I'm pretty much resigned to not being able to sell the offspring of a number of my pairs, but trendy things can sell. CryFace is the new IriShim, and Vipera/Hypnotic are still salable to some degree. Even Okapi is newish enough sometimes: I sold 3 out of 4 of my last Okapi nestlings (WCs and Imps). I do try hard to go for flashy colors (saturated brights - I don't do pastels), but these midnight/blues, which are much more subtle, have always sold well. Shipat / Shikshokh are my sales leader breeders. The most fun is seeing what lovely names people give the Sh/Sh children.
If I'm willing to flack things a bit, I can typically get rid of 1 to 3 in each nest. I post them on the Nature sales thread after I have let you all have first crack. Then, after the initial 3-day sales period is over, I use my 2 hatchery posts in the general dragon sales forum. I advertise as "sale prices" or "25% off" or whatever, and I usually don't go below 18 KT, so only really dedicated train/Exalt people buy them for that purpose. I "bump" my threads as often as I can for a day or so, and if they don't sell after that, I Exalt.
In light of your news, though, I won't bother with a second sales period for the Okapi kids. :-)
And I will hold off Exalting my random fodder dragons who are getting more than a week old until Sunday. (I don't end up spending much time in our clan forum, truth be told, so thanks for telling me!)
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Date: 2015-05-16 03:50 pm (UTC)I'm pretty much resigned to not being able to sell the offspring of a number of my pairs, but trendy things can sell. CryFace is the new IriShim, and Vipera/Hypnotic are still salable to some degree. Even Okapi is newish enough sometimes: I sold 3 out of 4 of my last Okapi nestlings (WCs and Imps). I do try hard to go for flashy colors (saturated brights - I don't do pastels), but these midnight/blues, which are much more subtle, have always sold well. Shipat / Shikshokh are my sales leader breeders. The most fun is seeing what lovely names people give the Sh/Sh children.
If I'm willing to flack things a bit, I can typically get rid of 1 to 3 in each nest. I post them on the Nature sales thread after I have let you all have first crack. Then, after the initial 3-day sales period is over, I use my 2 hatchery posts in the general dragon sales forum. I advertise as "sale prices" or "25% off" or whatever, and I usually don't go below 18 KT, so only really dedicated train/Exalt people buy them for that purpose. I "bump" my threads as often as I can for a day or so, and if they don't sell after that, I Exalt.
In light of your news, though, I won't bother with a second sales period for the Okapi kids. :-)
And I will hold off Exalting my random fodder dragons who are getting more than a week old until Sunday. (I don't end up spending much time in our clan forum, truth be told, so thanks for telling me!)