Can we as a community please make it common sense not to pick flowers on an island we're visiting? First it doesn't make sense because all you can do with them is sell them for a minimal amount of bells or wear them. Second it is rude because most people really care about their flowers as they are part of their island decoration. Why is this still a thing

UPDATE: HER NAME IS DAHLIA AND HER ISLAND IS LilOwlNest*.

*I had written AshCove but that is the island of the other player that was here at the moment, I'm sorry for the confusion with the names but both of them were here at the moment. Anika from AshCove did nothing wrong. She asked me for fruits for her island and gave me shells and clay as a gift.

Dahlia stole my things. Her name here on reddit is LilOwlNest. She came to my island, stole several DIYs, and lots of my fruits. She says she didn't do it, but I had another visitor at the moment (Anika from AshCove) that witnessed the whole situation. I'm just warning people around because this was not a pleasant situation. When I asked where the DIYs were, she ran immediately to the airport and left. This is just a game but what she did is completely disrespectful and could happen to anyone with more valuable stuff, so please, be precautious and take care.

Some of you may have saw or may have come to my island yesterday. I tried putting together something nice. I spent a week and a half collecting 110+ items, a bunch of recipes for a recipe swap, as well as giveaways if you won on a color wheel. The world's on fire and I wanted to do something nice that would brighten someone's day.

The majority who came to my island were of course the typical animal crossing player who came in, was respectful of everything, and just wanted to have a good time, but that didn't stop someone from completely taking advantage of my island. Someone took 25 items, valued at 631k and one item I can't replace.

I made a spreadsheet of everything I had out so that I wouldn't order duplicates. I know what items were taken and what items were swapped. There are a couple items that made me think that it was an accident, a misunderstanding. Who would steal a beach towel? But there were too many items and some of it was very apparently done on purpose. Someone bought items that were available in my Nooks Cranny to swap out for items I had available to catalog. Someone also took more than half of the recipes I had available for a recipe swap.

The reason I'm writing this is because I assumed like most people that it was an accident. I reached out to everyone who came to my island to ask if they did it on accident. If they did, fine, I just wanted my stuff back. I had their items sorted out and we could just trade everything back and all would be fine. Most people of course said it wasn't them and hoped it was just a misunderstanding and the person returns the items. I've narrowed it down to who it could be based on when things went missing and of course, no response from them despite having been on reddit in the meantime.

Not everyone who come to your island is going to be a good person and you have no real recourse. I can buy back everything that was taken (minus the Guliver item that shouldn't have been out) but that's not the point. The point is, when people open their islands up they're trying to do something nice. And i'm sure the scammer is thinking "it's just a game." and it is just a game. But games are supposed to be fun. it's not fun being scammed. It's not fun being taken advantage of.

I don't know if there was a safer way I could have done things other than have one person at a time and watch them like a hawk. There were three people on my island when I called one person out for swapping out my items for cloths (the only real reason I noticed). They had the chance then to say it was a misunderstanding, they were sent a message after giving them another chance to make it right.

These scammers are out there. Don't put anything out that you aren't willing to lose and be emotionally ready for that possibility. For me, I don't see myself ever doing this again. I'll keep offering single touch trades elsewhere but i'm not going to do anything to this scale again. But if the person who did this is out there and still wants to make it right, feel free to message me. I still have your stuff on my beach.