What to do with reward certificates? Sell them?

[Metropolis Man]

The reason for that is the same as basically every other item: the longer you keep it, the less worth it become.

No, I'm pretty confident that some certificates are worth less the moment you receive them.

[Schipperke]

No, I'm pretty confident that some certificates are worth less the moment you receive them.

I am quite sure they are all worth $1000 at first, then depreciate from there.

[Metropolis Man]

Okay, I've made mistakes before. Someone go check.  Yeah, it's probably that I don't open inventory all the time and suddenly see a certificate that's only worth 700 and never put one and one together. I never even realized they depreciate. I guess I didn't lump them into the same class as other items.

[Pam]

This is so cute!  Everyone is just so polite! 

I pretty sure I just had one that arrived in the mail and I immediately sold it for $600. 

[wildredchild]

When I first got Ambitions and installed it, my certificates were selling for $600 as soon as they came out of the mailbox.  When the patch came along, they went back up to $1000.

[Leto85]

When I first got Ambitions and installed it, my certificates were selling for $600 as soon as they came out of the mailbox.  When the patch came along, they went back up to $1000.

Aaaah, so it was a bug? Glad to read your post. But that can be checked by reading through the info about the patch EA put on the site.

[Jonna]

I've always had some that were $1000 and some that were $600 but never bothered to check which ones were worth how much.  I sell 'em either way.

[AriaGirl77]

Ok, I know this for sure because I'm a bit obsessive about unnecessary objects in my Sims' inventories.  They always always always sell for $1000 if you sell them the moment you get them in the mail (like I do).  The only time I sell them for less is if I forgot to sell them the day before, in which case they're worth 900, I'm sure they decrease less than that but mine never sit around for that long!

I'd bet $1000 on it.   

[Sarah]

When you get them they're worth £1000; after a day they start to depreciate. I forgot about one and it's currently in my Sims inventory at £600. I'm pretty much posting to confirm what AriaGirl77 has said

[Saltypaws]

You are absolutely correct.  I second the motion.

[John Allen]

To third that motion (without going back to pre-patches etc..)  I started playing shortly before ambitions, btw.

Sold after receiving:  $1000
Then they devalue pretty quick in increments to the bottom pricing of $ 600

Tracked this because at first I would hang them, in later games sell them because 1000 was a lot of cash for my sims while I was learning.  With one family (3rd gen of the first dynasty I played with) I tracked it in detail to figure out why the prices were different. I liked them as souvenirs but pretty soon they used up all the wall space and looked- well crappy.   So I actually checked the value every day to learn what was happening.

It was just depreciation.

[Aiwe]

It depends, most families I tend to sell them, or most of them, but I have one family which has a mausoleum in the basement, with each deceased family member having a little nook that has their urn and a display stand with something representing their achievements in life and some wall space for portraits, paintings they painted photographs and in some cases certificates, it depends what they focused on. Each alcove also has a chest with any items that didn't fit on the walls in it (seeing as one Sim maxed 14 out of 15 skills in her life as well as climbing to the top of her profession and raising children, you can see how that might be necessary... my personal nickname for her and her sister was the 'over-achievement twins'... it didn't do her much good though, she died at a mere 89 days old, presumably of exhaustion).

[Joria]

A legacy friend from EA forum kept all hers for all generations!  She pretty much maxed out everything with each member.  So what she did was make walls around the perimeter of the house, hung pictures, paintings, etc. and put the dead Sims tombstone in front of each section.  It was quite impressive to see ten generations of this.

I'm using mine as "fillers" for those little spots that need "something" but nothing else fits.  I'm also adding them to my dynasty museum walls along with photographs just as an added visual interest.  After all, if it's supposed to be a museum of these people's lives, it needs to show several aspects of them.

[Leto85]

@Joria: That's a nice idea for the reward celebrations. But I guess you museum will get full soon, after just a few generations.

[Nilla]

Unless the family is very poor I won't sell them. I usually keep a a couple of reward certificates for every sim around as memories if the sim should die. In a legacy keeping all of them would take too much space for me but in the dynasty challenge I've decided to make a little collection of all supermaxed skills certificates.