TaxmanX
Caldari
A little Of Everything
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Posted - 2008.04.12 01:38:00 -
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Although I applaud CCP's efforts to clean the galaxy of "Evil" (I am SO SICK of ISK spammers, ISK mailers, ISK guild applications) there ARE some huge problems concerning their methodology in doing so.
We have a relatively new corp-member who has been working VERY hard and dedicated MANY hours to character development, ship combat, mining, and working with the market. It is the latter that recently got his account tapped to the NEGATIVE ISK (-350mil to be exact) by CCP. Seems their tracking methodology has fingered and PUNISHED an innocent person.
What happened? Well he happened to pick up items on the exchange for a very cheap price. These items were being "sold" at the price for someone who purchased ISK to pick up and re-sell to "launder" the ISK or to sell on their own in exchange for real currency. I am sure the seller was a bit ****ed when the buyer was someone other than they expected!
Doesn't really matter - that he was just seeing something show up on the market for cheap and then selling them himself. He was labeled by CCP as a "buyer" or "launderer" because he happened to purchase the items (gee who wouldn't?) and then punished by putting him far in the negative "to teach him a lesson" they said in his GM responses.
So they didn't just take away his so called "ill-gotten-gains" they opted as per this new policy to set him FAR into the negative! Nobody really bothered to pull his recent manufacturing history to see he was making money by building things and mining the belts to pebbles to do it. Oh well, I bet they assume he was a Chinese Macro miner doing that using bots as well or something. Give me a break, I know this guy personally - he lives in Utah and is one of the most honest/sincere guys I know. :-/ He has been actively playing EVE since I introduced it to him in January, he even purchased a second account! He was aware that folks (as in all MMO's these days) were selling ISK, but he had no reason to do that because he was using the money HE EARNED by trading, mining, and mission running. CCP HAS the logs and data to see that - but NO... since he purchased items from an ISK seller.. he was INSTANTLY GUILTY (without any looking into his history). So much for ZERO TOLERANCE... how about ZERO detective work to go along with it?
So just a warning to all - in his behalf, don't buy anything that looks like a GOOD deal - because it will likely get your account put into the negative JUST BECAUSE YOU PURCHASED IT! It doesn't matter you HAD 800 mil before you even purchased it.. obviously you ARE A BAD PLAYER!
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