Does Anet really not take any action?

I Love Anet. They put out a game that I love. They have fun events new chapters everything. I normally shake my head at those who scoff at anet for this or that. Yeah they cant make everyone happy but as a whole I think they do a great job.
Today my husband was running me to Cay. We figure we might as well make a lil gold in the process and found others to go too. The price was 2k everyone was good with it.
When we got to TOA he asked for half which everyone gave happily expect on ele. He wanted to pay when we got there which of course set of alarms and I know we should have kicked him there. He finally agreed to pay 600g and the rest at cay. Fine.
Of course once we get to Cay he leaves logs into another char and we proceed to have the following conversation.

The guy openly admits to scamming multiple runners and couldn't care less. Is it true Anet wont do anything? I mean I realize in alot of ways its a chance you take as a runner but shouldn't there be some sort of consequence?

Tis true that there are people like him that never get whats coming to them.

Yep A-net deosnt take any action against people who scam runners or runners who scam runnies(if thats a word :P). Its because it must happen so often and they consider it quite trivial.

omg that person has no soul.

If he/she scams runners without feeling guilty it makes me wonder what they'd do in real life.

I find it lame that people are so rude and don't care about ruining other peoples fun.

did you send in the report? if anet gets enough reports about him, most likely he'll get a ban eventually.

To add insult Im in cay still farming and i see him back looking for a runner! Im like NO WAY!
This is the convo that follows. Scammer is blocked out in black (everyone else in town in blue) and I'm Briget of Kildare

Running has always been a trade at your own risk type of service. It sucks to get scammed and it does happen every day. You can usually tell when someone is being difficult (i.e. oh I'll pay when we get there, or doesn't immediately follow rules, generally being a pain in chat, etc) When running, I never give the customer the benefit of the doubt. If I get a bad vibe from him/her, see ya - even if they did nothing wrong. Sometime you can just sense it.

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While I'll admit that the person is a scoundrel, and should be shunned by the GW community, I doubt that s/he in any way violated the Anet EULA. Therefore, they would not be banned.
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Too bad there isn't an easy way to get the word out on people like that. Screen shots without names blacked out violate the EULA, right?

With proper documentation I do think it's possible that Anet will give him a temp ban.

I do think there is some kind of no-griefing thing mentioned in the EULA
No, but it's against the board policies.

he owes 1.2k? He payed 600 gp for a 2k run, that means he owes 1.8k!

All you can do is report the bum. If A-Net takes action against the loser, then good. If not, it won't be because you didn't do anything about it. The bottom line is, there is no chance of a scammer getting banned if they're NOT reported.

i mean 1.4k ><

LoL apparently none of us can do math! But yes ure right.

I want my two dollars!

You can report him, but it's not going to solve anything. Anet are not going to take any sort of action against something like that. Yeah, it sucks, and the guys is a jerk, but he wasn't breaking any rules, and it would be extremely difficult to prove anything. They couldn't ban an account over that, it would only result in a lawsuit.

But yeah. It wasn't really that much money, you at least made something from it. In the future, just be sure to ask for the money half way through, and if they won't pay, then they are more than probably up to something.

Did a droks run today 1K snake 1k rankor. He logged of the minute we entered rankor :S. Atleast I got half (Eddy murphy raw joke :P)

From my time playing GW i've seen a lot of this nonsense and Anet define runs, and alike services, to be 'gentlemen's agreements' to which an element of risk is always involved. You can't trust a stranger 100%.

From Anet's point-of-view, policing this is far too time-consuming. People cried when Factions had locked gates to prevent running (and, therefore, scammzorz!) and people cry when they get scammed with runs so it's QQ all around.

And that is why i stopped running pugs.

First Droks run
Then Desert
Then Elona

All full of little twats who do nothing but scam, so i got sick of it, wasn't worth the hastle.

Never bothered to report anything because Anet couldn't give a flying RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO as far as i can tell.

like others have said, both parties involved [runners and runnies] assume a certain amount of risk. scamming takes place ALL the time in this game. you just have to be diligent to avoid being a victim. at least you got some of the money.