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When you choose someone else's trade then the other users get a message saying "the user has rejected your trade" Most of the time this isn't really true, you just accepted a better offer, or tried to be fair and accepted the first person who offered.

It cause undue misery for the people offering, especially new people and leads to users pal padding to ask why you rejected their trade when they offered EXACTLY what you wanted, or why you rejected their trade when you said the pokemon was for FREE.

It also leads to oversensitive people rejecting trades of others who "rejected" their trades the day before, or believing users dislike them because they weren't chosen and in some cases blocking people because they rejected their offer.

I think the message is fine if you did actually use the "reject" offer button, however when you choose someone else trade I think it would cause less pain/drama if the message was changed to something like "the user has accepted a better offer, please try again on another trade"

I don't believe this would be hard to code and the change of message would save people wondering why their trades were rejected and assuming the worst.

I actually agree here. When getting the message (and the trade is gone when I check on it), I keep asking myself 'okay, did they accept another person's offer or .. ?'.

Quote from SallyAnn

"the user has accepted a better offer, please try again on another trade"

I'd suggest simply putting, "The user accepted someone else's offer on their trade" or something among these lines instead. Because having it say that the user accepted a 'better offer' makes it sound as if your own offer was bad/not worth it. Which, to me, gives off a kinda negative vibe, to be honest.

But yeah, generally speaking, I support the suggestion.

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I like this. Even though I do go back to check if the trade was done or not when my offer is rejected, it's nice just to have it specified in my notifications.

Agreed. As someone who got 'rejected' on a free pokemon I did message the person saying 'I thought it was free' hadn't even realised it was because they took another offer. In hindsight they must have felt I was very rude and I felt terribly embarrassed.

I support, this would especially be more useful for trades such as "first one to offer will get one." Now if someone says they rejected your trade, it makes me feel like they just hate my personality and closed it because they didn't like me. It would make the GTS little less dramatic if this was changed.

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Thanks for the support guys, I honestly think a small change in wording can make the world of difference to many people.

I have received pal pads asking why the trade was rejected and I've seen feeds and posts in the forums asking why people reject offers on free pokemon, when actually they just accepted someone elses offer.

I also notice that if I choose someone elses offer, even if I have 4 of the same trade up, then the "rejected" people never try again on one of the other trades so the "rejected" message is clearly having an impact on them.

I definitely support this! Most of the time, I usually forget what I even offered or what trade it was when I get rejected but when I remember what trade it was and get rejected, I always get confused, especially on a trade that said something like "It's free" or something. I would get confused whether they canceled the trade or accepted someone else's. This definitely should get implemented. It makes people less confused or hurt whenever they get rejected.

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Why not the user can be able to send a message?

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It has been replaced by the following message:

Quote from GTS

Your offer on USERNAME's trade was cancelled. The user either rejected your offer, cancelled or completed the trade, or the trade expired.