Hello
Some players are posting bags and enchants for insane prices.
They are hoping that some might buy them by mistake.
This is wrong.
I have spoken to some in private, but they cant or will not understand that it is wrong, as they say that the pricing is up to the seller.
But posting a Neatherwaeave bag which goes for 20 gold normal, for 499000 gold is just asking to exploit players.
Please I cant stand alone about this. Others must feel that this wrong also.
Please suport me.
it’s goldsellers
They could be doing it to transfer gold cross realm?
Or to mess up AH prices.
Or they think their wares are worth that much?
I doubt anyone would buy stuff at ridiculous prices like that though.
Yup - I’ve done this. Cross realm and/or cross faction between my accounts (when I had two).
Also - more fool anyone who clicks on a bag for 499,000 gold and buys it. I can almost understand selling an item too cheap…but buying requires an active search/highlight/click.
You have to be careful I guess. It’s a good lesson that applies in real life as well, don’t make deals if you’re not 100% sure what you’re getting. Getting ripped off in WoW is a small deal compared to if you write a contract that makes you homeless irl.
Obviously you might argue that you can’t apply something you learned while playing a game to real life, but I beg to differ. I once got scammed in D2 by someone by trading a rune for a supposed awesome item, but the person managed to trick me into giving my high value rune away for vendor trash. I learned from that, and I’ve never been scammed again, in any game.
Anyone who spends 499k on a netherweave bag clearly has more gold than brain cells. Do you happen to know which server they are on?
Just do what i do with such people and laugh at their items in the ah. Bloody good comedy and more fool the fool who buys the fool’s item with the fool’s gold.
its for gold buyers for real money. You put up the sale on AH, then they buy it. The defence, if blizz ever queries such things, is that the goldseller bought it by accident and boo at the vendor grrr it makes them so angry they fell for it blah blah blah. No rules broken.
I’m sure assssssssdffffff would struggle say why hes bought 12 on that account in the last day.
i went to make a cup of tea and my roommate who I am having issues with currently (he thinks because im a woman that i shouldn’t be playing computer games instead of cooking his dinner)decided, in vengeance, to buy all the items he could to annoy me … oh gosh darn those roommates. Are you really going to punish me because im having issues with my sexist roommate and just wanted a cup of tea?
For every situation, there is always a scumbag willing to come up with a lie about it.
This is the main reason. And the old BC version of this was putting a piece of copper up on the AH in Stragglethorn to send gold to your Horde/Alliance alt.
I think you might want to either throw that person out if you own the house/lease or move out if not. They do not sound like a safe person to be living with.
That sounds like harassment that could almost be reported to the police.
You might want to take his post in context, he was giving an example of a lie he could tell to fool Blizz investigators…
There was a thread about that, where someone bought … an enchant, I think? … in a hurry and lost most of his gold because of it.
Someone might list one item at a high price to transfer gold between factions, but that one item is likely to be a piece of grey or white junk. When you see a dozen of them listed for 499K, all listed by the same seller, it’s a trap for unwary buyers in a hurry.
Right now on AD I see a eight Netherweave bags listed at 499K
https://theunderminejournal.com/#eu/argent-dawn/item/21841
(bottom of the page)
Also Pact of Haste
https://theunderminejournal.com/#eu/argent-dawn/item/153443
It’s not a good thing. I don’t know what the right response is, though. Maybe the situation will improve with the long-promised revamp of the AH UI, but until then, use Auctionator or TSM, and be careful what you bid on!
Oh I missed that 
I was genuinely worried for their safety!
I use auctioneer, I don’t really spend much time in AH anyway and always list from cheapest buyout first and spend time making sure.
I’m still a little unconvinced how that scam is workable, you do get a pop up before purchase which asks if you are sure you want to spend xx gold. Or is that just my add on?
Don’t people click the arrow on price, so it lists the lowest one? Should be doing that on everything you buy lol.
The trick is to put a low Bid Price along with the high Buy Price, so that clicking the arrow may indeed show you the lowest … Bid Price. Since it’s the same column, it’s easy to overlook.
Here’s another thread about it. Not the one I was thinking of, though, where the poor player lost almost all their gold.
Actually, it is not.
You can sell whatever you want for whatever price you want. You are not forcing anyone to buy those items from you.
Also, those prices exist to mess up with the addons, because those higher prices will increase the mean market value of that specific item.
Also, if you sell something for a higher market value, only two things can happen: you either sell it and make a huge deal or you don’t and you eventually decrease the price.
It must just be my add on that lets you list lowest buyout price first then no matter what the bid price is?
A very dangerous thing to do on higher ticket items BTW as you will get people clicking to bid and not buying out.