Marc
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Is it illegal to sell shiny Pokemon and bells for real money?
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SmugWolff
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I don't think its illegal but the selling bells might be considered gambling to some people. It's not exactly good to sell this stuff since most of it is generated on a hacked console, and even getting it all legitamately before selling is against the terms of service (atleast for Pokémon HOME). It may be illegal in some countries but afak it's not illegal in the US or against ebays rules.
28142
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I don't believe it's illegal since it's not even illegal to sell the carts the game is on. Shinies aren't something you can get in game with real money, they're just an item.
I think the issue might come from selling hacked shinies for real money since both sides (nintendo and selling sites) would have an issue with the hacked part. Wouldn't be "illegal" even then though since there's no laws for that xD
Selling bells would be the exact same, it's just an item in a game. Not sure how you'd get gambling from that xD
I think the issue might come from selling hacked shinies for real money since both sides (nintendo and selling sites) would have an issue with the hacked part. Wouldn't be "illegal" even then though since there's no laws for that xD
Selling bells would be the exact same, it's just an item in a game. Not sure how you'd get gambling from that xD
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It's not illegal I think but it unethical to buy shiny pokemon, bells, or even animal crossing villagers for lots of money tbh. I've heard stories of Raymond from animal crossing new horizons being sold for thousands of dollars on ebay cause he's a rare smug cat villager that new in the animal crossing community. He has no amiibo card yet so people are selling him like he's the rarer than gold. Honestly just don't sell or buy stuff like this on the internet cause it's not ethical and your hurting your bank account buying stuff like this honestly. Those are just my thoughts but your welcome to have your own.
Lieshae
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Gram
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It’s never illegal to buy them, but on the selling end things can get hazy. It comes down to whether it can be proven that those goods were obtained through hacking.
I’m not positive if it’s illegal otherwise.I could have sworn I’d heard people were getting their listings taken down, but that was likely something having to do with hacked star fragment trees in New Horizons. I do know those were recently removed from people’s islands (or converted to normal trees), so that is an example of Nintendo actually taking action.
I’m not positive if it’s illegal otherwise.I could have sworn I’d heard people were getting their listings taken down, but that was likely something having to do with hacked star fragment trees in New Horizons. I do know those were recently removed from people’s islands (or converted to normal trees), so that is an example of Nintendo actually taking action.
Sunny_Meows
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It's not really illegal, because you get what you're paying for, and they aren't scamming you. If you get sales, that just means that the costumer is willing to pay you, and if you return the favor and give them what you promised, you're pretty much in the clear. Except if you sell illegal drugs, body parts, and the like idk. If you sell those, you're very much doing illegal stuff, and you're very likely to have at least some jail time and/or pay a small (or big!) fine. But we're talking about digital items from video games, so if you sell bells, trees in animal crossing, shiny pokemon, and the like I think you're pretty much in the clear there.