Pink Poogle Toy Forum

Hm... I'm thinking it is him, but I'm wondering now, too.

Dang girlie...I wish I had your memory! I can't even remember to put on my shoes on the way out the door...and I live in the cold arctic. O_o

But yes, a friend of mine in my guild (I think it was Jade...won't give the full user unless it's needed) got in trouble when we were discussing Ebay. She didn't get iced, but got a big fat warning for saying it. We were talking about how us europeans could get the space faerie as a challenger when there wasn't any merchandise to be bought in our areas to unlock her in the battledome. Myself and a few other members used Ebay to make some purchases of neopets merchandise to be able to do so...and were discussing it, and what items we bought to get it. (I got some stickers after noticing my blue acara plushie didn't come with a code)

It was all very innocent. X_x Needless to say, I never discussed it again after she got warned, and we all shut our yaps after jade shared her mail with us.

88. Donna got 130... seriously. She's broken 100 twice in her life and she goes and gets 130. The guy on my lane gets 180! It's just not fair, are they being trained by professionals or something and they aren't telling me.

No, seriously it is me (Adam). Regarding all your posts about rule clarifications, yes I do still have influence over that area of the company I just choose not to get involved as we, believe it or not, have competent staff in charge. I will make sure that your questions are answered however, and if people are getting frozen for the wrong reasons (which has happened in the past) I shall make sure that is taken care of.

thank you for coming back to reassure us

88's good, i'd be happy with that. but then, as i said, i'm getting worse.

Borovan/Adam ... thank you for returning. We're not trying to scare you off, honest! We do have questions and concerns, and they're just not be addressed in a complete or timely manner.

BTW, congrats Big Time on an 88! Geez, my normal is maybe ... 10?

I did want to address the staff statement. I have removed the staffer's name from this (for their privacy), as well as my email, etc. for my privacy. Good thing I truly AM a packrat! Please note that anything in bold is my highlighting ...




I did not receive any answer as to whether we are allowed to sell items on other accounts - to keep in and support that account. I also did not receive, in my mind a clear answer to the question of using the tp to send np/items to another account ... is not a concrete answer. Nor is the answer to the question of being able to enter the gallery/pet/site spotlites, BC entries (and now the Lookup of the Week entries?) ...

Yes, I did write back for further clarification - No I never received a reply.

I have heard of way too many cases of people sending things to a secondary account - for a gallery, say - and getting frozen for "multi accounts" ... same with people who play on the same computer, like the mom I knew who bought and sent using the Send to Neofriend a paintbrush to her son as a surprise (they were both "main" accounts) - both were frozen for "multi accounts" and never got them back.

People are getting to the point of being afraid to send or accept anything ... you get an item from someone and they end up frozen for something - you get frozen for accepting something from them. You send a friend or family member an item (especially a pricy one or they're on the same IP) and you run the risk of being frozen for "multi" or "scamming" ... how you're scamming if you're sending someone something is beyond me.

And please get us a list of words to NOT say, along with the "unwritten rules" posted IN the Rules, and the clarification of the No Games on Other Accounts that was in the August 10 News. That should be added to the actual T&C, don't you think? I do refer people when I see them ask on the HC to look at the August 10 News for that very good clarification, but who knows how many people actually will.

Sorry Adam, I worked in law firms for over 20 years and I'm really used to seeing things spelled out fully in black and white ... I've even composed and filed legal briefs myself. It would probably be easier to just make a list of everything that's questioned ... and just have you or whoever is in charge of the T&C write Yes or No next to each item.

I, too, would like to know whether or not it's okay to sell items on a second account. I use my main account for the dailies, games, etc., and occasionally selling things, but my storage account is where I sell things, usually. And as that storage account was just unfrozen, I'd rather it not get frozen again, this time for my not knowing what a rule is.



Well then. *Thinks*

Oh yes. Will there ever be a Meriball avatar, or a Meriball themed day, with a Meriball avatar released?

*Loves Meriball*

Alex and everconfused:

Have you guys peeked at my Do's and Don'ts of Spare and Gallery Accounts guide here on PPT? I asked some staff members those same sort of questions...and collected the replies they gave me in a small FAQ about that subject.

http://www.pinkpt.com/index.php?page=su ... ntsofspare

Valerie,

I did go to your link. After waiting for my pop up blocker to stop going insane, I got to read it! It's very very good. You did alot of work and were lucky enough to keep getting responses from Support. Kudos!

However, and I say this with all respect and admiration for what you have done (and yes, it is helpful), this is the sort of thing that should be written out fully in the T&C. Why? Well, because these are the sorts of questions seen on a regular basis on the boards, guilds, etc.; not everyone comes here or knows about your FAQ; the Rules can and do change; what people are told depends on who answers questions ... just the other day someone was arguing on the HC saying we can play games on other accounts -- because they had just gotten an autoreply from Support saying they could! which is obviously an out-of-date response.

So, I for one still would like to see a full and complete FAQ, T&C, whatever ... For example (I don't claim to get everything in here - can't remember everything - and this is just kind of the things I see being questioned) .... things that just say Yes or No we should all know (but the no games thing needs to be moved from the 8/10/04 news to the T&C):

Yes, you can have up to 5 accounts.

No, you can't play games on any account but your main account

No, you cannot restock, buy stock, scratchcards, lottery tickets, or do any of the "dailies" on any account but your main account (what happens if you get a random event on a second account giving you a lottery ticket????)

Yes (or No) you can sell items in your gallery/shop, tp, auctions on other accounts as long as the np stay in that account

Yes (or No) you can send items/np to your other accounts from your main accout via Send to Neofriend, TP or by buying something overpriced from your other account

No, you cannot send NP to your main account

Yes (or No) you can enter the Gallery/Pet/Neohome/Site/Lookup Spotlight, NT Entries and BC on other accounts (of course I think we SHOULD be able to ... it's only a trophy and what, 10k np? if you win - how much does a decent gallery cost? Lots of people have either sold or just stopped working on galleries, etc. because we don't think/know if we can enter anything on other accounts)

Yes (or No) you can gain War Trophies on other accounts (if your strongest battling pet is not on your main account and you want to participate in a war this could be important)

Yes (or No) you can, if you share a computer (not an account) send an item of any value to another person with their own main account (different email/sign up info) on the same IP without being frozen

No (or yes? doubt this one highly - don't think this should be allowed personally) you can share an account - as long as you trust the other person and take responsibility should anything untoward happen

No(or Yes?) you may not have special shields on your lookups or anything that would hide your true user stats ... same rules for pet descriptions (as far as image/stats)

Yes (as far as I've been told) you can have and use the Lab Ray on any or all of your accounts (yes, this has been asked - often)

No you may not have any type of contest, giveaway (including newbie/birthday, etc. packs), donation drives, raffles in your guild, guild web, shop, lookup or petpage. I know it says you can't but it needs to be made even clearer -- there are some people who just either don't or won't understand this.

The following words are not to be used on the site:
hot, bikini, ebay, the n, h and d words (they really should be taken off the site - NQII and the little text for the boards come to mind), and any other words that the filters aren't stopping but that are no-nos.

Is that a start for all the questions so many people have?

I still don't think it is Adam. He was Borovan2000 on the last one, so why wouldn't he still have the 2000 at the end?

It's definitely Adam. He instantly understood my reference to xylophone man, and it'd take a really really resourceful impersonator to have found out about that in advance.

But then how could he give us the URL to the new yellow bar preview?

It's fair to see that if it isn't Adam, it's another member of the Neopets Staff

Yeah, and if you have been observant enough, he posted a picture of himself and Donna. I don't think a normal person would be able to ferret out such pictures without prior knowledge.

You're incredibly mean, Adam. Now I know I'll have to try it. And if I really get iced...

everconfused: Thanks for the input on my article.

I have been indeed very fortunate to get some attentive staff members to answer my questions in the past...I would have liked to be more in depth with what I wrote, but sometimes responses take weeks to arrive (no doubt staff at TNT are swamped as it is).

But I agree 110% with what you said about it needing to be formally placed in the T&C of the site. Morningstar and myself have talked on more than one occasion how greatly we feel a FAQ answering these little questions we players have would not only make life easier for us, but staff as well. Not just spare account questions, but such things as "Is it okay to have a custom shield on my lookup?" etc....etc...

An FAQ would make things a lot easier on all of us.