How to Get Rid of Hard to Trade (HTT) Pets in Adopt Me

You can spot an HTT pet by the silence. You put it up, the value table says it's worth something, and nobody offers. Next day, still nothing. There's a number but no buyer, and that's the one thing to understand about hard to trade pets: a value doesn't promise that anyone will take the pet.

Why a pet won't trade even with a decent value

There's usually more than one reason, and they stack.

• Low demand. Nobody is looking for it: people don't like how it looks, don't need it for a neon, nobody makes videos about it.
• Huge supply. An event handed it to almost everyone, so half the server has one sitting in their backpack.
• The number lags. Value lists adjust a pet once trades pile up. Until then the value shows an old price.
• A neon or mega of an unpopular pet. The mega took 16 pets, and only a handful of players want it. The pricier the version, the smaller the pool of buyers.
• The value just dropped. After a drop many players wait for it to fall further and hold off.

HTT describes the market right now, and the market moves. A pet nobody takes today can be easy to trade again a couple of updates later, and the other way round.

How to check whether a pet is HTT before trading

The most honest test is the Trading Hub. When you search listings, the game lets you pick pets from your inventory and shows what other players on every server are offering for them. No offers, or only junk, means you're holding an HTT pet.

The second hint is the "sources disagree" mark in our table. A wide spread usually means few trades for that pet, and the range shows it.

Ways to move an HTT pet

Take a small loss yourself

The fastest way is to let it go slightly below its value. You won't get the full number for it anyway, and the time it sits in your backpack has a cost too. We'd give up 10–20% and no more: past that, waiting is the better deal.

Use it as an add

You can add an HTT pet to a strong offer for a popular pet to close the gap. It works when the other player really wants your main pet. If the adds are all HTT, the offer looks worse than its number and gets declined.

List it in the Trading Hub

A Trading Hub listing reaches players on every server, not just yours. It costs 100 Bucks, you can keep two listings up at once, and a third slot costs 49 Robux.

The catch: your listing only shows while you're in a server. And a listed pet is locked, so you can't equip it or put it in another trade until you cancel the listing.

Wait for a reason

Sometimes a pet comes back on its own: after an update puts attention on it again, or when a related pet comes out. If you don't need the backpack space or the value right now, waiting costs nothing. Nobody can tell in advance whether it'll go up, though; sometimes it just sits.

Last resort: the Pet Releaser

The Pet Releaser swaps pets for tickets, and tickets buy eggs: a Basic Egg for 400 and a Crystal Egg for 4,000. A released pet is gone forever, with no undo.

Ride adds 150 tickets and Fly adds 300. A regular FR legendary goes for 1,350 tickets, so one Crystal Egg takes three of them. A single neon legendary brings 18,000, enough for four Crystal Eggs with some left over.

When to keep the HTT pet

• It's a pet you love. Low demand is a bad reason to give up a pet you like.
• The loss is bigger than the wait. If people offer half its value and your backpack isn't full, we'd wait for a reason.
• You're not sure it's HTT. One quiet day in the Trading Hub proves nothing. Check over several days and at busy hours.

How not to end up with HTT pets

Most HTT pets come from trades, not eggs. The pattern is familiar: three or four HTT pets for your one popular pet, with a total just above yours, so it looks like a W. In practice you swap a pet that would go in a minute for a stack you'll be moving for a month.

Before a trade like that, check in the Trading Hub what people offer for the pets in it. How to judge a trade with demand in mind is in W, F or L? How to Check an Adopt Me Trade in 30 Seconds, and how much to give up or ask for is in How Much to Overpay for Your Dream Pet in Adopt Me.

The trap: making a neon from HTT pets

HTT pets are cheap, so collecting four and fusing a neon looks smart. A neon needs four full grown pets of the same species, and the result often inherits the problem: a neon of an HTT pet is HTT too, just with a bigger number. Only make that neon if you plan to keep it.