When one is new, Sylestia can be confusing. While Sylestia one of the friendliest and most welcoming communities on the 'Net, many new players are uncomfortable asking questions about how things work.

This thread is for newer players to have a chance to learn about how Sylesti auctions work by participating in "Auctions with training wheels." The prices are low, without those huge, intimidating sums of gold and Diamonds changing hands, yet one can still purchase a valuable pet.

Here's how it works. First, read at least the first post in each of these threads--

Pet Sale Conduct (Read Before Selling Pets)

Pet Auction Rules {Please Read Before Posting}

As you can see, these rules are just ordinary politeness plus common sense. The enormous majority of players follow these rules without even thinking about it, which is one reason Sylestia is such a cool place.

To these rules I add the following, specific to this thread--

Rule 1-A. You may only participate in an Auction here if your account is at least 30 days old but no more than 150 days old. (Usually the limit is 30-120 days, but I haven't run a Training-Wheels Auction for a month, so I'm extending the eligible range this once.)

Rule 1-B. To be clear, if your account will be within the eligible range at any point during the Auction, you are eligible to bid. Even if your account will be 151 days old tomorrow, or your account will only reach 30 days on the very last day of this Auction, you are still eligible.

Rule 2. To bid, create a "New Reply" on this thread (button is at the bottom right). Create a post stating which pet or pets you are bidding on and how much you want to bid on each one. Please ping me when you create your post. If you are out-bidding someone, and you want to be a supremely well-mannered Sylestian, also ping the person you are outbidding. (Click here for How To Ping.)

Rule 3. If you don't understand something, or an aspect of an auction isn't clear, please post your question on this thread. You see, if you have a question, there's probably two or three other people who have the same question and are too shy to ask it. Help everyone out by asking your question here in this thread. You don't have to be participating in an auction to ask questions. I especially urge players whose accounts are less than 30 days old to ask questions, even though they can't bid (yet).

Rule 4. I will allow a bidder to withdraw a bid if the bidder realizes they bid more gold than they could afford, realizes they don't have room for the pet, etc., providing the bidder lets me know about their mistake. Please note that ordinary Auctions do not allow this! This is my special rule to help newer players participate in their first Auction with confidence. If you goof, it's not a big deal.

Rule 5. Have fun! Learn things! And if you'd like to see how all this works, click here to see the last Training-Wheels Auction I ran.

This Auction Has Ended
Each pet image links to the pet.

Note: Final bid must stand for 15 minutes. This means if someone bids at 11:59 pm on Saturday, everyone else has until 12:14 am on Sunday to out-bid that person. If that person is outbid, the 15-minute clock starts over again. This keeps happening until 15 minutes has passed with no further bids, at which point the last high bidder wins the pet. This rule is to prevent sniping.
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Pet #1 is SOLD!

He's a Purebred Pretty Poppy Qitari stallion named "Fire Engine Red."

That's me!

Starting bid: 50 gold
Buy-it-Now Price (Optional): 300 gold.

Minimum Bid Increase: 5 gold

Sold to Jennysyc for the BIN price!
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Pet #2 is a female Purebred Anthias Lunemara--

My name is Illume.

Starting Price: 50 gold
Buy-it-Now Price (Optional): 200 gold

Minimum Bid Increase: 5 gold
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Pet #3 is a male Purebred Loch Ness Sylvorpa--

I'm called Tiktaalik.

Starting bid: 50 gold
Buy-it-Now Price (Optional):None.

Minimum Bid Increase: 5 gold

Winning bid: 50 gold, by Rikaheart.
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Pet #4 is a Purebred Springtime Zolnixi todd--

My name is Calan Haf, which is the old Welsh term for early summer.

Springtime was the very first Zolnixi Theme; it came out during the 2013 Spring Festival. Back then, Sylestia was so new, no one had come up with the idea of Tagging Themed pets, which makes Springtime Zolnixies difficult to locate via Advanced Search.

Starting bid: 50 gold
Buy-it-Now Price (Optional):None.

Minimum Bid Increase: 5 gold

Winning bid: 50 gold, by Jennysyc.
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Finally, Pet #5 is Tagged (not Purebred)! He's a Vibrant Plumage Aurleon named "Mardi Gras." Since he is a Tagged VP Aurleon, you could use a Greater Mutator to give him a third trait, in addition to the two Carried traits he already has. If the Aurleon species gets a brand-new trait, you could even give him that new trait!

Face it, I'm a rock star!

Starting bid: 500 gold
Buy-it-Now Price (Optional):None.

Minimum Bid Increase: 10 gold

Winning bid: 5000 gold, by Blayneryker.

I'mma enter

pet 1 buy it now

I'll enter now.. Pet 3, I bid 50g!

I bid 600 gold for pet # 5 :)

I'm sorry, Kawaii, but when the auction ends your account will only be 17 days old. Your account needs to be at least 30 days old by auction's end for you to be eligible to bid. If you like, I will ping you for my next "Training-Wheels Auction."

Rikaheart, your bid has been recorded. You are the current high bidder on Pet #3, Tiktaalik.

Blayneryker, your bid has been recorded. You are the current high bidder on Pet #5, Mardi Gras.

Thank you! And Your Avatar is looking Cool for the summer!

the rules should be that the person knows what they are doing if they are a new player,meaning they know how to breed pets,what genes and mutatins are valued etc not that they have to by 30 days old on their account