WTS - - Boots of the Rogue - - s/b 2 Mil - - b/o 3 Mil

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Using irc/trade forums to conduct a scam is an offence that should result in the termination of your irc/forum access, unless I'm mistaken?
All scams should be kept in game, using the mechanics involved with running into someone and talking them into said scam. Using outside resources such as the trade channels, I've always thought was a banable offence or am I reading into it wrong @Telamon ?

As for knowing a dude is here less than a month and attempting to relieve him of a rare item for a fraction of the agreed price, that's low.
Did you try and convince him to bag them up first to attempt a steal, or am I making wild guesses here?

The wording in the rules is 'to conduct a scam' and that doesn't leave much room for the imagination.
Not 'to scam' or 'succeed to scam' or anything like that, but to 'conduct' as in 'attempt' a scam.
So yes, the rules were broken. He may have used private messages to initiate contact, but that's still a forum/irc asset used after seeing the post in trade forums, aka the public community mentioned in the rules, again, unless I'm mistaken and scams are cool to be ran using the forums to find a mark, make contact and get free pixels in game?

Roll some heads.

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OFF WITH @One 's HEAD AS WELL!

edit ... I hadn't noticed this was an actual auction thread. Good grief?

If I come across @One in game trying to sell 20 fishsteaks and attempt to steal them, then later make a funny remark in an unseen-by-me or I-don't-remember forum post "selling 20 fishsteaks" about trying to steal them, is that a scam? Nay @T3h D4ve . Such is UO.

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This is all quite hilarious.

We don't implement the rules, so all of this round about conversation is really pointless. I guess it serves to create social alignment and division, but really what else is the point of articulating your accusations or defenses. It seems like the appropriate people have been notified, and now it's on them to take the steps they take, whatever those may be.

Great convo for the trash talk thread anyway - super entertaining. Good catch @cesar millan, seems you have a couple of good stories about these boots now.

I'm not looking for Franz to catch a ban, in game, on the forums, I even acknowledge the guys hustler status, this shit does happen, it is part of UO and I 'preciate that shit too.

I've been on both sides of the hustle before, we've all tried our luck with the 0's and all been burnt or almost burnt from not countin' them properly.

I called him out because the guy went after someone who's been here 30 days, who says in the post he's only been here 30 days and tried to give him a 200k cheque telling him it was 2 mil. Tela G made the Young program here to wrap these new guys in cotton wool for a hot minute, he knows what's up and that these new guys need a little assistance when they first start to catch the lay of the land and figure out which way is up. Because jumping into this game, taking 1 step outa guardzone and getting fucked up would have a big ass impact on wether these new guys stuck around.

So when I heard about this I was pissed, sure, but I didn't say shit publicly because yea Franz a hustler and my homie didn't get burnt. But when he posts sayin' he wanted to buy them tryna make my homie sounds like a busterI had to call him out incase he wants to try this on some other new player.

Maybe he'll think twice, maybe he won't, he probably won't, he's a hustler, and by his own admission doesn't take this shit seriously and is cool tryna scam new players.

So what the fuck ever, no dramas my guys, I'm just tryna keep the population up for us all, even Franz, I want the dude to catch some dope steals, pull some tricks, just like I want people running around dungeons with plat in their pack, and some cure pots so we can get rowdy.

Peace

Alas, thou art mislead and now belong to my defense! I simply ran into Cesar at Ocllo bank marbles and commenced pfniffeling, that is, with no contact before that. It was just a pure old, orthodox UO scam attempt!

@T3h D4ve ^

I was going to give @Jakob the benefit of the doubt for fucking up that check but he was trying that weak ass scam for real! lmao!

"so usually i let the other person open the trade menu" as if i'm going to slip up and drop the boots on the ground (you know i dropped a single gold coin on the clown first).

next up is a check for 200k instead of 2mil lmao

"Considering that the OP is selling high valued items that are only obtainable by participation in an event with a somewhat developed toon, I wouldn't consider the OP a noob anymore." @BlackEye

So anyone who can cast paralyze and blade spirits isn't a noob anymore?

I'm less than 30 days in after not playing for 12 years lol but I already got my blessed runebook so what up!? I guess your right I'm not a noob anymore.

Dude found me in game, went for the scam and got left in the dust.

Not much more to it.

The humiliation of being a bum clown who can't pull off a decent scam is punishment enough lmao.

@One owe's someone an apology, and 10 or perhaps 15gp in reparations!

This sentence really embodies what it is to be @Jakob

I'd believe that if @Telamon went through your logs and found no messages.
Would I believe a scammer? lol fuck and no.

If you read above to my first post, I covered this one already snap. I was talking about using the forums/irc to initiate the scam, which I believe everyone else is also going with.

@T3h D4ve guess you missed the part where even the victim stated it was an in game thing and not related to the forums. No rules were broken here, the only criminal thing was the dastardly @Jakob failing in his attempt to rip off the new player!

scamming noobs could potentially hurt the server by making them not want to play here is the important message.

boots are worth 10mil now after this turn of events

That's capitalism I can get behind. I think a 15m s/b is reasonable. These are WAAY better items than some lame colored mask or horse.

WTS these very same legendary boots of lore... 20m s/b

Thanks again for the boots @cesar millan

If you want to have some more fun with this Type [profile in-game and make your death log public ( it can be temporary of course ) so that everyone can see Who it was that killed you but left the boots.

I think I said that I usually opened the trade window first? Your assumption here is false; my intention was just to have you more off guard and not check the check if you put the boots first, since I usually open the window first (so I wanted to try something different).

What! Was it not me leaving Ocllo saying "Oh wait, I'll brb with the right check...", You: "ok"?