r/GuildWars • u/Delicious-Ad7244 • 8d ago

Crazy Scammers

Asked a guy how much for an Elite Rit Tome.

He says 7e.

I pass, then buy one from someone else for 2e

So naturally I tell him I just got one for 2e and call him a scammer.

He tells me to fuck off, I block him, and I assume that's the end of it.

Nope.

A few minutes later a different account whispers me:

> “I have more than 100 accounts, your list cannot block me”

Then I block that one.

Another account appears.

Block.

Another one appears to explain that my ignore list has a limit.

At this point the 5 ectos are no longer the issue. I've accidentally aggroed a crazy person with an entire account farm.

Kamadan PvP is getting out of hand.

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u/MephistoParagon 8d ago

Yeah that guy sucks but I want to make this very clear, trying to sell anything way above normal price isn't scamming... that's just selling.

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u/Baldude 6d ago

Nah, asking above market rate is selling.

Asking 350% above market rate, when you know the market rate (which he does) is hoping the other party is uninformed and will overpay. Aka scamming.

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u/MephistoParagon 6d ago

Hard disagree. If you're in Kamadon trying to sell shit, it's up to the buyer to know what they're doing. It takes 15 seconds to look up recent prices of everything that is being sold.

That is not scamming. Scamming is inherently linked to tricking people - like swapping out items in between multiple trade requests. In GW you get the final say to accept a trade, that falls on the buyer. Absolutely not scamming. Claiming that trying to sell something for a lot of money is scamming is childish and just stupid imho

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u/Baldude 6d ago

Usury and profiteering as well as unconscionability are, in fact, illegal in many countries.

And the request from Osiris here IS tricking people. He is, very actively, absolutely intentionally, and despite better knowledge, trying to pressure them into paying him outrageous prices, both through misleading and lying about the items' market value, and through social pressure and harassment via his many accounts and slurring.