just got scammed on AH, was just trying to buy a runecloth bag, but accidentally bought one for 511g, is there anyway to report this sort of scam or something?
It is a free market and not against the rules to buy and sell against any value. Even if vastly overpriced and in public opinion a scam, it is not against the rules.
This isnât a scam.
Maybe have an attention span higher than a 6 year old next time.
Interestingly, if you go to the AH, and search common / grey items, and scroll down, there are always âvery overpricedâ ones after the first few pages.
The overpriced ones are often listed by characters with bank or gold related names, or random-character names, or names made of special / accented characters.
Often, the overpriced ones seem to have a kind of âchecksumâ in the silver + copper parts of the cost, so, for example:
Forest Mushroom Cap
- bid: 0g 12s 47c
- buyout 571g 12s 47c
Iâm not sure what that is all about? The fact that characters are listing hundreds of auctions like this means a lot of gold is being transferred to the character, and the AH percentage âcutâ is being taken each time.
Blizzard do seem to be onto this, as the characters doing this seem to vanish after a week or two!
Of course it is. It is an intentional and calculated approach. The scamer lies a trap and hopes that an inattentive player buys the overpriced item.
People which engage in this practice are disgusting - regardless of what the rules say.
Your own fault for not paying attention.
Do you get mad at the cashier for choosing the wrong items?
No.
Skill issue.
Shoulda lost more gold.
I knew someone will come up with âskill issueâ. Are you aware that you didnât say that, that you are a parrot repeating phrases?
Your comparison is plain garbage btw. No one talks about choosing wrong items. It is about price tagging with malicious intent. Do you get that?
Anyway, I must be very skilled, since the scam attempt of such disgusting individuals (like you maybe?!?!) never worked against me.
As you say. They are disgusting, but not against the rules.
I get that you ⌠or maybe not you? We never heard any more from Foffesnusk ⌠are pissed by being scammed. But for once I join the choir. It is indeed your fault.
Even without any addons you can sort the items after both bid and buyout prices. And youâre asked if you really want to accept the trade and buy out [item] for XXX G before the trade is finished. You canât just misclick once and be ripped.
Let the buyer beware.
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Your remote psychological profiling attempt failed.
I was not scammed. I never was. One of the benefits of being poor, I guess.
Maybe just stop making up things out of thin air. Especially since your other forum post suggest that you are a reasonable and thoughtful person.
You know, you can take a stance without being immediately involved in an issue. I do not take drugs, I donât have a family member which is a drug addict. But drug dealers are scum, as they make their living in the misery of others. They disgust me. Simple as that. And if drug dealing would be legalised, I would not change my opinion.
The same principle is valid regarding the AH scammers. It is unethical behaviour.
A much brighter mind than both of us once said:
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Hence, I donât care, if it is against the rules or not when I assess a certain behaviour.
If you fight a mob at a metal ore, I wonât take it. I will probably help you to fight the mob and I will ask you if I may take a hit. That is decent behaviour. I donât need a WoW rules book to do so.
My comparison is garbage and youâre below average IQ.
That isnât a scam.
Please donât breed.
We already know that.
In contrast to you dimwit I am not.
First, you say, it is not a scam. Than - in your stupid assumption that I was the injured - you said, I shall be more careful (basically admitting the scam-ish nature), now again you say it is not a scam.
Overall, you obviously do not offer any explanation, any reasoning, just some empty phrases. Again, your useless comparison above is not valid, a strawman, you idiot.
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I was just wondering if Fofflesnusk was maybe your alt, is all. You answered to the answers to him, and he never did ⌠erm, confused? I was 
I agree. I donât know it I did not state this clearly enough: I think trying to trick players into spending their G this way is disgusting, immoral, despicable plus a couple of choice expletives, I wonât post here.
But I still maintain that we - all of us buying auctions - are also obliged to be careful.
Blizz has done their part by adding a later feature to the AH: the ability for us to sort items by both bid & buyout- It has been in since the launch of Hardcore, it was not in Vanilla or Classic. And I honestly think that they have done what was the right thing by making the AH work this way. Yes, you just heard me praise a change.
And secondly we need to click once more to accept. You canât just mis-click like in some more shady games.Thus we already have two-step validation as the AH works now, and I really do not know what more Blizz could do to target only the scammers and not hamper normal players - also not a normal for me, as I have tons of ideas as to how Blizz should manage their game.
Once again I agree, and behave the same way in-game. But exactly AH is one of the few places where Blizz actually did do something, and where I do not see what more could be done without bothering normal, honest players a load more than the scammers.
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I absolutely agree on that. Oneself must remain vigilant and do his best to prevent that dubious creatures make their money out of this practice.
Apart from being poor, I send the gold to a bankchar which never engages in AH affairs. The AH chars have very little amounts of money (hardcore server). So it is impossible that a really hurtful mistakes can happen.
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lul skill issue 