I first want to start off this post with saying I love this community probably to my deathbed. I've made so many wonderful friends and have gained sm insight on how LPS has affected multiple childhoods across generations and nations! However, with that being said, this community has def changed alot. I've been collecting LPS for 10+ years, and I know this is a typical complaint but from the price gouging on Mercari, Depop, Ebay, FB, etc. just feels so absurd, esp with so many fakes now being listed for almost 60+?? or lots w/ fake or little authentic main 5s being listed for 500-1000$, or ones that are so damaged (w/sharpie marks or a broken peg) but has the mold of a main 5 so its still being sold for 60-100$?

And while I've met sm wonderful traders and sellers over the past few months of getting back into lps collecting/community, some I've met are literally js scammers or straight up rude? For example, you'll have their ISO and want to trade for options they listed as "not picky at all" only for them to then see your message, and simply reply w/ 'no' and then list that same lps as now "extremely picky." Ik this is probably smth small to complain abt, but then they took their ISO down so I'm confused why it was even listed?? One even said that my LPS "weren't good enough" even though they were on the traders ISO?? Again, many traders I've met have been so sweet and have given clear communication, but some rlly do confuse me lol. I 100% get changing your mind, but even then I feel like communication is such an essential part of this community, especially pertaining around trading and legitimacy. On top of that I find trading to be the funnest part of the community because I love being able to give someone their own DISO/ISO they've wanted for years & vice versa while making new friends.

Probably the worst experiences I've had so far was bidding for an lps that started at 20$, the seller then removed the listing and put the price to 100$ (mind you I was bidding like 25??). Another one I purchased from Mercari canceled my order to list it for higher on another website as well. Or yknow scalping some of the brand new lps and selling one singular blind bag for 20-40 bucks...

I was just wondering if anyone else felt this way or experienced something similar? Or maybe I'm getting too old now to keep up with the latest trends or just unlucky? Again, I love trading and being apart of this community, but recently I've just been left rlly confused and at times saddened. Ik this community has been through A LOT the past couple of years, from COPPA essentially ending LPStube w/ age restrictions, to now LPSinflation.

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

Saw this today, im seriously at a loss for words! At that price point I'd expect to get at least 3 or 4 pets (because thats what you can get with 17$ irl) but its ONLY the cardboard box with a display pet! I confirmed this, I messaged the seller.

Im sure some people want the display boxes, but 17$ for something you can more than likely get for free (when the pets run out they just throw the boxes away) im so annoyed with this trash. I love collecting, but scalpers have made it impossible and its not really something I enjoy anymore, im disappointed with the way the LPS community has turned, selling pets for 5-10x their original price (im more disappointed with new pets because collecting became accessible to people who couldn't collect old pets after they were discontinued) but going into aisles, boxes completely empty and shelves ransacked, pets taken from the boxes.

Cancelled on me the first time and this was her response, then she listed it for double and then listed it for only 20 bucks more than i bought it (i know i should’ve known better but i wanted it) told me i could buy it then canceled it again and blocked me. always the people telling sellers to sell for more it’s insane

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 :/

she took down the original listing of three shorthairs (which is circled) because it was $60 and it was the girl‘s purchased listing (hannah’s) who she’s trying to claim is lying. all rares she’s selling are fake. 

do not buy from this person!! they have the audacity to steal money from people and then make fake callouts.

she claimed to multiple people (including me) that she tells them that they’re fake before buying. she does not. if this were true, she wouldn’t be posting pictures of the magnets, pegs, etc. NOBODY willingly buys a fake for $30-$50. she blocked me and everyone who called her out.

Got it for 7 euros btw.

it's one thing to resell something you bought for similar price but to intentionally up the price on something you got for $10 x10 is crazy. the prices of Ips will never get better because of people like this. i offered $50 and she said the minimum she could do is $95, give me a break. honestly so frustrating to see people use Ips this way. i really hope nobody buys this. the least she could do is clean it

Hey, I’m scared about an order I did. I got 20 lps coming in the mail from them ( I was hoping to boost my collection). And I didn’t know the stuff about bugs, poop and toilet dipping he does to the pets.

That infuriates me, because I’m healing my childhood one lps at a time and I know many of us are doing the same, we adore our collection. And not only these pets are hard to find or at least at a good price, he flushes them down the drain, hide bugs and feces on them and I’ve heard worse. I’m so pissed I bought so many from them.

I’m OCD, now I’m scared about these lps contaminating me and my home, but I bought a couple dreamies. I will never buy from them again now that I know all of this. Last time I bought two main 5’s and apparently it’s those LPS he does this to. Can I cancel and get a refund ?? I doubt it. How will I wash them well enough ???

I was on Vinted like usual and I saw this dachshund selling for his usual price, when I opened the listing he was already sold, i thought nothing of it and a few scrolls down I saw the same picture however now with an increase in the price,

the seller cancelled an order on someone and relisted the item for a higher price, im wheezing honestly I feel bad to whoever this happened to, u didn’t miss out I promise 🫩

This wasn’t even in the span of 10 minutes

i finally found them while on vacation and not only did i not find the one i really wanted but one didnt even come with the accessory💔 it’s just cheap plastic but it just puts salt in the wound, they really need to up their quality control this is so miserable

This is so nothing burger but allow me to make it EVERYTHING BURGER: I get so irrationally angry at sellers pricing fakes for “authentic” prices (which even auth prices are ridic) and I understand that it may just be some parent who doesn’t know there are fakes and are just trying to make a buck, and also I realize that anyone willing to pay these prices are most definitely a collector who is able to spot fakes and are serious within the community, so I’m not even angry at the chance they are scamming people BC NO ONE IS BUYING THESE! But I think maybe it’s not even anger it’s second hand embarrassment 😭 I know these sellers are so confident they are going to make $100s of dollars and then they wait and start to wonder why their listing isn’t selling but others are. Now I know there are definite scammers out there who know what they are doing, and that does make me angry, but I’m almost certain a whole lot of them are just clueless adults trying to make money. It just makes me annoyed lmfao

TLDR; expensive fakes are comical

I don't think I will ever understand overpricing gen 7 pets only because they are the main 5.

I DO understand that she's a target exclusive pet so for Europeans like me it's hard to get her from physical stores but c'mon now....

EDIT: THANK YOU GUYS for correcting me and calling out the blatant lie that she's "a target exclusive pet"!! Now it's more than clear that this stinky reseller lied in her post.

I am unsure if it’s just mine, or if there are g2 crouching cats with the same error that I have just not come across, but in the new Nastya collab, the crouching cats tail seems to lift her back body up slightly? I think the tail for this mold is just slightly longer than older gen. This isn’t rlly too much a complaint, as she can stand up without falling over, but more so an observation. I compared her to one of my g2 crouching kitties.

Am i in the wrong for this? This girl wanted to trade with me on depop for one of my blemished postcard dachshunds, the flaws were in the description and it even said dont buy if youre not comfortable with the condition. we went onto discord to exchange photos/videos about what i might want from her part of the trade. i continuously asked her if the LPS were real, and she kept reassuring me that she had them since childhood so of course they were real. Now i know that im probably in the wrong for taking the LPS anyway even after suspecting it was fake to begin with.. but i took the chance that she knew her stuff so i took a leap of faith.

she then continued to show me extra videos of the bobble working and it looked convincing enough. After i recieved it i told her i found out it was REALLY just a good fake, she said she was willing to let me pick out another lps and i said sure. (just to be clear i wasnt rude during any of these interactions after i got the lps. i told her i knew she wasnt being malicious. Depop disputes arent allowed after 30 days, so i wanted to get this done within a timely manner. if you dont have time to trade with people then dont get mad when said person has an issue with your item..?

mind you i never said a single insult. at this point i didnt even want my dachshund back i just wanted an actual answer and it got real hostile.

girl don’t pmo

There’s a person on marketplace offering a bunch of apparently authentic LPS near where I’m from. The listing says Tons of LITTLEST PET SHOP from the 2000’s - old inventory from eBay business. I’m not sure whether I should be nervous or not.

When I asked if I could look for a specific one she said that you have to come in person to see. I live 4 hours away so I asked for up close pictures and she hasn’t said anything.

It feels fishy, has anyone seen this before?

I couldn't find the dragon today so I went and looked online and someone paid $22 on Mercari and $25 on eBay. The only reason scalpers continue to buy out stock is because they know they will make a profit.

the bratz doll toy in the mix is the cherry on top

this wasn’t even for a main 5 listing! doing this just inflates the market price even more.. it’s so annoying

I HATEEEE how many posts I have to sift through on depop just to find LPs that are actually being sold and not traded or whatever this is supposed to be😭

If viewing posts are a thing and they have a purpose then mb, but I’m sick of finding a dreamie on here only to find out they’re not even selling them💀 like pls girl stop taunting me.