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Lps #2593 price inflation

Hey everyone, i noticed lps 2593’s price value increased drastically after this one sale being made on mercari for a whooping $375. U can see before that, her selling price average was around 110$. Please do not give into any listings of her being sold for more than 150$, even then 150$ would be already expensive as is!! I noticed sellers are trying to manipulate her value now after that sale. All it takes is one outrageous purchase to manipulate a pet’s value on the market. Super unfortunate 😫

u/Ordinary-Cod-7420 — 4 days ago
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Getting sick of collecting LPS

I’ve gone to every single target,meijer,5below, Walmart near me. Most times they didn’t have them well they’ve had the new series recently, mommy and baby,nastya, basic blind boxes, and the pet pairs. Every single box is always taken, nothing left behind ever.. not even the display. If you do this I just want you to know I don’t care if you want to finish the whole set cause most of us don’t even collect the new series for the first year they are out cause people like you take boxes on boxes and these places don’t get restocks from lps like they do normal toys. Wasting gas money and time just to find something I really like from my childhood, I play with them even. Just makes me so mad to see people grab boxes and say “well I needed the whole set” maybe it would be easier to get the whole set throughout time if you just shared when u take boxes it just starts a chain reaction of everyone taking boxes. And ontop of that people in Canada can’t even get these pets so I know half of the people buying all of these are buying them to sell for triple the price so the Canadian collectors have to pay so much just to even get one singular lps. This community is very greedy sometimes, I barely ever seen anybody willing to help others with their collection, finding pets, trading. Makes me disappointed.. I have better luck getting old gen shorthairs than the new series. But then when I go to buy old gen’s all I see is these people trying to sell each pet for 100 a piece. I also got a mod on me in another LPS server saying this is the company’s fault but I fully disagree I think the community has gotten to selfish and no obviously that doesn’t mean every person but majority has become selfish and doesn’t care for the other collectors and it truly makes me angry people want to keep blaming other things besides the fact we have not been talking about the fact this space is so toxic now for people who want to come and collect or have been collecting either way you get these selfish mean people that either scam people or take everything. I have met maybe 3 people in my time of collecting that are nice and those people aren’t huge collectors and just started collecting I feel like everyone is so on guard now it’s made them hateful and selfish.

Sorry if this is all over the place I am just fed up with the greed people have, I have only ever grabbed one of each cause I KNOW people will want them but now it’s making me want to just grab all of them cause who knows who will get the next thing cause they will probably just take the whole thing anyways. Or when people bid on lives on whatnot for LPS and just spend so much to outbid everyone in the live and leave nothing for the community that’s trying their best to have these items aswell😒

Idk if this will get taken down or not but I think it’s stupid if it does it’s a thing that should be talked about idc if people don’t like it :/

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u/Artistic_KittyWho — 4 days ago
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„Vintage“ 🥲🫡

It says: unopened and vintage, no defects. Yeah, of course it‘s totally vintage. 😂😭

Idk which flair‘s the right one for this? 🙈🙈🙈

u/According-Draft6122 — 4 days ago
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Is this a legit listing?

I am just wondering if anyone would help out here, I want to get this because I missed out last year. I am just being cautious as I don’t want to waste my money. The reviews didn’t really help me out. Thank you to anyone who can assist!

u/SeriousWafer4158 — 6 days ago
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Do not buy from hammerlps on mercari !!!!

I had been looking for the sparkle shorthair for a good price for 2 years now, I find this beautiful listing and it is 60$!!! I buy it immediately, but after buying it I see the seller cancelled and i buy her again for the price they relisted at, after that go to check their account and they have 0 reviews and are selling lps with all different listing photos.. so my partner gets their instagram and we kind of think it’s legit because what scammer will give someone their instagram.. but afew days later we kind of get suspicious and check facebook, there is a post about her account and people have found out she had stolen photos and posted them. I immediately run to get my order cancelled because she haven’t shipped yet.. I dm her telling her that she is scamming people and I haven’t been blocked or anything so I’m very confused… but if you have bought i recommend to cancel your order!!

u/Saladass2006 — 8 days ago
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“check before you buy as i’m not if it’s real or not” RANT

does anyone else hate when sellers have that in the description of their LPS?? like for £30 + YOU should be checking if it’s real, it’s genuinely not that difficult to look up online “how to tell if an LPS is real or fake” or you can make a post on reddit, facebook, tiktok, instagram and get it checked there. It’s just so lazy.. and honestly seems like they know it’s fake but don’t want to outright say it, which sucks for a potential buyer.

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u/Sensitive-Source7346 — 9 days ago
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right… totally “authentic” 💀

that price?? are these people actually for real. no way this seller actually believes it’s auth !

u/gh0st__lights — 10 days ago
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Beware! The Mommy and Baby blind boxes are a scam! You only have a 12.5% chance of pulling 4 babies, while there’s a 62.5% chance of getting only 2 babies!

I couldn’t post this in the main LPS sub, so I guess I’ll post it here instead.

Let me explain.

As far as I know, there are 8 total possibilities:

🐼 Panda set: 2, 3, or 4 babies
🦌 Deer set: 2, 2, or 3 babies
🐒 Monkey set: 2 babies (Guaranteed 2 every time)
🐰 Bunny: 2 babies (Guaranteed 2 every time)

That means out of the 8 possible boxes:

• Only 1 out of 8 gives you 4 babies = 12.5% chance
• 2 out of 8 give you 3 babies = 25% chance
• 5 out of 8 give you only 2 babies = 62.5% chance

So despite the boxes being advertised as “2 to 4 babies,” you have only a 12.5% chance of getting the maximum amount, while you have a 62.5% chance of getting the lowest amount. 😭
(Assuming every box has an equal chance of being pulled)

I don’t know about you, but advertising it as “2 to 4 babies” without making this distribution obvious feels VERY misleading. 💀

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u/CorruptSoulGem — 11 days ago
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Hopefully no one got scammed on Depop

So i didn’t check this persons account before i bought (i know) and looked after and was like yeah i got scammed. Please dispute your charges! Hopefully everyone else was also able to get their money back. Idiot had his paypal connected which you need to have your full legal name to use

u/Bart_78 — 8 days ago
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Why have pets on your iso if you are going to decline them?

Back again with my nothing burger problems! I recently have ran into some people who put up trade posts with ISO’s, and when telling them I have pets from their ISO, they tell me sorry not interested?? This is just strange behavior because it’s not like I’m asking these people to trade me a super rare main five for common pets.. it’s literally common pets they have UFT and even sometimes my offer will be over trading, along with the pets I’m offering being on their ISO.. and they say no?? I understand declining an over trade bc maybe you just rlly like that pet you own regardless if it is rare or not, but then why post UFT? Idk again I know this isn’t even first world problems this is like 1/4th world problems but idk just kinda odd

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u/johnmulaneywhore — 10 days ago
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mini rant

why do some people go out their way to message buyers after an lps has sold and offer a few bucks more? it’s actually so frustrating and annoying. like sorry you weren’t fast enough to purchase it. It’s giving a spoiled kid who didn’t get what they want. I bought a nib for a really good deal and it was marked as SOLD, a few minutes later the seller messages me telling me they’re going to cancel my order because someone offered a few dollars more…. why can’t some collectors in this community be happy for others and yes i’m also upset at the seller for not honoring the sale.

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u/Downtown_Musician_52 — 11 days ago
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Can we NOT normalize this?

This happened in Kernersville, NC

I was on my way to see family and decided to stop by a target and found a crime scene. I get we want the pets we want, but PLEASE do not steal from stores!!! It’s completely disgusting and ILLEGAL behavior!

“It’s protesting Basic Fun” - ok? Then go trade or buy a pet from Mercari or eBay. Stealing is a CHOICE that can ABSOLUTELY get you prosecuted.

“I bet some kids did it” - that still doesn’t make it any better. And if it was kids, the parents need to be held accountable. Also, if kids come by that are young and impressionable and see that mess of empty boxes, they will most likely think “oh, so it’s ok to steal as long as no one sees”

“It’s a big cooperation, so what?” - I’m not defending any cooperations when I’m making this post. My point is we can’t let this be a standard for our community. People can get bad impressions on our community and if thieves are still stealing $5 CHILDRENS TOYS, they will 100% be locked up behind a glass case just like what happened to pokemon and Needos.

I know most of you have been collecting LPS since you were young (like me) and we NEED to have actual morals and standards when it comes to getting LPS. Dont like Target or Walmart? Buy online or a local store! It’s THAT simple! It’s literally YOUR choice to have a possible police record about steal little plastic animals that aren’t even worth that much

If you’re going to steal, at least clean up the crime scene so I don’t have to report you to AP management (because that’s what I did after taking photos)

u/PinkipooEveleen — 12 days ago
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is she trying to scam..

small story I made a littlest pet shop trade with her. I received her pet, but she said she didn't receive her pet and instead men's XXL shorts new in tags. But the thing is my package size I gave her was basically a size of an envelope. i'm just scared she's gonna leave me a bad review claiming I was a scammer please help

she also got extremely defensive when i said the possibility is that she scammed me

u/RoyaleLovee — 11 days ago
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Lps Etsy scam WITH PHOTOS (a little rant ig)

So I was looking at this lps Etsy listing, now that I look back it was kinda unrealistic. But it is 400 lps for $150! Crazy right? So then I was thinking of buying it and then in the bio of the listing it said that you have to buy from their website? A little weird considering it's already on Etsy..? but I went to the website and they had the listings there so I looked and the same discount was there! But it seemed sketchy since like nothing was on the website that was about them? it was just the listings and when you scroll down it just has the links to the website makers socials. So then I started to think it was a scam so I took one of the listings photos and tried to reverse image search but nothing came up? So I know its kinda bad but I went to chatgpt just to try and find some sort of origin of the photos of the listings, and then chatgpt found this one deleted shop link that apparently had the same photos as the Etsy and the other websites photos. Now I didn't believe it because when I went to the website it said it found it from the page was wiped saying something like "The shop has been removed" so I thought it was just chatgpt lying or something. Then I searched up lps scam listing and when I say the first thing that came up was the same web page that got removed with the SAME LISTING that I wanted to buy from I was so shocked?! I have the photo of the TikTok of who bought from the scam listing. I made this post to tell people to make sure to check where you could be buying from cause it could be a huge scam! I have all of the photos of proof linked, and the yellow highlighted parts is the same page that the TikTok was talking about. Im not sure if anyone has posted this before but if so im sorry :(

u/EntireEgg7666 — 10 days ago