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[pixi]

Whats up with these people who put a certain lab map piece up for lets say, 150k when its only worth 11k?! who do they think theyre fooling?


sadly i actually see some people getting fooled :|

[talbs]

[Kyouma]

The world is full of stupid people.

Governor mansion stamp, Offers of 200k right next to 5 million.

[pixi]

The world is full of stupid people.

Governor mansion stamp, Offers of 200k right next to 5 million.

that, or a christmas pb for 150k, its like...could this be a reselling method? O.o

lol, nah, but really.

[Shirwinator]

It does work, but i hate it when people do becuase its mostly probably little kids who really want an item and are exploited by poeple like this.


ultra icy negg selling for 500k???

yeah right

[LilyPowder]

wow, yeah i've seen this latley, and its so sad when it actually sells!

[legacycm]

Tell them to do their research...

[Shirwinator]

Ive looked all over the trading post and their are definitely some rediculous trades

for example at one point there was a royal pb for 3 mil. i cannot believe that some people may not know about Fyora's Tower and actually pay that!

[ZKK]

I don't get why they don't label the map pieces with numbers, the current format makes it hard to find the piece you want when searching via Auction Genie or Shop Wizard.

[Jaws]

You can't trick someone into buying something, if someone is that stupid that they will buy over priced items then they deserve to be taken advantage of and exploited... that's how it is in the real world, better get used to it now

[Shirwinator]

You can't trick someone into buying something, if someone is that stupid that they will buy over priced items then they deserve to be taken advantage of and exploited... that's how it is in the real world, better get used to it now

what if they are just kids who dont know the price

do they still deserve to be exploited???

if you still think so. please dont ever have kids

[Jaws]

what if they are just kids who dont know the price

do they still deserve to be exploited???

if you still think so. please dont ever have kids

If they have enough neopoints to bid 3m on a royal paint brush then they must know something about neopets and how it works, since most kids see 100k as something big.
If you do get exploited and realize it you will at least learn from this experience and not get into that kind of situation again, what better way to learn this then on a free site?
Just watch those shows about a pawn shop that trick desperate people and make big profits, this isn't wrong in my opinion, if you're going to sell something 100+ years old and don't even bother researching it... then by all means just give it away for 200$

Edited by Jaws, 04 September 2011 - 03:44 AM.

[3dee]

what if they are just kids who dont know the price

do they still deserve to be exploited???

if you still think so. please dont ever have kids

Well if they're going to get exploited, might as well have them learn a good strong lesson now, on a virtual pet site, to better prepare them for the real world.

It may not be right for people to exploit the naive, but that's just how it is.

I was fooled by these tricks when I was younger and I took it as a good learning experience. Let's just hope those that fall for these tricks do the same.

[pixi]

wow, yeah i've seen this latley, and its so sad when it actually sells!

it makes me wanna buy one and sell it for 200k because i see noobs buying them for that price. just cause its a paint brush x_x

Ive looked all over the trading post and their are definitely some rediculous trades

for example at one point there was a royal pb for 3 mil. i cannot believe that some people may not know about Fyora's Tower and actually pay that!

thats what im saying! or when they try to trick people into paying 100k for a map piece only worth 1k. let me find a random one to SS..


christmas paint brush :

Edited by pixi, 04 September 2011 - 08:35 AM.

[Jaws]

it makes me wanna buy one and sell it for 200k because i see noobs buying them for that price. just cause its a paint brush x_x



thats what im saying! or when they try to trick people into paying 100k for a map piece only worth 1k. let me find a random one to SS..


christmas paint brush :

There's nothing wrong with this, Christmas paint brushes are worth 50k, check the SW, I even sold one of these today for 45k in my shop.
Pirate pbs are around that price... I hope you know that Meghaundead bidded 2.9m on that and not 4.35 ... logically he won that bid since no one will outbid him.
Pirate Krawk Plushies used to be worth 600-800k before the release of the AM, that lowered the price drastically, so Snagged might just have checked an outdated Database, so he's not tricking anyone... that lot will end without bids.

[Honey]

Tell them to do their research...

Yeah get harassed and blocked...

[raK]

Poor kids getting scammed ...

But we all gotta learn the hard way

[Teucer]

I know someone who accidently accepted a junk item in return for giving away a Magical Pirate Krawk Plushie. Their item was up on the TP, and they were going through and rejecting the mass of junk offers they received, when they accidentily accepted one of them... So sometimes stupid people get lucky, and that mere possibility is incentive enough.

[pixi]

yeah that RARELY happens i dont think i ever accepted a junk trade but i did fucking donate something real expensive to the money tree once.

[Yeliza]

I hate it when you say that something is reserved for someone, and they offer hoping that you will make a mistake and give it to them.

[pixi]

LOL. now thats really risky. I wouldn't even chance that!

[Kyouma]

I hate it when you say that something is reserved for someone, and they offer hoping that you will make a mistake and give it to them.

For the soup kitchen avatar, i went around offering 800k to trades I knew weren't going to accept my offer, trying to lower my total np.
Actually ended up getting a royal paintbrush for my 800k. I guess somebody mis-pressed.
No ill-intentions though.

[GothicxToy]

I normally put stuff I don't want up for auction (like Code stones or map pieces that I'm not interested in. I play neo for the pretty colors =D lol).
That way I don't "over" or "under" price items, it's all up to the members of neo itself.
I normally put the starting price at 200 and minimum bid at 200. Works every time =D

If the item is truly a 'junk' item (like the crap you can get from the underwater fishing), I normally put that up in the money tree

[Thepeopleschampion]

wow who falls for that?

[Silver]

I think it's something that people only fall for once.

I know last year at my University, one of the Freshman bought 800lbs of copper at Home Depot when they accidentally priced the copper items at less than the junk (recycle) value. He ended up making a few thousand off the deal.