So, I come home from work to find an alert from someone I do not know offering me a trade. 

I know its going to be a horrible, stupid trade, so I brace myself and click. 

Here's what I see.

Nu-uh, not in your wildest dreams will this ever happen! Can't you read? If you saw my pet, you noted the notice on my profile.

I can only as-sume that you're waiting for me to accidentally click the wrong button.  Wrong again.

I'm tired of seeing these trade offers for my most valuable profile pets. I want a way to block all incoming pet trades.  Or I want this arranged so the person has to request the ability to trade with your pet. One of those two.  

With the influx of YOUNG new players into Res, its already gotten to be a bad place for mature members to hang out.  I do not want to be bothered by people who can't read who ask for my pets. Please do something.

I agree with you, Geo. This happened with my Omni, Gizoid.

There should be some way you can control your trades. Possibly, it should alert you that a trade has been requested from a user and you should have the ability to decline or accept before it comes to your trades for good. Almost like a warning before you enter. That alert could also notify the username, so that you know who it's from- whether it's someone you know or don't know. A bit confusing, but I hope this makes good enough sence. I'll try to put it in other words if needed.

Aside from a needed notification when hitting accept...

Yes, we need confirmations when accepting a pet trade too.

Not to mention a whole lot of other things, like sending items or tu to folks, or using quickstock to send many items at once.

Seriously, this place is populated by human beings that make errors.  They happen. Give us a chance to see we've made an error before going through with a mistake.

As for pet trades, I am just tired of seeing new players randomly select a common pet to trade for one of my rare pets that I worked my tail off to get, train, and write about.

You got support here, Geo. I like the idea, that you have to request ability to Set Up a Pet Trade. I received a N00bish Pet Trade for my nattie Iluvu. It was so n00bish I almost forgot to get angry, and laughed myself silly instead. Then I declined.

It's a shame people can't seem to read sometimes.

It's pretty much a no-brainer when it comes to deciding on this one.  It obviously happens often enough to get many users incredibly annoyed by it (frankly, once is enough for that). 

Notes on the points mentioned so far:

1) "Yes, we need confirmations when accepting a pet trade too.

Not to mention a whole lot of other things, like sending items or tu to folks, or using quickstock to send many items at once."

We need confirmations for anything that involves the movement of pets or items to another user.  Some things, such as item trades and collections already have things like this, so there is no reason why pet trades, item sending, etc should not.  Especially when transporting valuable items or large amounts of tu to another player, the lack of a confirmation could easily cause you to transfer those items to the wrong user, or even to nobody at all. 

I've seen people type ina username that they thought to be correct, only to find that they were missing a letter.  The user they sent the items to did not exist, but they had still lost the items.  Because of this, we need at least a confirmation there.  It should not be possible to send items into nowhereland.

2) "I want a way to block all incoming pet trades."

Most definitely.  You can easily unblock them whenever you have planned pet trades, and this way there is absolutely no way that someone can randomly offer on one of your prized pets.

3) "Or I want this arranged so the person has to request the ability to trade with your pet."

This would also work.  This way you will know if it was a person you planned to trade with or not and there is no way to run into messy situations.   Another option might be that a person only has to request to trade with you once, and then they can trade with you as many times as they would like.  However, the person who allowed them to trade in the first place would also have the option to reblock that person from trading until next time if they don't know them very well.

4) "Would be coolest if you could block each pet for itself instead of all at once. (for me at least, sometimes i do want to trade with some. X3)"

I have seen some people lately that are asking people to set up trades with any pet on their profile that they want "except for so-and-so".  Like Mia said some people, for whatever reason, do have pets on their profile that they are willing to trade.  It might be nice to be able to select which pets you do not want to be traded.  There would be a notice in the pet's viewing box, as well as under their image in the All Pets module, that said NOT FOR SALE OR TRADE or something along those lines.  If someone tried to set up a trade with that pet, they would get the same notice.  (Seems like I seen this suggestion somewhere, go ahead and take credit for it if it was you.)

Overall, in some shape or form, these ideas need to be put into play.  I hate seeing things go wrong with valuable pets and items without confirmations and blocking options.  These options would take away a large source of annoyance and be completely helpful.

Very good idea on the not for sale or trade sign, Tacos.  I like that idea very much.  That would be in line with the idea someone had a long time ago for locking certain pets to their profile.

That would be a great idea as well.  I remember there was a glitch at one point where if you did not accept a pet trade for a long length of time, both pets would eventually vanish.  Hopefully that is fixed, and the trade alerts somewhat prevent this from happening, but still, each morning I go look to see my favorites are still there.

Seriously, I know you guys want to expand, and I am all for Rescreatu becoming larger and greater.  But before you launch a campain to get hundreds of new users, you need to consider that older players are going to be inconvinienced by people who don't read warning noticed on profiles, or who don't care about what problems they cause as they grab for as much as they can get as soon as they can get it.

This may be a game.  And its a good game too, but it really, really lacks security.

o3o I'd never known about the vanishing thing. I actually always let noob trades sit until the person gets it and cancels the trade.. Dah, that scares me now, if that glitch may still exist.

Well. I do agree that there should be some way to control trade offers, and I especially like the idea about being able to simply block trades for some or all of your Creatu. That would really help with preventing silly and unwanted offers on pets you want to keep, and perhaps make people get the message that some users just don't want to trade off their Creatu, period.

It would be certainly nice not to have to deal with people offering trades on my beloveds anymore, since apparently seeing a blonde Iluvu on a person's profile at first glance makes people get grabby-hands. ;|

Once I accidentally traded one of my liyures before rollback when they were fairly new. I completely agree with you, Geo. =3