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Option to be notified if a watched trade receives an offer

Option to be notified if a watched trade receives an offer
Posted 2021-02-19 07:21:49
#347299

Hello devs!

So recently I’ve been offering on a few trades, only to be “out bid” by someone else with a better offer. Sometimes the trade stays up for longer than a day, so I often forget to look at the trade for other offers and make a new, better offer. Oftentimes, another offer gets accepted when I think I’m the only one offering!

So my suggestion is this: add an optional function that allows a user to be notified if another users offers on a watched trade.

This could be another opt in statement like the watch trade question: “would you like to be notified on new offers for this trade?” And if you click yes, then you get game notifications like the trade owner does.
Rusty
#9419
Posted 2021-02-19 08:07:51
#347351
You remind me when I was bidding for fox tails and pelts, I wished then I had been notified about competitors outbidding me.
Dżanek
#24018
Posted 2021-02-19 08:27:36
#347376

Haha, not fox items for me, but NBW albino carriers. But this would definitely help out for highly sought out items too!
Rusty
#9419
Posted 2021-02-19 09:44:46
#347462

Huge support. The trades/buying system is kind of a mess, so anything to help ease it toward better usability has got my vote.

 finnfinite
#21205
Posted 2021-10-13 03:59:14
#540080
Yes, please. I originally thought this was what the 'watch trade' function would be to start with, not that it would just... y'know, bookmark it. I can make bookmarks on my own, what I need from this feature is to be notified instead of having to check it manually!

Granted, I imagine it might annoy some people to get a lot of notifications so maybe have the ability to turn those on and off for individual trades?
Flower
#3196
Posted 2021-10-13 07:34:07
#540127
Support! Often, I watch a trade because I'm curious about how much the wolf/item in question will sell for. So it's very uninformative just to get a message "Watched Trade Completed" with no information about what the offer was.
Lionel
#34199
Posted 2022-02-01 16:00:08
#650237
okay I know this is pretty old at this point but I wanna bring it back!!! it seems silly that this isn't already how the 'watch' feature works, considering right now it basically functions as a bookmark... which... is already its own feature!!  I, too, like to watch trades just to get an idea of what it might go for, so I like seeing the different offers!  also it's a bummer when there is something I'm interested in and it gets snagged before I can even see what I was up against. 

even if it was just a banner notif vs. a message we receive, I think it would make a huge difference!

(also I'm sorry if this has been discussed by staff since this thread was originally posted lmao) 		Hawkins
#11604
Posted 2022-02-01 16:17:44
#650251
I fully support this! I'm honestly not sure what the point of watching a trade is, as the feature stands - like others have said, I can bookmark trades on my own. I think it would be much more helpful to get information about what offers the trade is getting rather than just receiving a notification when the trade ends.
Also on the flip side, it would make me feel better as a seller to know that those who are interested have a fair chance to offer before I accept a trade. I don't like to leave anyone waiting for too long, but I hate ending trades when I don't know if everyone who may have wanted to offer actually got a chance.
I think an optional toggle is a great idea, so people who do like to use it as a bookmarking system can still do that without clogging up their notifications.
Ghost
#49933
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