Trading is coming to Webkinz Next!

Trading is coming to Webkinz Next! Here are the highlights:

• Trade anywhere, anytime, as many trades as you’d like.
• Trade items of all values, including premium items and Season Pass prizes!
• Put your best items in your Trading Binder for easy viewing by other players.
• Fair trade protection! We simply won’t allow bad trades.

Since we launched Webkinz Next two years ago, one of the most requested features has been Trading. Players get extras from our collection events, mystery capsules, adoption gifts – wherever! Players would love to trade those items for the items they’re missing.

We’ve learned a lot since first adding Trading to Webkinz Classic over 15 years ago. Our goal was to make Trading in Webkinz Next easier, more robust and more fair than ever before.

One of the biggest changes is that you can now trade almost anywhere! Trade with friends at your home. Trade while riding the carousel. Trade in the pink mushroom room in the Gem Mine. It’s up to you! We don’t allow trading in the Arcade, because its already very busy in there, but everywhere else is good to go.

To make trading easier, we have added a Trading Binder to every account. This is where you can put the items that you most want to trade. Drag the items from your dock to the binder, where they will be put like any container. We’ve started out each player with 36 slots for items and we’ll be adding the ability to expand your binder in the future. Now other players can simply look through your binders and pick the items they want. You can change the items in your binder at any time, including while trading. You can even look at your friends’ binders in the Friend Center.

Note that not all items are available to trade. At this time Gifts, Currencies, Pet Effects, Materials and Competition Crops cannot be traded.

To begin a trade, simply click on another player, and when their Info Pop Up appears, tap Trade. This will send the player an invitation to trade. If they agree, you will both enter trading mode. Here you can look at each other’s binders, chat about the items you’re looking for, and make a deal.

All trades in Webkinz Next are one item for one item and the trade must be fair. No trading an Apple for an Exclusive Item. To determine fairness, the Value category of items traded must match. We have created 12 Value categories:

Within each category what’s fair is up to you. Don’t think trading a hat for a chair is fair? Don’t make that trade.

We will be watching and reviewing the values of items over time. We reserve the right to change the Value category of any item or add additional Value categories at any time.

Both players must agree to any trade. You can use Chat and Emojis to work out the deal that you’re happy with. When the trade is just right and the system says its fair, tap Make Trade and a confirmation screen will appear. Both players must then press Complete Trade to have the trade go through. Remember that once a trade has gone through, it can’t be reversed. Even on the Completion screen, you can close the window without confirming and go back.

Now we know that some players may not be interested in trading at all and won’t want other players asking them to trade. For those players, we’ve added the ability to turn off trading in the Options panel. Simply uncheck “Allow Trading” and the binder will be removed from your UI and players won’t be able to send you trade requests. You can turn on and off this feature at any time.

Like trading but just busy? You can put a pause on receiving trade requests by checking “Pause Trading” on the request reply. You then won’t receive any more requests until the next time you log in.

We are very excited to bring this fun new feature to Webkinz Next and we hope you love it too.

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