Almost everything in Animal Crossing: New Horizons costs bells, the franchise's usual in-game currency. Players can get bells in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by selling fish, fruit, and bugs, as well as digging up buried treasure and knocking some bells out of rocks. However, some players have decided to bypass playing the game for bells, instead choosing to purchase a huge amount of bells online.
Utilizing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons item duplication glitch to give themselves a basically infinite amount of money, some players are now selling their bells for real world cash. There are various pages on eBay and Etsy where players are selling bells, with one such seller being TikTok user gia.demonaco. According to a recent TikTok video from gia.demonaco, they were able to make a whopping $1,000 in a single night selling Animal Crossing bells for real money.
Longtime fans of the Animal Crossing franchise likely know that this isn't anything new. Similar online shops have popped up for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, proving that there are indeed players out there who are willing to fork over real world cash for in-game rewards, even when there aren't any microtransactions built into the game itself for them to do so.
Of course, there are other ways for Animal Crossing: New Horizons players to get rich in the game, though it will take a lot longer. Now that Nintendo has patched out the New Horizons item duplication glitch, one of the more popular methods to get rich is for players to time travel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which will allow them to farm resources much more efficiently than if they play the game one day at a time as intended.
Most Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will likely just want to play the game normally and amass bells without using any kind of time-traveling or glitches. Luckily, there are a number of different ways for Animal Crossing: New Horizons players to get bells, from planting a money tree to the aforementioned method of selling their island's resources.
Upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons events may also provide an opportunity for players to get bells, like the Bunny Day event that starts on April 1, or the Earth Day event that is scheduled to begin later in April.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.