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Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.22 08:01:00 -
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Originally by: Kuolematon As a proud member of PERVS I can only say that we support this kind of scamming and have made FORTUNE out of it! Comoon guys, cheap invul II's only for 999,999,999 isk! Get it! You know you want it!
Don't listen to this fool. By my cheap invul I1s — only 999,989,999 ISK! |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.22 12:51:00 -
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Originally by: Seishi Maru If you are unable to count the number of zeros or nines in a number you DESERVE TO BE SCAMMED!!
More importantly, if you are unable to use some basic pattern recognition and figure out that no non-scammer would set a price in the 999,999,etc format, you will always be a target for scams, no matter how much CCP tries to improve the UI.
There's absolutely zero need to count the numbers — a proper contract will have a sensible number and not trigger the "no text description" bug/misfeature/omission. ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.22 14:20:00 -
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Originally by: Othran Now should we all start petitioning the recycled alts involved in this CCP?
You probably could. The question is, how do you know it's a recycled alt? ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.22 18:10:00 -
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Edited by: Tippia on 22/04/2009 18:11:29
Originally by: Neo Omni It's not that people are dumb, it's that the traps are set for reading mistakes. I go through alot of contracts...alot of reading. Eventually you lose track of something important in one (be it you misread the number of 9s or something) and you accept it only to find you have been scammed because you missed something important.
No, that's still just people being dumb.
If you see that kind of contract, you should train your brain to instinctively say "meh, scam, next!" If, in spite of the humogous odds against it, it still sticks in your mind as something that isactually legit, consider that it's essentially just a 1-isk undercut and ask yourself "am I willing to wager saving one measly ISK against the chance that I'm still not reading this price right and end up paying 1,000+ the actual cost?" And if you say yes to this, you do a quick contract search for the item in question, sort by price and buy it from the lowest available there… because it may just turn out that your (supposed) 1-isk underbid has been beaten by another seller already.
In short, it doesn't matter how hard it is to read or how easy it is to let your mind wander: a legit contract will not look like that, so why even bother with one that does? ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.23 07:31:00 -
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Originally by: Neo Omni Bounty is broken
Yes.
Quote: Contracts are broken
No.
Quote: In station trading is broken
Not really.
Quote: Can flipping in hi-sec? WTF is that all about? Broken.
No.
1/4, and the one thing that is broken is largely irrelevant and not the topic of the thread. So where were you going with this? ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |
Tippia
Raddick Explorations BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.04.23 15:11:00 -
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Originally by: Wet Ferret
Originally by: Tippia
Quote: In station trading is broken
Not really.
Unless they fixed the delete-a-zero-and-accept lagsploits very recently then it still is.
No, that means it is buggy, not broken, and that also means that you can report anyone who exploits this bug to get him kicked in the groin and to get your money back…
Broken would mean that it doesn't serve its purpose. Bounties, for instance, are broken because they don't serve the purpose of making a person hunted (it just gives him/his alt some nice cash and/or a badge of honour). Contracts are not broken because they serve their purpose of allowing transfer of goods and money — the fact that some people don't have their wits about them doesn't make the system serve this purpose any less. Can flipping is definitely not broken since it's an intended design. ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |
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