I've seen it written in several posts that buying tons of a certain item to inflate the price (or invest, depending on how you want to look at it) could result in TNT freezing you... can anyone confirm or deny this for me? It seems to me that users should be able to spend their neopoints however they want and this shouldn't be outside the rules (sucks for the poor, but the only excuse for being poor in Neopets is laziness). However, TNT didn't ask my opinion on the subject either. So tell me - any verified instances of being frozen for buying too many Grunion Brucicles, Snicklebeasts, whatever?
I've never tried, so I don't really have the data you're looking for, but I do think you were misinformed. TNT will freeze for purposefully inflating items- that is, buying a bunch and posting them with a price way higher than they were before, and then offering them on expensive items. I don't think TNT freezes for buying a lot- that is, investing. If you just buy a bunch, they'll think you're investing/collecting, regardless of whether you're actually just trying to inflate by lack of supply. There's my 2 cents.
I think Samy is right. I've never heard of anyone getting banned for just making investments, and some of neopets's richest players inflate stuff. (That's what munsterpoo is doing with y-blasters right now) I think at one point maybe 5-6 years ago they may have been against it, but investments are pretty much common fact now. You only hear of people getting in trouble when they buy all of a rare item off the wiz in a day and put it in their trades for 800k and try to rip people off.
It is tough to say.... I had an acct that bought about 5 million nps in Ring of sloth stamps.. I labeled buyers on this site and then set up trades and sold all of them in one day.. The next day I was frozen.. The acct was pretty clean (but not 100% legit) and the only activity was really the inflation and then selling really fast. Its possible That since neo looks closely at people who make alotta nps in 1 day that they decided that somehow I was cheating and iced me... I think that as long as you dont sell all in 1 day (thus hinting TNT) you would be fine. if ur acct is 100% legit I think also ull be fine no matter what, but If its at all illegit Id be very slow to sell cuz TNT will just freeze u cuz they know that somehow u cheated, and use the massive buying as an excuse.
it depend... if you stay as low and keep invest on good stuffs and i think tnt won't bother you much!
depends if u work in groups to inflate stuff u r less likely to get frozen!! but yeah munsterpoo is inflatin the blasters and he dont get banned! tnt luv him
i think if you use an auto buyer and constantly snatch an expensive item, im pretty sure you will eventually get banned.
This is not really relevant, but yes, in a general sense. They'll tell you if they think you were using programs, or profanity, or scamming, etc. Not to the extent of "because you sent a really high score on meerca chase," though.
You just can't group inflate them openly on the boards, like saying "So, I just bought 1000000 snickles!" or "Anyone want to help inflate snickles?", but inflating by yourself is fine. *Note: If you want to group inflate, pick a good item and make a thread here and others will help.