so finally doing my subeta quests for the first time in uhhh a while

and I'm reminded that I have a weird set of rules/preferences for buying from usershops, which boils down to 'yes the name matters'

so if the NPC shop doesn't have the item I need, or if it's more expensive than in the usershops, I go by the block of lowest prices (usually about a dozen matching prices) and then to: does this person have more than one of this item?
from there it's the better shop name

Several Spiders Tap Dancing To ABBA will win out over Sadie's Plushie Shop for instance

sometimes I'll even go to the next highest price if the shop name is cool enough, and Fantasy Costco will win out almost every time

(for the record: my 'everything goes in here' shop is DryadGurrl's Discount Grocery and my holiday ornament shop is DryadGurrl's Decor Galore in keeping with the theme)

BUT ALSO: it can depend on the item I'm buying, if it's a battle/armor item, I'm more likely to buy from 'Armor & Stuff' than I am from 'Junk Bin' and if it's a book, 'Los Bibliotheque' is going to win out over 'giveaway fund!'

it's all pixels and this shouldn't matter

but it does

because brains are weird