When fun and crummy tendancies coincide.

I don't think you need be as cynical as many here want to make out, nor does age necessarily make one so. I'm 32, may parents are in their 60's, and none of us are that cynical.

I will generally follow anything anyone one wants to do until the ability to steal is there. When I was purchasing my Rago's Staff someone tried a similar thing. Since I do not use the player market I am not familiar with scams so I didn't know what the guy was doing. Played fine right up until he wanted to drop stuff on the ground - too much can go wrong there. Heck, you can even have connection problems and loose that puppy let alone get it stolen.

So, you could have easily taken care of it. If there is an in game problem report it to anet and agree to hold the axe for him for a few days. If it *is* a legitimate problem the guy would have been OK with it - as you say there can be strange problems. I know I've had them in some other trades (where I was the seller) and it turned out OK. Haven't had a scam work out yet, though I have wasted time dealing with them.

Wow the kind of person who laughs at anothers misfortune. My least favorite kind of jerk.
I hope I never meet you in-game, continue to hide behind your avatar.

The guy got scammed - everyone does something stupid now and again, he readily admits it.
How would you feel if you logged in some day and found your storage gone because your account was hijacked?
Didn't have a secure enough password? Shame on you? Ha Ha!!
Poking fun at anothers misfortune is low, scum of the earth morals. Hope you're proud of them.

Future advice for you and anyone who trades in any game ever:
NEVER assume the game is "messing up." Even if it is, why risk it and possilbly allow them to steal your valuable item? I've never had anyone else's game client "mess up" on a cheap item, and can only assume that anyone who has told me it "wasn't showing up right" was a scammer.

I'm with SilentAssassin on this
its messed up that he got scammed, its nature that there are people ingame that will do that. And it a shame he seems like a nice guy too. I hope he can move on, it is only a game.

I love how everyone is throwing around words like misfortune
Misfortune... Misfortune is getting a flat tyre just as it starts to rain on a highway!

He willingly went to an active instanced zone, willingly dropped his weapon. thats not misfortune thats plain stupidity!

It's also misfortune that you run across a scammer like this....

If the sin took the axe and said "let that be a lesson to you - don't do that in future" and give the axe back it would be a different story.

I've actually have done that in the past when people were showing each other weapons and not using the trade window, a lesson learned and they took it well, even thanking me for telling them about the scam.

Theres misfortune and naivity there in the OP's story.

But regardless to laugh at someone else's expense and hard luck story is not a good trait. It portrays low moral standing.

My response to this thread is..

Nice guys finish last?

I feel for you, but for a 18 month player, I don't understand how this person could have tricked you so easily.

I don't really understand why so many people in this thread try to be tough ass and make self righteous comments about this being his own fault. He allready stated that and despite, it wasn't even the real topic of this thread.
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I think the sad thing is that many of the players out there, seeing other players suffer, take great joy and pleasure in it. A sideeffect of this is that scamming is some sort of disease. I've seen it many times now, a person that was scammed by someone else often turned around, said **ck it and started scamming on his own.
The community is really a sad one. Take some item and state that you want to sell it for roughly 30 minutes. After those 30 minutes there is a 90% probability of someone having tried a scam on you. And a 100% chance of someone flaming you for no real reason. It is that bad.

Thx for the support, Rose. I hope I meet you ingame sometime. There should be more players like you.

The whole "he's stupid so he deserves to be scammed" argument is ridiculous. The OP admits that he did a stupid thing and he explained his thought processes at the time of the scam. According to most of you, the scammer did nothing wrong, but just took advantage of the moment.

Well then I guess we should just let all the thiefs out of prison. After all they didn't do anything wrong either. It's the stupid victims who should be locked up. I suppose I should go find a young child or go to a home for mentally challenged folks and start scamming them.

There's a bakery down the street from my home that hires mentally handicapped folks. I guess I should go there and try to scam a few of them out of a couple of bucks on payday. They're too stupid to know it's a scam so I could make some extra money. After all, there's nothing wrong with that. It's their own fault for being stupid.

I'm way older than 18 but I admire that attitude. Don't listen to these cynics who scoff at your openness. They may still have whatever might have been scammed off of them, but they are also bitter and disconnected from humanity. Who's worse off?

that really sucks. if its any consolation to the OP, i am a veteran player, too - and i sold 10 ectos for 90g last week. the oldest trick in the book
its not that im going to miss a few ectos or need the gold, but i couldnt help but feel the same disappointment the OP was talking about. its really sad how ppl can sink so low as to scam ppl for gold in a computer game.

Well, my friend, 30-40% of the Guild Wars population are assholes. Want proof? Look at 30-40% of the responses on this topic. Kinda shameful that they are laughing at your trusting nature. Hopefully this experience doesnt warp you into a weird freaky troll-baby with exploding eye-balls that hates mankind.

*comforts*

I hope the OP takes solace in the fact that most of the posters who find his situation humorous/deserved will fail to achieve anything of any consequence in real life.
@OP: The community could use a healthy dose of your attitude. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do.

Well that really sucks, losing the item there. I would probably make the same mistake since I'm pretty nice like you. I've played for about 6 months now and I've only ever held about 50,000 gold at the most, and like you also mentioned, I find tons of requirement 13 items I got an especially large number when I went looking for those Nightfall chests.

In any case, it stinks that you lost your item. Good luck playing the game and the other games you mentioned you were looking at too.

This thread has only two kinds of posters:

1. Those that don't sympathize with the OP and blame it on him.
2. Those that sympathize with the OP and act superior to those that don't.

It doesn't make for interesting, constructive discussion. Closed.