Thursday, December 3, 2009

How do I transfer things between accounts on TeenNick.com?

Transferring things between accounts - honestly I disagree with the practice for the most part. It seems like cheating. If you're transferring items to one account from the other - you're essentially getting the items without putting in the effort to earn creds (which in result earns TeenNick money.) 97%* of the users on TeenNick.com earn creds to buy things on their alternate accounts, or saved an outfit for months to have a Halloween skin - you can imagine that they can get ticked when other users forgo the effort (and support of the site though earning them money through looking for creds) and just transfer items to their account. However, I have had a few questions about how the process works so I'm going to explain it. But first let's get a few things straight:

1) NEVER, I repeat, NEVER give your password to someone else to get other items for your avatar. It'll get your account permanently disabled without any warning. This also is a big safety risk - they'll be able to see your personal info, and you don't want a random stranger seeing your personal info. They could also go around and spam the board with rule-breaking stuff on your account - no one wants that to happen.
2) Don't transfer things from your friend's/brother's/boyfriend's/anyone you know in real life's account. Doing so will result in both accounts being disabled. (The compromised account rule is zero tolerance, you may tell the mods that you let your sister on your account and not some random stranger - but they're not going to take the chance.)
3) Don't ask for anyone else's password to transfer things - even to give them your things - your account will be disabled.

The only way this works and doesn't result in people getting into trouble, is if you transfer things from one account that you own (totally yours, registered with your email, no one else uses it) to another account that is totally yours. The process goes like this:
1) Sign in with account that has the item/skin you want to transfer (we'll call it "Account A")
2) Go to your Avatar Closet
3) Open a new window or tab in the same browser - in this window/tab go to Teennick.com, log out of account A and into the account that doesn't have the item (we'll call it account B.) Go to the Avatar Closet on Account B.
4) On account A, customize the avatar to have the item/skin you want
5)Save the avatar - it'll show up on Account B

Things to know about transferring items - items won't show up in Account B's inventory/closet - you may be able to save the transferred avatar as an outfit, but customizing you avatar with items that were transferred and items you already have could be difficult.
Also, if the mods even suspect you shared a password/let someone who is not you on your account you're running the high risk of it being disabled. It might be a misunderstanding - but the mods have to be safe rather than sorry - make sure you're OK with this risk before you try transferring things.
Also Teen Nick may change it's policy at anytime and decide transferring things between your own accounts is against the rules and requires immediate account deletion - be ready to take that risk before transferring items.

As a whole - I think the process is pretty ridiculous - it's really pretty easy to get creds, not putting in the effort and just transferring the items is lazy. Maybe I'm a hypocrite for telling you exactly how to do something then telling you it's a bad idea, but I'm not against the information being out there (especially when it's accompanied with information about why it's a bad idea.) Just use your brain when deciding what to do. This is probably one of the riskiest yet not against the rules things to do on Teennick.com (which sounds really overly-dramatic, but it's kind of true.) I'm trusting you to make the decision.

*Made-up statistic - but probably pretty darn accurate if you ask me. Especially since the majority of users that started transferring things in the first place had their accounts disabled for sharing passwords.

Disclosure: Information is current as of when this entry was posted - please remember teennick.com may change/update at anytime and cause some or all the above information to become inaccurate. I can't control or be responsible for what Teen Nick does. If something changes, feel free to make me aware of it and I'll try to update this entry.

10 comments:

  1. I <3 made-up statistics! :D

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  2. um i found out how to have more than 4 accessroies but it was totally by accident. since my avi closet wasn't working on my main account i went to my backup and created another backup(2). from my back up 1 i was transferring things to my backup2 and now on my avi it has 5 accessories. I'm gonna play around with this to see what happens. -not anonymous, i go by cole

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  3. yeah if i transferred an outfit from an account say1 then go to account2 save that outfit and buy an accessory i can add it on to the already 5+ accessory avi. I think it had to do with that elf hair from roleplayer and the multi colored one, it counts it as an access not hair letting u add on more accessories. if you would rather this not get out delete these two comments. i'l keep this to myself. :]-cole

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  4. dear cole: if you didn't want people reading it you probably should've kept it to yourself anyways.


    ...just saying.

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  5. This is CRAZY you have to go in the other persons account?


    XoxoL3XI Add me :)

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  6. I stumbled across this because I was really confused about all this transfer talk on the Talk to TeenNick board and I had no idea it was possible. So thank you!

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  7. if an account is disabled, is that temporary or forever?

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  8. Okay, so if they don't show up in the closet then how do i save/get them... nothing's showing up....

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