Exchanging Christmas items

Am I crazy? If you produce Christmas Stars, they fill your inventory and cannot be sold or destroyed…. You must use them to make other things you cannot sell or destroy except for measily seasonal coins or houses that disappear? This is beyond incompetent! 

I agree that having to work for the rewards is part of the fun, but building the houses, which I’ll end up demolishing in the end gives you peanuts and requires many elements. It’s become quite clear that I won’t be able to buy anything by the end of the season, so I think I’ll be skipping this one altogether.
I hope sometime soon the devs decide to make these seasonal events more accesible. I’ve even bought some of the mayor passes, but other than the first season, I haven’t been able to get all the expensive buildings.

This is a sad case of EA being run by Scrooge.

The economics of this season are even worse than Halloween season.  Cozy Homes do not generate currency once completed. Crafting items with those exchange rates as you mentioned is not worth the limited time many Mayors have to play the game.

EA, I have a job I can’t play the game as often as you’d clearly think I can. Did you test the economics of this season?

Is EA only catering to “Whale” players now who buy everything and anything?

EA is now run by Ebeniezer Scrooge.

Yes this is a very poorly designed season… to earn currency you must build residences you don’t need, using resources you need for other things just to get special tokens from production that competes with other needs… and then to cap it off the values in the stores and exchanges are incredibly, unworkable high…. Not worth the play… merry Christmas …. Bah humbug….

Shoes get you more coins than football shoes which require shoes and chemical. End product sells for less that the raw/commercial used in the process to make them.

It’s just another example of EA. Since upgrading Services 2.0 buildings will cost simoleons they are and have been for a while reducing how fast we can make coin on each new season item

It's insanity which will be used to make you wanna throw cash at them.

They don't care about players, just the cashcows.

Do what I am doing…don’t produce any of the Santa items in the factories that way you won’t miss them just do the normal ones and delete the assignment when you get 1

It’s the typical EA lets make them spend real money rather than allow them to get a fair amount of coins for free.

E.g. To get 20,500 coins from the album you have to spend 74,500 to get one of the required buildings.