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Wouldn't it be cool....

Wouldn't it be cool if you could trade in Stamps for tokens?? 10:1 or more would still be cool! Think of the Icon Empire you could build >:D

Posted by BenjieP on Aug 07, 2007 in Blab | 12 comments

dyar on Aug 07, 2007

I would be more than happy to trade you some Tokens for Stamps, unfortunately that ability is not available.

annethecat on Aug 11, 2007

Yeah, would be cool!

elnitido52 on Aug 11, 2007

But impossible! Why?...Giving you time for answers...

BenjieP on Aug 12, 2007

It's impossible because(obviously), the iconbuffet programers haven't put the feature in, and probably never will. ;)

elnitido52 on Aug 13, 2007

Nope, wrong answer.

BenjieP on Aug 13, 2007

Ah darn. I have no idea.

elnitido52 on Aug 13, 2007

Thing is that, if you were allowed to trade 10stamps for 1 Token, it's not really 10-1 but 5-1. Because you receive 5 stamps by spending the token that cost you 10. So, for every two tokens you buy (by swapping 20 stamps) you will produce another token, because each one produces 5 stamps (2x5=10stamps=1 extra tokens). If you have 50 stamps, you will be able to buy 5 extra tokens = 25 new stamps = 2.5 extra tokens and so on. That is why that won't be allowed ever.

gswd on Aug 13, 2007

elnitido52, good thinking and logic flow. I had never looked at it that way. Of course I haven't thought about this issue in a very long time anyways.

KevinJB on Aug 13, 2007

Also impossible because the whole point of stamps is so that you give back... if you could trade them in to tokens it would take away any incentive for you to do that! :/

jezca on Aug 13, 2007

who knew pirates were so smart?!? elnitido you are a genius. :D

elnitido52 on Aug 14, 2007

Avast! Arrrrrrr...

KatieK on Aug 14, 2007

I think the ideas that were suggested in an earlier post on this topic are workable, and they'd fix some of the problems that elnitido mentions.