There is no possible way to get dozer blades

Dozer blades, wheels, grills and now alot of other items are now almost impossible to get your hands on. This is ridiculous,Have spent alot of money buying things on this game too make it interesting and now i find myself wondering why. I would say 19 times out out 20 time i try to buy something from the trade center i either cant find what i want or when i do its always gone no matter how fast my fingers are. As you click on the item and the buffering  circle comes up or the "oops something went wrong "message comes up, yes it did, the exact time i downloaded this game. 

  I also cant connect to my friends, my son has the game and he has  onnected fo me but no matter what i try i cant connect to him.

I think i might cut my losses and delete if things dont improve......

to all on this thread,

It seems as though you might be correct in this assumption, however the last time I expanded my city was on October 20th just 12 days ago. Yes the items needed for city expansion are at a minimum but as I had mentioned in another post "global trade center broken" I was able to purchase five or six of those items at the GTHQ in one night and others in another day/night.

Don't just look for the Dozer Blades, Stacks, Wheels, Security Cameras, Grates and Locks. Go to cities that "look like they have been just started" that have items released in early levels - for these expansion items but look in a market for an item that you do not need. You may be surprised at what you may find by looking for the wrong item as - it goes without saying the advertised item a lot of times is not the only item for sale. So dig deep, look in the non-obvious markets and look in the wrong place.

Having said that: is there a problem that has crept up in the last 12 days? I wouldn't think so because I have expanded my city storage in one of my cities twice in the last three weeks, to 220 and once in the other city to 220. At this level of storage you need 18+18+18 items to expand but I still manage.

I "read" on one of these threads back in the late winter of this year, February/March that one player theorized this game has "filters". I suppose he meant if you are looking for a certain item; the game call figure that out and then deny you the chance at obtaining them. Well ever since then I once in a while sell off the items I am looking for just in case there are filters in place. This is turn would fool the filters because the game then thinks you do not need them and viola the game starts giving them back to you. Is this a silly notion, is this true of this game? Don't know that for sure but it seems to work.

And last but not least I do concentrate on one expansion area at one time. Meaning I looking to expand city storage and nothing else or the beach area and nothing else or city expansion and nothing else. Will this work for you, maybe, its been successful for me and you do not use up all of you cities storage with expansion items leaving that space open for items needed to upgrade your buildings.

nw8240bp

Hi

Just saying - in one day?? I am at level 30 and yes I also manage to get 'dozer blades, security cameras etc. eventually.

The point, that you and the other ones who are saying you can get these items, are missing is that it takes hours and sometimes days of frustrating repeated clicking on unwanted items or trying  to beat someone to it. Meaning you are trying to get around a major flaw in the game.

That is not good for a game and all people should stand together to get EA to fix the game because as it stands they DON'T CARE. It benefits them as people are inclined to go ahead and rather buy the wanted item - money for them.

In the meantime many people are getting frustrated and quitting - only the diehards who keep trying are posting here hoping for a solution (look at the posts). So the quitters don't post and simply fade off the scene, bad advertising for someone who asks about the game and loss of income from someone who may occasionally spend some cash.

I play games like these because I enjoy building, creating and watching my character/ house/ city/ nation grow but I am already looking around for better games, maybe even purchasing a game that is far less frustrating.

So EA is winning but losing in the long run.

Just saying.....

Can I get my items in a day for the upgrade I want? Mostly yes I can, but then again I have done my research and therefore I am still sitting on lvl 14 as I am aware it gets harder and harder to find especially expansion items later on in the game i.e. today I opened up another land expansion, I had 1 item this morning btw, but yes it took some clicking. I agree, it should not be this hard to get the items, but i guess EA wants us to spend our hard earned monies on the game.

Remotes for the VU tower however.... like gold dust!! For the love of God EA, send some my way as my city wants to be showered in disasters!!

I just bought a brand new galaxy tab s2 for 600 dollars, and made a lvl 10 acc just for getting parts

Still getting less than 10% success on purchase attempts (my other 2 year old device had 0%) which is utter *

Bet they are being mostly bought by chinese hackers running botfarms or something

Stupid EA fix your damn game already