Is it really that bad to cancel a trade and accept a higher offer?

I try not to agree to anything until I'm sure, but sometimes you have to make that hard call...

What is more important to you, more "Currency" [in a game], or your honor...

As I said, it's a hard call...

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Gildar wrote:

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dornal wrote:

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Stewart_GGG wrote:

I guess that's the nature of trading. Just try to be friendly and fair.

Fair and friendly to yourself. By squeezing out as much as you can from the trade.

and this...this is why i choose to play self found/self crafting. i get enough mind fuck in real life. capitalism sucks and is destined to fail (except for the truly selfish and narcissistic). sure i wont be the best or most godly...but i will have fun... use whatever 'currency' you want, in the end its all the same...there simply is no 'etiquette' when it comes to capital gain...human social programing/engineering dictates that you always need more.

in other words...its a free for all. dog eat dog. its a high for some, not me.

Do what you want. Personally I never let people like you in for "free" on 74+ maps. So, if you want to burn bridges with people .... go ahead.

The problem here is that this is the Internet. If you take the altruistic route and trade to the original guy he honestly doesn't care how nice you are because just like everybody else he is in it to make a good deal and you will probably never see each other again. As long as you give the original bidder a chance to up his bid, go for it.

I feel like this thread was created for self justification of poor trading practices. OP just keeps saying that he or she did not profit any more than if he or she would have gone through with the deal that was already accepted by OP and agreeing with the people that justify his or her practices.

Whether there was further profit or not has nothing to do with the principle of the matter. OP ignores the fact that he or she had entered an agreement with another player and didn't live up to his or her end of the agreement.

Really, there is nothing further to discuss, aside from that I would also like to point out that the OP is contradicting him or herself. The title refers to an event where an agreement was terminated because of a higher offer and now says that there was no higher offer, but the same value in a different currency.

take the internet out of it for a minute. Imagine you offer something to someone you know in real life, they agree, then they give it to someone else who offered a little bit more. I guarantee most people would be totally pissed. It's common decency to keep your word. If you don't, your word means nothing. Everyone here now knows if you promise something, there is absolutely no guarantee that you'll keep your word. Karma I guess, but if you don't care, you don't care. I know I'll never trade anything with you ^^

So, you posted you item in trade chat. Then you got a buyer. Made a group, got in instance and recevied better offer. Then you canceled trade, explained why you done such thing and, like a polite man, even sayed "sorry"... And, ofc (people these days -_-) you get endless rage in the form of PM's? WITHOUT receiving different deal or even some questions?

If is this is, then i dont see a problem - although i, persanally, will go with deal to the end.

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Zealflare wrote:

@OP

If you are fine with it then there is really nothing else we can say about this beyond opinions and integrity.

Its the same as real life. You can be an asshole to everyone around you, and if you are fine with being treated the same way as well, as long as it is not illegal, why care?

Of course I'm fine with it! But... I'm also not fine with the fact that people consider one to be of low integrity if they agree to a deal and then back out. I did it not to profit, I did it for a different reason.

People (mostly) dislike being dicked with. What you did was considered by some people as a dick move. It doesn't matter if you don't like it - that is, once again, how the world/people work.

Accept it and move on or conform to the behavior that is more normally acceptable. If you were hoping to change people's opinions on this, sorry, it will never happen.

It is morally wrong, corporate scum!

If you both agree to an offer and then you back out after you've given your word, that means you are not a man of honor. The other person can freely PK you as revenge, or worse, put a bounty on your head. (In a perfect PoE)