Indigo will not sell??

On Tuesday I grabbed an special indigo task worth 376 derby points. By the end of the day, the task was complete and my shop was full of indigo. Normally, this would sell out in 10-20 minutes, but that isn't the case this week. The indigo has just been sitting in my shop for 36+ hours despite placing multiple ads, with the only sales coming from Greg. I wondered if for some reason other players couldn't see my ads/reach my farm, but the sugarcane I advertised was gone within minutes. I assume that with the Harvest Derby there is simply too much indigo and too little demand, but it seems odd that not one bundle has been purchased.

Is anyone else experiencing this or something similar? My shop is going to be full for quite a while if Greg is my only customer. :rolleyes:

Indigo has just a few uses, unlike sugar. Never too much sugar.....

Same. Mine sold when I priced them at 70. My poor neighbours were nudged(bullied) into buying the rest. :3
Just themed derby stuff.

Judging by the DD, there are many farms in the same position. I know for our neighborhood, most of the high-points tasks this week have been indigo. I've been trashing them left and right. No-one in our NH wants them.

Maybe the best thing to do is check the DD before choosing one of these special Harvest Derby tasks. You can see what is and is not selling and make decisions that way.

Good luck -- hopefully some of your visitors will buy the indigo you have in your silo.

Mine is going for 1 coin and not even needing to advertise

One of my hood mates is on her 4th indingo task, that's practically all she's been doing, she has been selling hers for the default price of 70, she says they fly out of her shop the instant she fills it, I think there are just so many of these tasks being offered, and people are looking for a bargain so they have enuf to load there fields to do the task. So I think if you ask the default price of 70 they should sell.

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Originally Posted by FanoftheFrog

On Tuesday I grabbed an special indigo task worth 376 derby points. By the end of the day, the task was complete and my shop was full of indigo. Normally, this would sell out in 10-20 minutes, but that isn't the case this week. The indigo has just been sitting in my shop for 36+ hours despite placing multiple ads, with the only sales coming from Greg. I wondered if for some reason other players couldn't see my ads/reach my farm, but the sugarcane I advertised was gone within minutes. I assume that with the Harvest Derby there is simply too much indigo and too little demand, but it seems odd that not one bundle has been purchased.

Is anyone else experiencing this or something similar? My shop is going to be full for quite a while if Greg is my only customer. :rolleyes:

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This is temporary and has happened regularly since the game began. Depending on what's going on in the game, the dirt has regularly been overly full of the same thing. Each time we got a new machine , there would be a product that was easiest to produce or which took longer to produce and folks would make lots of it to master the machine faster. Different events have also affected the paper.

I know that doesn't help you right now but if your shop is completely full and you need spaces, see if you can convince a Neighbor to buy it all so that the little people will get it or maybe they can buy it and then sell it back to you. You will still have a full barn but at least you can sell other stuff. The little people will eventually buy it in larger amounts and it will go faster. Just be careful. People who generally don't sell to the little guys, sometimes forget that they will also try to buy your saws and axes. Be careful not to accept that offer.

With the themed Derbies offering special high-point tasks for specific crops, it appears that this phenomenon of the glut-of-the-week will become a regular occurrence. As Tigg says, this doesn't help you now, assuming that your indigo is being marketed at full price.

Assuming that you have a reasonably large silo, let the crop stack up and sell to the little visitors rather than putting any more up for sale even if you have empty crates. They will buy hundreds at a time. In fact, if you are patient, you can get both of them asking for a huge number of the same item. Just keep sending away the one who isn't asking for the crop you want to unload. I didn't participate in the strawberry Derby, but I shopped around as a public service and bought strawberries from farms with small shops that were filled to the brim and had more strawberries growing. Then I sold them to my little visitors and bought more. I haven't been doing my bit yet this week to clear out indigo, but I may.

Since the primary goal is to make space in your silo for the next load of the crop du jour, sell for one coin, or at least no more than default. Folks will buy in order to resell to the little visitors.

I scrolled through my friends' shops, and nobody is selling indigo. That tells me that everyone is unloading their indigo/potatoes on little visitors rather than jamming up their shops. It can be done, and I imagine that in subsequent Derbies more and more farmers will go the "little visitor" route. However, that will just help individuals...I expect that there will always be thousands of farmers flooding the DD with the featured crop.

Supply vs Demand. You need to sell off at lower prices to make it move. I can't say exactly what price it is selling at. Personally, I am buying any and all indigo up to 12 coins per indigo and selling it off to the farm visitors which are buying it for 14 coins per indigo. So, I would recommend selling it off to the farm visitors, or pricing it somewhere between max and 14 coins per indigo to see where it starts selling. I havn't really seen it moving at 20 coins per indigo so it might be less. If you really need to move it and visitors won't work because it isn't in your top 2 crops, price it lower in your rss.

It's really about finding what value it will sell for.

Sell them at 1 coin or default and they will sell - at max however you'll be waiting a LONG time, there is so little use for Indigo.

Selling default or less will attract players like me with a big Silo who can store them and sell large quantities to visitors for a small profit.

All crops I sell to farm visitors, my RSS is empty. I did 4 cornucopia task, indigo and lettuce task. And I have almost 1000 free space in my silo :)

Thats a good trick since visitors usually buy half of what you have. No need to waste your RSS slots waiting forever for them to sell. Smart

Thanks for the advice everyone. I had a neighbor buy it all and sell it back to me. Now just waiting for one of the visitors to stop by.

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Originally Posted by FanoftheFrog

The indigo has just been sitting in my shop for 36+ hours despite placing multiple ads,

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Lower your asking price! The fact that your indigo used to take 10-20 minutes to sell shows how low the demand for indigo always is. And the harvest derby just makes indigo that much more undesirable. Stuff that is in demand and/or properly priced rarely takes more than a minute to disappear.

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Originally Posted by Wussypuss

Mine is going for 1 coin and not even needing to advertise

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Mine is selling fast like this too. Selling all my crops at default and they are going very quickly.:)

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Originally Posted by FanoftheFrog

Thanks for the advice everyone. I had a neighbor buy it all and sell it back to me. Now just waiting for one of the visitors to stop by.

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:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Indigo is one of those goofy plants and sadly its almost every task on my board 😩

I earned almost 100k coins selling all derby crops only to farm visitors. Not bad :)