back and so on. They probably should have added an actual 'trade' feature though. It would make av lending a lot easier since you'd get a pet for the other of equal value as collateral in the event of something weird happening. Like them getting frozen along with your pet.

And this week's editorial addresses this even more clearly; it's legal.

Ha! Is not not pretty much exactly what I said *gloats in her big fat ego all gloatily like*

Well we know it is legal now. But really, I have seen so many boards today where people are saying "Someone stole my pet! They blocked my neomails and they refuse to send me the pet I was promised!"

It is really getting out of hand.


It is a risk you have to take. Even the nicest seeming people could steal your pet.

Didn't TNT say that was considered scamming someone and is reportable?

Well, between TNT saying that elaborate applications are out and trading is okay... the pound board now is overflowing with pets "up for trade" and not a single "up for adoption" ¬.¬

Mostly I don't care either way because I much prefer to create my own pets. The only thing is this pretty much ruins my already slim chances of someday adopting an unconverted pet. (that's the only reason I would ever want to adopt a pet from someone else, customization redraws ruined many of my dream pets and I'd never want to paint my own now, I'd only want to adopt an old unconverted one)

Money may or may not be able to buy you love, but it sure as heck can't buy you an unconverted Faerie Xweetok. (;