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Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:44:00 -
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I am a 5 months old player and I have seen many scam going on in Eve online. I have today been scam 300mil isk. To make that money, I had been playing 10 hrs a day for the last 3 weeks. I know many players can make more but as a new player, this is what i can only manage.
I saw a buy order in the market for an item 2,000 units for a minimum order of 2,000unit at 200kisk each. I purchase all the items in the market and when i select sell, the price still indicate 200k isk but when I confirm it, the buy order disappear. For that 1 transaction, I lost 300mil.
Indeed, I was con not only by the player but by CCP, because the player I purchase most item was not even online so the question is how he to cancel the buy order? But since the order disappear, make me believe that it was program to perform such by CCP themselves. I refuse to believe that any player would spent 24/7 and ever second to watch the screen and to cancel the buy order and log out at a 2 second interval. Moreover, the player which I purchase most of the item was not online, so question is how did he cancel his buy order offline? Unless it was programed.
Looking into the entire Eve, there is many scam going on that in any other games you will not see because all this loophole has been covered by the developer.
For example, we all know about PLEX scam that has been going on where you think you buy a Plex cheap in contract but you actually have to give back a plex and loss the 320mil (standard plex con rate). The question, why did CCP allow the same identical item to be allow to post as a Buy/Sell contract? Meaning, you can post that you selling an item in exchange you want the same item back. Not even in real life such system exist. Allowing minimum quantity up to a rediculess amount is another part of program that only CCP allowing it to take place. And many more scam.
Reason of me believing that CCP is the one scamming is that in such players will be force to buy more Plex or renew their account in real money. Why make us believe that we can actually make money mining/trading/manufacturing to buy a Plex where chances you get con at end of the day.
Many of my friends who actually get a Plex was totally into ratting not into to buying and selling ****.
Other than CCP is the real scammer behind all those player name, there is no other reason why CCP allow scam to take place, in the 1st place. They have the objective, the motive and the real benefit behind all those scam.
I though i was 100mil more to go to get a Plex in 2 days before my accounts expire but I was wrong, dead wrong. So no, I will not be able to buy a Plex.
Will I be paying in real money to renew my account? The question I ask myself is why? Why do I want to continue to play a game that instead of enjoying myself I get grief, I get con and scam only to feel unhappy, angry and a complete idiot. Yes I agree (no trolling require) I am a idiot to allow myself to pay real money and feel unhappy about it. This USD$14.95 I could get in a game when I can feel better achievement and pleasure.
For all those real players who are not CCP staff or part of their organization, I don't feel angry at you even if you are a scammer or griefer. It is CCP that I should be angry about. Just like in real life, when you have been rob and the police watch you being rob, instead of helping you, he tell you thats real life mechanic, so get over it. I would be extremely angry at the police more than the robber. For all you know, the robber has already team up with the police in the 1st place. Just like what CCP is telling you that this is game mechanic but they are the one who create this mechanic.
I am positive that CCP will not feel anything losing 1 player as myself nor would Eve stop it's cycle. But this is one of many reasons why it is hard for Eve to get new players. At the end of the day, it handful of people all with multiple alt surrounded by CCP scammer alt that would only exist in the game.
I wish the remaining players or those that would remain in the near future goodbye and thanks for showing me it is not worth playing Eve as long as you would cause it would be idiotic wouldn't it? Hence I have save alot of money and this money will be spent on game that is more worth my attention and where I could gain pleasure instead of any bad emotion.
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :) |

Chokichi Ozuwara
Lucky Dragon Convenience
453
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:45:00 -
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Never try to fill minimum qty orders. The risk is too high. Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round. |

Implying Implications
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:48:00 -
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You are dumb as hell. püåpüÉpüàn+P |

Wolf Kruol
Capsuleer Legions Of New Eden GREATER ITAMO MAFIA
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:48:00 -
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if ccp did this you can try this link,
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Internal_affairs

GÇ£If you're very very stupid? How can you possibly realize you're very very stupid?
You have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you really are!GÇ¥ |

Generals4
1026
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:48:00 -
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You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Garreth Vlox
Blackened Skies The Unthinkables
82
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:49:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:I am a 5 months old player and I have seen many scam going on in Eve online. I have today been scam 300mil isk. To make that money, I had been playing 10 hrs a day for the last 3 weeks. I know many players can make more but as a new player, this is what i can only manage.
I saw a buy order in the market for an item 2,000 units for a minimum order of 2,000unit at 200kisk each. I purchase all the items in the market and when i select sell, the price still indicate 200k isk but when I confirm it, the buy order disappear. For that 1 transaction, I lost 300mil.
Indeed, I was con not only by the player but by CCP, because the player I purchase most item was not even online so the question is how he to cancel the buy order? But since the order disappear, make me believe that it was program to perform such by CCP themselves. I refuse to believe that any player would spent 24/7 and ever second to watch the screen and to cancel the buy order and log out at a 2 second interval. Moreover, the player which I purchase most of the item was not online, so question is how did he cancel his buy order offline? Unless it was programed.
Looking into the entire Eve, there is many scam going on that in any other games you will not see because all this loophole has been covered by the developer.
For example, we all know about PLEX scam that has been going on where you think you buy a Plex cheap in contract but you actually have to give back a plex and loss the 320mil (standard plex con rate). The question, why did CCP allow the same identical item to be allow to post as a Buy/Sell contract? Meaning, you can post that you selling an item in exchange you want the same item back. Not even in real life such system exist. Allowing minimum quantity up to a rediculess amount is another part of program that only CCP allowing it to take place. And many more scam.
Reason of me believing that CCP is the one scamming is that in such players will be force to buy more Plex or renew their account in real money. Why make us believe that we can actually make money mining/trading/manufacturing to buy a Plex where chances you get con at end of the day.
Many of my friends who actually get a Plex was totally into ratting not into to buying and selling ****.
Other than CCP is the real scammer behind all those player name, there is no other reason why CCP allow scam to take place, in the 1st place. They have the objective, the motive and the real benefit behind all those scam.
I though i was 100mil more to go to get a Plex in 2 days before my accounts expire but I was wrong, dead wrong. So no, I will not be able to buy a Plex.
Will I be paying in real money to renew my account? The question I ask myself is why? Why do I want to continue to play a game that instead of enjoying myself I get grief, I get con and scam only to feel unhappy, angry and a complete idiot. Yes I agree (no trolling require) I am a idiot to allow myself to pay real money and feel unhappy about it. This USD$14.95 I could get in a game when I can feel better achievement and pleasure.
For all those real players who are not CCP staff or part of their organization, I don't feel angry at you even if you are a scammer or griefer. It is CCP that I should be angry about. Just like in real life, when you have been rob and the police watch you being rob, instead of helping you, he tell you thats real life mechanic, so get over it. I would be extremely angry at the police more than the robber. For all you know, the robber has already team up with the police in the 1st place. Just like what CCP is telling you that this is game mechanic but they are the one who create this mechanic.
I am positive that CCP will not feel anything losing 1 player as myself nor would Eve stop it's cycle. But this is one of many reasons why it is hard for Eve to get new players. At the end of the day, it handful of people all with multiple alt surrounded by CCP scammer alt that would only exist in the game.
I wish the remaining players or those that would remain in the near future goodbye and thanks for showing me it is not worth playing Eve as long as you would cause it would be idiotic wouldn't it? Hence I have save alot of money and this money will be spent on game that is more worth my attention and where I could gain pleasure instead of any bad emotion.
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
Here we go again... |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:52:00 -
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Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off.
If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
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Zakuak
The Terrifying League Of Dog Fort Get Off My Lawn
7
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:52:00 -
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Sucks but dude...c'mon it's kinda funny and I think you shuold post more I love your flow.
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Velicitia
Open Designs
1093
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:53:00 -
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5 month old player and he's just learning now about the margin trading scam?
fuuuuu, what do corps do with/for their members these days? I knew the general mechanic by the end of my first month ... and I was still in a noobcorp then... |

El Cid Campeador
Exploding Squirrels
53
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:54:00 -
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If it sounds too good to be true.... it is ;) plus how does it take you so long to make that much isk? im half your "age" and can do it faster... Me thinks you need to leave eve too.... cause CCP is bad n stuff....... Give me your stuff? |

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
606
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:54:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:I didn't knew the margin trading scam, but now I know it
Your order still is active and trying to sell the stuff for 200K, albeit obviously the buyer scammed you through the margin trading skill: let me guess, you just had bought the 2,000 units for a convenient price above the market average?
Cancel the order and you will only lose the brokers fee.... but good luck trying to sell the 2,000 "convenient" units at the price you paid for them. 
"We want your help to convince management to develop Incarna into 3rd person shooter dungeon raiding with friendly fire in nullsec space..."
Seriously, Team Avatar? |

Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
579
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:54:00 -
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https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1645051#post1645051
That should explain it for you. FuzzWork Enterprises http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ Blueprint calculator, invention chance calculator, isk/m3 Ore chart-á and other 'useful' utilities. |

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
606
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:55:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
The guy who set the order hadn't enough money to fulfill it, so it failed. "We want your help to convince management to develop Incarna into 3rd person shooter dungeon raiding with friendly fire in nullsec space..."
Seriously, Team Avatar? |

Rengerel en Distel
Amarr Science and Industry
334
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:56:00 -
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https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=133680&find=unread
there's a thread where people explain it, or you could google it if your tinfoil hat isn't too tight.
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Mag's
the united Negative Ten.
10071
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:57:00 -
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Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it. This.
Isn't greed a wonderful thing.
CCP Zulu..... Forcing players to dock at the captain's quarters is a form of what we actually wanted to get through, which is making Incarna a seamless part of the EVE Online experience. |

Nikolai Dostoyevski
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
34
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:59:00 -
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I know exactly what item you're talking about (unless that character is doing it for more than one item). It was DNA that comes from a mission.
Here's a rule in Eve - if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. |

Velicitia
Open Designs
1093
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Posted - 2012.08.22 19:59:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
Margin Trading(Skill) wrote: Ability to make potentially risky investments work in your favor. Each level of skill reduces the percentage of ISK placed in market escrow when entering buy orders. Starting with an escrow percentage of 100% at Level 0 (untrained skill), each skill level cumulatively reduces the percentage by 25%. For a maximum reduction of approximately 24% total escrow at level 5.
So, they set up a buy order for 2k units (with 2k minimum) at 200k ISK per unit. 2k * 200k = 400m Assuming a Margin Trading skill of 5, that means they put ~100 million in escrow, with the remainder to be covered by their wallet. They emptied their wallet.
So, soon as the order was attempted to be filled by someone (a.k.a. "the mark"), the game tried taking the rest of the ISK from the buyer's (now empty) wallet. Since the order is 100% unable to be completed, the game pops it off the buy order board (IIRC, it fully kills the order, and takes any funds out of escrow to return to the buyer ... though I don't work with margin Trading so much). |

Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations Shaktipat Revelators
394
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:01:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
The Margin Trading Scam is entirely set up by players.
They set up a sell order with a minimum quanitity with alt 1 and a buy order that is way above the norm for, "coincidently", that number of units using the Margin Trading skill on alt 2 which means that only a portion of their wallet goes into escrow, and then they transfer the rest of the money out of that character and onto alt 1.
Someone, smelling a great deal, buys the items for sale, which deposits the victims money into alt 1's wallet. They try to sell it to alt 2, but alt 2 has 0 isk in their wallet so the buy order cancels, leaving the victim with x number of an item they dont need and less isk, while alt 1 has their money (since that transaction was legitimate) and alt 2 with nothing but a cancelled buy order.
People get fooled by this all the time, but it has nothing to do with any action on CCP's part. Unfortunately the margin trading skill has a legitimate use as well so it's unlikely to change, since it increases the ability of the market to move. |

THE L0CK
Denying You Access
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:03:00 -
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Holy life journal batman. Do you smell what the Lock's cooking? |

Generals4
1026
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:04:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
The order cancelled automatically because he didn't have enough money in his wallet to pay you. The Trade margin skill allows you keep a certain amount of money in your wallet, if you than send that money to an alt the order simply cannot be fulfilled.
And also, when in a trade hub: any trade that looks too good be true is most likely a scam. No one will sell you an item that has a legitimate buy order at a much higher price.
I have scammed people for billions with that one back when no one used it. People used to fall for it so easily. Nowadays it has lost its originality. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:08:00 -
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Unfortunately, this Margin Scam is that scammer use the margin skills and other mechanics to scam us our isk. But all this mechanics has no real benefits to players other than player who intend to scam. So why the mechanics the 1st place? So that CCP could scam us without us pushing the blame to them and all to those players (who no1 is sure who it is? Could be CCP themselves) . Because if any real buyer, why would he place a buy order when he doesn't have the amount of money to pay in the 1st place, unless he has no intention of fulfilling the buy order. Thus the mechanic is for the sole purpose of scamming. |

Aiwha
101st Space Marine Force Nulli Secunda
480
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:08:00 -
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Google "margin trading scam EVE online" and you'll find out how he did it.
Its a pretty easy scam, both to pull and avoid. Regards,
LCpl. Aiwha-á |

THE L0CK
Denying You Access
671
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:10:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Unfortunately, this Margin Scam is that scammer use the margin skills and other mechanics to scam us our isk. But all this mechanics has no real benefits to players other than player who intend to scam. So why the mechanics the 1st place? So that CCP could scam us without us pushing the blame to them and all to those players (who no1 is sure who it is? Could be CCP themselves) . Because if any real buyer, why would he place a buy order when he doesn't have the amount of money to pay in the 1st place, unless he has no intention of fulfilling the buy order. Thus the mechanic is for the sole purpose of scamming.
You just had a half dozen people explain the scam to you and you still insist that CCP is involved. You sir, deserved what you got. Do you smell what the Lock's cooking? |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:11:00 -
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As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place. |

THE L0CK
Denying You Access
671
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:15:00 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1645051#post1645051
That should explain it for you.
Do you smell what the Lock's cooking? |

Ana Fox
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
15
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:17:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
This is best part .
Hmm maybe you could write to Obama to nuke Iceland. I think there is proper reason "making US people look dumb" . |

Mallak Azaria
574
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:20:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place.
Several players have already. I'm sorry, but it's neither CCP's fault nor ours that you're stupid.
Mining Barge buff: CCP-áhas acknowledged that miners in general-áare too stupid to make the correct fitting choices to make ganking them unprofitable. |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:20:00 -
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You don't seems to understand I think. Yes I do know now that this is a Margin Scam, but the Margin scam uses the help of the Margin Skill to perform such scam. However, no true buyer would bother training that skill unless they want to false a buy order. Thus the Margin Skills should be know as Scam Skill instead. My point is that when CCP introduce this skill, they promote or assist scammer a new line of scamming. So they are responsible just like how I explain the robber and the police story, unless you didn't care to read it and just busy posting your insults. |

Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
667
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:21:00 -
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Ana Fox wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
This is best part . Hmm maybe you could write to Obama to nuke Iceland. I think there is proper reason "making US people look dumb" .
I don't want to live in this country anymore :( |

Solstice Project
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
1698
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:23:00 -
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Unrelated to OP: Threads like these pop up really regularly. How about we just start linking to the last thread instead of starting multiple-page-threads over and over and over again, just because these idiots can't get their heads around the fact that they have no ground to complain on ?
Related:
1) Nobody cares about you. 1a) You complain about stuff in the funny belief that it will create a positive outcome, in what way ever. 1b) You seriously believe you're actually "getting back" with this, ignoring that ... 1c) ... people smarter than you read your words and make fun of you, because you behave like an idiot.
2) Nobody would care about your issue if CCP was based in the US. 2a) If CCP was from the US, this game would have died long ago because it would reach out for idiots like you. 2c) If you're from the US, your friends will totally acknowledge how bad we EvE-Players and CCP are, while at the same time laugh their asses off about you when you don't notice. 2c.1) Being from the US is a bad excuse for not *thinking before doing*.
3) The amount of words you've needed to express your feelings show that you're pretty butthurt about it. 3a) see 1a 3b) see 1b+1c
4) Every idiot uses the "new players argument". 4a) None of these idiots ever shown proof that he knows what new players want.
... which connects to ...
5) People buy things that get advertised. 5a) EvE gets advertised as a bad place. Dark. Unforgiven. People laugh at you. People kill you. People rob you. 5a.1) Independent of what people *want* to believe, this actually works ... obviously. 5b) Whatever *you* believe new players want is just your stupid opinion because facts (the advertising) proves you wrong.
6) It's all your fault. I know you don't get raised that way, but it's indeed all your fault. Deal with it.
Never posted this way before. I'm sure i missed things out.
Inappropriate signature removed. Spitfire |

Generals4
1027
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:23:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Unfortunately, this Margin Scam is that scammer use the margin skills and other mechanics to scam us our isk. But all this mechanics has no real benefits to players other than player who intend to scam. So why the mechanics the 1st place? So that CCP could scam us without us pushing the blame to them and all to those players (who no1 is sure who it is? Could be CCP themselves) . Because if any real buyer, why would he place a buy order when he doesn't have the amount of money to pay in the 1st place, unless he has no intention of fulfilling the buy order. Thus the mechanic is for the sole purpose of scamming.
Actually unless i'm mistaking you do need to have the amount of isk in your wallet to set the buy order. You just don't need to give it all away.
And the mechanics are not only for scammers. It can be used as legitimate trading tool. To allow a poor trader to set more buy orders he normally could to make more profit.
Let's say i want to get into trading, i found a nice way to make profit on scorpions and rokhs. However i only have the isk for one buy order. Without trade margin i could only set one and hope someone will sell me the ship soon. With Margin trading i can put both and thus i will most likely have a ship sooner. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1013
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:24:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place. ...EVERY single person commenting here knows exactly what happened here, except you. I suspect the reason nobody has explained it to you is because there's a thread like this every other week and they are tired of ctrl+c ctrl+v the answer for the zillionth time.
Actually... maybe it's my turn. There is a skill called "Margin Trading" that allows you to put up buy orders in excess of what you actually have in your wallet. For people who have Tycoon 5 this is useful, because it can take months for an order to fill, and in the meantime you have all this isk doing nothing tied up in your orders. So if I have 305 orders out on one account and I'm buying large volumes of some material on the market in a dozen regions, I may only want 1/4 of what I have orders for, but I get a better price by pushing out the orders to more places, which allows me to get the volume I need faster.
Some people use the Margin Skill in another way. They put in a minimum buy order of lets say 200,000 of something for 10x it's value on one character, and empty their wallet into another account. They use the other account to sell 200,000 of that same item for 5x its usual price. Then a chump comes along and sees the disparity on the market. Thinking they will double their money in a minute, they buy the 200,000 units of that item and ignore the warning that it's 5x the going rate for that item, thinking they will just flip it. However, when they go to sell it the buy order disappears, because the account that put in that buy order doesn't have the ISK to pay you, so the order disappears and you just gave the scammer 4x his initial investment.
tl;dr; google harder. This scam happens every day.
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Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management Unified Church of the Unobligated
635
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:25:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
Read this, it wasn't CCP, it was a player using the mechanics to sucker people. You fell for it, you will be better informed next time. Learn from the experience and quit claiming CCP was responsible. Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims. |

Scatim Helicon
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
715
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:27:00 -
[34] - Quote
CCP need to rename that skill to 'Margin Trade Scamming' and be done with it. Titans were never meant to be "cost effective", its a huge ****.-á- CCP Oveur, 2006
~If you want a picture of the future of WiS, imagine a spaceship, stamping on an avatar's face. Forever. |

Jax Bederen
Dark Horse RM
142
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:29:00 -
[35] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place.
Well they set up the mechanics to loose ships in pvp and pve , but we don't expect to get those back. This happens to be a mechanic that works on the market. Yes it is ****** and they should consider changing how the empty wallet works in this instance, only because I cant see anyone not new to the game fall for it, but for now, it is what it is. As many have said before, if it looks to good to be true, it's a scam almost every time.
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Jim Era
Genco Fatal Ascension
1058
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:32:00 -
[36] - Quote
lol, new players trying to market PvP learn to play before you make these ridiculous accusations. |

Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management Unified Church of the Unobligated
635
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:32:00 -
[37] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
Just for this incredibly stupid comment you win today's 'Pig Chasing Cliff Dweller' award. Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims. |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:33:00 -
[38] - Quote
That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by **** alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :(
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Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:35:00 -
[39] - Quote
Jim Era wrote:lol, new players trying to market PvP learn to play before you make these ridiculous accusations.
So you expect everyone to read every single post in to the forum before you actually play the game? You dumb enough to shove this off |

Equus
Royal Order of Security Specialists Late Night Alliance
45
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:35:00 -
[40] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote: 1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
Thank you, you just made my afternoon, but please while you gave me a good laugh, think before you write something, have at least a small grasp of the concepts and arguments you are trying to make, I mean really?  |

Ana Fox
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
15
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:38:00 -
[41] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :(
Now I think you are trolling.I really hope you do ,cause this is just to much . |

Equus
Royal Order of Security Specialists Late Night Alliance
45
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:38:00 -
[42] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:.... because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright.
Have you ever been in sales? Hell, there was an article some time ago that argued saying people with sociopathic tendencies make better CEO's and business men/women because they have no apathy for those the step on on their way to the top. |

Rengerel en Distel
Amarr Science and Industry
334
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:39:00 -
[43] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :(
CCP can't fix stupid, sorry.
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Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:40:00 -
[44] - Quote
Rengerel en Distel wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :( CCP can't fix stupid, sorry.
So when you get rob in real world, you accept it when the authorities tells you they can't fix weak cos you are one? You speak like you are CCP....are you MotherFuxker? |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1014
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:42:00 -
[45] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :( To weed out the chumps. If EvE was easy it wouldn't be fun. You can keep the toolbags on the sidelines of WoW by scamming all of their money, which funds your adventures and keeps your enemies frosty and smart. I actually have grown to appreciate losses more, because I always learn something. I wouldn't have losses if my opponents were dumb. When I'm feeling stupid and tired I play Halo for the easy, meaningless kills. When I want a challenge EvE is the only place I can get one.
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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
668
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:43:00 -
[46] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Rengerel en Distel wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :( CCP can't fix stupid, sorry. So when you get rob in real world, you accept it when the authorities tells you they can't fix weak cos you are one? You speak like you are CCP....are you MotherFuxker?
How many Nigerian Scams have you read about that have a happy ending?
Also, can you translate the part in bold please? |

Alfred Lim
Order of the Ebon Hand The Jagged Alliance
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:44:00 -
[47] - Quote
I insult no one in my post, I expect the same.I appreciate those who explain kindly but those who thinks your old timer in the game that you know it all and that I should take all your insult just make me sick and make yourself even dumber than i was. |

Jullian Valdexron
Marcabian 5th Invasion Fleet
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:45:00 -
[48] - Quote
I think EVE should have a minimum age requirement of 14 to avoid stuff like this. |

Toroup
Prometheus Deep Core Mining and Salvage
28
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:46:00 -
[49] - Quote
Like everyone has said here, it's a Margin scam.
While I am fine with people scamming, it does kinda suck when the scam happens because of poor design. If I join a corp, put in the time to get access to their assets/funds and then rip them off - that's a scam worthy of Eve's scamocity. When a system mechanic allows players to utilize poor design in this way (or like the trade window scam) then that's kinda lame.
Either way, don't cry about it - A) it won't change B) scammers love your tears almost as much as your isk - don' give them the satisfaction.
Add them as a contact, build up a ship and kick them in the ass if they ever go into Null.
I got scammed once, it took me 8 months but I found the ****** in the right place at the right time and I made him pay (as much as one can in internet spaceship terms).
As unhealthy as it was, the burning hatred that I had for that POS fueled my gameplay and gave me laser like focus - one purpose, to hang his frozen corpse from my fireplace with candy canes sticking out of his ass like some sort of twisted x-mas stocking. His head on front of my CNR. His eyes blown out from the vacuum of space - jamming Tritanium into his lifeless eye sockets like a Jackolantern from Hell....sorry I digress. |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1014
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:51:00 -
[50] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:I insult no one in my post, I expect the same.I appreciate those who explain kindly but those who thinks your old timer in the game that you know it all and that I should take all your insult just make me sick and make yourself even dumber than i was. You just need to grow a thicker skin and stop expecting people to hold your dik while you pee.
I don't know... try shoots and ladders or something. Everyone in EvE is trying to kill everyone else. Your story isn't even a good one. People loose billions upon billions in single scams every week! They aren't on here crying about getting taken. Hell, I seldom even get an evemail anymore when I scam someone...
Jullian Valdexron wrote:I think EVE should have a minimum age requirement of 14 to avoid stuff like this. ...I thought it did. >.>
Toroup wrote:I got scammed once, it took me 8 months but I found the ****** in the right place at the right time and I made him pay (as much as one can in internet spaceship terms).
As unhealthy as it was, the burning hatred that I had for that POS fueled my gameplay and gave me laser like focus - one purpose, to hang his frozen corpse from my fireplace with candy canes sticking out of his ass like some sort of twisted x-mas stocking. His head on front of my CNR. His eyes blown out from the vacuum of space - jamming Tritanium into his lifeless eye sockets like a Jackolantern from Hell....sorry I digress. This is EvE ^^^
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Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations Shaktipat Revelators
394
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:52:00 -
[51] - Quote
He lost what, 300 isk, right? PLEX is currently 500 isk, so that's 3/5ths of 14.99 USD in terms of 'one month rental'.
I see the lawsuit launched for 8.99 and emotional suffering damages because "Someone in iceland's code did not protect me" going over real well. |

Idris Helion
University of Caille Gallente Federation
49
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:54:00 -
[52] - Quote
There are still chumps out there who fall for this scam? Wow.
And it's not like there's some deep and subtle in-game knowledge required to avoid it. Just the basic stuff your parents should have taught you as a toddler: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
On the other hand, every EVE player has a story of getting suckered or scammed by someone. Like losing ships, it happens. Learn from it and move on. If you're really feeling vengeful, wardec the corp that scammed you and go hunting for them. Or hire some mercs do it for you. Or think up a really nasty con and run it on the scammers themselves.
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Jim Era
Genco Fatal Ascension
1058
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:55:00 -
[53] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Jim Era wrote:lol, new players trying to market PvP learn to play before you make these ridiculous accusations. So you expect everyone to read every single post in to the forum before you actually play the game? You dumb enough to shove this off
Well I would expect you to do some research. I don't know all about margin scams and that ****, but, since I do not know, I do NOT try to do it. its just funny that you are blaming ccp, you are terrible. and for that I am angry at you and will try my best to make your time in eve extremely costly. scamming is a main artery of eve...betrayal, etc its all part of the universe.
deal with it.
btw, I gave away over 600m this week to new players that I noticed or thought might be struggling. They were not whining, or asking for money. So I gave them money because they had good attitudes in a tough environment. But you, you deserve to have everything taken from you because of your entitled attitude. |

BearJews
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
50
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Posted - 2012.08.22 20:58:00 -
[54] - Quote
Lol, a ton of people have fallen for that scam, me included. And I would have never found out about it until i've been scammed. Which i'm sure applies to 90% of the people posting "You are a moran, don't you read!!!" on this forum.
I think it's complete bull crap that ccp allows it, but whatever. I moved on and so should you. You live and learn |

Wingmate
Raven's Flight Vanguard.
40
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:59:00 -
[55] - Quote
jagged alliance lol |

Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management Unified Church of the Unobligated
636
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 20:59:00 -
[56] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Jim Era wrote:lol, new players trying to market PvP learn to play before you make these ridiculous accusations. So you expect everyone to read every single post in to the forum before you actually play the game? You dumb enough to shove this off
No but seeing as you're in an alliance it could be assumed that there would be more experienced players in it that could explain this to you or point you to the information as we have.
Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims. |

Swordfingers
Restless Obsession
26
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Posted - 2012.08.22 21:00:00 -
[57] - Quote
Margin trading is an awesome skill. It allows traders to have more concurrent buy orders, which increases the isk sink through taxes (not much, but still) and parts fools like you with money they didn't deserve. All of that being valid uses within gameplay mechanics. If you don't like that, then unsub, state 'ME NO LIEK SCAMERZ' as reason and be gone. No one is going to miss you.
p.s.: I'm seriously very interested what would you do if CCP was an american company? Really just tell me, pretty please :) |

Arrgthepirate
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
51
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Posted - 2012.08.22 21:03:00 -
[58] - Quote
Hahahahahahaha |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1014
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:05:00 -
[59] - Quote
BearJews wrote:Lol, a ton of people have fallen for that scam, me included. And I would have never found out about it until i've been scammed. Which i'm sure applies to 90% of the people posting "You are a moran, don't you read!!!" on this forum.
I think it's complete bull crap that ccp allows it, but whatever. I moved on and so should you. You live and learn Well... if there's a problem with the margin trading scam it's that it is so subtle. I've never done a margin trading scam... and really I think it would be worth mentioning that kind of scam in the tutorial. The difference between the margin scam and every other scam is that in any other scam you fall for, you ultimately fell for it because YOU DIDN'T READ WHAT YOU WERE DOING. The margin scam is the only one that really doesn't have a warning. You can walk into it with no indication that the market buy order is unfunded. I could get behind a column on the market that showed what percentage of the order is funded. Just having that column there would solve the principal of the problem, imho. If people are stupid that's on them... but in the margin scam the market numbers themselves are lying to the player... that might not be OK.
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Idris Helion
University of Caille Gallente Federation
49
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:06:00 -
[60] - Quote
Swordfingers wrote:Margin trading is an awesome skill. It allows traders to have more concurrent buy orders, which increases the isk sink through taxes (not much, but still) and parts fools like you with money they didn't deserve. All of that being valid uses within gameplay mechanics. If you don't like that, then unsub, state 'ME NO LIEK SCAMERZ' as reason and be gone. No one is going to miss you.
p.s.: I'm seriously very interested what would you do if CCP was an american company? Really just tell me, pretty please :)
It's a variation on fractional-reserve banking, without which which RL banks (or EVE banks, for that matter) couldn't operate. If everyone showed up and demanded their deposits in full, banks would immediately go bust.
Margin trading is similar, only with buy/sell orders. It allows a player to have more buy orders active than they have actual ISK in their accounts. For players engaged in heavy market activity, this is a must, otherwise too much ISK would be tied up in escrow. Lots of orders can take days, weeks, or even months to fill.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1884
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:06:00 -
[61] - Quote
Swordfingers wrote:Margin trading is an awesome skill. It allows traders to have more concurrent buy orders, which increases the isk sink through taxes (not much, but still) and parts fools like you with money they didn't deserve. All of that being valid uses within gameplay mechanics. If you don't like that, then unsub, state 'ME NO LIEK SCAMERZ' as reason and be gone. No one is going to miss you.
p.s.: I'm seriously very interested what would you do if CCP was an american company? Really just tell me, pretty please :)
I'd get a job there so I could secretly funnel awesome crap to Surf \ / |

Kirin Intarca
Armored Core Inc. Industrial Technonauts
6
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:11:00 -
[62] - Quote
Micheal Dietrich wrote:Ana Fox wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
This is best part . Hmm maybe you could write to Obama to nuke Iceland. I think there is proper reason "making US people look dumb" . I don't want to live in this country anymore :(
Keep with it Micheal, It seems only us Americans that have actually left the US realize that the US is awesome, but at the same time very, very disappointing. In reality I think we need a revolution.
To the rest of the world.... Please don't judge us few intelligent and worth while Americans, on the actions of the majority of dumb Americans.
Intarca Dietrich For President 2016! |

DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
283
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:12:00 -
[63] - Quote
I see the Margin trading scam as an example of a broken mechanic. Glad I've never fallen for it.
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EVE residents: 5% Wormholes; 8% Lowsec; 20% Nullsec; 67% Highsec. CSM 6: 100% Nullsec residents. EVE demographics vs CSM demographics, nothing to worry about... |

Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1884
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:12:00 -
[64] - Quote
DarthNefarius wrote:I see the Margin trading scam as an example of a broken mechanic. Glad I've never fallen for it.
Your face is a broken mechanic |

Tiger Would
EoE-Group
1165
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:14:00 -
[65] - Quote
Just a few tips good sir.
You have to accept EvE is more or less lawless. It is the pinnacle of the game. Without that, there would be better games out there.
EvE isn't a next level MMO, it is completely out there. Do not underestimate the AI, because the AI is actually a real person trying to outwit you. This is allowed at every level upto EULA
You are not talking about kids either. I think it is save to say the average age is around 30 / 35 This means you have a whole lot of people with some life experience and know how to manipulate.
This means, whatever you plan to do in EvE, even trading, you need to do your homework first. Do not stop at the how to make money. Also read about the trading PvP and how it works before doing anything. (which also goes for every other aspect)
Not doing so, is underestimating the gameplay and its player base and WILL result in you loosing. Also know, you will loose sometimes, whatever you do.
Al that said:
Try again, but this time, make sure you know all the sunny AND dark sides of what you are about to do. Even if, you only want to focus on one particular part. Design a strategy that will always keep YOU on top of things.
It is not just buying low, sell high. You need to know what is the usual pricing bandwidth. You need to know about quantities being moved and what is a reasonable amount to trade. You need to spread out your risks. You need to make sure you always have something to bounce back with when things go bad.
I could fill pages on how to trade and make 10s of billions a month while taking losses when needed. You should make sure you can to, before venturing into that area.
And no, people wont tell you the contents of there special sauce You have to cook one up
Once you think you have it all, you-áhave actually become-áignorant towards everything else.
T. Would |

Rek Seven
Probe Patrol Project Wildfire
406
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:14:00 -
[66] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote: we all know about PLEX scam that has been going on where you think you buy a Plex cheap in contract but you actually have to give back a plex and loss the 320mil
OMG you're sooo cute |

Generals4
1031
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:25:00 -
[67] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:I insult no one in my post, I expect the same.I appreciate those who explain kindly but those who thinks your old timer in the game that you know it all and that I should take all your insult just make me sick and make yourself even dumber than i was.
You sir are not familiar with GD.... Or EVE in general. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Pasta OfDoom
SrsBsnsIndeed
4
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:25:00 -
[68] - Quote
A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. |

Generals4
1031
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:27:00 -
[69] - Quote
Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language.
I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1016
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:31:00 -
[70] - Quote
Generals4 wrote:Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem.
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Generals4
1031
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:33:00 -
[71] - Quote
Gogela wrote:Generals4 wrote:Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem.
Unfortunately it is not always and i'm the evidence. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

JC Anderson
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
682
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:43:00 -
[72] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place.
No not IF IT IS DUE TO MARGIN...
That's exactly what it was, and it has been around for a long time. You are not the first person to experience this but hopefully it'll be the only time you fall for it.
That is of course if you take the time to understand the mechanic and take measures to avoid having it happen to you again in the future. |

Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
668
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:45:00 -
[73] - Quote
Gogela wrote:Generals4 wrote:Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem.
It was until the invention of the warning label. Leave it to humans to muck up Darwinism. |

JC Anderson
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
682
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 21:48:00 -
[74] - Quote
Micheal Dietrich wrote:Gogela wrote:Generals4 wrote:Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem. It was until the invention of the warning label. Leave it to humans to muck up Darwinism.
Really? :P |

Jax Bederen
Dark Horse RM
142
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Posted - 2012.08.22 22:01:00 -
[75] - Quote
Ok so now were getting the intellectually superior in their own minds types posting. The guy is new, he looks at the market as buy low sell high, problem is as for anyone new, he doesn't know all the skills, this is not a matter of intelligence but knowing some pretty obscure rules, so settle down geniuses.
Having said that, OP you are getting a bit paranoid there, claiming some of these "geniuses" are CCP, they are just trying to feel better about themselves based on you being new and Fing up. Also you are better off just taking your loss and not bitching about this. Take it as a lesson learned, most here have had at least one. |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1016
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Posted - 2012.08.22 22:01:00 -
[76] - Quote
JC Anderson wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:Gogela wrote:Generals4 wrote:Pasta OfDoom wrote:A bit off topic but anyone think this is an alt of the guy that was complaining about wormholes staying the same when incursions were getting nerfed? I don't remember his name but his motto was "burn everyone equally". The thread was pretty popular until it got locked, these two seem similar in sentence structure, idiocy, and general lack of command of the english language. I think we should all complain about "stupidity" and demand it gets nerfed. I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem. It was until the invention of the warning label. Leave it to humans to muck up Darwinism. Really? :P I know someone who ironed a shirt while he was wearing it. Got some nice burns. Warning label wouldn't have helped... he was one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
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Frying Doom
Zat's Affiliated Traders
541
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Posted - 2012.08.22 22:13:00 -
[77] - Quote
Welcome to EvE Online  Any Spelling, gramatical and literary errors made by me are included free of charge.
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Generals4
1032
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:15:00 -
[78] - Quote
Gogela wrote:JC Anderson wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:Gogela wrote: I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem.
It was until the invention of the warning label. Leave it to humans to muck up Darwinism. Really? :P I know someone who ironed a shirt while he was wearing it. Got some nice burns. Warning label wouldn't have helped... he was one of the dumbest people I've ever met.
So that's why it's written on the manual you cannot iron while wearing the clothes... I have always wondered why that totally ******** warning was there. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Henry Kaine
Royal Amarr Institute
16
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Posted - 2012.08.22 22:19:00 -
[79] - Quote
This thread makes my brain hurt from all the stupid.
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Generals4
1032
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:22:00 -
[80] - Quote
Henry Kaine wrote:This thread makes my brain hurt from all the stupid.
Here's the solution:
Join the stupid and get rid of those pesky brains. -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1017
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:24:00 -
[81] - Quote
Generals4 wrote:Gogela wrote:JC Anderson wrote:Micheal Dietrich wrote:Gogela wrote: I think "stupidity" is a self-correcting problem.
It was until the invention of the warning label. Leave it to humans to muck up Darwinism. Really? :P I know someone who ironed a shirt while he was wearing it. Got some nice burns. Warning label wouldn't have helped... he was one of the dumbest people I've ever met. So that's why it's written on the manual you cannot iron while wearing the clothes... I have always wondered why that totally ******** warning was there. Yup. I was in the Marines doing uniform inspections on an Air Force group... I saw all these severe burns and asked him what happened. Apparently he was running late to my formation and hadn't ironed anything... so he improvised. I wish I was making it up. Totally blew my mind. I wanted to give him a point for sucking it up and showing up instead of going to medical... ended up docking him for a bad press.
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Generals4
1032
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:26:00 -
[82] - Quote
Gogela wrote: Yup. I was in the Marines doing uniform inspections on an Air Force group... I saw all these severe burns and asked him what happened. Apparently he was running late to my formation and hadn't ironed anything... so he improvised. I wish I was making it up. Totally blew my mind. I wanted to give him a point for sucking it up and showing up instead of going to medical... ended up docking him for a bad press.
At this point i think we're all wishing you were making this up -Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. |

Jim Era
Genco Fatal Ascension
1058
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:30:00 -
[83] - Quote
These men ladies and gentlemen, are allowed in on top-secret information, control bombings of "enemies" and work with some extremely expensive and technical equipment...
murcuh, **** yea
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MadMuppet
Universal Freelance CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
536
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 22:50:00 -
[84] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:I am a 5 months old player and I have seen many scam going on in Eve online. I have today been scam 300mil isk. To make that money, I had been playing 10 hrs a day for the last 3 weeks. I know many players can make more but as a new player, this is what i can only manage.
I saw a buy order in the market for an item 2,000 units for a minimum order of 2,000unit at 200kisk each. I purchase all the items in the market and when i select sell, the price still indicate 200k isk but when I confirm it, the buy order disappear. For that 1 transaction, I lost 300mil.
Indeed, I was con not only by the player but by CCP, because the player I purchase most item was not even online so the question is how he to cancel the buy order? But since the order disappear, make me believe that it was program to perform such by CCP themselves. I refuse to believe that any player would spent 24/7 and ever second to watch the screen and to cancel the buy order and log out at a 2 second interval. Moreover, the player which I purchase most of the item was not online, so question is how did he cancel his buy order offline? Unless it was programed.
Looking into the entire Eve, there is many scam going on that in any other games you will not see because all this loophole has been covered by the developer.
For example, we all know about PLEX scam that has been going on where you think you buy a Plex cheap in contract but you actually have to give back a plex and loss the 320mil (standard plex con rate). The question, why did CCP allow the same identical item to be allow to post as a Buy/Sell contract? Meaning, you can post that you selling an item in exchange you want the same item back. Not even in real life such system exist. Allowing minimum quantity up to a rediculess amount is another part of program that only CCP allowing it to take place. And many more scam.
Reason of me believing that CCP is the one scamming is that in such players will be force to buy more Plex or renew their account in real money. Why make us believe that we can actually make money mining/trading/manufacturing to buy a Plex where chances you get con at end of the day.
Many of my friends who actually get a Plex was totally into ratting not into to buying and selling ****.
Other than CCP is the real scammer behind all those player name, there is no other reason why CCP allow scam to take place, in the 1st place. They have the objective, the motive and the real benefit behind all those scam.
I though i was 100mil more to go to get a Plex in 2 days before my accounts expire but I was wrong, dead wrong. So no, I will not be able to buy a Plex.
Will I be paying in real money to renew my account? The question I ask myself is why? Why do I want to continue to play a game that instead of enjoying myself I get grief, I get con and scam only to feel unhappy, angry and a complete idiot. Yes I agree (no trolling require) I am a idiot to allow myself to pay real money and feel unhappy about it. This USD$14.95 I could get in a game when I can feel better achievement and pleasure.
For all those real players who are not CCP staff or part of their organization, I don't feel angry at you even if you are a scammer or griefer. It is CCP that I should be angry about. Just like in real life, when you have been rob and the police watch you being rob, instead of helping you, he tell you thats real life mechanic, so get over it. I would be extremely angry at the police more than the robber. For all you know, the robber has already team up with the police in the 1st place. Just like what CCP is telling you that this is game mechanic but they are the one who create this mechanic.
I am positive that CCP will not feel anything losing 1 player as myself nor would Eve stop it's cycle. But this is one of many reasons why it is hard for Eve to get new players. At the end of the day, it handful of people all with multiple alt surrounded by CCP scammer alt that would only exist in the game.
I wish the remaining players or those that would remain in the near future goodbye and thanks for showing me it is not worth playing Eve as long as you would cause it would be idiotic wouldn't it? Hence I have save alot of money and this money will be spent on game that is more worth my attention and where I could gain pleasure instead of any bad emotion.
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
10 hours a day for three weeks? - Check Saw a great deal, too good to pass up. - Check Doesn't understand game mechanics. -Check Doesn't know that in real life many things, like car parts, require a core item return, making the contract complaint irrelevant. - Check Jumps to the conspiracy soapbox because this could be their fault at all. - Check Claims hardship due to failure to understand the game. -Check Tries to rally emotion by not claiming anger at scammers to focus the rage at CCP. - Check Threat to leave with self-empowering viewpoint. -Check
Now then. Margin trading is a useful tool for a trader that want to put up a bunch of stuff that will sell over time but does not have the money in their account to cover it all at once. However, as you have seen this can be abused. It is the duality of the system and yet another case where CCP's tools can be used for good or evil. Welcome to Eve.
The only reason I posted in this thread is because I'm laughing too hard to concentrate on mining.
If I tried to make a type of coffee that made all of you happy, and you rated it, the group score for it would be about 60 out of 100. Break into 3 or 4 coffee clusters, and made coffee just for each cluster, the scores would go from 60 to 78. The difference between coffee at 60 and coffee at 78 is a difference between coffee that makes you wince or makes you happy. |

Zelda Wei
New Horizon Trade Exchange
175
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Posted - 2012.08.22 23:02:00 -
[85] - Quote
Market PvP and you lost. |

Gothikia
Black Guards Black Core Alliance
17
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 23:04:00 -
[86] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:I am a 5 months old player and I have seen many scam going on in Eve online. I have today been scam 300mil isk. To make that money, I had been playing 10 hrs a day for the last 3 weeks. I know many players can make more but as a new player, this is what i can only manage.
I saw a buy order in the market for an item 2,000 units for a minimum order of 2,000unit at 200kisk each. I purchase all the items in the market and when i select sell, the price still indicate 200k isk but when I confirm it, the buy order disappear. For that 1 transaction, I lost 300mil.
Indeed, I was con not only by the player but by CCP, because the player I purchase most item was not even online so the question is how he to cancel the buy order? But since the order disappear, make me believe that it was program to perform such by CCP themselves. I refuse to believe that any player would spent 24/7 and ever second to watch the screen and to cancel the buy order and log out at a 2 second interval. Moreover, the player which I purchase most of the item was not online, so question is how did he cancel his buy order offline? Unless it was programed.
Looking into the entire Eve, there is many scam going on that in any other games you will not see because all this loophole has been covered by the developer.
For example, we all know about PLEX scam that has been going on where you think you buy a Plex cheap in contract but you actually have to give back a plex and loss the 320mil (standard plex con rate). The question, why did CCP allow the same identical item to be allow to post as a Buy/Sell contract? Meaning, you can post that you selling an item in exchange you want the same item back. Not even in real life such system exist. Allowing minimum quantity up to a rediculess amount is another part of program that only CCP allowing it to take place. And many more scam.
Reason of me believing that CCP is the one scamming is that in such players will be force to buy more Plex or renew their account in real money. Why make us believe that we can actually make money mining/trading/manufacturing to buy a Plex where chances you get con at end of the day.
Many of my friends who actually get a Plex was totally into ratting not into to buying and selling ****.
Other than CCP is the real scammer behind all those player name, there is no other reason why CCP allow scam to take place, in the 1st place. They have the objective, the motive and the real benefit behind all those scam.
I though i was 100mil more to go to get a Plex in 2 days before my accounts expire but I was wrong, dead wrong. So no, I will not be able to buy a Plex.
Will I be paying in real money to renew my account? The question I ask myself is why? Why do I want to continue to play a game that instead of enjoying myself I get grief, I get con and scam only to feel unhappy, angry and a complete idiot. Yes I agree (no trolling require) I am a idiot to allow myself to pay real money and feel unhappy about it. This USD$14.95 I could get in a game when I can feel better achievement and pleasure.
For all those real players who are not CCP staff or part of their organization, I don't feel angry at you even if you are a scammer or griefer. It is CCP that I should be angry about. Just like in real life, when you have been rob and the police watch you being rob, instead of helping you, he tell you thats real life mechanic, so get over it. I would be extremely angry at the police more than the robber. For all you know, the robber has already team up with the police in the 1st place. Just like what CCP is telling you that this is game mechanic but they are the one who create this mechanic.
I am positive that CCP will not feel anything losing 1 player as myself nor would Eve stop it's cycle. But this is one of many reasons why it is hard for Eve to get new players. At the end of the day, it handful of people all with multiple alt surrounded by CCP scammer alt that would only exist in the game.
I wish the remaining players or those that would remain in the near future goodbye and thanks for showing me it is not worth playing Eve as long as you would cause it would be idiotic wouldn't it? Hence I have save alot of money and this money will be spent on game that is more worth my attention and where I could gain pleasure instead of any bad emotion.
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
I lol'd, seriously, I actually did. You tit.
<3 Gothie |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1020
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 23:07:00 -
[87] - Quote
Jim Era wrote:These men ladies and gentlemen, are allowed in on top-secret information, control bombings of "enemies" and work with some extremely expensive and technical equipment...
murcuh, **** yea
Oh... it gets better. It was at an intelligence training school. 
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Xpaulusx
Naari LLC
53
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Posted - 2012.08.22 23:13:00 -
[88] - Quote
Believe it or not, you will look back on this and laugh and relize its just part of the learning process. Pilots lose supers and even Titans in battles which cost 10's of billions and still move foward. nuff said. |

Adalun Dey
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
43
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 23:30:00 -
[89] - Quote
Scamming is part of Eve, whether you like it or not. The potential to pull off big elaborate scams is one of its biggest selling points. The trick is to learn from your mistakes, or in this case your lack of knowledge of certain game mechanics. Contrary to the claims of some forum trolls, your intelligence is not in question here, though looking up a list of potential market scams could have saved you from falling for the margin trading scam.
Also it would be best to use common sense and a fair amount of distrust for your fellow capsuleer: if a deal seems to be too good to be true, it's best to look at it from all angles twice before committing yourself to it. You'll still get butthurt from time to time, but as long as your realize what happened you can take the necessary steps to avoid it from happening again.
- Reading up on recruitment scams saved me the loss of my meager amount of assets when a Test Alliance agent tried to have me move all my assets to nullsec. - If I would have watched the map of lowsec for 'amount of ships destroyed in the last 30 mins' it would have saved me the loss of my Prorator. The unusual high amount was a dead giveaway that there would be a gatecamp in one of the systems.
" Take my love, take my land, take me where I can not stand, I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. "
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Charles Baker
Estrale Frontiers Project Wildfire
223
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Posted - 2012.08.22 23:33:00 -
[90] - Quote
Margin Trading, Best trading. |

Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1282
|
Posted - 2012.08.22 23:43:00 -
[91] - Quote
Xpaulusx wrote:Believe it or not, you will look back on this and laugh and relize its just part of the learning process. Pilots lose supers and even Titans in battles which cost 10's of billions and still move foward. nuff said. The famous "jumping instead of bridging".
Never before has clicking the wrong button resulted in such hilarious losses and subsequent broadcasts letting the whole coalition know about just who has done it this time. Those who cannot adapt become victims of Evolugalbugaslugakjlwsdhvbzxd Click for old school EVE Portraits: http://jadeconstantine.web44.net/Maison.htm |

Valari Nala Zena
Perkone Caldari State
41
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Posted - 2012.08.22 23:58:00 -
[92] - Quote
It's a common mistake, don't compare EVE with real life, this is the internet we are talking about here. In EVE trust has to be earned, and even then you risk getting burned. Did you know that trusting people in your own corp isn't entirely without risk?
Everything you do in EVE has a risk attached to it, you are currently inexperienced and got scammed. You learned it the hard way. Crude, but effective. Like CCP once said, HTFU (harden the **** up). Learn from it, and move on.
People will insult you for being stupid, laugh in your face for being angry and troll you until you cry, then troll you some more.
Not because they are bad people in real life, but because this is how they like to play this game.
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Barakach
R-ISK Shadow Operations.
70
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 00:33:00 -
[93] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Unfortunately, this Margin Scam is that scammer use the margin skills and other mechanics to scam us our isk. But all this mechanics has no real benefits to players other than player who intend to scam. So why the mechanics the 1st place? So that CCP could scam us without us pushing the blame to them and all to those players (who no1 is sure who it is? Could be CCP themselves) . Because if any real buyer, why would he place a buy order when he doesn't have the amount of money to pay in the 1st place, unless he has no intention of fulfilling the buy order. Thus the mechanic is for the sole purpose of scamming.
I use this all the time as a trader. 16bil in buy orders and only 8bil in the wallet is quite normal. Just like anything in real life, over-subscribing a resource allows you to make best use of a resources assuming you don't get a run on the bank and everyone caches in all at once. |

Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1888
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 00:36:00 -
[94] - Quote
Generals4 wrote:Gogela wrote: Yup. I was in the Marines doing uniform inspections on an Air Force group... I saw all these severe burns and asked him what happened. Apparently he was running late to my formation and hadn't ironed anything... so he improvised. I wish I was making it up. Totally blew my mind. I wanted to give him a point for sucking it up and showing up instead of going to medical... ended up docking him for a bad press.
At this point i think we're all wishing you were making this up
I dunno.. I was in the Marines and I can see a Marine doing that, but a chairborne ranger? One of Uncle Sam's Aerial Fairies (USAF)?  |

Abel Merkabah
The Executioners Capital Punishment.
104
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Posted - 2012.08.23 01:21:00 -
[95] - Quote
Don't know if anyone asked yet...
Can I has stuff?...wait...damn... "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems." |

Thor Kerrigan
Guardians of Asceticism
208
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 01:28:00 -
[96] - Quote
Quote:I have been SCAM by CCP
And I NOT HAVE read your post. |

Ave Kathrina
My Ass Is On Fire
2
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 01:30:00 -
[97] - Quote
CCP game devs are reading this thread and giggling.
I have it on good authority (a guy I met at the pub who is related to the 2nd cousin of Hilmar's car mechanic) that Hilmar gets aroused by threads such as this.
If I was you I'd call your space lawyer.
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Raiz Nhell
DEEP CORPS
152
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 01:42:00 -
[98] - Quote
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Generals4 wrote:Gogela wrote: Yup. I was in the Marines doing uniform inspections on an Air Force group... I saw all these severe burns and asked him what happened. Apparently he was running late to my formation and hadn't ironed anything... so he improvised. I wish I was making it up. Totally blew my mind. I wanted to give him a point for sucking it up and showing up instead of going to medical... ended up docking him for a bad press.
At this point i think we're all wishing you were making this up I dunno.. I was in the Marines and I can see a Marine doing that, but a chairborne ranger? One of Uncle Sam's Aerial Fairies (USAF)? 
Sad to say but this affliction is not just limited to the US military... I've seen Aussie soldiers attempt a similar feat, with similar results...
There is no such thing as a fair fight...
If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage. |

Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
1706
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 01:50:00 -
[99] - Quote
Velicitia wrote:5 month old player and he's just learning now about the margin trading scam?
fuuuuu, what do corps do with/for their members these days? I knew the general mechanic by the end of my first month ... and I was still in a noobcorp then...
It was three years before I discovered that particular scam.
The difference between you and me is I learned on my first day never to go near Jita. That's the real lesson that needs to be taught to noobs.
Mr Epeen  There is no excuse beyond fatalistic self-indulgence and sheer laziness for doing nothing --á Iain Banks |

Recoil IV
Knights of the Posing Meat
14
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Posted - 2012.08.23 01:51:00 -
[100] - Quote
this whole market scamming thing has to come to a end.please CCP,think of the children. |

AdmiralJohn
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
60
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 02:02:00 -
[101] - Quote
i 2 haf been SCAM i went 2 traed wit sum1 for a CALDARI NVAY RAEVN but wen i paid i got a CALDARI RAVEN. how did he do it? im sure SEE SEE PEE was behind it and i want my monie or i CALL MY LAWYER |

James 315
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
2458
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Posted - 2012.08.23 02:06:00 -
[102] - Quote
Ya know, I was really hoping this was a necro from a long time ago, but apparently there's more than one of these "I have been SCAM" type guys. 
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ MinerBumping.com -½-½-½-½-½-½-½-½-½-½The daily saga of one man's quest to bring civilization to highsec by bumping miners out of range. |

Sevastian Liao
DreamWeaver Inc.
41
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 03:08:00 -
[103] - Quote
Margin Trading scam - Keeping the bads out since...Forever. Maybe.
Also, for the typical valiant white knight types trying to defend the OP - There's two types of newbies. First one gets scammed, maybe a bit bewildered, asks how it happens. Deserves some sympathy. Second one gets scammed, rages at everyone else but himself, doesn't read links. Deserves mocking. |

Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
903
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 05:16:00 -
[104] - Quote
I thought I'd seen all the kinds of Margin Trading Scam Whines, but this one put some good effort into it and sprinkled in a bit of CCP conspiracy theory.
Delicious. Nyan |

Phelan Kheldian
The Scope Gallente Federation
3
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Posted - 2012.08.23 05:21:00 -
[105] - Quote
Greetings,
I, too, am a new player to Eve Online. Less than 2 months old, and let me just say: you got scammed, suck it up and deal with it. You posted a thread blaming CCP before you even tried to get the facts straight on what happened. I didn't know about this scam until now AND I admit I had to reread it twice to understand how it works. But basically, you bought an overpriced item that was close by and tried to sell it for an even more outrageous price. The scammer made sure he didn't have the money to complete the transaction. Nothing 'illegal' (even in the real world) happened here:
1) You agreed to buy an item for more than it was worth. (YOUR CHOICE) 2) You received the item. (perfectly legal sale) 3) You attempted to sell the item for more. (that's fine... that's what trading is all about) 4) The person who 'agreed' to purchase the item did not have the money and therefore did not get the item. (No theft has occurred as you still have the item) 5) You came on the forums and raged because you got suckered.
Let me just tell you now something you should know if real life: READ THE FINE PRINT ON ANY CONTRACT! If you do that in Eve Online the odds of you getting scammed will go down a great deal. Don't jump on a contract, reread it at least twice to make sure that 1 million ship isn't actually contracted for 1 billion. It will save you a lot of grief. And be wary of stuff like this where it seems to be too good to be true: it probably is.
As for taking legal action against CCP if they were an American company. Good luck, when you buy a PLEX you will receive the PLEX. What you do with it in-game is not CCP's problem. If you get scammed out of it, you'll have no legal action as anything that happens in-game you will have AGREED on via EULA. Someone blows up your ship and steals the PLEX you were transporting: you agreed to it in the EULA.
Now, I do feel bad for you and I understand you are upset. However, this is the nature of Eve. There are whole websites devoted to the 'scams of Eve Online'. Its crazy, its intense, and its what attracts a lot of players to Eve Online. I'm bored with WoW, SW:TOR, CoX, and those types of games because there is no risk... even in game terms. Eve Online brings that risk to the forefront and its exciting and what makes Eve great. You got scammed, learn from it and move on. If the person who scammed you reads the forums, he's probably laughing at you. And I'm sure scammers are taking notice of your name as you are making yourself appear to be an easy mark. Bad things happen in Eve, bu the good players accept it and move on.
Now, as for your alliance not paying you for your work: you were there for 2 months? Seriously, if I mined for them and I didn't receive payment after the first week, I'd be suspicious... After the second week, I'd leave. Few RL companies pay on a monthly basis... not sure about Eve corps; but, I'd be uncomfortable being in a corp that only paid monthly. I'm sorry one of your corp members blew up your ship. There isn't much that can be done about that except what you did. Do yourself a favor and make sure you do research before joining any corp. Read the forums, google their name plus the words 'Eve Online' and see if any dirt comes up on them. And I have to say: you were surprised you got treated poorly by an alliance called ****? I tend to shy away from immaturely named corps... because there is generally a reason they used an immature name...
If you decide to stay in Eve, I wish you good luck. I'd also suggest you quit looking for the quick buck. |

dexington
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
146
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 06:23:00 -
[106] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:I am a 5 months old player and I have seen many scam going on in Eve online. I have today been scam 300mil isk.
Others have already explained you how you got scammed, and it is easy for news players who don't know the market and market skills to fall for this scam.
As a general rule, if something seems to good to be true, then it's a scam or trap. GÇ£The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.GÇ¥-á |

Cede Forster
EVE University Ivy League
22
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Posted - 2012.08.23 06:41:00 -
[107] - Quote
There are quite some scams out there that work of ... lets call them obvious mistakes in game design.
I do not have a problem with scams, they are great, i have a problem them being enabled by bad programming / not thinking about how mechanics play out. Scamming people should require a little more effort then using a game mechanic that almost looks like it was meant for this. I mean this is probably easier and makes more money then PI  |

Josef Djugashvilis
The Scope Gallente Federation
444
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 06:48:00 -
[108] - Quote
Jullian Valdexron wrote:I think EVE should have a minimum age requirement of 14 to avoid stuff like this.
Not a good idea, as it would remove some 85% of forum posters.
You want fries with that? |

Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1021
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 06:56:00 -
[109] - Quote
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Generals4 wrote:Gogela wrote: Yup. I was in the Marines doing uniform inspections on an Air Force group... I saw all these severe burns and asked him what happened. Apparently he was running late to my formation and hadn't ironed anything... so he improvised. I wish I was making it up. Totally blew my mind. I wanted to give him a point for sucking it up and showing up instead of going to medical... ended up docking him for a bad press.
At this point i think we're all wishing you were making this up I dunno.. I was in the Marines and I can see a Marine doing that, but a chairborne ranger? One of Uncle Sam's Aerial Fairies (USAF)?  Oh fellow devil dog... I know we get shi7 for being a bit slow at times... but the USMC has no Intel training outside of CI and general analyst. If a marine gets another services school they just put the marine in charge... and it is a debacle. Put yourself in my place... coming out of 29 palms for a year and now you PC an AF "flight"? Man I was a corporal. Those AF guys were steppin' tall and getting inspections twice a week. The chairforce will blow your mind... it's like getting a bunch of recruits. It was really f'd up from a marine perspective. ...but that's really how it goes down. I could tell you stories forever...
|

Josef Djugashvilis
The Scope Gallente Federation
444
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 07:02:00 -
[110] - Quote
Gogela wrote:Jim Era wrote:These men ladies and gentlemen, are allowed in on top-secret information, control bombings of "enemies" and work with some extremely expensive and technical equipment...
murcuh, **** yea
Oh... it gets better. It was at an intelligence training school. 
Sounds like the right place then.
I am currently training 'intelligence' to 3...must be a 30x skill as it is taking me so long. You want fries with that? |

Kryss Darkdust
The Skulls
125
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 07:09:00 -
[111] - Quote
Rengerel en Distel wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:That why I say, why play a game where you get scam every corner? Some say that this is like real life, I beg the different, because in real life you wouldn't dare scam a person outright. I am looking for a game that I can enjoy, pve or pvp. But definitely not a game that would make you emotional angry every now and then you get grief or scam. Why play a game then if the game would only make you unhappy?
Yeah, Margin scam, Plex scam and the whole lot of different scam that evolve Eve daily. So is that all what Eve is all about? For the last 2 months I had been scam by P.I.S.S. alliance where I have to contribute all my PI and mine 5hrs of ice each day where promise of payment for my services but eventually nothing and my badger got blow up by blue cos the person wants his killmail to look good and alliance did nothing. I spent another 2 weeks moving my stuff out and settling down from null sec to back to high sec...just to con again.
Eve is all about nothing but being con or go con some1 else :( CCP can't fix stupid, sorry.
I think its a bit unfair to say , getting scammed by a hidden exploitable mechanic to which no newbie is ever alerted to in any way in the tutorial or otherwise in a severely complex game full of exploitable mechanics doesn't make someone that falls for it stupid.
What is stupid is for for a business to lose subscriptions (money) over the existence of exploitable mechanics. The game gains no benefit whatsoever due to the existence of cripplingly broken and completely unnecessary mechanic like the Margin Trading Skill. I call bullshit on anyone who claims to use this skill for any other purpose other than scamming.
The margin trading skill is a complete and utter fail on CCP's part. Of course its easy enough to avoid by experienced players who know about it, but than again when was the last time an experienced player actually paid for a subscription? CCP hasn't seen any actual money from me in quite sometime. Its guys like this noob that pays the bills. |

Yui Okane-Mochi
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
1
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 09:19:00 -
[112] - Quote
Velicitia wrote:5 month old player and he's just learning now about the margin trading scam?
I will unabashedly say I was well over a year old when I first fell for it. Didn't lose ISK but did about 10 jumps in a DST for nothing as I had the capship component the scammer was asking for in storage. Was surprised when the order evaporated.
I now stock quantities of commonly scammed kit in the trade hubs I frequent to evaporate them orders when i see them.
There are so many things to learn in this game. Don't hold it against the fellow for if he survives this encounter, he'll know not to do it again. Best lessons are learnt in blood.
t¦ÉFíú |

Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
4498
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 09:27:00 -
[113] - Quote
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:Jullian Valdexron wrote:I think EVE should have a minimum age requirement of 14 to avoid stuff like this. good idea, as it would remove some 85% of forum posters. :) ]
fyp
Malcanis' Law: Any proposal justified on the basis that "it will benefit new players" is invariably to the greater advantage of older, richer players.
Things to do in EVE:-áhttp://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ |

Kiandoshia
Gnampf Inc.
630
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 09:30:00 -
[114] - Quote
Quote:1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
Lol. |

smokess
Selective Hearing Nearly Feared
27
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 09:32:00 -
[115] - Quote
5/10 troll because of number of responses |

Randomize All
State War Academy Caldari State
25
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:04:00 -
[116] - Quote
The existence of an Internal Affairs department is now the single longest running joke they have ever played on their customers.
Here is a list of all their achievements and actions in chronological order.
Thank you. |

Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
50
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:05:00 -
[117] - Quote
To the OP: Facebook stockmarket. The same happened IRL a thousand times over. It's legal dude, ESPECIALLY in the US.
Oh, and one more thing: http://www.kamranlips.nl/simpsons_nelson_haha2.jpg |

Skippermonkey
Tactical Knightmare
1300
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:20:00 -
[118] - Quote
anyone think of a decent reason to keep the margin trading skill? My homeboys tried to warn me But that butt you got makes me so horny |

anishamora
Atelierele Grivita
12
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:25:00 -
[119] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:bunch of random bullcrap
Who cares about some ISK when you got swag? 
|

Rodj Blake
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1082
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:30:00 -
[120] - Quote
Skippermonkey wrote:anyone think of a decent reason to keep the margin trading skill?
Cashflow. It's what keeps markets moving. Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |

Dalden V
Blue Lounge Industries Blue Dynamics
3
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:30:00 -
[121] - Quote
Skippermonkey wrote:anyone think of a decent reason to keep the margin trading skill?
It's a skill used by many traders as a way to make your ISK work harder because buy orders usually fill very slowly.
I don't think it's a broken skill, but maybe it should have some penalty attached if abused, like in real life trading. |

Rats
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
150
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 11:33:00 -
[122] - Quote
Implying Implications wrote:You are dumb as hell.
And your an fkin idiot...
Tal
-áI Fought the Law, and the Law Won... -áTalon Silverhawk-á |

Jonah Gravenstein
749
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 13:38:00 -
[123] - Quote
Yes it's a scam, no CCP aren't involved, think of it as an moderately priced lesson in the mechanics of an unregulated market and the depths of your own greed. You're only stupid if you fall for it more than once.
Margin trading is a useful skill if you're into trading, it allows traders to effectively use the contents of their wallet without having tons of dead isk lying around. War hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside. |

Sergeant Nuisance
Aliastra Gallente Federation
2
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 15:56:00 -
[124] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Generals4 wrote:You sir have fallen for the typical "Trade Margin" scam. And no CCP is not behind it.
CCP allows it because EVE is supposed to be a universe where pricks and a-holes feel at home.
If ccp really wanted to scam people they'd make isk disapear not allow people to rip each other off. If CCP is not behind this, explain how a buy order was cancel when player not online?
margin trading and greedy people is how you got scammed.
google eve online margin trading scams and you will get your answer. |

THE L0CK
Denying You Access
674
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 16:07:00 -
[125] - Quote
Rats wrote:Implying Implications wrote:You are dumb as hell. And your an fkin idiot... Tal
*you're Do you smell what the Lock's cooking? |

Ginger Barbarella
State War Academy Caldari State
78
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 16:09:00 -
[126] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote: To make that money, I had been playing 10 hrs a day for the last 3 weeks.
I see your FIRST problem here... |

Ginger Barbarella
State War Academy Caldari State
78
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 16:16:00 -
[127] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:You don't seems to understand I think. Yes I do know now that this is a Margin Scam, but the Margin scam uses the help of the Margin Skill to perform such scam. However, no true buyer would bother training that skill unless they want to false a buy order. Thus the Margin Skills should be know as Scam Skill instead. My point is that when CCP introduce this skill, they promote or assist scammer a new line of scamming. So they are responsible just like how I explain the robber and the police story, unless you didn't care to read it and just busy posting your insults.
And Ford Motor Company is responsible for a drunk getting behind the wheel of a Ford vehicle and killing someone else in an accident???
Your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top, does it? |

Rats
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
151
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 16:22:00 -
[128] - Quote
THE L0CK wrote:Rats wrote:Implying Implications wrote:You are dumb as hell. And your an fkin idiot... Tal *you're
Thanks lol that's always getting me you sure you're not my boss in disguise ? -áI Fought the Law, and the Law Won... -áTalon Silverhawk-á |

Lysanne Reqetta
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
43
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 16:27:00 -
[129] - Quote
I'd ask for your stuff but apparently you've already lost it. Oops. The bep train's a'comin' for you boy! |

Doc Severide
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
142
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 17:20:00 -
[130] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Really dumb stuff. This is one of the funniest posts and dumbest people I think I've experienced since I started playing. I hope this guy never reproduces...
|

Luke Visteen
Apostasy Prime
14
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 17:24:00 -
[131] - Quote
OP sounds like a random poster from Blizzard forums. You can take away my pride, you can take away my dignity but DON"T TOUCH THE HAIR >.> |

Toroup
Prometheus Deep Core Mining and Salvage
29
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 19:12:00 -
[132] - Quote
Rats wrote:THE L0CK wrote:Rats wrote:Implying Implications wrote:You are dumb as hell. And your an fkin idiot... Tal *you're Thanks lol that's always getting me  you sure you're not my boss in disguise ?
No, I am. You're fired. |

Dalden V
Blue Lounge Industries Blue Dynamics
3
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 20:31:00 -
[133] - Quote
Toroup wrote: Also, an is used prior to a work beginning with a vowel, not a constantant. And you're still fired.
Do you perhaps mean 'word' and 'consonant' ? |

Anubis Star
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
6
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 20:36:00 -
[134] - Quote
lol, a nub |

drunk asfck
Republic University Minmatar Republic
4
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 21:22:00 -
[135] - Quote
Welcome to eve
good to see the fck wit filter still works lol |

Tech3ZH
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
22
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 21:38:00 -
[136] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:.Not even in real life such system exist.
I'll have to disagree with you there - EVE is wonderfully complex, but real-life financial scams are so much more complex they are far beyond anything anyone could do in EVE.
Sorry you got scammed, but CCP didn't do that.
|

Tech3ZH
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
22
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 22:02:00 -
[137] - Quote
Gogela wrote:Alfred Lim wrote:As I have stated, unless someone can explain to me how the order was cancel when the player is not online, then I would believe that CCP is not involve. And if it is due to margin, then again, the mechanics was was the sole purpose of scamming. How then CCP is not involve cos they create the mechanic in the 1st place. ...EVERY single person commenting here knows exactly what happened here, except you. I suspect the reason nobody has explained it to you is because there's a thread like this every other week and they are tired of ctrl+c ctrl+v the answer for the zillionth time. Actually... maybe it's my turn. There is a skill called "Margin Trading" that allows you to put up buy orders in excess of what you actually have in your wallet. For people who have Tycoon 5 this is useful, because it can take months for an order to fill, and in the meantime you have all this isk doing nothing tied up in your orders. So if I have 305 orders out on one account and I'm buying large volumes of some material on the market in a dozen regions, I may only want 1/4 of what I have orders for, but I get a better price by pushing out the orders to more places, which allows me to get the volume I need faster. I am actually using the margin skill to buy stuff right now, because the volume is low all over new eden but I need a lot... so I can put large orders in on different regional markets to try and 1) get a better price and 2) fill the volume I require more quickly. I'm using it as it was intended to be used, and it's allowed me to move like a big trader despite the fact that I'm a little trader. Some people use the Margin Skill in another way. They put in a minimum buy order of lets say 200,000 of something for 10x it's value on one character, and empty their wallet into another account. They use the other account to sell 200,000 of that same item for 5x its usual price. Then a chump comes along (in this case, you) and sees the disparity on the market. Thinking they will double their money in a minute, they buy the 200,000 units of that item and ignore the warning that it's 5x the going rate for that item, thinking they will just flip it. However, when they go to sell it the buy order disappears, because the account that put in that buy order doesn't have the ISK to pay you, so the order disappears and you just gave the scammer 4x his initial investment. tl;dr; google harder. This scam happens every day.
OP - this is a concise and simple explanation of how the margin trading has a proper use in EVE and how scamming with it is possible. I hope you can see what happened and how CCP are not to blame.
|

Lady Ayeipsia
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
326
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:35:00 -
[138] - Quote
Toroup wrote:Rats wrote:THE L0CK wrote:Rats wrote:Implying Implications wrote:You are dumb as hell. And your an fkin idiot... Tal *you're Thanks lol that's always getting me  you sure you're not my boss in disguise ? No, I am. You're fired. Also, an is used prior to a work beginning with a vowel, not a constantant. For example, it's "you're fired because you're a fking idiot" not "you're fired because you're an fking idiot". And you're still fired.
Actually, it would depend on the pronunciation of "fking". If as "efking" or "effing" than "an" is acceptable. Just like you would say "an RPG" or "is there an 'r' in the word?" |

THE L0CK
Denying You Access
679
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:38:00 -
[139] - Quote
Now this thread is going somewhere. Who wants to do the advanced level and take a stab at the OP's grammar? Do you smell what the Lock's cooking? |

Jim Era
Genco Fatal Ascension
1239
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:41:00 -
[140] - Quote
this thread is lulz |

Smohq Anmirorz
State War Academy Caldari State
41
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:44:00 -
[141] - Quote
I have been scammed! I saw the OP's title and thought maybe SCAM was a secret spy agency or something. So disappointed.  |

Jim Era
Genco Fatal Ascension
1239
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:46:00 -
[142] - Quote
scammed by the op's reasoning skills. |

The BAD Caretaker
Blood and Decay
0
|
Posted - 2012.08.23 23:48:00 -
[143] - Quote
This thread was answered on page 1, surprised it's still going. Must be slow on the forums at the moment. |

Pasta OfDoom
SrsBsnsIndeed
11
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 03:38:00 -
[144] - Quote
Dear god just let this thread die.
*Stealth keep the thread alive post* |

Greenmachine Sale
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
0
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 03:40:00 -
[145] - Quote
I forgot to read your post or any of the replies but the correct way to write you title would be "I have been SCAMMED AND IM ********"  |

Webvan
State War Academy Caldari State
22
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 04:34:00 -
[146] - Quote
The BAD Caretaker wrote:This thread was answered on page 1, surprised it's still going. Must be slow on the forums at the moment. Quite honestly, need a higher caliber of trolling threads, this is disappointing, below the standard. 
|

J'Poll
Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Ethereal Dawn
377
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 05:18:00 -
[147] - Quote
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just shows that some people shouldn't be playing EVE.
They lack the brain cells to understand stuff. And when they make a mistake (hint: what ever happens, it's ALWAYS your OWN fault) they run to the forum crying like an emo raging teen.
Guess what, scamming is allowed in EVE. Live with it or better unsub and go play one of the other rollercoaster MMO's. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction |

WonkySplitDemon
The Forsworn Protectorate
6
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 07:58:00 -
[148] - Quote
It always amazes me when people whine about being scammed, there is only one conclusion to draw and that is these people are stupid. I have been playing EvE since 2005 and I have Never, not once, fallen for a single scam.
Maybe CCP should make new players take an IQ test before signing up. |

Jonah Gravenstein
750
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 09:32:00 -
[149] - Quote
WonkySplitDemon wrote:It always amazes me when people whine about being scammed, there is only one conclusion to draw and that is these people are stupid. I have been playing EvE since 2005 and I have Never, not once, fallen for a single scam.
Maybe CCP should make new players take an IQ test before signing up.
The scam is the IQ test
War hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside. |

WonkySplitDemon
The Forsworn Protectorate
6
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 09:59:00 -
[150] - Quote
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:WonkySplitDemon wrote:It always amazes me when people whine about being scammed, there is only one conclusion to draw and that is these people are stupid. I have been playing EvE since 2005 and I have Never, not once, fallen for a single scam.
Maybe CCP should make new players take an IQ test before signing up. The scam is the IQ test
True dat
|

Cpt Branko
Zawa's Fan Club
59
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 11:01:00 -
[151] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:Jim Era wrote:lol, new players trying to market PvP learn to play before you make these ridiculous accusations. So you expect everyone to read every single post in to the forum before you actually play the game? You dumb enough to shove this off
It's common sense, in life and in game, that anything which sounds too good to be true is probably not true. People failing to behave by that maxim are the target of scammers, both in life and in games like EVE.
Before you say it, "the law", think again. Many activities where you sell someone tha idea of making lots of money with little effort only if you invest in X are, well, not criminal.
|

Tivookz
Black Flag Operations The Kadeshi
30
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 11:13:00 -
[152] - Quote
Honestly.. I think they should remove the margin trading skill.
Not because of this guy but because I'm sure that he's not the first nor the last person to get scammed by it.
I bet the skill is mostly used by scammers, real traders don't need the benefits that skill provides. |

BearJews
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
52
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 13:39:00 -
[153] - Quote
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:WonkySplitDemon wrote:It always amazes me when people whine about being scammed, there is only one conclusion to draw and that is these people are stupid. I have been playing EvE since 2005 and I have Never, not once, fallen for a single scam.
Maybe CCP should make new players take an IQ test before signing up. The scam is the IQ test Not particularly, i'm sure if you guys really got into trading when you first started you'd get scammed as well. But hey, my ***** is bigger than yours so there!!! |

alittlebirdy
All Hail The Liopleurodon
58
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 13:43:00 -
[154] - Quote
First I like how the ISD changes the TOPIC TITLE lol... what power do these idiots not have?
Next, the whole margin **** is stupid.
OP learn to eve...
Cause I mean... you don't have a graph right showing the iteam for the past year was going for 50000% less than the buy order right? lol |

Elvis Fett
Autocannons Anonymous Late Night Alliance
32
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 19:37:00 -
[155] - Quote
OP I am sorry to hear you have been scammed, that's a bummer. But don't worry I want to help you recover your losses. I would be willing to sell you 2,500 units of Caldari Navy Nanite Repair Paste at half price for only 200,000 isk p/u. |

Jonah Gravenstein
752
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 20:08:00 -
[156] - Quote
BearJews wrote:Jonah Gravenstein wrote:WonkySplitDemon wrote:It always amazes me when people whine about being scammed, there is only one conclusion to draw and that is these people are stupid. I have been playing EvE since 2005 and I have Never, not once, fallen for a single scam.
Maybe CCP should make new players take an IQ test before signing up. The scam is the IQ test Not particularly, i'm sure if you guys really got into trading when you first started you'd get scammed as well. But hey, my ***** is bigger than yours so there!!!
When I first started trading I failed the IQ test, only the once though. I still own a badger, "FOOLS GOLD", with a very expensive, very useless thing in it that nobody wants to buy. War hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside. |

Nebula Atlantis
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
0
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 21:25:00 -
[157] - Quote
ROR... Raff out Roud |

Veritas Luxmea
Cosmo Paladins Tribal Band
0
|
Posted - 2012.08.24 22:36:00 -
[158] - Quote
you'll be fine |

Celeste Lovette
The Scope
1001
|
Posted - 2012.08.26 08:57:00 -
[159] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:
if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
USA ? You mean the country where started the financial crisis? Just lol 
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." |

Akama Lowe
Wrecking Shots Black Legion.
0
|
Posted - 2012.08.26 10:26:00 -
[160] - Quote
Pretty sure Test is responsible for 95% of scams |

Radius Prime
Aliastra Gallente Federation
21
|
Posted - 2012.08.26 11:32:00 -
[161] - Quote
Alfred Lim wrote:
1 thing thou, if Eve would be a US company, this will not just end here in the forum. Lucky them hey :)
You are from the US?!? My god, schools there must have gotten even worse.
And btw, in the US and most western economies CCP would be allowed to govern their intellectual property as they choose. Iceland is no different. Reopen the EVE gate so we can invade Serenity. Goons can go first. |

Cede Forster
31
|
Posted - 2012.08.26 15:07:00 -
[162] - Quote
Akama Lowe wrote:Pretty sure Test is responsible for 95% of scams
if they indeed would get the income of 95 % of all scams, they be the richest alliance around  |

Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
904
|
Posted - 2012.08.26 16:57:00 -
[163] - Quote
Tivookz wrote:Honestly.. I think they should remove the margin trading skill.
Not because of this guy but because I'm sure that he's not the first nor the last person to get scammed by it.
I bet the skill is mostly used by scammers, real traders don't need the benefits that skill provides. I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about. Nyan |

DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
285
|
Posted - 2012.08.27 05:57:00 -
[164] - Quote
alittlebirdy wrote:First I like how the ISD changes the TOPIC TITLE lol... what power do these idiots not have?
I agree the ISD's editing of the thread is a joke. "I have been SCAM" ?!?!?!?!
"EDIT: Changed your thread title since it has been explained to you that CCP has not scammed you at all - ISD Type40."
I would still put forth the original title is correct because the Margin Trading Scam err Skill is a broken game mechanic & CCP is aware of it & lets it continue. SEC would have shut down Eve's market years ago if they got the number of complaints GM's do about escow fraud. =========================================================
EVE residents: 5% Wormholes; 8% Lowsec; 20% Nullsec; 67% Highsec. CSM 6: 100% Nullsec residents. EVE demographics vs CSM demographics, nothing to worry about... |

Sitreba Oonchevkii
CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
12
|
Posted - 2012.08.27 10:39:00 -
[165] - Quote
well that sucks, but... 10 HOURS A DAY!? You must be doing something wrong because i can make 300 mil in a matter of a few hours Blod-red skies, strange beings, and the number 514, often written in blood. |

Alayna Le'line
17
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Posted - 2012.08.27 11:53:00 -
[166] - Quote
Jax Bederen wrote:Ok so now were getting the intellectually superior in their own minds types posting. The guy is new, he looks at the market as buy low sell high, problem is as for anyone new, he doesn't know all the skills, this is not a matter of intelligence but knowing some pretty obscure rules, so settle down geniuses.
Having said that, OP you are getting a bit paranoid there, claiming some of these "geniuses" are CCP, they are just trying to feel better about themselves based on you being new and Fing up. Also you are better off just taking your loss and not bitching about this. Take it as a lesson learned, most here have had at least one.
If more newbies wouldn't assume they know everything after their 30days in Rookie help and would bother to join the Help channel when they "graduate" from Rookie help and read the stuff that passes by a lot of these things could be avoided.
Some newbie corps have more people online at a time than there are in the Help channel. But I'm sure all those already know all there is to know and could learn nothing anymore from lurking in Help... (in case your sarcasmometer doesn't beep here, it's broken, get a new one)
Seriously, I've lurked in Help for months and read the (admittedly, often low quality) stuff that passes through when missioning or mining, hopping systems or just chilling with a scotch while docked and I"ve picked up a ton of stuff, a lot of which I might never need, but it's good to be aware that it exists anyway.
The other obvious (and likely: better) choice is to join a real corporation and learn the ropes there from the other members.
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Echo Belly
Hot Girls and Warm Guns
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Posted - 2012.08.29 07:42:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:I am a 5 months old player and (...)
Hello Alfred,
I'm a space lawyer and i will help you recover your money tenfold.
First I need you to mail me all what's left of your money so i can start the lawsuit. Then I'll take care of everything, you can trust me :)
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Jace Errata
Lawlz Brawlz
262
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Posted - 2012.08.29 11:22:00 -
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Radius Prime wrote:Iceland is no different. Mostly because it is a western economy.
OP, scamming happens every day. It's part of EVE. If you want to try to stop it, hunt down the scammers and shoot them. Otherwise get over it and scam someone back. Stealth OST puns and blatant lies since 2009 Jace Errata on Twitter
One day they woke me up so I could live forever It's such a shame the same will never happen to you |

Jonah Gravenstein
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DarthNefarius wrote:alittlebirdy wrote:First I like how the ISD changes the TOPIC TITLE lol... what power do these idiots not have?
I agree the ISD's editing of the thread is a joke. "I have been SCAM" ?!?!?!?! "EDIT: Changed your thread title since it has been explained to you that CCP has not scammed you at all - ISD Type40." I would still put forth the original title is correct because the Margin Trading Scam err Skill is a broken game mechanic & CCP is aware of it & lets it continue. SEC would have shut down Eve's market years ago if they got the number of complaints GM's do about escow fraud.
The Eve market is no different from real world markets, governments, banks and investment companies perform all sorts of underhanded stuff to get ahead, price fixing, price gouging, legalised extortion, ponzi schemes, anything goes in the pursuit of money, entities like the SEC and the FSA are there to give an air of regulation to a cesspit of dishonesty.
Margin trading is not broken, I'm sure 95% of the people with it trained use it in the manner that it was designed for, the other 5% use it to fleece greedy and or stupid people.
War hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside. |

Doddy
Excidium. Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2012.08.29 15:22:00 -
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Alfred Lim wrote:You don't seems to understand I think. Yes I do know now that this is a Margin Scam, but the Margin scam uses the help of the Margin Skill to perform such scam. However, no true buyer would bother training that skill unless they want to false a buy order. Thus the Margin Skills should be know as Scam Skill instead. My point is that when CCP introduce this skill, they promote or assist scammer a new line of scamming. So they are responsible just like how I explain the robber and the police story, unless you didn't care to read it and just busy posting your insults.
Margin trading allows you to maintain buy orders while having liquid cash. Its great for traders, especially new ones who might not have the huge cash reserves long term traders buidl up. Without it you would need to constantly put up new orders as cash came in. Most businesses do the equivelent at some point. It is a perfectly legitimate trading skill and most stuff you sell is probably going to someone using it. As ever in eve the problem comes with policing its misuse. As far as i remember such orders were once filled and wallets went negative, but that was far to easily abused through alts so the orders automatically cancel. This leaves a scam possible but its an easy one to spot.
As everyone has pointed out you were scammed by buying something for much more than its worth, don't do that and you won't get scammed.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1038
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Posted - 2012.08.29 16:09:00 -
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If there was one thread... of any thread... I could lock right now it would be this. 
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Dog Biscuit
Chitlins
13
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Posted - 2012.08.29 17:42:00 -
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By the ISD? |
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