I just mean that they should be open to trades as well as buys. I totally understand being protective of your first clack, but it sucks seeing one-time colors go to folks who are new around here then simply disappear once they get their clacks. So many colors have gone off the grid this way only to pop up on extremely rare occasions, or not at all.
That and I don't have a Topre board to put this bad boy on, and I hate to see him forever baggied and banished to some dark drawer.
I know what you mean. But it's hard for someone with nothing but generic novelties to get into the artisan cap game. I've had mixed experiences, what with being gifted a V1 brobot which was amazing, then buying a V2. I know I'm fairly new around here but I wouldn't want to trade away either of mine. People just want to grow their collections, and it has come down to people trading their artisans because they don't want their own collections to shrink, and because the caps get released very sparingly, it means it's hard for people to start or grow collections.
I know that's the whole point, but the fact that people aren't even open to the prospect of selling means it's harder to open the circle of artisans up to more people.
I understand the concern of people disappearing with these highly prized caps, but if we don't take the chance on new people, then we risk getting lumped with a small community that never grows.
