So I just bought 35 monsterous fangs from the merch

xmfd

xmfd

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2008

NY

D/

that's 38.5k, and right afterwards I mapped out of kama to KC. And they're gone.

Literally disappeared. I didn't "accidently delete" them or anything. They just vanished.

so now I'm out 38.5k and I need to farm it all back. Has this ever happened to anyone before? Is there some kind of explanation?

I'm pretty frustrated.

Empress Amarox

Empress Amarox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2008

Above you.

Mo/W

I thought this was going to be some kind of failure of a bragging thread, maybe even a horrible attempt at trolling...

But, that sucks. Can't say anything like that has ever happened to me.

Did you try opening and closing your inventory? Relogging?

xmfd

xmfd

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2008

NY

D/

I relogged twice, checked everywhere in my storage, bags, everything.

There's NO reason why this should have happened -_-

Scary

Scary

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2007

Uhmmmm??

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

N/

I had something similar, but that was after a big lag crash and is over 3 years ago.
I had found a superior vigor which at that time where very expensive, a few
secconds later I had a error with many players at that time.
Once back in the game the rune was gone.
But I never had something like you , traveling from 1 place to the other.
So there must be ore a new kind or bug, or you placed it by mistake in the
trash can... And that my friend...happend to me as wel once or twice

Faith Angelis

Faith Angelis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

UK

I'm gonna go with you in fact bought 38 monstrous claws. The reason you can't ind them is because they've stacked with the monstrous claws you already have.

Either that or you're magic, I dunno.

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

hijacking topic but i swear nicholas sandfords taking more collectables than i sed.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

I suppose you mean (Rare) Material Trader instead of Merchant, but whatever.

You sure you did actually purchase them?

cellardweller

cellardweller

Likes naked dance offs

Join Date: Aug 2005

The Older Gamers [TOG]

I came into this thread expecting a punchline and now I'm all disappointed.

oh oh... and the merch says to me "no a fang way".
or maybe... and the merch asks me if I know what's sharper than a monsters fang, and I tell him "the monster's other fang!"

[Edit] No, no! You went back to the town to confront the merchant for cheating you and he said you were lying and then you told him that "you were telling the tooth!".

Xanthe Dashka

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2009

Bad for you.

Never heard of anything like this before.

afmart

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2008

W/

step 1: contact support
step 2: wait
step 3: wait some more
step 4: ???

Karuro

Karuro

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2008

The Netherlands, Europe

Mystic Spiral [MYST]

W/

It's not a case of the material icon not loading? I had that at a few occasions where I panicked, but when I hovered over the "empty space", the description and stuff still showed up.

JONO51

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

P/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Karuro View Post
It's not a case of the material icon not loading? I had that at a few occasions where I panicked, but when I hovered over the "empty space", the description and stuff still showed up.
thats often happens to me, especially when loading into packed towns, e.g. kamadan....

JoeKnowMo

JoeKnowMo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2005

Wessst Siiide, USA

Mo/

I bought 50 fangs and I had problems. So then I bought 100 ectos and that didnt' show up either.

REEGGGGIIIIIINNNNNAAAA!!!!

Archress Shayleigh

Archress Shayleigh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2009

Guild Hall

R/

bug. definitely bug.

obsidian ectoplasm

obsidian ectoplasm

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

This happons to me about everyday


but then the next day I realize that whatever the item was, never went anywhere, i just didn't look properly

Proff

Proff

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by cellardweller View Post
I came into this thread expecting a punchline and now I'm all disappointed.

oh oh... and the merch says to me "no a fang way".
or maybe... and the merch asks me if I know what's sharper than a monsters fang, and I tell him "the monster's other fang!"

[Edit] No, no! You went back to the town to confront the merchant for cheating you and he said you were lying and then you told him that "you were telling the tooth!".
Made the thread just a bit better to read through.

Aussie Boy

Aussie Boy

Alcoholic

Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

W/

Sorry to hear this I had this happen before think it was when gw didn't save properly on server side.
Wasn't a biggy like yours just a weapon I had just bought from a merch and i had to log out almost immediately for some reason
and came back a few hrs later and it was gone from the toon.
First i would make absolutely sure you don't have the Fangs in any of your bags or you have the money that you spent returned.
Second id check to see if your .dat file is corrupted and do a repair on it.
If you still are sure you have a problem contact support with relevant info including the time and
see if they can help you good luck.

Lourens

Lourens

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Are you sure the 38,5k isn't in the storage and you never bought them?

Or that those 35 monsterous fangs are not in the material tab?

If not then this is just magic and you just have to get anet revert it from happening *Anti Magic .

xmfd

xmfd

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2008

NY

D/

I know I bought them, I'm not an idiot lol

I'm contacting support, not expecting anything out of it really.

One can only hope :/

TheodenKing

TheodenKing

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2008

DoA

Dark Order of Retarded Knights (doRk)

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by cellardweller View Post
oh oh... and the merch says to me "no a fang way".
Hilarious, dude!

Now, back the OP: Bugs do occur in the game. However, 99 times out of 100, what someone thinks is a random bug that only affected them, is actually human error. Still, people reading a post often just take everything you state as fact and they assume it's a bug. When in truth, it is more likely that one of the following occured:
1) You bought monsterous claws, not fangs.
2) You completed the deal as planned, but you mistakenly think they disappeared because you are looking at the 0 claws in your materials storage.
3) You didn't actually click to purchase (but you thought you did).
4) Your inventory was full, and the trade wasn't completed.
5) You forgot to have the money in your purse, so what you actually did was got a "quote" on fangs.
6) You were suffering some bad lag, and you weren't doing what you thought you were doing (like you maybe threw your fangs into your garbage can while thinking you were clicking on something else).

I'm sure there are other possibilities, including that it was indeed a bug. But I expect it was one of the things above.

refer

refer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2009

US

I've heard of the same thing happening with Signet of Captures. Because of that I only buy in small quantities near the place I need to use them. Sorry. Hopefully you can get something back.

foo

foo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Scars Meadows [SMS]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by xmfd View Post
Has this ever happened to anyone before? Is there some kind of explanation?

I can swear that during the first XMAS I got some regular eggnogs, placed in storage, and a day later they became spiked.

At the time I thought, 'heh, cool', but only later realized something was off.

Twin Blade Warriror

Twin Blade Warriror

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

I was in a guild by myself with 2 of my other accounts..but im banned now

W/

lets go buy some fangs and see if it happens to me!

Nanood

Nanood

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Supermans Crystal Palace

Legion Of The Dark Sun

Obviously the monsters that owned those teeth are a little upset. They probably had a backdoor deal with the trader to slip them into a secret bag and stash them in a secret location for the monsters to pick up later. After all, a monster doesn't want to run around with missing teeth. That's going to cause all sorts of ugly!


On a side note.. sux if u dont find them, never had anything like this for me in 4 years.

Empress Amarox

Empress Amarox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2008

Above you.

Mo/W

I thought it more resembled Babylon & Arabia.

That one place in Vabbi is clearly an illusion to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by Empress Amarox View Post
I thought it more resembled Babylon & Arabia.

That one place in Vabbi is clearly an illusion to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
I think as with the other campaigns they represent different regions. I think they said they based Vabbi on the India region with some other influences. I think Kamadan was based upon Northern Africa with stuff mixed in and I can't remember what they based the others on, but its in an interview somewhere I think.

AKB48

AKB48

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2008

みやき町

Mo/A

Bad luck bro, tell this to support and if you're lucky, you can get your stuff back(don't count on it in other words).

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2008

Experientia Docet [OHX], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA], We Gat Dis [HRUU]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by xmfd View Post
I know I bought them, I'm not an idiot lol
Double check this.

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

The same thing happened to me but with ecto. I bought about 80k worth of ecto from the trader.

I want that back too A-Net.

artay

artay

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

The Agony Scene

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Horace Slughorn View Post
Double check this.
Haha, which part?

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by MMSDome View Post
The same thing happened to me but with ecto. I bought about 80k worth of ecto from the trader.

I want that back too A-Net.
Definitely dude, I bought 60 stacks of ecto from the trader and it's gone now. If Anet could just reimburse me those ecto I would never ask for anything ever again from them....

On a serious note, I am determined that my ranger never got his 2nd year b-day present. 1st and 3rd arrived no problem, but I never received the 2nd...

Loot Junkie

Loot Junkie

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

in a utopian dream

clan dethryche[dth]

N/

I actually had the opposite thing happen a couple months ago. Some body in my guild needed superb charr carvings and since i had been vanqing sacnoth for ebon points, I had 3 in storage. Anyhoo, he met me in the guild hall and got them from me and the next time i looked in storage....they were there I asked him if he had actually gotten them when we did the trade and he said "yeah, why do u ask?" Too bad it didnt happen with braces lol.