Curse

Faure · Feb 13, 2008, 09:10 AM // 09:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Holly Herro

I was trying to sell some Zaishen Keys in LA for 3k each. I get a message:

Scammer: Hey, can I buy your keys?
Me: Sure ^.^ 3k each sound good?
Scammer: Sure, but I don't have 45k on me for the keys, can I pay you back 100k later?
Me: Oh, I'm sorry, some one offered 100k+10 ectos right now.
Scammer: Oh, that's ok. I can farm 100k in 10 minutes in Underworld for soloing it on my elementalist
Me: Could I have the build please?
Scammer: It's a family secret sorry. Really.
Me: Oh ok, so how much money do you have right now?
Scammer: None, I just bought my 59th set of FoW armor.
Me: Then.. why are you in droks armor?
Scammer: It's all on my monk.
Me: Ahh, sorry, some one just offered 1 armbrace pey key.
Scammer: That's ok, I'll give you 10 armbraces per key.
*10 minute silence*
Me: Ahh sorry, I just sold the keys for 3k each.
Scammer: OMFG U NUUUB WHYD U DO DAT Y DIDNT U TRUST ME!? U CULDVE BEEN SOOOOOOO RICHH!!!!1!
Me: Do you really expect me to believe you?
Scammer: YESS! OVCOURSE! IT'S SO EASY TO GET ALL DAT MONEY!
Me: I don't believe you sorry.
*Another 10 minutes*
Scammer: It's ok, you're not pro like me.
Me: How long have you been playing?
Scammer: About 8 years, Why?
Me: Welcome to my ignore list.
Me: Oh and congratulations, you win, 1st place!

If that bragging is called scamming I did meet like 99% of the scammers ingame :-/. There are a LOT of people in there that really want to tell you how good they think they are and how much money they have or have spend =).

Holly Herro · Feb 13, 2008, 10:13 AM // 10:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faure

If that bragging is called scamming I did meet like 99% of the scammers ingame :-/. There are a LOT of people in there that really want to tell you how good they think they are and how much money they have or have spend =).

Some one that's in NF starter armor doesn't have that much money I bet oO I really don't know anyone that can farm 100k in 10 minutes using an ele. If you prove me wrong, I'll want the build.

Grasping Darkness · Feb 13, 2008, 10:18 AM // 10:18

Someone in Shing Jea Monastery, at the new years event tried to work me out of a free pig with a sob story about how they missed the event because they were in the hospital....while the event was still going on...

MirkoTeran · Feb 13, 2008, 10:31 AM // 10:31

- I've seen a guy (W/Mo) in 15k armor asking for 50g to open storage ... in Droks.
- I've got my share of X/A with 'can you drop the item on ground so I can see it as <random lame excuse>'.

Pleikki · Feb 13, 2008, 03:21 PM // 15:21

Darn great laughs while reading these

D

Songbringer · Feb 13, 2008, 03:43 PM // 15:43

I was selling a perfect crystalline. We went outside. The guy pet recall on me and ran off. He said "drop it so i can see stats". So i drop that long sword with the same skin from pre.(You know what im talking about) and he removes recall picks it up does the /laugh emote and leaves. He later pm's me "You bastard".

Songbringer · Feb 13, 2008, 03:46 PM // 15:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Holly Herro

Some one that's in NF starter armor doesn't have that much money I bet oO I really don't know anyone that can farm 100k in 10 minutes using an ele. If you prove me wrong, I'll want the build.

Unless you make a new char and have 100k in storage. Then you are in starter armor and have a 100k. No 1 can farm 100k in 10 mins without ultra secret rare korean haxzorz. Unless you get that .0000000000001% chance of going out for 10 mins and getting that *insert rare item worth 100k*

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 03:50 PM // 15:50

I was trying to sell a perfect elemental sword once... when the guys asked me if i could "lend him the item so he could go outside and see how it looked on his warrior". I kindly refused XD
I have a habit of not trusting anyone in game

MSecorsky · Feb 13, 2008, 04:05 PM // 16:05

I did the old "switcharoo" on a W/A wanting me to drop an elemental sword outside so he "could see the stats"... he was so waiting for a drop that he dropped recall when that 1g coin hit the ground. I just laughed and went back in town. It was worth the 1g.

Angelo Dorato · Feb 13, 2008, 04:11 PM // 16:11

Got my share of X/A too

<3 the way they use the same excuse everytime.
To vary that, got a wammo with Unyielding Aura, telling me that he had a glitch on trade chat, that i had to go die and he would ress me. I knew he had something in mind, so i did. He ressed me with UA, and told me to drop the item (a gothic dual axe i was sellin long time ago, when they had some gooood value). Needless to say, i laughed, said that I wouldnt drop it, and left.
Another one was with a monk, he was interested on the same axe, told me to go outside with him and another W/A, which apparently he wanted to buy something. I follow their game, go outside, and the monk asks to drop the object he was gonna buy from that W/A, he drops a dead sword, r11, and the monk goes "ok, its not duped, 100k+40e for it". Then asks me to drop the axe and if it wasnt duped, he'd offer 100k+150e. Again, needless to say, i complimented them on the new type of variant of this X/A scam, and left

Mattman243 · Feb 13, 2008, 05:33 PM // 17:33

Ok, back when I first started playing, I had a couple minipets (Veresh was one of them, and 2 other whites) for sale in LA.

A guy pm'd me and told me he'd pay 75k for all three if I made a fast trade. Naturally, I jumped at the chance. He put up his 75k into the trade, and I started to put all three into the trade window when he canceled the trade. "Faster!" he said! This happened 2-3 times, but I finally got all three in and hit accept! Yes, I was then the proud owner of 75g, and minipet-less...

The next day I reported him with a screenshot of the trade to Anet :P

ShoGunTheOne · Feb 13, 2008, 05:44 PM // 17:44

pic says it all
knew i should have went to sleep earlier.....

/cry

EDIT

h yea, just remembered, someone wanted to buy 170 candy cane shards from me for 17k at wintersday 2006
then someone came and opened trade with me
without thinking, i thought it's that buyer
so i put in my candy canes without thinking
and accepted trade...without thinking...
after realising i got 0g for the trade, i asked the real buyer to give me the money
then he told me i was trading with someone else......
whisped the 1 i traded to:
you have been ignored by xxx

lol, was my own fault, gonna check trade window carefully from now on

Horus · Feb 13, 2008, 07:21 PM // 19:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Holly Herro

I was trying to sell some Zaishen Keys in LA for 3k each. I get a message:

Scammer: Hey, can I buy your keys?
Me: Sure ^.^ 3k each sound good?
Scammer: Sure, but I don't have 45k on me for the keys, can I pay you back 100k later?
Me: Oh, I'm sorry, some one offered 100k+10 ectos right now.
Scammer: Oh, that's ok. I can farm 100k in 10 minutes in Underworld for soloing it on my elementalist
Me: Could I have the build please?
Scammer: It's a family secret sorry. Really.
Me: Oh ok, so how much money do you have right now?
Scammer: None, I just bought my 59th set of FoW armor.
Me: Then.. why are you in droks armor?
Scammer: It's all on my monk.
Me: Ahh, sorry, some one just offered 1 armbrace pey key.
Scammer: That's ok, I'll give you 10 armbraces per key.
*10 minute silence*
Me: Ahh sorry, I just sold the keys for 3k each.
Scammer: OMFG U NUUUB WHYD U DO DAT Y DIDNT U TRUST ME!? U CULDVE BEEN SOOOOOOO RICHH!!!!1!
Me: Do you really expect me to believe you?
Scammer: YESS! OVCOURSE! IT'S SO EASY TO GET ALL DAT MONEY!
Me: I don't believe you sorry.
*Another 10 minutes*
Scammer: It's ok, you're not pro like me.
Me: How long have you been playing?
Scammer: About 8 years, Why?
Me: Welcome to my ignore list.
Me: Oh and congratulations, you win, 1st place!

ok, this one really made me laugh

haha, loool

anyway, almost got scammed once in that dual scamm(someone selling "cheap" guildie buying for double), they were selling some mesmer greenie xD h8 those "scamms". Also sold couple of ectos for cheap:P

Chrono Re delle Ere · Feb 13, 2008, 09:20 PM // 21:20

yea I am also playing from 8 years.

Why ya looking at me like that?

lmao!

dunky_g · Feb 13, 2008, 11:44 PM // 23:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrono Re delle Ere

yea I am also playing from 8 years.

only 8??

noob!

btw the 15th year birthday present is a mini mini mini gwen, you cant see her

dawnmist · Feb 15, 2008, 01:27 AM // 01:27

This one happened to a Guildy, who had not played the game for about 6 months, and had just come back to the game as EoTN came out.

They collected the materials and got their mini Black Moa, and had it out in town. Someone in the town started PM'ing them about how they couldn't get to the Gylla Hatchery yet, but that they had all the other materials for the pet, and would he consider swapping his pet for the materials since he could go and get the incubator again and re-get the mini pet.

He unfortunately didn't realise that you could only get one Incubator, so he ended up doing the swap. Immediately afterwards, the scammer started laughing & telling them that he'd just got pwnd in the scam.

A few weeks later, he was looking to buy a black moa mini to replace the one that got scammed, and again didn't realise that mini pets weren't worth what they had been when he was collecting them a year ago...so when he saw one offered with "PM offers" he offered 60k...they did ask if he was sure before accepting his offer.

youwillknowfear · Feb 15, 2008, 01:43 AM // 01:43

I had someone attempt to sell me a bunch of sweets, but was going to just leave them in the belt pouch since he had a spare and no room left in storage or inventory. I held out, found the link on scams in wiki and pm'd him the url.

He quickly marked me as ignored and logged out.

He never did answer the question of whether he pulled the idea for his scam directly from wiki or not.

Adeno · Feb 15, 2008, 01:58 AM // 01:58

Hehe I have a little stupid scammer story as well.

Today I was selling some cakes and party points and some guy pmed me. He said he wanted to buy the sweets and all of my party points. I explained to him that we had to do it by stack and so he agreed.

The first trade with the delicious cakes went well without a problem. The next one was for a stack of party points. I put up my item but he cancelled it. I put it up again then he cancelled it again. Then he rushed me by saying he's not gonna buy anymore if I don't put it up quickly. I put up the party party stuff and he offered just 100 gold for everything. As soon as I finished typing "It's not 100 gold :P" he ran away and went somewhere else after realizing he couldn't rush me LOL!

Chief Odoacer · Feb 15, 2008, 02:54 AM // 02:54

W/A wanted to see the skin on one of my swords, so i follow him outside. He then tells me he works for A-Net and will be fired if he doesnt get a s/s of my sword on the ground with me next to it. Welcome to the ignore list, and cya later.

Risus · Feb 15, 2008, 02:54 AM // 02:54

lol I was selling my r8 +5 zodiac sword when this noob runs up, offers 100k, takes it off, then accepts...wow. I didn't even press anything except the offer button.

Another time:
Someone tried to sell me their lvl 492 runescape account for 50 Mil.

OK!. jk, I said sure, lemme just go google the game and see wtf it is...found out its some retarted MMORPG with no storyline. and crappy graphics. and found out max lvl was about 110 or something. LOL.