Don't use the trade window. Use contracts. General rule of thumb: if it involves the trade window, it is a scam. Also, if it is that easy to make isk from, it is a scam.

Now, I know you are going to say "no, you dolt, that is not the issue here. The issue is that the trade window UI is poorly designed grrrrrrr." You are exactly right. So do yourself a favor and never use it again unless you are trading stuff between your own characters. Even then, use extreme caution. Scamming is part of the game. Lesson learned. And no, CCP will probably do nothing to change it.

I agree with you, but you underestimate how sadistic CCP is. Also, I think it's fairly obvious how easy it is to abuse the trade window. This is the wrong place to post this kind of thing. The locals in here will flame you incessantly.

If you seriously want to complain to CCP about this and start a grassroots movement, post something in the "Features & Ideas Discussion" area. C&P is where villains are praised and victims are laughed at.

So never use the market either?

i fail to see what you're getting at, perhaps you can explain what is obviously a clever jab

In the first place- this was bad UI design and programming. I belive that in begining CCP did not have time and resources to fix all such things, even if they wanted to.

But with time, all similar scams became important part of EVE iniverse, and overall gaming experince, and it is highly unlikely CCP will ever change it.

There are always people that will enjoy ripping off noobs in such manner, and there will always be noobs who will fall for it at least once.

If you are evil enough, you will try to do it yourself to some poor rookie.

Working as intended. The ships don't even have the same skins. You are the problem... Next time right click show info. Welcome to Eve.

Protip>Don't read Jita local until you been playing 4 years

While sitting in station tonight i recieved an eve mail from some one named Tyrone Bigams regarding him wanting to sell a few shiny ships at significantly reduced cost. right from the start it was obvious something was up, but i decided to see what he was trying to pull and contacted him saying i'd buy a couple of his ships for resale purposes. he opens up trade menu and to my surprise it seamed nothing was wrong, two vexor navy issues and a dominix navy issue were put into the trade menu like he said. so i traded him the isk and hit accept. after the trade is completed i try to put them into the market and resell them only to find that the ships were simply named after their shiny counterparts and that i'd lost a sizable amount of money due to a pathetically programmed trade window. i'm wondering if this system was intentionally designed to be taken advantage of by scamming garbage or if it was just a happy accident. a trade system that allows players to rename the items whatever they like and have it be displayed that way in the trade menu is absolutely ridiculous. if an item is going to be traded it needs to display the actual name of the item in the trade menu, otherwise every single new player is going to fall for this at least once unless they're lucky enough to be warned about the trade systems inadequacies ahead of time. so, eve eve community, i ask you this: how do you feel with such a poorly designed trade system? are you happy with it?

i understood this but was really having trouble finding a place to post this, and the "inform people of the latest scam" description seemed to fit this issue the best. even their forums are poorly done it seems.

a trade window not properly displaying the names of the items is the problem, not the person using it. i shouldn't have to carefully scrutinize everything put into the window and STILL be paranoid about using it. i am not the problem, the overly exploited trade window is. as for the skins comment i suppose that would be something a more experienced player would catch, but as i said this more refers to newer players like myself who don't even fly shinies.

There is a real life modification that allows a Toyota mr2 to look like q defeating (testarossa?), the owner can the chose to sell it as such, you are the moronic customer that chose not to research into your product because you thought you were getting an exceptional deal. Right click, show info for a reason

In real life, there are consequences for misrepresenting a product. If you list it as something it isn't you've committed fraud and can be in serious trouble.

Eve isn't real life, and we shouldn't be trying to emulate this boring world.

In real life, there are consequences for misrepresenting a product. If you list it as something it isn't you've committed fraud and can be in serious trouble.

Eve isn't real life, and we shouldn't be trying to emulate this boring world.

While sitting in station tonight i recieved an eve mail from some one named Tyrone Bigams

right from the start it was obvious something was up,

i'd buy a couple of his ships for resale purposes.

As is murder on the epic scale that is PVP in eve, going to lock them all up for life too?

If there were consequences IRL for misrepresentation then every politician in every country in the world would be in big trouble.

I think you completely misunderstood my point.

IN REAL LIFE, there are consequences...EVE ISN'T REAL LIFE...

See it now?

a trade window not properly displaying the names of the items is the problem, not the person using it. i shouldn't have to carefully scrutinize everything put into the window and STILL be paranoid about using it. i am not the problem, the overly exploited trade window is. as for the skins comment i suppose that would be something a more experienced player would catch, but as i said this more refers to newer players like myself who don't even fly shinies.