Despite everyone's hate for shops having 1000T weeks and all the hate for shops stealers we all:
A: Still buy the 1000T shops out completely AND
B: Complain when all these shops are just gifting.
I mean for our constant hate of shops you THINK just once we would say "Fuck it, not buying a 1000T gift i'll wait next week where they're like 600T" yet these shops generate 3.5K everytime.
And sure BOGO is a "great deal" and all but you have little control over what that 2nd design can and would be. Some shops don't even do BOGO or fail to meet their end of the deal.
I mean, if we honestly wanted no more 1000T weeks we'd stop supporting the people putting up these prices. But here we are.
And i'm not saying this to bash the three main people in control of shops ( _Aria, Lucinda and SexGoddx) because it's in their right to keep their shop alive for however long they can. They would have any/every right to make EVERY week a 1000T week if they wanted to, and they totally could. But in the end it doesn't matter WHAT is posted or for HOW much, it comes down to WHO buys it; and we only have ourselves to blame.
If the system isn't working, you fix it. Tengaged_Moderation or randomize aren't the ones who need to "fix shops" because the way it's set up is completely fair to those with shops who have had said shop for months and generate income every week. Even if they were to fix the algo to make it possible for newer shops to reach the spotlight, we'd still need 1000T weeks and even then the shop owners can come back next week or two.
If YOU want change, YOU do something about it Tengaged.
Okay, even if we stop buying they still buy themselves out, and then gift there friends the rest. Obviously the same shop owners are going to be here forever unless something is changed about it. And you're right we stop buying and steal then we are changing stuff, but literally nobody has time to sit and stalk the shops page 24/7/356. There is a simple fix in my opinion, and people that do get shops can make a profit from it.
Obviously this system isnt working, and the best way to solve is just have no shop owners move on.
Change the price so people get 20% Back, if they post for 1000 then they get 7k t's and if they post for the regular 699t's you can, say then they get roughly 4900 t's.
And no shop owner moves on, so if a shop owner wants to post for 1k t's fine then do it but other shop owners may post for less. And the positive of nobody moving on is that it lets more shop owners come in and out.
And to avoid future problems that would come up like say i post for 799 t's.. Ill get about 5600 t's.. And then i have to wait 5-10 weeks before i can get another shop. This will get rid of the same shop owners, kinda like stars.
Bryce12 I respect what you're saying but having no competition in shops takes the fun out of it, and all shops would likely resort to posting for 1T's or so.
Also the percentages of T's back versus how much a shop costs makes it not even worth it otherwise.
CheapCheep yes, i do agree. But obviously if we don't act then it will be the same shop owners ever time, and if we dont buy like you said then they just gift there friends. They don't care, lol.
The shops are messed up though LOL, if everyone sells out it should be algoed who moves on, not the oldest shops move on
And the shop owners make 3500 Ts a week during 1000t weeks, so even if they were knocked out thats already 70% towards a new shop, now a shop owner like Aria/Lucinda/Sexgodd who have had many 1000t weeks can easily buy a new shop whenever they want because of all the profit they make so realistically you can't even knock them out, if we don't buy 1000t designs this week and one of the main 3 get knocked out, they will be back in a couple weeks