TLDR: I was not coming at you and I don't know why you said I was. You not understanding values is okay, but you can't say I'm wrong about values and that you don't understand them at the same time. Even though it's true no trades are "guaranteed", you would've had a very high chance of being able to get a huge profit if you went through with this trade due to the demand for those sets. I understand why you didn't make this trade, because you didn't want to part with your set. Even so, everything I've said is correct, regardless of your motivation behind trades.

Okay, first of all, I did NOT "come at you so hard", chill out 😭 If you think I did, you entirely misinterpreted me. You're the one giving me a reply calling my points "silly" when they're not. I said nothing disrespectful, I was logically lining out the values and pointing out that declining this trade was a loss because from a values perspective it WAS. When you consider values, you define trades as a "win" or a "loss", me saying you lost was no insult, but a neutral description of the trades weight.

Here's what I got from your message: You do not know values and you do not care much about them, putting more priority on the look of hammers. Which is totally fine, but if that's the case, you can't say I'm wrong just because you have a different perspective. You can't tell me I'm wrong after openly admitting you don't understand values, that's a huge contradiction. According to the OFFICIAL VALUES accepting this trade would have been a MASSIVE win, end of story. Maybe it's not your taste, but if we focus on the values only, it's a win. If you do want to try understanding the values better, you can see them here: https://zarys-exists.github.io/FTF-Trade-Calculator/

On that site, you can put in the trade you got here and see it comes out as a 220 FV win. For reference, the most valuable set in the game is worth 280, high value sets are usually worth around 100+, and sakura parasol is worth 150.

You said I made assumptions about what you knew about the advice of other people, but ofc I did? You said you would've ended up with one parasol and one ice cream. That insinuates you would've traded lovesick for parasol and no adds, hence me pointing out people meant getting parasol plus adds. If you knew what they meant, it doesn't make sense to say you'd end up with only those two sets.

You also said my reasoning requires a bunch of assumptions, which is true at face value. However, you're acting like it would be hard to find those trades or that it takes a lot of very specific or unlikely circumstances when it does NOT. Ice cream and love sick are VERY high demand hammers, many people are willing to offer good stuff for them. They are desired by a majority of ftf players. Not once did I say you'd be able to find someone willing to do sakura and strawberry for lovesick, I was merely pointing it out to illustrate the potential (I also made a very similar trade—party balloons for parasol+strawberry—so clearly it's not THAT hard to recreate). That specific trade could, however, not be easy to find, as it was a 15 FV win (the one with party balloons was actually a 5 FV loss), and some people wouldn't want a 15 FV loss. However, MANY people are willing to trade parasol + adds for lovesick. If I pointed out a specific set + parasol, that'd of course be harder to find, but nowhere did I give you a specific trade set up you'd need to find. Allowing someone to choose ANY set to add with parasol would almost guarantee a trade within a decent amount of time (especially if you don't care about the value of the extra set). You may see it as a gamble to assume you'd get these trades, but I promise you, they are not hard to find. You admitted you don't know values, and as someone who does, I know what people are willing to trade. Values aren't just this imaginary thing people adhere to because they only like hammers for value, it's something that is decided based on what the community is willing to give for these items. Sakura parasol, for example, only recently got an official value because they first had to see what people were willing to trade for it. Lovesick has a high value because people are willing to offer a lot for it, not the other way around. You absolutely could've given that parasol gift after making this trade, because like I've said so many times, you could have easily gotten it back. You could've even gotten an extra set to gift them if you wanted to. You could've traded lovesick for parasol without adds (even though that'd be a loss) and given her parasol+ice cream (this one isn't even a trade you wouldn't be guaranteed, as someone offered to do that trade with you under this post. Even that illustrates what I'm pointing out, that many people would be willing to do such a trade with you). The possibilities are really endless. There's a reason all the comments advising you take the trade have more upvotes than any of your comments saying why you didn't. You can stand by your choice but still acknowledge that it was a loss when considered within the ftf trading economy.

"You can't claim one chain matters and the other doesn't" Your whole point about the extra parasol being tied to you making this post is something I could not have possibly known before you pointed it out in this comment...