PSA Scammer Warning

They don't need a "caution" mark on players. They have a "caution" requirement on all trades. People ignore it, and get scammed. People would ignore the warning, even if it came in other forms.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

here's another scenario... you and this guy get together and plan the whole thing. That lets you come here to the forum and play the victim, with "evidence". Others will read this an maybe pony up some coins for you.

A second order scam!

You can see why they don't allow stuff like this. Even if you're in the right. Even if you're impeccably honest. Allowing you to do it would also allow people to run the scam I described.

It comes down to this: They don't allow it.

Although let's be real here. I dont fully get how video evidence of what actually happened is biased. Talk about having your own set of facts...

I mean if Mathil gets scammed or attempted to be scammed live on stream, are his clips and playback of the stream defamatory because we dont have suspected backround information of private chats Mathil might have had to conspire against a community member?

This is some illuminati shit.

Personally I think video is fair game. I'm not expecting GGG to change policy, but seriously wtf are we saying when video evidence isnt really evidence? Nah we didnt really see anything. Fml the world is so fucked up.

I think Shagsbeard made a reasonable point. If GGG allowed those kind of discussions on the forum you could even have one fellow creating a "bad guy" account, that he created to brag about ripping off his other good guy account. An evil villian could really make people feel sorry for the poor victim.

A really smart person could easily play both roles.

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Wissle wrote:

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Exile009 wrote:

So is this your bad guy? - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2928397

Cos if so, he claims to be trying to mend his ways. You may be able to get your money back from him.

I genuinely don't know if I am allowed to comment on your question.

If I answer your question now and either confirm or deny it, is that calling out someone and against the rules?
I honestly don't know...

I'll say read the OP in THIS thread and in THEIR thread and draw your own conclusions.

You don't have to answer me. Just treat the question as rhetorical. If it is the same guy, you need only contact him yourself to try to get your money back.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They don't need a "caution" mark on players. They have a "caution" requirement on all trades. People ignore it, and get scammed. People would ignore the warning, even if it came in other forms.

I was scammed, I picked the lowest priced item listed, it was 10c less than the next nearest item (on a 9ex item), because the item I was buying had very similar mods and was visually identical to the item I actually got I made a mistake. I don't blame anyone for this mistake but myself (1st time it had happened and I've been playing since 2.3 (with breaks)). If the item I was buying had had a different item texture or some form of overlay indicating that it was the fated version of what I ended up receiving I'd have been much more able to see that the item wasn't what I was looking for, scammer placed item in trade added another item (Awakened Chaos) and clicked accept. This while I was trying to work out if the Unique was what I wanted, should have cancelled but clicked accept feeling pressured. Totally my fault.

Same seller was still selling same item at the same price three weeks later, don't know if he'd managed to scam any more idiots but he was still hoping to.

There are several easy changes that GGG could make to the client that would make it much harder to scam but they haven't (yet) TBH I don't expect them to.