Funniest trading scemes/accidents you've ever seen?

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

Funny cause of the way they said it
"Need fast run to the gay place paying 500g"
over and over spamming local

Anyway after someone else corrected them "Sanctum Cay" they then asked for the right place and got a run there
still laugh to this day over that one.........

Pyrea

Pyrea

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

The Outer Rim

Initiates of Maat

Quote:
Originally Posted by nugzta
LFG to do Count's Daughter
he hee, that's rich ^ ^

zwei2stein

zwei2stein

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Europe

The German Order [GER]

N/

Kurt the quick's get rich scheme and related threads

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

The tomes/tombs thing annoys me..

The funniest thing is standing in Senji's Corner and looking at all the different ways of spelling: "LFP for Tahnnakai Temple".

Khorrax

Khorrax

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Romania

Dvd Forums [DVDF]

W/

WTS Magmus Shield...is it that hard to scroll over the item and spell correctly its name?

Another funny thing, although not a trade: probably over a year ago, someone in ToA was looking for Ecto Nukers hehe.

cgruber

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Tryst of Vengenance [ToV]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by slowerpoke
WTS tournament token
Hey I got a decent amount of gold selling those prior to the Z keys.

TheRaven

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

And of course the 100s of traders in Ascalon City.....

"WTS Awesome Sword!!! 14-20 DMG Req 10 10% while Hexed. Only 3k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

AscalonWarrior

AscalonWarrior

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Kokkola, Finland

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Khorrax
Another funny thing, although not a trade: probably over a year ago, someone in ToA was looking for Ecto Nukers hehe.
Yeah, same with "LF 5 man team FoW, need boner"

Saraphim

Saraphim

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Hand of Omega [WHO]

E/

Just saw this winner while hanging around consuming ale in Spamadan:

"Running to jokunar dingis"

darkdreamr

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

beyond the yellow brick road

She Left With Half My [GeAr]

Me/

WTB Mangrocide gems.

I was like..what? how...?

The tomb thing is a real pet peeve. The words don't even sound the same. B is nowhere near E on the keyboard. I don't GET IT.

darcness boy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

ankkalinna

Mo/

I was looking for run to Droknars forge, then someone shouted "FRREE TEST RUN TO DROKS 100% SUCCES!" nice test runner gotta say :P

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

LF runner to bacons peach.

TheRaven

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

Here are 3 gems including the free Kunnuvang I mentioned yesterday.

I didn't black out the sellers name there because I'm not saying anything bad about it. It was a nice selling technique. But please don't try to contact her and ask for the pet. This screenshot is about a year old.

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Curse You
In Lion's Arch more than a year ago:
WTS Charr Pornography!
I'll post the screen shot when I find it.
I found the screen shot.

Skyy High

Skyy High

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2006

R/

R = Rank
E = Ecto
Q = Requirement

Is it that damn hard to accept the convention?

WinterSnowblind

WinterSnowblind

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007



My lies.. bring them back.
Not so much a trading incident, but still very bizarre.

Rehnahvah Gahro

Rehnahvah Gahro

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Underground

Rt/R

Some of these farmers must be braindead or they JUST DO NOT understand me. Or is it me who does not understand?... I laughed really hard... ok pls thx?
I'll translate:

He: 4k ok
He: yes
He: ?
Me: ok
He: ok
He: ok
He: 4k ok
Me: Yes ok
He: ok
He: ????????
We trade... Trade cancelled (by him)
He: Words I don't understand
He: Words I don't understand


/ponder

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Skyy High
R = Rank
E = Ecto
Q = Requirement

Is it that damn hard to accept the convention?
Q sounds silly and rank is irrelevant to selling items in PvE.

Moral55

Moral55

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

SNOW

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by 1 up and 2 down
I tried to cleverly post this common trade type mistake but no one seems to have noticed.
I don't know, q seems to be fair game now since it's been adopted by the community. Q on the other hand is not so please use "req" or "q" people.

Skyy High

Skyy High

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rathcail
Q sounds silly and rank is irrelevant to selling items in PvE.
Regardless, when you see "r" ingame, you're liable to think "rank". It's like someone giving another meaning to the acronym "wtf"; even if said new acronym makes perfect sense, I'm already used to "translating" that phrase a certain way, and it's more inconvenient to relearn another one than it is to just use a new letter that works perfectly fine.

The really silly thing is the lengths some people go to protest the whole "q = requirement" thing. Give it up already, it's in every bloody thread related to trades, pet peeves, or funny stories I've read in this forum. You're not going to get people to use "r"; if you want to, fine, but we really don't need to hear time and again how stupid you think "q" is (not just directed at you, but everyone who's posted something like that recently).

anonymous

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Skyy High
R = Rank
E = Ecto
Q = Requirement

Is it that damn hard to accept the convention?
yes. I prefer r9 weapons. why the hell would my weapon have a rank 9 hero title? If i say wts r9 sword, and you ask me if it has a tiger emote i will laugh and tell you to uninstall.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Someone tried to sell me a white dye for 100g the other day. I felt bad for him, so I told him to go check the dye trader. His only reply was "HOLY CRAP." He then proceeded to offer it to me for 1.7k since that was half the selling price of the dye trader (I didn't take the time to explain that one to him). So I say, "How about 2k?" And he says sure.

Now, this was either an incredible attempt to make me feel sorry for him, and therefore, offer him more than it was worth, or he was just a newb and didn't know any better.

Either way, I felt like I helped him and got some cheap(er) dye. I lol'd for almost twenty minutes after.

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

was lookin' to go on a shopping spree in pre, this guy said wts mini pets, i was like hey why not.

he said 50 plk or something stupid like that, i thought he meant 50k.
He then said 50g.
He then said......plz buy my wife is sick!( lol what?!)
i said show me the mini pet,
He replied by saying MINIPET NOT FOR SALE*logs off*

he was a lvl 1 monk lol, didn't pay attention to that........

Peachie

Peachie

Closed

Join Date: Nov 2005

England

The Peachatorium [hugs]

Mo/Me

Hard to get it more wrong:



Fails at English:





This one isn't trade related, I was just whispered out of the blue.




I see lots of "Smithing" staves for sale.

Cale Roughstar

Cale Roughstar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo Nugget
was lookin' to go on a shopping spree in pre, this guy said wts mini pets, i was like hey why not.

he said 50 plk or something stupid like that, i thought he meant 50k.
He then said 50g.
He then said......plz buy my wife is sick!( lol what?!)
i said show me the mini pet,
He replied by saying MINIPET NOT FOR SALE*logs off*

he was a lvl 1 monk lol, didn't pay attention to that........
Lol, thats probably a reference to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCkDcx6KIs

genofreek

genofreek

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

USA

Jenova's Apocolyptic Remains [JAR]

D/

I see a lot of "WTB ur mom" and stuff. I once put my soul up in Party Search, but the best offer I got was like 10g, plus a lot of holy rollers jumped on me about the morality of what I was doing.

Roo Ella

Roo Ella

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

Australia

Oz

E/R

genofreek try your virginity next time you will get lots more than 10g :P
just kidding but ocasionaly I see someone offer that in chat O.o
it's a sad sad world......

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Skyy High
Regardless, when you see "r" ingame, you're liable to think "rank".

The really silly thing is the lengths some people go to protest the whole "q = requirement" thing. Give it up already, it's in every bloody thread related to trades, pet peeves, or funny stories I've read in this forum. You're not going to get people to use "r"
Seeing r used in trade chat red or in the trade part of party search never caused any confusion for me. Or for others apparently. I see plenty of folks using r while selling in towns, which causes the q's look silly.

So I guess that goes both ways then, you're not going to get people who are happy to use the logical R to change to Q.

Edit: Also, after using r for req long time before any PvE ranks were in, I'm actually more likely to think r as req than rank when I see it used.

pkodyssey

pkodyssey

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

In a cardboard box with Internet

The Order of the Frozen Tundra (TofT)

N/

Saw this spammed in Ascalon one day.

Running to storage 5K
and
Running in circles 5K

Dweasel

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

WTS platinum pieces 1000g each

artay

artay

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

The Agony Scene

E/

Ok so it's not trading, but I thought I'd share.

I really hope they were kidding.

aaje vhanli

aaje vhanli

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

A friend was giving me 100k once and accidentally gave it to the wrong person who, of course, logged off immediately.

I felt bad but she was kind enough to still lend me the 100k since the accident was on her account.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Dweasel
WTS platinum pieces 1000g each
I've seen this one before. Gave me a good laugh.

Holly Herro

Holly Herro

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Kangaroo-land.

Blades of the Dingo [AUST]

I remember I made a type instead of Wtb mini panda, 1500 ectos

"Wtf mini panda, 1500 ectos"

I got so many replies.

holababe

holababe

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2006

Goon Squad [LLJK]

Mo/

WTB Tom Cruise but will settle for Superb Charr Carvings
Paying 650 gold for female cyber sex wh0re
WTB mini pole dancer, PM me with price

Found those when going through my screenies

Chrono Re delle Ere

Chrono Re delle Ere

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The Land of Hyrule

[GoE]

W/

Well I was once selling luck of the draw 20%, wrote in chat:

WtS Luck of the Draw -5(50%)

...

got so many flames before I noticed xD

bilateralrope

bilateralrope

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

New Zealand

Xen Of Onslaught (Xen of the Pacific division)

I remember someone selling a sword pommel of swordsmenshiP (with a capital P), though this was only because someone hassled his previous attempt had a t instead of the P and someone hassled him about it.

Tender Wolf

Tender Wolf

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2007

All over Tyria, Cantha, & Elona

The Eternal Night Vanguard [TEN]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Curse You
In Lion's Arch more than a year ago:
WTS Charr Pornography!
I'll post the screen shot when I find it.
rofl Gives a whole new meaning to the joke about Brokeback Mountain 2: The Fur Traders.

Back on topic: Will dance naked for cash! & WTB GOLD

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

I must've laughed for a good hour to this one;


Got bored in ToPK - I had bids for my life!

Alma Oca

Alma Oca

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2007

Colorado

E/Mo

Saw someone running to Imperial Sanctum from K-Center for 10k.
Don't really know whether that's even possible.