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GAME ITEM EXCHANGE FAQ

Welcome to the GAIA Item Exchange! Here you will find just about everything you need to know about conducting business in this forum and its rules. Some of the information presented has been copied from Aquafire's Gaia Exchange Rules, for easier reference. Overall, the general Gaia Exchange rules apply here, with additional rules more specific towards this forum.

Not everything is covered in here however. If you have questions that you can't find the answer to, you are free to create a thread in the Questions and Assistance forum, or PM any active Gaia Item Exchange moderator.

NAVIGATION
[X] General Announcements / Updates
[X] Rules and Guidelines
[X] Item Exchange Info
[X] Non-Exchange Items
[X] Trade Suggestions
[X] The Reporting System
[X] Helpful Links
[X] Reserved]

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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS & INFORMATION

The bank is use-at-your-own-risk. If you lose an item or gold, while the moderating staff can try to help you recover your lost inventory, Gaia is not to be held responsible for glitches that occur while we're in Alpha testing.

Gaia Terms of Service Agreement

IX. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
You expressly understand and agree that:

1. The Service is provided "As Is" and GAIA Online makes no warranties - expressed or implied - of any kind. You use the Service at your own risk. Furthermore, it should be noted, that GAIA Online assumes no responsibility for the accidental or circumstantial loss of inventory items, Gold, Avatars, lost communications, missed events or loss of personalization of a User's account for ANY reason.

DO NOT SPAM IN THE STICKY

Please remember that spamming random posts, bumps, and off-topic posts in stickies is considered spam.

While we are lenient with spam in the forums this is only to keep topics on the front page. The sticky does not need to be 'bumped' up, nor is it a place to spam for gold. Users doing so will recieve a warning for spam so please do not do so. If you are wishing to post for gold please remember to use the Chatterbox Forum. Thanks!

UPDATES

August 8, 2007: Added reminder about spamming sticky.
July 5, 2007: Added tattoo exchange information in the Item Exchange Info post.
July 2, 2007: Added another option for use of inks: tattoos!
Also, added info about actual tattoos being sold only in the main Exchange.
Rare ink mixing is back! You can do so in the Tattoo shop!
June 25, 2007: Added info about Gaia Cars body & parts in the Non-Exchange items section
May 25, 2007: Added info about Word Bump glitch and removed Flower ship glitch info (fixed).
April 29, 2007: Added info about Highest Donator Contests.

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RULES & GUIDELINES

• The Game Item Exchange is for the sale of mini-game items ONLY. Selling + buying is fine, as well as just buying items and questing to a certain extent. Holding lotteries, hosting contests, or managing charities yet selling a red guppy in a post to keep it "legal" will not work. The focus of your thread is not on the sale of items; it's on something else. Threads will be moved to the proper forums on a case-by-case basis.
  
  In general, items that can be sold in multiple quantities are ok here. To be even MORE specific, the following items can be sold/bought/traded in this forum
  
  • Fishing:Fish, trash, fishing rods, bait
    
  • Casino: Tokens, tickets
    
  • Towns: Bugs, ink, trash, and flowers
    
  • Word Bump: Graduate Credits
    
  • zOMG: Rings, loot
    
  • Pinball: Power-ups
    
  • Electric Love Faktori: Power-ups
  
  
  
• The title of your thread should relate to what you are selling. If you post a title such as "selling a diamondback mask!" but in fact you are not ("sorry, I wish; selling a blue bass helm!" wink , this is considered title spoofing and is warnable by a moderator because you are intentionally misleading other users into your true intent.
  
  -White text, just as misleading, is also not permitted if it is used in conjunction with title spoofing.
  
  -However, this means that threads simply titled "selling fish/flowers/trash/etc!!..." or any other derivative are fine. You are not misleading users with what you are trying to do.
  
  
• Advertising in other users' threads is not allowed. This is a form of unwanted solicitation as well as spam. Both are against the Terms of Service of Gaia. If reported, you will have your post removed from the forum and a warning issued.
  
  • NOTE: This also includes "bump for a bump", begging in other users' threads, and "bump for X item". All are considered spam and will be warned under the same protocol as advertising.
    
  
  
  
• If a thread started off as one thing but becomes spammy in later pages with no relevance to the sale itself, it will be moved to the Chatterbox or the new Friend Chat forum depending on the spam. This includes "I'm leaving Gaia" threads. If all you're going to do is converse with friends, please take it elsewhere.
  
  
• Any mini-game related item that is equippable should be sold at the regular Gaia Exchange, with the exception of items that are needed/used in the mini-games themselves. The following belong in the main Gaia Exchange forum
  
  • Selling fishing helmets, trash items, fishing trophies (Exceptions: fishing rods and bait)
    
  • Selling casino prizes from Prize & Joy
    
  • Selling flower bouquets, equippable trash items.
    
  • Selling Bachelor caps
    
  • Selling Framed Artwork (housing items)
    
  • Selling Body & Parts (car items)
    
  • Selling Tattoos
  
  
  
• The following belong in the Wanted subforum of the Gaia Exchange
  
  • Buying equippable items as listed above, with the same exceptions
  
  
  
• The following belong in the Charity/Quests subforum of the Exchange
  
  • Asking for donations of gold, fish, tokens/tickets, etc.
    
  • Asking for a gold or item loan
    
  • Exception: If your quest thread simply consists of you looking for sellers of certain items (e.g. rare fish), and you have the funds to purchase such items, then your thread is fine in this forum
  
  
  
• The following belong in the GAIA Marketplace Discussion subforum of the Exchange
  • Threads strictly advertising the sale of an item in your vend shop
    
  • Vend shop advertisements (Selling ___ for ___ gold; see my vend)
  
  
  
• Rants and discussions about the GAIA Item Exchange community. While it may hold the most relevance to the readers in the Exchange, all discussions about the users of Gaia belong in the Gaia Community Discussion forum.
  
  
• Posting in order to disrupt a sale. Even if the item is 100g in the stores, you do not have the right to go into another user's thread and claim "you're scamming people with your prices". It is their item, they have the right to do as they please with it.
  
  
• Highest Donator Contests. This is a type of contest where users donate a sum of gold/items to another user, and the prize goes to the person that donates the most. Such contests are not allowed here, as they run a high risk of becoming scams. For more information, please read this past announcement from the admins.

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ITEM EXCHANGE INFO
(Information taken from Yuzi_K's EXCHANGING GUIDE in the Gaia Gaming Discussion forum and a winged one's Fishing Exchange Guide in the Gaia Fishing forum)


Fish

Exchange Location: Old Man Logan's Fishing Store.
Exchange Result: Fish/Trash Helms/Items
Purpose: The helmets and items are equippable
Exchange Rate: Varies depending on item. Please see a winged one's sticky (linked above) for more details.

Bugs

Exchange Location: Moira's store in Durem.
Exchange Result: Bottles of Ink
Purpose: The inks are used to dye the wrapping paper on regular and deluxe flower bouquets. They can also be used to create tattoos.
Exchange Rate: 50 bugs = 1 ink pot (fireflies and cicadas= black ink, crickets= brown), excluding the rare bugs (see below).

Rare Bug/Ink Mixing Info:
Inks can be mixed together through the Skin Tyte Tattoo/Piercing Parlor.

Gold Ink: Yellow Ink x1 + White Ink x1 = Gold Ink x1
Purple Ink: Blue Ink x5 + Red Ink x5 = Purple Ink x1
Orange Ink: Red Ink x5 + Yellow Ink x5 = Orange Ink x1
White Ink: Red Ink x5 + Blue Ink x5 + Green Ink x5 = White Ink x1
Pink Ink: Red Ink x5 + White Ink x1 = Pink Ink x1
Green Ink: Yellow Ink x1 + Blue Ink x1 = Green Ink x1 -or- Yellow Ink x5 = Green Ink x1
Brown Ink: Red Ink x1 + Green Ink x1 = Brown Ink x1 -or- Green Ink x5 = Brown Ink x1

1 Golden Legs makes 1 gold ink, 1 yellow ink, 1 green ink.
1 Great Monarch makes 1 orange ink, 1 white ink, 1 black ink.
1 Whistler makes 1 yellow ink, 1 black ink.
1 Demonfly makes 1 black ink, 1 red ink.
1 Rhino Beetle makes 1 brown ink, 1 black ink.
1 Purple Fly makes 1 red ink, 1 purple ink.

Known Available Ink

Black White Brown Red Blue Yellow
Green Orange Purple Pink Gold

Trash

Exchange Location: Peyo at the Gambino Hat Rack.
Exchange Result: Paper Hats, etc.
Purpose: The hats and other items are equippable.
Exchange Rate:
Newspaper

Crumpled Newspaper- yields the Newspaper Combover
-----Papers Needed: 50

Old Crumpled Newspaper- yields the Old Newspaper Combover
-----Papers Needed: 50

Dirty Crumpled Newspaper- yields the Dirty Newspaper Combover
-----Papers Needed: 50

NewsPrint- yields Newsprint Stars , Newsprint Fro
-----Papers Needed for Fro: 50
-----Papers Needed for Stars: 100


Xerox Paper

The amount is the same for all colors. Colors possible are blue, white, and goldenrod.

-----Papers Needed for Headband : 50
-----Papers Needed for Shade Hat : 75
-----Papers Needed for CatBand : 100


PaperBag

-----Papers Needed for Cap : 50
-----Papers Needed for Hoodie : 100
-----Papers Needed for Monster Paper Bag : 5000


Construction Paper

The amount is the same for all colors. Colors possible are red, blue, and green.

-----Papers Needed for a Crown : 75
-----Papers Needed for a Spiky hat : 100

Flowers

Exchange Location: Rina's Flower Shop.
Exchange Result: Flower Bouquets (colored using inks)
Purpose: The bouquets are equippable.
Exchange Rate:
There are 3 types of bouquets available -- single, regular, and deluxe. The ribbon option is only available in the regular and deluxe bouquets. You may dye the paper to wrap the flower, or you can leave the wrapping plain. Same with the ribbons.

Sunflowers are single bouquet only.

Single Bouquet Cost: 100 gold ~ Flowers: 1
How Does it Look?: Single Flower Bouquet Positions

Regular Bouquet Cost: 1000 gold ~ Flowers: 10
How Does it Look?: Regular Flower Bouquet Positions

Deluxe Bouquet Cost: 2500 gold ~ Flowers: 25
How Does it Look?: Deluxe Flower Bouquet Positions

Graduate Credits

NOTE: There is currently a glitch in which users are unable to receive Masters and Doctorates credits earned through the Word Bump Game. The glitch has been discovered very recently (May 2007) and there is currently no workaround or notice as to when it will be fixed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
NOTE #2: The admins have currently DISABLED GOLD EARNING while playing the Word Bump game. It is related to the recent problems with the mini-game servers, and users being unable to access the games. Currently no word on when this will be reenabled.
Exchange Location: H.R Wesley (bachelors caps only, in future time)
Exchange Result: Graduate Caps
Purpose: The caps are head-equippable.
Exchange Rate:
Source of discovery source

It is currently unknown as to when they'll come out, and whether the Masters and Doctorates Caps will come shortly after.

Tattoos

Exchange Location: Skin Tyte.
Exchange Result: Tattoos
Purpose: The tattoos are equippable.
Exchange Rate:
There are currently a couple of resources you can access to determine what you need for a certain tattoo:
TekTek Tattoo List
Tattoo List image, created by Kitty

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Non-Exchange Items

While the basic rule of getting items from the mini-games is having to exchange multiple quantities of smaller items to NPCs, there are some exceptions to the rule.

Framed Artwork

Game of Origin: Jigsaw
Purpose: You can equip then into your suitcase, and in turn put them up on the walls of your Gaia home.
How to Obtain: They're random prizes for completing individual jigsaw puzzle games, in addition to some gold. According to some users, if you get a puzzle with a purple circle in the bottom right corner, you'll get a prize for completion.
Item List:
NOTE 1: Artwork #7 is as of this update undiscovered, so it is unknown what the item looks like.
Framed Gaia Artwork #01
Framed Gaia Artwork #02
Framed Gaia Artwork #03
Framed Gaia Artwork #04
Framed Gaia Artwork #05
Framed Gaia Artwork #06
Framed Gaia Artwork #07 - UNDISCOVERED
Framed Gaia Artwork #08
Framed Gaia Artwork #09
Framed Gaia Artwork #10
Framed Gaia Artwork #11
Framed Gaia Artwork #12
Framed Gaia Artwork #13
Framed Gaia Artwork #14
Framed Gaia Artwork #15
Framed Gaia Artwork #16
Framed Gaia Artwork #17
Framed Gaia Artwork #18
Framed Gaia Artwork #19
Framed Gaia Artwork #20
Framed Gaia Artwork #21
Framed Gaia Artwork #22
Framed Gaia Artwork #23
Framed Gaia Artwork #24
Framed Gaia Artwork #25
Framed Gaia Artwork #26
Framed Gaia Artwork #27
Framed Gaia Artwork #28
Framed Gaia Artwork #29
Framed Gaia Artwork #30
Framed Gaia Artwork #31

Body & Parts

Game of Origin: Cars
Purpose: You can equip them onto your personal Gaia Car.
How to Obtain: You can purchase them straight from the store, specifically Sam's Body & Parts.
Item List: An updated list can be found at the above link to the store.

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TRADE SUGGESTIONS: Tips for scam-free trading

While it's definitely fun to do business in the Item Exchange, some people still invariably get taken advantage of by others. It's sad, but true. However, there are steps you can take to try and prevent this from happening, as well as making it easier for moderators to aid you.

• General Trading Tips
  • Always take the time to carefully examine what is on the other side of the trading window before you accept a trade.
    
  • It's a good idea to check the text description of an item and not just look at the image since thumbnails can sometimes be mistaken.
    
  • NEVER confirm a trade if what is on the other side is not what you agreed to. Cancel the trade and start over, or ask the other user to edit and put in the agreed upon items or gold.
  
  
  
• "Loaning" items to other users
  
  • Take note of what pages or posts the deal was made on for the "loaned" items. For added security, take screenshots of the posts so that you have proof of the transaction
    
  • If this was through PMs, if you absolutely need to clean out your inbox, take screenshots of everything and note where you saved them
    
  • Whichever way you go, try to make the trade agreement in Gaia and keep proof of it rather than making the agreement via IM program, telephone, or some other off-site method where you will later be unable to prove that an agreement was made.

Related Helpful links
How to take a screenshot; Tutorial by D!no (image-heavy)
Photobucket.com (free image hosting)
TinyPic.com (free image hosting)

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THE REPORTING SYSTEM
(Taken from Kava's announcement in Questions and Assistance, modified by Aquafire for Exchange use, and again modified for here by SevenTen)

Please read the announcement by Jakobo, and this post to learn about how to effectively use the reporting system. ^^

How to NOT use the reporting system.

• Do not use the reporting system to report yourself for pointless reasons.
  
• Do not use the reporting system to ask if we'll be your friends/give you items/do you a special favor/ask us a question.
  
• Do not use the reporting system to share your personal opinion.
  
• Do not use the reporting system to report very old (month-old for example) threads or posts. Recieving hundreds of reports for threads from page 800 of the chatterbox is a complete waste of our time. If there is a very old thread or post that really needs a moderator's touch, please PM one of the forum's moderators and be very descriptive in your explaination.
  
• Do not use the reporting system to report cussing or swearing. Cursing and swearing are not, by themselves, a Terms of Service violation. Harassment or abuse or trolling or posting offensive material with cursing is different than reporting "he said the f-word." You should never report someone for saying the f word or the s word, for example.
  
• Do not use the reporting system to report announcements or stickies. Now, if a user makes a Terms of Service violating post within an announcement or sticky, that post may be reported, but do not report the thread itself.
  

When to use which reporting button.

• - To report posts. The violation must be in the post you report. Evidence may be given in the report that the violation is true if it is not so obvious, such as saying "it started a few pages back" or similar, but do not report a random post to report a post on the same thread or page. For the Exchange, you can also report advertisements in your selling thread because these are spam if you find it disruptive in your attempt to conduct business.
  
• - To report threads. Use this when the first post in a thread or the entire thread is in violation of the rules. For the Exchange, this can be applied to "wrong forum" threads

At the bottom of the Forum Index there are also three additional buttons:

• [Report A Hacking] - Use this button to report a hacking. If you have been hacked, use this button. If you cannot access your account the best thing to do is to create a new account or use another account to report your own hacking. You need to do this as soon as you can and be as informative as possible. This will better help the moderators deal with your situation.
  
• [Report A Scamming] - To report a scam. Use this to report a case in which you were scammed. If you see a thread that you think may be a scam, and have evidence to support your case, use the [Report Thread] button instead. The Report A Scamming button should be used if you yourself are scammed.
  
• [Report Abuse or Harassment] - To report someone who is abusing or harassing you. Please do not use this button to report others being abused/harassed because the person you think is being harassed or abused may in fact not care at all, and situations like that are very hard to deal with. In other words, no middlemen.
  

The report system is for Terms of Service violations (which includes spam posts) and for thread moves only. Read the "do not" section of this post, and then reread it, and then read it again, so you don't get warned/banned for report abuse!

Also remember that abuse of the reporting system will not be tolerated.

Also, to clear up some common misconceptions:

• When you click the report button you need to fill out a form in order for the report to be sent. Clicking the button and then going back will not file a report. You don't have to worry about accidently clicking the button and sending off a blank report.
  
• Getting reported doesn't mean something bad is going to happen to you. If you've done nothing wrong, nothing wrong will happen to you.
  

When should I directly PM a dedicated moderator? Here are some examples:

• Jesusbots
• Normal bots
• Serial spammers
• People posting offensive images
• People spamming off-site advertisement
• People scam spamming
• Post deletion request in a thread you were trying to set up

If you want to contact a moderator directly for the above, or perhaps to ask a question or get clarification, to report something more complicated that doesn't fit into the above links, or to report a signature if you can't find a post of the user's to report, simply PM an online mod with a link to the user's profile. Make sure you title the PM something relevant so the mod knows it's not spam.

Remember, for emergencies always PM an ONLINE mod. If you cannot find an online moderator for your forum but have something urgent to report, find one from outside of your forum.

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HELPFUL LINKS

Fishing
Fishing UberSticky (read me, Mutha Guppa!)
The Fishing Exchange: How to Get a Nifty Hat

Casino
Gaia Slots FAQ
Gaia Cards FAQ

Towns
Gaia Town Resource List
Exchanging Guide (flowers, bugs, trash and more)

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RESERVED

[BenDoverNow]

Erm.. my shop is highly concentrated on the sale of fish... and I had many things up in my shop before these rules were put up... Is it still within acceptable boundaries...? gonk

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BenDoverNow

Erm.. my shop is highly concentrated on the sale of fish... and I had many things up in my shop before these rules were put up... Is it still within acceptable boundaries...? gonk

Since your shop is mainly selling fish and stuff, it's fine. It's similar to all the shops in the Gaia Exchange that include mini contests, quests, and other stuff. 3nodding

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SevenTen

BenDoverNow

Erm.. my shop is highly concentrated on the sale of fish... and I had many things up in my shop before these rules were put up... Is it still within acceptable boundaries...? gonk

Since your shop is mainly selling fish and stuff, it's fine. It's similar to all the shops in the Gaia Exchange that include mini contests, quests, and other stuff. 3nodding

Whew, thank you. That takes a load off my mind. 3nodding And you answered very fast... eek

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BenDoverNow

SevenTen

BenDoverNow

Erm.. my shop is highly concentrated on the sale of fish... and I had many things up in my shop before these rules were put up... Is it still within acceptable boundaries...? gonk

Since your shop is mainly selling fish and stuff, it's fine. It's similar to all the shops in the Gaia Exchange that include mini contests, quests, and other stuff. 3nodding

Whew, thank you. That takes a load off my mind. 3nodding And you answered very fast... eek

see no need to worry just as i thought ben

[Astro Pocky]

Thats uh...Diamondback Mask.

Not helm. xd

But title spoofing is just as bad without your little error. 3nodding

[Genea]

Yay information!

I'm terrible with the inks, so this is great :3