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i like when people are wrong, everyone knows they are wrong, all the facts say they are wrong, official statements by company representatives say they are wrong, yet they still think they are right.

Those people make me smile. Ergo, syriul makes me smile.

Thank you syriul.

1.35, making quite the name for yourself.

Because clearly, recieving a COD package in WoW and recieving one in real life are the same thing...

I have no sympathy for impulsive clickers that just clickity click click click and then even click confirm boxes that ask them if they are SURE they wanna do this. People should know better than to trust someone they do no know at all, and if they do trust everyone.. well they'll learn a fairly important life lesson. What more is there to do? Add an additional dialog box asking you to actually type the word 'yes' into it before it completes the transaction? I think Blizzard should just LOL at these people and tell them to suck it up.

I reported my RL scam (technically it's called slamming when a telcom does it) to the FCC. There are government agencies that have divisions that do pretty much nothing but regulating industries to make sure they are selling what they say they are selling. My mom works for a court reporting firm and their biggest clients are utility and phone companies because they're always in hearings with lawmakers trying to get regulations lifted and litigation because someone pushed the regulations too far.

I'm glad you at least see it as immoral to try to trick someone like that but even if the person is stupid (<--- I agree that this is almost always the case, even with me and my first-apartment-telephone-adventure) and even if they deserve it, that doesn't mean it should be "legal" (in the real world or in game TOU) to trick them out of money or items, even if you don't lie outright. From my understanding though, there is a lot of outright lying in these cases. The letter says "Please accept this gift of 50G and a potion" when it's a potion for 50G COD, or like in another thread here, someone sells an epic item for a lot of money and sends it wrapped, but the buyer finds out it's not the item they asked to buy.

I think they should just make it so that you can't COD gift-wrapped packages, or clicking to accept the COD shows you what's inside. They have this problem every year at Christmas. :\

Im sorry but how can anyone claim that something like that in real life is not a scam and would have no punishment. Dude if you live in the USA you can be sued for anything.

And besides as a business owner you can be sued and criminally found guilty for this kind of misleading business practice. You might get away with it for a while, you may even avoid the criminal side of if, but I doubt a civil court will let you walk out of something like this unscathed.

AAAGH!

*keels over and dies of a pun overdose*

That was horrible... and yet excellent! :)

http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=21;mid=1166365149109436916;num=25;page=1



check out my post on a scam... and all i did... cant believe that there are people who believe blizz does anything about it... as clearly stated in the agreement we all clicked on, dont get involved with scams, and no, we will not give you your money back (-;

Damn these games need to have display a warning reminding you to turn your brain on before playing. Theys some doobeus stoof goen on der.

We have such incidents on my server as well as those so called enchanters who steal the enchanting mats and/or the money and logs off right away. We had a discussion about this on realm forums started by a Hordie who had gotten scammed somehow that I can't remember at the moment. His solution was simple:

Right after he understood that he scammed he bought tons of blacksmithing hammers (which costs some odd coppers) and sent them to the scammer with the same note attached to all of them. "Give my money back" I think he did send like a thousand hammers or more. And he did get his money back at the end.

With the average person I run across in PUGs.... They probably make a lot of money with this scam.

Alot of people smile from happiness others because they are ignorant. It seem you are a victim of ignorance. I'm willing to bet that the name I make for myself are from those that smile alot like you do. Read the posts before judgment. And before putting someone in their place put yourself in their place.

Read em. You're acting like a fool.




Apparently Blizzard feels differently than you do. And they can ban your account for no reason at all if they feel like it, even if it somehow doesn't fall under those rules.



Ah ha, wrong again. Blizz keeps records of all mail transactions. They use them to investigate all manner of incidents, such as suspected goldbuyers or hacked accounts.



Lemme guess, you work for a gold farming firm? But seriously, this one time I called Blizzard to tell them it was ******** that I had to pay 720g for an epic mount so they mailed me one.

True story.



Anyone else notice a massive influx of trolls lately? School can't go back in session soon enough for me.

Edited, Dec 21st 2006 6:41am by Poldaran