Sneaky Trade Scam Attempt

I know this isn't the biggest scam, but figured I'd let small time traders like myself know what happened. Someone messaged me offering to buy a jewel I had listed on poe.trade for 4 chaos. That seemed weird as I normally list things in odd numbers. I grab it from my stash, throw it in trade for his 4 chaos, and then decide to double check my thread; it's listed for 5 chaos. After I tell the guy that, he just says "for 4c plz" and would have taken it for 4 if I didn't notice.

Long story short : he changed the copy/past poe.trade message to slightly lower than posted price, hoping I would just read the message, assume it was what I had it listed for, and he would save/scam 1 chaos. Keep your eye open on actual posted price/what they send you, people that just want an honest deal tend to say "it's listed for x, how about y?" or something similar.

I counter-offered but he didn't go for it.

Yes this is very common.

This is one of the easiest ways to scam someone. Pretty common and also somewhat known in the community. It is always a good thing to remind everyone about things like this (especially for the new players).

I loled at " Price is 20 now" tho.

OP it's not a scam it's called a bargain everyone does that, if you feel offended it's your own problem

You used the bathroom? Disgusting. Sad really.

(If you don't understand the reference, don't hate me. If you do get the reference and think it's funny, you're welcome. If you get the reference and want to argue politics with me... not going to happen.)

I use tab wide buyouts so I can't find items when they try to trick me about the buyout set.

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mark1030 wrote:

I use tab wide buyouts so I can't find items when they try to trick me about the buyout set.

Me too Mark! very difficult for the players with little stash space though :(

Hopefully one day GGG will implement trading changes to fix all these kind of problems.

I just ignore people like that. I don´t care who they are or how nice they usually are if they act like this I just don´t care.

I suppose that he might have been trying to pull a fast one on you, but i think calling it a scam attempt might be a little bit over the top.

I often copy and paste the XYZ message and alter it if I am asking for a different price; The proper way to do it would be to delete the part that says "listed for [x] chaos" and change it so that it instead says: "Hi, I would like to buy your (Item Name) in Talisman for (insert offered price)"

The difference is that the buyer is no longer implying that the item was listed for the lower price.

That way the seller still gets a short, to the point message that lists the exact item name, the league, and the offered price.


But honestly, I think that people do get WAY to wrapped up about buy out prices. An item is only 'worth' what someone is willing to pay for it. I would say that unless you have listed the item less than 48 hours ago, you should be willing to haggle a bit on prices of anything over about 10 alts. I am not saying that you should sell your 6L, all white socket corrupted shavs for 2 ex just because when you listed it for 9 mirrors three days ago no one bought it, but giving someone grief over even a few chaos just makes the game harder for players.

To clarify: I do NOT think that the OP was doing this, he even told the guy that he probably would have done it had the guy asked. This was just a general rant about most traders.

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diablofdb wrote:

OP it's not a scam it's called a bargain everyone does that, if you feel offended it's your own problem

If you got arrested for giving 10$ for a 15$ item and running away with it before the cashier could notice, would you plead that you were just bargaining?