Neopets rules guild shop question

Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:11 am

6. You May Only Have Five Accounts Because Your Pets Need Your Attention. It is important that Neopets users are responsible for their pets and play the game in a fair manner. Therefore, do not create more accounts or Neopets than you can maintain. You are allowed a maximum of five (5) accounts. One of these accounts, your main account, can do everything on Neopets. The other four accounts (except if one is a guild account as explained below) can adopt Neopets and maintain a gallery but cannot have a store, play games or any other activity that earns Neopoints or participate in any voting activities. You may freely transfer items among your accounts but they should be on the same e-mail address as your main account. If you are the head of a guild, you may use one of your five accounts as a guild account and it should be named as such (for example, Abandoned Computer Chips Orphanage guild account). In addition to your main account, a guild account can have a store but cannot earn Neopoints in any manner other than through the store, auctions and trades (and anything that happens on that account could impact your other accounts). If you maintain a guild account, you will be held responsible for that account. You are permitted only one guild account per guild.

So say you have 4 accounts.
1) The account your guild (a) is founded on
2) your main account in a different guild (b)
3) a side account as a member in the guild (a)
4) a side account in another guild (c)

You (I) can have 2 shops, a personal and a guild. Does the guild shop have to be on the account that the guild was founded from? The rules say "the head of the guild", but it doesn't say "the account the guild was founded on". So my guild shop could be on account 3, and my personal on 2 OR 4? Because your shop doesn't have to be on your main account.

Is that right?

Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:03 am

Your regular shop has to be on your main account - side accounts cannot earn np.

The whole guild shop thing completely baffles me, to be honest. I would think that the guild shop would be on the account that the guild was founded in/that you are a member of and/or on council. I would think that having a guild shop for AdoptMePlease on an account where you're a member of NeverAdoptPets would, at the very least, raise a red flag.

Personally, I don't see the need for guild shops. There's no contests, raffles, giveaways, new member packs, etc. allowed. So to me, there's really no need for np for the guild. But that's just me. It also, from reading the T&C section you quoted, sounds like alot of trouble ... "(and anything that happens on that account could impact your other accounts). ... you will be held responsible for that account". *gulp*

Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:07 pm

Darn, I forgot that your shop had to be on your main account. I remember when a lot of people had their shops on side accounts. Mine was too, because I don't want to draw attention to my main account to get neomails and guild requests, etc.

It says no give aways, but it doesn't say no birthday presents, no anniversary presents, no 'we all chipped in and here's the new shiny pb that you wanted' presents.

I was wondering which account it had to be on, because I rarely go in the account that founded the guild, but I go in the account that's in the guild all the time. The second account is a council member of course (since I did found the guild). I thought I remembered seeing someone saying that you could have the shop on a different account, because what if the head of the guild gets frozen, does that mean you can't have a shop?

Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:25 pm

Hi again AQ

Well, I just took a look at the T&C again, and it does say:

One of these accounts, your main account, can do everything on Neopets. The other four accounts (except if one is a guild account as explained below) can adopt Neopets and maintain a gallery but cannot have a store, play games or any other activity that earns Neopoints or participate in any voting activities.

I bolded the store sentence. So yes, your regular shop has to be on your main account. I keep everything blocked just about all the time. I occasionally open neomails, but even that after about a day gets blocked again - I just can't stand the absurd/annoying/begging things I get from complete strangers.

As to the guild - technically speaking, I "THINK" you can give each other in your guild prezzies, but I have seen people run into problems having something on the TP with a guild name in the description - warnings and trades cancelled for 'advertising' and for 'giveaways', especially if they said new person pack, birthday pack, things like that. The "everyone chipped in and here's the pb you wanted" is so nice -- but I'd be super careful on that one - that could be seen as pooling which is definitely against the rules. We can thank avatar scammers for that one.

If you are the head of a guild, you may use one of your five accounts as a guild account and it should be named as such (for example, Abandoned Computer Chips Orphanage guild account).

The guild shop, I don't know what to tell you. Seems to me your choices would be - have the guild shop on the account that founded the guild and that you're the founder of - it says the head of a guild; or don't bother with a guild shop at all. Maybe you should write to support and try to get an answer out of them. Whatever they do tell you, follow that and keep a copy of the email as a just in case.

Since I've been a member of the guild I'm in, once the guild leader decided to try to get a pb for a very active, good member. She sent neo emails (it's a premium guild) to the rest of us, and just said if we wanted to chip in to buy something from her shop but there was no obligation. And yes, the person did get the pb. But it's not something that happens on a regular basis.