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Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.21 20:23:00 -
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So yesterday I made a blog so that I could post a very long "tear" chat log.
Then I started getting into it and posted up some content, including a guide to basic local scams I was paid to write a while ago and another funny log.
Bottom line is, I've started a blog on local scamming in Eve. Maybe someone will find it useful or funny. So here it is...
Princess Bride's Eve Scam Blog
If you are interested in running scams in local, or enjoy tears, you should find some value here. If it receives a positive (or even a severely negative) reaction, I will continue to add content as it becomes available. |
Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.21 20:28:00 -
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Akrasjel Lanate wrote:Hahaha...
Thanks for the thumbs up. :) Reciprocated. |
Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.21 21:04:00 -
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Captain Nathaniel Butler wrote:Princess Bride wrote:So yesterday I made a blog so that I could post a very long "tear" chat log. Then I started getting into it and posted up some content, including a guide to basic local scams I was paid to write a while ago and another funny log. Bottom line is, I've started a blog on local scamming in Eve. Maybe someone will find it useful or funny. So here it is... Princess Bride's Eve Scam BlogIf you are interested in running scams in local, or enjoy tears, you should find some value here. If it receives a positive (or even a severely negative) reaction, I will continue to add content as it becomes available. Not sure if I've been scammed , but the link goes no-where 
Sorry about that. Link fixed. There was a space after the // for some reason. 
Fixed. Princess Bride's Eve Scam Blog |
Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.21 21:23:00 -
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Griznatch wrote:From the blog:
" For example, if you are thinking about selling a Republic Fleet Firetail as a regular Firetail, be sure that the market volume is high on regular Firetails and that there are plenty of buy/sell contracts for Republic Fleet Firetails. High market volume means lots of eyes on your scam. The players most interested in Republic Fleet Firetails are going to be players flying regular ones."
Lolwut
I could have been more clear there. Have you ever seen a contract for a Republic Fleet Velator? Many "Republic Fleet" Velators (normal Velators sold as such) are sold via contract in Jita local. Of course there is no such thing, but scam contracts for them sell well. The reason these sell is because often times newer players believe that they are getting what must be an improved version of something they know they can fly.
Of course, there is no "regular" Firetail, which does make my example lol-tastic. But you get my meaning.
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Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.21 21:48:00 -
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Griznatch wrote:
I know how the scam works, but when you mentioned selling a faction ship as a regular ship that doesnt exist my brains melted and ran out my nose :-p
To be honest, I churned some of the content out as a part of a semi-scam/semi-job for a Greek player hiring me to write a "scam guide" only months after I began playing the game. So there will be errors. I have corrected a few after scanning through it, and I'll correct the ones people take time to point out, but I'm not going to bother going through it all with a comb making sure it's perfect in every detail. I just don't care enough to do it. |
Princess Bride
Corripe Cervisiam Trade Consortium
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Posted - 2011.11.23 00:49:00 -
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<---- was paid 550 million ISK after playing Eve for only 2 weeks to write that as an "expert".
I was still so nub at the time that I thought there must be a non-faction version of any faction ship. That's the part that makes it all ... scammy.. and funny too. I was in the middle of figuring out Eve scamming on my own when *** **** messaged me while I was pretending to be an "expert" scammer (as part of a scam) and asked me to write a guide. "Money is no object" was his quote. I churned out what I'd managed to work out on my own, added some magic dust from google searches, and made the rest up hoping it would justify my next "advance" request of 100m or so to finish the next section.
The principles are fundamentally correct, at least what I scanned of it. But yeah, he finally stopped talking to me when we hit 550m and I needed another 250m to finish the "ninja salvage" guide... which I won't even post because it's complete crap. And that's what I love about Eve. Where else is someone like that going to drop from the sky on a 2-week old character and pay them to write a scam guide for 550m before they could even run L3 missions? He funded my first "PLEX x 2" scam, and away we go.
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