Bazaar scams to watch out for.
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TNFC_Rawlden wrote:
In real life the 75 year old lady or her family could sic the cops on ya. In EQ, however there is no BBB and no one to answer to as SOE says "all player trades are final". Your best defense is to know what you are buying.Caveat emptor is the watchword of the day.
I agree completely. That's why I posted this, to maybe make people more aware that this is out there and to be careful before you buy.
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TNFC_Rawlden wrote:
In real life the 75 year old lady or her family could sic the cops on ya. In EQ, however there is no BBB and no one to answer to as SOE says "all player trades are final". Your best defense is to know what you are buying.Caveat emptor is the watchword of the day.
Actually, I work for a government agency that monitors exactly these types of scams. They happen far, far too often-even with legal action threatened.
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Gotta be careful in the Bazaar. I've seen far too many people who are more interested in getting every plat they can than they are being honest.
I've seen those scams before. Personally I hate the "casinos" that are all over the Veeshan Bazaar. These days I've gotten into the habit of not only reducing my clipping plane but stopping shouts before I go in the bazaar.
Those player run casinos are nothing but a way to make the casino operator richer. Most times your chance of winning is really very small because of the different ways they set themselves up.
I'd rather keep my plat than throw it away.
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Itzena wrote:
The important thing to remember, in RL as well as EQ, is that if something sounds too good to be true...
...it almost certainly is.
And there you have it... A little common sense will go a looooong way!
Of course that's not to say what the scammers are doing is OK in any way shape or form. There's plenty of time's I've pulled an all-nighter and been too tired to have any common sense left myself. Plus there are still new people coming into the game that may not know any better.
Just keep informing the would-be victims of these scams, and maybe the scammers will go away (we can hope, right?)
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Secondly the real spammers create a new character everyday to get around the ignores. Here is what i propose. Enhance the ignore feature. If you're putting someone on ignore it must be fore a really good reason else why bother? The way it should work is if you put Charcater A on ignore then it should flag ALL their characters as being on ignore. Heck all their characters on ALL the accounts on their current billing info 
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Theramor-GoV wrote:
Those player run casinos are nothing but a way to make the casino operator richer. Most times your chance of winning is really very small because of the different ways they set themselves up.
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The random one I deffinatly say is a scam, id be sure to mention what they where doing on /ooc but for the plate thing thats the buyers fault 100% thats like running into Best Buy buying a Microwave real fast cause you heard TV's where on sale this week, then taking it back cause the channels come in all fuzzy.
Duh go figure, take the lose and move on as there are no return policies in game, but the seller knows what they are doing and praying for some one to not pay attention.
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Here is what i propose. Enhance the ignore feature. If you're putting someone on ignore it must be fore a really good reason else why bother? The way it should work is if you put Charcater A on ignore then it should flag ALL their characters as being on ignore. Heck all their characters on ALL the accounts on their current billing info
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saramin wrote:
I cant believe people still fall for this old scam of Plate molds going for 40k etc.How this can be classed as " misrepresentation" defies belief as there is a link available to items in bazaar.My solution to this would be to ´ban both the person who sold the Mold for 40k AND ban the person who brought it for being so stupid.If youve got that much pp to spend on something and you fall for such an obvious scami then you're either an idiot or someone who brought PP from scumbag (aka Yantis).Saramin.
I can believe it. Most scams rely on the greed and dishonesty of the "mark" to operate. That way if they get caught, they'll be less likely to go to the cops or tell other people about it.
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Though I wish it could be done, flagging a whole account as ignored when you ignore one of them isn't likely to happen.
Regardless of the server/client issues, this would enable someone to detect the names of all your characters. They would have to make your own ignore list not viewable by you.
"Hm, I wonder if Helianthus has an alt?" /ignore Helianthus. View ignore list. Helianthus, Althaea, Oxalis, Begonia. "She never told me she had a paladin! She said she was going to bed! Shes playing the game without me!"
It would be nice to be able to know the names of a scammer's alts, sure. But who here would trade their own privacy for it? I've logged to alts to avoid stalker-like individuals in the past, I shudder to think they could have just kept following me around.
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The latest scam on my server is some [Removed for Content] who puts up lots of merchant sold spells, for 500pp or more, when they sell for gold, to under 30pp each.
What makes his scam worse, is that one of the spells, Canni 2, used to be a quest spell, so WAS high priced. However, it is sold on the boat in abysmal sea, for 12pp. My was of dealing with this jerk, since i had an empty trader bag anyway, was to park an alt on the boat, and swap a bag of canni 2 spells thru shared bank to my trader. Price them a small bit above cost, then start actively auctioning that 1) I'm selling them for 25pp 2) I just bought them from a merchant for 12pp, and 3) they can be purchased on the boat in abysmal if 13pp markup is too much.
Oddly, since I started doing this, the scammer's supply has remained stable, he's sold NONE :smileysurprised:
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Helianthus wrote:
Though I wish it could be done, flagging a whole account as ignored when you ignore one of them isn't likely to happen.
Regardless of the server/client issues, this would enable someone to detect the names of all your characters. They would have to make your own ignore list not viewable by you.
"Hm, I wonder if Helianthus has an alt?" /ignore Helianthus. View ignore list. Helianthus, Althaea, Oxalis, Begonia. "She never told me she had a paladin! She said she was going to bed! Shes playing the game without me!"
I've been expanding those limits since 1999
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Leatherneck_Tunare wrote:
In a similar vein, there's a guy on Tunare who was trying to sell a Fungi...cept is was a regular ole fungi, not the one with fungal regrowth, for just under the price of a "real" fungi.
I saw that, I was wondering what the difference was but since I dont have 80k+ I did not look at the stats on it.
The casino spam in bazaar is pretty bad, at least one day the people were doing it in "say" instead of "ooc" or "shout" so it was only bad if you were near them.
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I am totally against scamming, but I am very much into privacy. If I don't want someone else knowing my alts...that's my business.
Helianthus wrote:Though I wish it could be done, flagging a whole account as ignored when you ignore one of them isn't likely to happen.
Regardless of the server/client issues, this would enable someone to detect the names of all your characters. They would have to make your own ignore list not viewable by you.
"Hm, I wonder if Helianthus has an alt?" /ignore Helianthus. View ignore list. Helianthus, Althaea, Oxalis, Begonia. "She never told me she had a paladin! She said she was going to bed! Shes playing the game without me!"
It would be nice to be able to know the names of a scammer's alts, sure. But who here would trade their own privacy for it? I've logged to alts to avoid stalker-like individuals in the past, I shudder to think they could have just kept following me around.
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