Two words: You. Can't.
I have seen lots of questions about how to keep a pet. How to prevent others from buying the pet. What strategies to use to ensure you can always buy the pet back.
In short... there is nothing you can do. Sure, you can keep a pet for a while. But not forever, so learn to deal with it.
People may argue that it is possible, but there is a very simple explanation about why you cannot. Consider my previous post about Buying Wars. If somebody wants your pet, and has more cash than you, then they will own your pet at the end of the war. Done. Fini. End of story.
This buying war might occur over days or weeks, and among multiple people, but eventually you will run out of cash, and somebody else will "keep" your pet until you can manage to get enough cash to buy it back. For a little while.
Your allowance of $2,000 every four hours will generate cash to buy your pet back, but it does not work well for an expensive pet. Let's say you have a pet with a value of $100,000. Somebody buys the pet, you get $106,000 back. The pet's value is now $112,000. You will need to buy the pet for about $125,000. That means you are $19,000 short, which will take 40 hours of allowances to come up with.
In a pinch, you can use Invites to generate cash. But that is a limited option, and your friends may not like the invite spam.
Coming up with cash through allowances, invites, or waiting for other pets to sell are all tactics to generate money to buy your pet back. But you still can't keep the pet.
Keeping a Pet
Basics of Loss
Yesterday, I talked about profits. Today, it is about loss. There are just two ways to lose money in FFS:
*putting a pet up for sale
*setting a pet free
When you put a pet up for sale, they go into a special tab under the "Pets" menu called "On Sale". The pet's value is also whacked down by a third. Repeat: a third. You don't get that back. It's gone. Even worse, people might not even buy your pet at the reduced price. Sure, lots of people monitor the "On Sale" tab looking for great deals on pets, but it is still no guarantee they will be interested in your pet, at that price.
People might recommend putting a pet on sale to "get it moving". Don't fall for that. It's an idiot move. I'll write more about the On Sale tab at some point, and will also talk about selecting pets and why "get it moving" is such a mistaken idea.
And setting a pet free? Their value is knocked down by a third, but they become an orphan. No longer your pet. And you get zero for the pet. All that value... gone. Vaporized.
Okay. That's it. Two ways to lose money. Simple enough... just don't do these things.
Now go have a great weekend!
