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Default Buying Regular/Primary Products in the Trading Warehouse

Buying Regular/Primary Products in the Trading Warehouse


Guideline Rules:

  1. There are a total of 6 categories of primary products:
    Crops, Tree Fruits, Tree Logs, Flowers, Animal Products and Fish
  2. You can only buy once and sell once to the same farmer each day.
  3. You can not sell a product that you are also buying, for example, if you have a Purchase Offer for rice, you can not sell rice to others.
  4. You can only Actively Buy AND Passively Sell once from each category in each Trading Period.
    • 6 Active selling operations (one for each category) while visiting other trading warehouses PLUS
    • 6 Passive buying operations when others sell to you in your trading warehouse.
    Then you have to wait for the next trading period to buy or sell more.

  5. There are a maximum of 10 Trade Periods per day, each lasting 1 hour. If you have trading periods left , when you reload the game you will see a popup showing you the trading period number that is about to start so you can make more offers. When you have reached the maximum amount of Trading periods you will see a message telling you so when you try to add another offer.

  6. If there is no current active trading period, one will be created the next time you create a Purchase Offer in your Trading Warehouse OR sell a product to a farmer in their Trading Warehouse.

  7. The buy sell limits for this section are called Trading Limits. This limit is a fixed amount, which you can not change, you will always be buying your limit and you will ONLY see your limit in the warehouse whether you are looking in your own warehouse or someone else's warehouse. The Trading Limit is governed by the amount of those items you have on your farms. Everyone will have their own limits for each category and it will automatically calculate and set the limit for you when you Create a Purchase Offer in the Buy Regular Products section of your Warehouse. This will limit will be recalculated once a week to accommodate any changes you make to your farms.

  8. To get the best results from buying and selling always keep an offer in your warehouse for each category. That way you will always receive the bonus for selling.

    • If you have no offers in your Warehouse in this section, you will NOT get a bonus when you sell to someone, you will be selling your limit of that category of the item they want to buy, and that amount will be taken from your storage and you will receive only coins for the sale.

    • If you have sale offers in your warehouse, when you sell to someone else, you get your limit of the product you are wanting to buy for that category, PLUS a bonus of the same amount. Your Reward is 2 x your Trading limit for that category. Fish and animal products have individual Trading Limits for each product so for those your Reward is 2x your Trading limit of the product you are wanting to buy yourself.

  9. As of June 2020 you can increase your trading limit for buying and selling regular products in the Trading Warehouse and at the same time also reduce the Trading period time by purchasing the Trading Advertising Banners. For information on these tools go to Chapter 21 Tools of the Game Guide What are the Trading Advertising Banners?


Your trading limits will likely be different than someone else so the mayor makes up the difference in limits between buyer and seller so no-one is getting less or more than their own limit.
  • Example: Your Trading limit for crops is 2000 and you added a Purchase offer of 2000 Tomatoes to your warehouse. If you sell a crop, perhaps Broccoli to someone in their warehouse your Reward will be 2 x your Trading limit for crops, so you will get 4000 Tomatoes NOT Broccoli.
  • If the sellers limit is lower than yours. Yours is 2000 and theirs is only 1000 then they sell you 1000 Tomatoes and the mayor makes up the difference giving you the other 1000 Tomatoes making it up to 2000.
  • The Sellers Reward for selling to you is 2x their own the Trading limit for their own crops and the crop that they set in their own Purchase offer, so if they had set 1000 Broccoli, they will sell you 1000 Tomatoes but will get 2000 Broccoli as their reward.
  • This should encourage others to sell to you as in return they will get more of the product they are wanting to buy in that category themselves.
  • If the sellers limit is higher than yours. Yours is 2000 and theirs is 5000, 3000 more than your limit, then they sell you your limit of 2000 Tomatoes and they get 5000 Broccoli. The mayor gives them the other 3000 to make it up to 5000 which is their Trading Limit.

  • Crops, Tree Fruits, Tree Logs, Flowers have the same trading limits for each product in a category. One Trading limit for each of the categories.
    Example: If your Trading Limit for crops is 2000 it will still be 2000 for all of the crops. If your Trading limit for Flowers is 500, it will be 500 for all of the flowers.

  • Fish and Animal products have individual trading limits for each product. When you see an offer for one of these, you will see your trading limit of the product they want to buy, but your Reward will be 2x the trading limit of what you want to buy yourself.
    Example: You want to buy 432 white rabbit fleece, your limit for white rabbit fleece. You see an offer of 677 sheep wool. 667 is your trading limit for sheep wool, but when you sell them the sheep wool, what you get is 2 x your limit of white rabbit fleece, what you want to buy, so 2 x 432 is 864 white rabbit fleece.


    NOTE: The regular/primary products you buy in your Trading Warehouse do NOT count toward your quest Trade Lifeline.


The Primary products you can sell or buy are:
  • Crops,
  • Trees Fruits
  • Tree Logs,
  • Harvested from Animals,
  • Fish from waters.
  • Flowers.


To ask for a Primary product to be sold to you, you need to Create a Purchase Offer in your Warehouse.

Click on your Warehouse and click on the Buy Regular Products button so it turns Orange in color like this. If it is not orange then you are looking at a different section of the warehouse:


Rules - will show you a brief description of the rules and trading limits for buying primary products in the Buy Regular Products section.

Benefits - will show you a brief description of the rewards.

Super Trader - will tell you what tools you need to purchase to become a Super Trader. You can also see information about the tools in this link: What are the Trading Advertising Banners?




There are 6 sections. One for each category. You can only add one purchase offer for each category at a time. Remember you are always buying your own Trading Limit not the sellers Trading Limit. The blue Rules and Benefits buttons to the right of Buy Regular Products, when clicked on, will give you details on those.




Click on "Create Purchase Offer ...." whichever category you want to buy.
The sale window and options you see is very much like the sale windows when you sell to farmers buy clicking on their avatars or when you add your super facility goods to your warehouse. The category is always greyed out as you can only sell that particular category in that box. The Quantity you can Buy will always be your Trading Limit, you can not change this. The ONLY options you can change is the Product you want to Buy in that category and the Mark up, the price you are willing to buy them for. The drop down arrows next to the Product name and next to Mark Up let you change those 2 options.


This is an example of an offer for Dragon Fruit at 10% below market price. The following shows you what product you are wanting, how many ( your Trading Limit) and your Mark Up, what you are willing to buy them for. The total price is in the box as well:
When you have made your choices click the green check mark and your Purchase Offer will show to YOU like this:
If you have made a mistake with the price you can Update the offer, or if you picked the wrong crop for example you can Delete the offer by clicking the appropriate buttons in the box. If you Update the offer, remember to click the green check mark to save.

As soon as you have made your 1st offer your Trading Period of 1 hour will start. During that hour you can
  • Sell once from each category to different farmers (this is Active selling, when you sell someone what they want in this section via the warehouse)
  • Be sold products from each category (this is Passive buying, when someone sells you one of your offers in your warehouse)

When you are sold that offer, if you look in your warehouse before the hour is up you will see something like this. The blue button at the bottom of the offer is greyed out now shows you how much time you have to wait until you can add another Purchase offer. This example shows 29 minutes. If you looked after that hour was up you would see Create Purchase offer in Blue again.

If a friend sold it to you, you will see their profile picture (if they have one), if a stranger sold it to you , you will see their avatar picture. The profile picture in this example has been replaced to protect privacy:


When the seller views your offer, they will see a different offer as their Trading limit will likely be different than yours. The Crop and the Mark up will be the same but the amount of crops they can see will be their Trading limit not yours. This is an example of someone viewing the offer above who has a much lower Trading limit than the buyer:
When they have sold you an offer they will see something like this:






Last edited by Tiger; Oct 05 2023 at 02:23 PM.