Hi! Welcome to a little special video of Animal Crossing.
Today, I had a very nice turnip price (546 bells)
but unfortunately it was in the morning (8 am to noon)
and just noticed it at 9 am
and I didn't got any turnips, neither did my girlfriend Virginia
so I posted it on Twitter and YouTube
but as my community is not that big and only a few people reacted via Twitter hashtag
so I decided to give it a go, prepared my town a little (for strangers to visit), and put up some fences
and posted it on Reddit.
I also visited some islands of another Redditors before to sell turnips myself
so I knew the "business" from this point of view
and now I wanted to get to know the other side of the biz, when hosting for others to sell on my island.
So this is what I did now and in this video I want to share my experience with this and show you some gameplay of it
and want to show you one nice, little story that happend right before the price changed at noon.
I will put it at the end of the video :) So let's get started!
I will just start right away.
So I already got to know the "passive" side of the process visiting other islands to sell my turnips
and I noticed it's always about managing things.
In fact, it's quite a lot work for the hosting person
so in this case it was a lot of work for me
because you need to remember - and I really was overwhelmed by it...
...I did see how everyone in the comments just escalates before.
But the moment I wrote the post and actually posted it
they went crazy and I already got 3 - 4 comments and it just got more and even faster.
It was really crazy.
Especially the pace of incoming comments.
The first one that answered... I'm still not sure if it was, i don't know, a bot? Or just a REALLY quick dude that does this a lot?
I actually did asked for the person's favorite flower
to sort out bots and to avoid people just writing "please me, please can I come"
but to make sure people actually read the post (for example if someone posts "roses" I know the person did)
But still, I can't believe how incredibly fast this first message got in.
I really just opened my own post and instantly saw the comment popping up below mentioning a flower
and I was just amazed how fast it was.
And of course there were so many coming in so fast, it was really crazy and I didn't expected it to be THIS fast.
Well I did expected it to be quick but it just blew my mind to see it myself.
Anyway, the way I planned it was like this: I fenced in a little path leading up the Nook's Cranny.
I wrote in my post to comment with your favorite flower and I will send the dodo code via DM / chat.
That's what I did and I decided to go with inviting four persons at a time at first and see what happens.
You have to keep in mind that not everyone you invite will instantly see your message
and will instantly answer or traveling to your island, instead there will be some delays or didn't see it or something else
so you have to remember to have a little "buffer", for example when people don't answer and you don't know whether they will come or not.
And this is quite tough getting all these replies of people wanting to visit you
I think I got 30 to 40 replies
Okay, I got maybe 50 replies altogether
I sent my post at 9.30 am and the price was available until noon (so 2 hours and 30 minutes).
and in the first two or three minutes after I posted it I got roundabound 30 replies.
And I wanted to answer everyone, but for the beginning I just focussed on the first four replies I got and see what happens.
I think I ended up having three of them actually visit me
and they sell their turnips really quick, but sadly there was a disconnect right at the start.
One of them sent me a DM saying he could sell the turnips but wanted to tip which I stated in the post was optional.
This is also stated in the rules of the subreddit I use (AC_Turnips)
This is a subreddit for turnip business in Animal Crossing only.
Anyway, there was a DC and one of them sent me a DM saying he could sell but could not leave a tip
and wrote something like "You could send me your switch code and I can give it to you later"
so that was very kind and nice.
Also I did chat all four people to check if they could sell their turnips or need to come again
and while chatting I also skipped the annoying texts to get a new dodo code and open the gate again.
From there everything went smooth, no further DC's
but there were some longer loading screens, probably because of someone's bad internet
(as long as this particular person was around the "boarding screen" was about one minute long)
so yeah it was probably someone's internet connectivity that was a bit slow.
But for me, it's still so fascinating how kind everyone was
I already told you I got lots of replies in the first minutes
but only invited four of them at first.
After someone left, I tried to get in touch with the next person the replied to the post.
So I sent a DM to this person
but until then, some time has already passed by.
At the beginning, it might have been like 10 minutes between the reply and my DM
but the delay became bigger and bigger and people have already waited 40 - 50 minutes or even an hour.
And just because they posted 2-3 minutes too late.
So that was when I turned around the process and asked people to write ME a DM if they're still interested instead of me sending them one
After all, it was quite the same work for me but I had a nicer overview in my DM's
because they chatted me when they were still interested and there were no "negative" DM's in between.
That worked great and I think about 4-5 people actually sent me a DM writing they still want to sell on my island.
so I sent them the code and everything went fine.
Well, honestly, I just got so many positive vibes and chats
the community is just so nice
the most negative thing would be someone who does not answer - and that's it.
So there were absolutely no people saying 'meh, I replied half an hour ago and still got no message'
You can't expect all of them to be experienced and to know how much the host has to manage
So I expected new people to be around and maybe expected them to be mad or something
but there was not a single one complaining
no one was impatient or rude
but just to be safe I started all my messages with "sorry for the (long) wait" so they may not be pissed or angry.
I just got so many other people in the queue and you could tell by all the comments on my post.
So this is a good point for letting them reply to your post instead of having them sending a DM.
It is transparent/clear for everyone to see how many are already in the queue.
Then you could tell approx. how long it would take and maybe you don't reply then.
Also, I upvoted the comment of every person in the queue I invited so you could also tell by that at which point of the queue I'm standing.
So if the person got 2 upvotes it was most likely that I invited him/her and upvoted it by myself.

I just think this way it is more clear to see for everyone, because with DMs directly, nobody can tell how many people already wrote DMs and how long the queue is.
And as I said, the feedback I got when I wrote something like "sorry for the wait" was just so nice
Many people wrote like "omg thanks, I will definitely come!" or "yes thanks!!!"
it was just so positive and you could really tell they are grateful to be able to sell on my island
and it really made me happy.
I know how it feels to have your turnips already loaded in your pockets ready to sell on someone's island
and of course many people are posting their prices within just a few minutes
but if you're not super fast it will take a while for you to be invited
So I'm really amazed by the kindness of this community and will definitely do it again.
I also got some bells from it (as tip), should be about 1.6 Million
which was nice for what is was - a tip - but of course I would have made more if I had turnips myself
but I did not do it for the money but because I wanted to give people the chance to sell at a good price.
I have enough bells at the moment so it's nice that I could help others and see how grateful they are.
Especially when they may need it.
To the tips: I think 2-3 people did not tip at all, but I don't really care. It's not "the proper way" but again, it's optional so it's totally fine to just sell the turnips :)
So if someone wants to express his gratitude by tipping me, that's nice
but I also like it to read a nice message on reddit :)
I really like it when I see people are happy because of me / something I did
and that is more valuable than money (or even nothing) could ever be :p
So this is all I wanted to say, now I will show you the little video... (hehe, I forgot to cut something from the final video...)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
