I dislike the "blame the victim" mentality here

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

I've never been scammed in PoE, and don't think I ever will be. Why? Because I'm far too wise to juvenile scamming attempts, and don't trust anyone unless they've proven to be trustworthy. I believe most players would scam another if given the opportunity. And I'd definitely scam a random player if I had the chance to.

My biggest scam in PoE to date was trading a Bright Beak Warhammer for an Eternal Orb, lol!! One of my proudest accomplishments. And I'd do it all day, every day to everyone if I could get away with it.

that's the "50% trolling" part, right?

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

My biggest scam in PoE to date was trading a Bright Beak Warhammer for an Eternal Orb, lol!! One of my proudest accomplishments. And I'd do it all day, every day to everyone if I could get away with it.

That's a pretty big scam, but i know someone who has pulled off a bigger scam.
I believe that person profited over 20ex from it.

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MrSmiley21 wrote:

I've never been scammed in PoE, and don't think I ever will be. Why? Because I'm far too wise to juvenile scamming attempts, and don't trust anyone unless they've proven to be trustworthy. I believe most players would scam another if given the opportunity. And I'd definitely scam a random player if I had the chance to.

My biggest scam in PoE to date was trading a Bright Beak Warhammer for an Eternal Orb, lol!! One of my proudest accomplishments. And I'd do it all day, every day to everyone if I could get away with it.

Having honor is privilege. Only few can say they do have one, and actualy have one.

To be pathetic liar, pursuing only benefit is way, WAY easier.

How is it a scam to sell an item for too much? If the buyer agrees to play the price, then its a valid trade.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

We've all been scammed before, whether it was on Diablo 2, Runescape, or whatever. It's happened. When it did happen, it sucked, and if we look back, we know we should've been smarter. We bring that mentality with us, and when we see others get scammed, it looks so obvious. Hindsight is 20/20, they should've seen it coming.

Telling people to stop scamming isn't going to help anyone, we just expect people to be smarter about their stuff. The only reason scammers exist is because people keep falling for them.

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bhavv wrote:

How is it a scam to sell an item for too much? If the buyer agrees to play the price, then its a valid trade.

Pretty much this. People just have to learn the ins and outs of trading.

I've never fallen for any scam, I'm too careful for that.

My mentality over internet games are, everyone's a scammer, watch your back.

EDIT: I just realised this is a massive lie, i was scammed once when i was younger playing vanilla wow and from that moment on ive learn to never trust anyone in online games anymore.

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Aulmeyda wrote:

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

We've all been scammed before, whether it was on Diablo 2, Runescape, or whatever. It's happened. When it did happen, it sucked, and if we look back, we know we should've been smarter. We bring that mentality with us, and when we see others get scammed, it looks so obvious. Hindsight is 20/20, they should've seen it coming.

Telling people to stop scamming isn't going to help anyone, we just expect people to be smarter about their stuff. The only reason scammers exist is because people keep falling for them.

The wisdoms! Oh, the wisdoms!

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maffa50 wrote:

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Aulmeyda wrote:

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

We've all been scammed before, whether it was on Diablo 2, Runescape, or whatever. It's happened. When it did happen, it sucked, and if we look back, we know we should've been smarter. We bring that mentality with us, and when we see others get scammed, it looks so obvious. Hindsight is 20/20, they should've seen it coming.

Telling people to stop scamming isn't going to help anyone, we just expect people to be smarter about their stuff. The only reason scammers exist is because people keep falling for them.

The wisdoms! Oh, the wisdoms!

Here's more wisdom. Don't interact with anyone in a video game, unless you know them personally.

If GGG or any other company for that matter had the possibility to actually catch the scammers AND prove that they did it, they would. It is also often hard to make out if the alleged victim is the scammer or not.

Not to mention, who would do this policing? It would eat up a lot of working hours- who is going to pay for this? Would you not rather GGG spend money on improving the game than helping people who can fend for themselves and learn from their mistakes?

Yes, there are assholes out there. And yes, it sucks that people fall for their shit, but seriously, what do you think that someone can do about it? Give us a thorough, fool-proof, cheap and effective strategy of combating the scammers and we can start discussing.