Talk:Friends & Gifting/@comment-36165018-20190124134356/@comment-172.77.35.0-20190124183434

Some friends gift from the news feed instead of the wishlist. I do this when I am gifitng collection items because I know that if it is a recent request in the news feed that the person has been on within a given amount of time and I'm sure they're actually going to get the gift I've sent. If the request in the news feed is more than a few hours old and that friend has a large number of other friends then it is very possible that their in-box is full and they will not get the item and you've just wasted the gift and it disappears into the ether. For other players that do this as well I like continuously update my wishlist, every 30 minutes or so when I am online. When I am offline I try to make sure there are no collection items in my wishlist. This let's people know not only the things that I'm looking for but also that my in-box is probably empty and I'm actually going to get the item if they send it.

On the other hand, there are some friends that abuse the news feed and you'll see 20 or 30 requests in a row, they are just spamming it up for the rest. If I feel they are too abusive I delete them, but usually I remember who I've gifted each day that these people will only get one of those requests if I have extra items that I can spare.