i think it'd be nice to be able to use the shop to spend excess stamps for a few days after the end of snowmelt! i really meant to but i was busy sending more letters

support! would be nice in case you missed using the stamps- theyd just sit in the inventory for an ingame year

though i dont think it should let you buy flowers as those should be during the main event only, maybe only the stamps?

But then the springshrew collectable are also meant to be main-event only, they're even designed to be soft-retired after their respective one-week event ends, while flowers are designed to rerun next year.

If the shop opens with just the snacks (the only thing you can buy with stamps if we get rid of the springshrews), I feel like we might as well keep that shop around forever...

you both do make a point! perhaps at least a way to trade in stamps for something else... notes, maybe, or random resources from a pool?

I really don't see the issue with just leaving the shop open for 1 single day after the event ends proper for people to do last-minute trade-ins before it disappears without the event's actual activities (sending letters, in this case) looming over them. It doesn't have to be complicated, or have some kind of new system, it really would just be nice to give players that last chance to finish off the event before it ends. The springshrews can retire when the shop closes. I do think a few days might be too much, but at least one day sounds very reasonable to me.

Support! Agree with RiverClan especially

I don't really care either way, but I am unsure about how much difference this is actually gonna make.
Like there are always going to be people who forget to spend they stamps, I don't see why the shop being open an extra day is gonna make fewer people forget. In which case it would make no real difference

my thought is that there were people who might have wanted to spend them but were too busy, asleep, or caught up in other things during the last few hours of the event!

Yes. (Sorry to speak so much on your topic, forest, but I wanted to explain my point of view as well.) The priority during the actual event time is to exchange as many letters as possible, in order to try and complete one's collection; as such, I wouldn't be surprised if some were sending letters down to the last minutes to try and get everything they could out of the event before it was over.

Therefore, for anyone who did prioritize clothing/decor gathering due to the limited time, this did not leave an opportunity to spend one's stamps without the weight of "the more time I spend doing this, the less time I have for sending letters" looming over their head.

As such, leaving the shop open just one extra day after the actual event activities cease allows people to spend their stamps without that worry. It doesn't protect people from forgetting, but it does allow people to not have to choose between sending letters and spending stamps.

This would not be as much of an issue if specific springshrews were not soft-retired after the event. However, because they are, the site essentially relies on users being able to obtain as many copies of them as possible to save for future users to be able to complete their Snowmelt collections. Therefore, there is a benefit to allow people to calmly spend their stamps; to slow the future scarcity of springshrews on-site, which is especially important at a time when there are so few users at the time that we essentially carry the entirety of future Snowmelt collections on our shoulders.

I think adding one extra shop day would be good for the casual "checking in every few days" vibes the site is going for. I didn't want to spend anything until the very last day so I didn't buy duplicates, but I was traveling on the last day of the event (and spent a lot of time prepping for said traveling the day before). I ended up completely forgetting to buy things because of this.

I might be an edge case here, but I still support it.