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I did some testing last night.
Put 1 panel at max price in my shop (without advertise), waited for 5 minutes nobody buy it.
Then the monent I put a second panel in for 68g, within 2 sec it was bought by the nameless/faceless gingerbread man.
hmmm...maybe selling at low price bring out the stalking gingerbread man?
Yup, me too. Without advertising I have some unknown random people completely raiding my stand every single time I put anything out. I never use the newspaper anymore because I have enough friends who buy my things, so I know it's not coming from them. I've also checked the leaderboards several times and no one ranked around me is completely anonymous. Aggravating.
Still unwanted customers coming and buying things in seconds from my stall who I do not know and I have done a trial to see if any faces where the same through out the week and there not they are all different people I do notice though I might have a lot of good things to buy and they only buy one thing only sometimes this happens and other times they clean me out.this has happened since the newspaper update I have never had this problem before. I thought just maybe it is slipping into the newspaper somehow even though we are not advertising it. God I hope they fix this soon as it is annoying thanks angiex
the only thing I can do at the moment is put stuff that people don't really want as much and when a neighbour comes along and buys something I quickly put good stuff on and hope they see me so they will hang around to get decent stuff before the stangers come in and swoop it away has worked a few times but I can only do that sometimes when I have a bit of time
This is stupid. Come on supercell sort this problem out. We either are able to advertise or we are not. There is a problem. I click green tick to not advertise and my goods are advertised anyway.
This is so frustrating! At first I thought it was a follower or 2 since I have new ones the rest I've had since I 1st started and I never had this problem now I am convinced it is a bug or a bot.. I usually don't hoard I love selling stuff to my nbrs and I do place ads from time to time but You can't even put anything up for sale without it being snatched up within seconds any more.. I just put 1 of each cake, pie and juice amongst other things at default price for my nbrs of course it didn't work out that way as soon as I finished with the last item I see that everything has been purchased already!! Not cool sc!
Sorry nbrs if you hardly ever find anything at my roadshop any more I try to list for you all daily but unfortunately it's not working out this way
Whats most exagerating is i have this new farm which i've just reach lvl7 and the stall is just enabled for me. I've not put up any single ad and my stuff are grab by a nameless,faceless player immediately. Im surprised how did it happen and when i check my follower list and there he is..how the hell can i be followed when ive not interact with anyone yet.
i guess this is somehow a spook setting to collect all our tools back into the system.
You could be right but I can not see why SC would want to as its all just a bunch of graphics ..? Same with the Tom tool,Quote:
Originally Posted by ronald7955
doesn't cost SC if he gives max so why the mean offerings of the lowest amount? Perhaps it is something to do with keeping a balanced flow of course, but I don't understand any of it now.
Of all the injustices that SC has heaped upon players (unpredictable daily downtime months ago, refusing to do diamond confirmation, limiting to 3 open crates, etc.) this is finally the one that has gotten introverted me to post. Mostly due to their absolutely condescending refusal to admit there is a problem. I'm a programmer, and the idea that they think this is mass hysteria or something is unbelievable. One stupid misplaced quotation mark could cause a bug like this... programmers aren't ignorant of that fact.
I am still having the problem - I'm not advertising and my shop is cleared in seconds. Here is what I observed:
- I don't think this is a bot. Before I place something that I believe is going to be snatched, I put a hungry tree right next to my stall. Often, I get lucky; I place one unadvertised expansion item, it is gone within three seconds, and the buyer tapped the tree on the way out. So, I can now see quite a few people in Last Helpers that have 'raided' my shop. I have no idea who they are. Never heard of them.
- Two days ago I filled my stalls with corn at 10/25g. I carefully did not advertise. Within three seconds, they were gone. About 15 stacks! I had 400 corn so I just kept filling the crates, still not advertising. Finally, a couple of minutes later, the deluge stopped, and I was left with an entire stall of corn. I waited a few minutes, and then clicked on a random stack to advertise it. And... no one came. That stack was allegedly on sale for 30 minutes, and no one bought a single thing from my stall! I had to freaking wait until 30 minutes passed, at which point I advertised a different stack, and they were all gone within a minute. This makes me think that YES ADS ARE BEING PLACED IN THE PAPER WITHOUT US ASKING.
- I tried the same experiment yesterday, but this time with something a bit more expensive; sugarcane at 10/119g. Same exact thing happened. A deluge of gingerbread men cleaned me out without advertising. I refilled as it was happening. Finally, it stopped, and I chose a stack to advertise. The ticker started counting down from 30 minutes... and no one bought any.
- Today, I tried it again. This time with unadvertised hats. I filled my stall with hats at 1/109g. Note this isn't full price (it is 111g). Boom, gone again in 15 seconds. I somehow doubt one single person wanted all those hats.
I'm curious now - does all expansion items, rare items, and anything below full price trigger it? Obviously each item in their database is somehow ranked on its rareness; that's how they make good papers vs. bad paper.
Also, I have some questions for other players that I didn't find the answer to in the FAQ that may be issues because I'm on an iPhone, and connected via GC and not Facebook.
1. People mention that they see avatars of other players that are not their friends or followers. How? I only see pictures of my GC friends. I've never seen an avatar for anyone else, including my followers. How does one toggle if they are playing anonymously or not?
2. There is also a mention of a first and second row in the shop. I only have one row! Are two rows just on iPads?
FINALLY IF ANYONE FROM SUPERCELL IS READING THIS: Do some freaking REGRESSION TESTING for every single thing you change!!! There is NO EXCUSE for not running automated regression testing!!!
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Originally Posted by HayDaze
Hmmm.......Seems to be working for me though. I put up one screw and one box of nails and it remained in my shop for hrs before one of my helpers ( from the last helpers tab) bought it. This was late last night......will try retesting it during day time.
1. I have the same avatar in both the Facebook and the game centre. Hence people with or without a Facebook connection should be able to see my avatar. Some people connected to Facebook don't have a GC avatar and so people connected only through GC can only see their ginger bread persona:D.Quote:
Originally Posted by KisaraDoll
2. I have played hay day only on my iPad and I have two rows in my roadside shop.