The Crystal Snowflake Scam

This is the second thread posted today about these crystal snowflake scams o.0

Sad people scam ¬_¬.

Wow I've never heard of that item..you'd think the the buyer/seller would do some research first :I

Tell them you want to buy it, and put 200g instead of 200e, and hit accept.

For the lulz.

Geez, if they wanna break game rules, go buy gold with $$$ and get your account stolen or better, banned.

/report spike in 3...2...1

actualy i don't feel sorry for anyone who falls for such a scam. greed is a killer and if you were decent enough you would tell the seller that he is selling for a lower price. but out of greed people will try to scam the poor guy by taking the item for a very low price just to sell it at very high price.

and there was a very smarter scam than this one which I fell for it back when the ectos started to fall below 5k. a guy at toa says he buys ectos at 5k ea. being a person who thinks he is very clever and knows the market price I gave him 2 ectos for 10k. as soon as i saw the 10 at the screen I quickly pressed accept before the guy changes his mind just to find out later that he only offered 10g. thank god that I only had 2 ectos at that time. rather than feeling angry I loled at my greed.

stop being greedy or you will learn to stop the hard way

This scam is nothing new... Just the item varies...... still... quite pathetic attempt...

Not really a scam imho, the *scammee in this case is trying to get rich by playing the market, the *scammers just do the same thing right back to them

'A Fool and Their Money Are Easily Parted' is a true saying here


*for want of a better term.

It's only not a scam if there were such a market. It just plays on ignorance of the market, and, like you say, greed.

they are still doing it is as we speak, except now its spectral crystal for 100e + 300zkeys, lolz,

I posted and said i had one to sell him.
Mysteriously, he says he just bought one.

I... what. Just... how do the people who fall for this crap remember to breathe? Just when I think I've seen how dumb people can get in GW, ya gotta come and show me this *g*

Then again, this is Kamadan...

Um i really dont see this as being a scam. If the buyer has any smarts at all they wouldnt go fo it. but there are some people out there who think that not all things should be sold at such a high price.(Me for example) we just sell them for a resonable price and get it sold rather than just sitting there spamming the same WTS over and over all day.

I say take it into your judgement If you need the item and it is selling cheap as part of these "scams" take advantage of it. otherwise let someone else buy it.

But it's more to do with the item being traded having no value at all. To anybody. The items being chosen for this scam are chosen for their rarity so it's possible that people don't know of them or indeed if they have any value. They see the 'want to sell' a little while after the 'want to buy' and a little light goes off in their head. Remember, the 'want to buy'er has no intention of paying up for this item. This is a scam, pure and simple.

I must agree stop wasting ANETS time with this crap if your dumb enough to fall for that trick then that is your loss. Anets needs more time to actually focus on other problems rather than you dumb mistake, and if that the first time then it a rookie mistake and learn from it

The entire point of most scams is that they target people who don't know any better, though. So it IS a scam.

Well, it should be a reportable offense to be spamming the trade channel wanting to buy and item that you actually have no intent on buying. It's like guys who get off trying to sell an item for a very cheap price and then start jumping from district to district to start a wild goose chase.

im sorry but i think its a great idea, even if it is a scam you need to be pretty dum to buy it.

This scam was old in Diablo 2.

Hard to believe that anyone is still stupid enough to fall for this. Apparently Barnum was right.

EXTREMELY hard to believe that some of you don't believe that this is a scam. Any time you dupe someone into paying real money for something without value, it's a scam. There's a pretty clear line between people undercosting/overpaying for items (there are rational reasons to do this) and selling someone an item with no intrinsic value.

ANet has no responsibility to deal with scams, but their consistent policy of carebearing the community (eg: updating item pictures, supposedly "banning" scammers) leads much of the community to believe that ANet is responsible for solving these problems.

Being the good citizen you are, out them publicly on All Chat and be done with it. Really isn't a need to go crying to Anet, that they should do something to protect idiots from being idiots.

I've been doing this for ages. Yes, there are idiots who fall for it. No, there's nothing wrong with selling an item for an extremely high price.

Caveat emptor kids, ANet does nothing.

Doesn't help. Today in Kamadan Am 1, one person was selling an Q9 Emerald Edge (not the expensive Emerald Blade!) for 100k + 20 ecto or so. Another person wanted to buy an Edge for 100k + 40 ecto. So same setup.

Oone person, the good citizen, confronted the duo in allchat with their attempt to scam some newbie out of their money. I have never seen half of Kamadan turn that fast on one person trying to help:

-let them trade!
-if someone falls for that scam, it's their own fault!
-if someone wants to buy an Edge for 100k + 20 ecto, let them!

Next to the obvious swearing that is to be expected.

So honestly, don't expect the community to protect the innocent.