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This round of Teos has something different from the previous two! In this round, you can participate in an auction for a "PSD Use" of your favorite line set. That way, if you missed out on a certain Teo set, you can give another shot at getting one!
Teo PSD Use Auctions!
The auctions are based on a tier system, where your auction reward increases based on the final bid:
$5 - $99 -- PSD Use of Teo. Send an admin the colored image and it will be uploaded over your "blank Teo."
$100 - $149 -- Comes with MDT Your Teo will come with an MDT so you can commission one of our MDT artists to color it.
$150 - $199 -- Skilled Teo! Your Teo will come with all Hidden Item adventure skills as well as the Lockpick skill.
$200 - $249 -- Breeding Pair! You will get two Skilled Teos of the base you won, and two MDTs. Great for bidding with a friend!
$250+ -- Breeding Upgrade! You will get two Skilled Teos of the base you won, two MDTs, and a Rare PMBC Pack. Great for bidding with a friend!
Note that these auctions DO NOT count toward Bonus Credit!
These auctions end in seven days, so have fun and enjoy them! Be nice and don't hurt each other over the Teos! ;)
And thank you for voting for us in the Chase grant contest! Keep voting -- there's no harm in having more than the minimum number of votes to qualify!
We have a very, very big change planned for June and we had hoped that this sale will help provide some "financial padding" for the change... we think you're going to like it, as it's been asked for for a while! Please purchase what you can so we can confidently give it a shot!
TO CLARIFY- These auctions are NOT to drive the new change. These auctions are intended to raise the $17,000 promised to the Teo artists if their sets sold on the first day (170 sets x $100 bonus). Because most people spent bonus credit saved up over months on the Teos instead of spending USD in the sale to get them, we are now severely in the hole again and will not be able to pay people anymore (programmers, artists, server, etc) if we cannot make this money to pay the artists. It was an oversight with the implementation bonus credit and will be rectified if we survive this mistake.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Thu May 28, 2015 9:11pm
- Vespertine
(#1516)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:47pm
Prof Jamew (#2712) - It means it will be fixed or corrected.
- Absinthe Minded
(#55980)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:48pm
Fannish (FreeFlier) (#1818): I can understand it sucks losing out on an auction last minute but I am not sure how the site would lose money this way. Whoever wins the auction still has to pay the last bid + whatever amount they added to beat you.
-Sean
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
(#1818)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:50pm
Also- someone spending 100$+ on a teo, directly, with NO other benefits? Is keeping the lines DAMNED rare. :/ Just, saying.
You can earn GP, the GP rate is 5gp per 2 usd for USD shop items, on a good day.
That means if someone bids, and wins, a 101$ bid, and the second bidder at 100$ also exercises their right to a PSD, it is, no joke, 250gp for a SINGLE psd use.
That's so damn rare it's ridiculous.
So no, I don't see the logic behind the argument.
- Absinthe Minded
(#55980)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:50pm
Sorry about the double post, I accidentally refreshed.
-Sean
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
(#1818)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:54pm
Sean&Katje (#55980) simply put, I was willing to go up to 274USD on a bid that was sniped last second for less than HALF that.
Instead of fighting me fairly and openly, they waited, planning for and specifically stating that they were going to "Save their money by not entering bidding wars".
By CHEATING the entire spirit of charity auctions like that, by NOT raising the bids, they were HURTING the potential sales.
And we can't afford that a second time. :/
Not only does it suck as the poor fool that got sniped, it sucks for the site as a whole, because that extra 100$ could have been useful to the site.
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
(#1818)
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Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:58pm
For the record, yes, yes I am selling stuff online to raise 250$ of extra capital to use in this auction, and yes, I plan to spend it on up to 4 teos. If I only get one, that's fine. But I want to be darn sure that people fight me openly, and SAVOR squeezing me down to my top 2. Because THAT is what a charity auction is about, giving to the SITE and incidentally getting something shiny and hard one out of it.
- Katje
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Posted on: Fri May 29, 2015 12:00am
I have a weird question. As I am semi new to the site and I still don't understand all of the ins and outs please bear with me and not think I am too silly. I did get my teo last night that I really wanted. Now it's PSD is in the auction. Does that mean if someone makes a teo with it that they could make one that looked exactly like mine if they wanted?
- Riri
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Posted on: Fri May 29, 2015 12:02am
IJskoningin (#56630) Technically they -could-, but I'm pretty sure it's against the rules to deliberately make a custom that looks like someone else's. That won't happen, though. Don't worry about it.
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
(#1818)
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Posted on: Fri May 29, 2015 12:06am
IJskoningin (#56630) metal breedings or painted metal breedings or painted twins ALL use the exact same lines- so no, ignore the fussy folks, no matter what, the lines were going to be used for new colorings unless someone had bought all 5 of a set and refused to breed it EVER.
And the site is VERY good about policing breedings and customs to prevent folks making direct copies of existing pets.
Posted on: Thu May 28, 2015 11:47pm
Fannish (FreeFlier) (#1818): I can understand it sucks losing out on an auction last minute but I am not sure how the site would lose money this way. Whoever wins the auction still has to pay the last bid + whatever amount they added to beat you.
-Sean