Another Trade Fail

[Ulmarth]

So last night i was browsing the marketplace and saw an obvious mistake made by the player Lothar_the_Slayer_II in which he wanted to trade a +1 Elegant Poleaxe for a normal Warhammer. As i had heard about these fail trades before i figured i would trade it and msg the guy. So i did the trade and played on sum more waiting for this guy to maybe msg me as i dont need money or this item atol i kept it on my main chara.

Today when i got up and checked the webpage i do now have a msg, in which he asks for his weapon back and that he has made a new trade. He also posts a link to the rule that i was following in the first place.

THEN the problem, i go to the marketplace and find out this guy wants money on top of his item back. This would mean he profits on me being a good guy and following rules. So i went into IRC and asked a few of the guys. They said not to worry and to make a forum post, so here i am.

So far i have msged this guy back asking him to take away the money on top this trade and i will trade back no problem. He still has not replyed so i made this post.

What do i do now? Will i still have to give item back if this guy is tryin to blackmail me?

Kind Regards

[Jack1]

Ban that cheap fucker.

[Bronto]

Unless he removes the gold, keep the weapon. He's probably just trying to get one over on a kind person such as yourself.

[Torben]

ya just wait and let him respond properly,  all good imo

[[ptx]]

The outcome of this is relevant to me.

Posting to keep track.

[Torben]

The outcome of this is relevant to me.

Posting to keep track.

notify button lower right,  douchebag   

[[ptx]]

notify button lower right,  douchebag   

That's different, i just want this to show up on unread replies,

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douchebag

 

[polkafranzi]

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[Vibe]

stick the poleaxe in his pooper

[BlindGuy]

The CHEEK on some ppl huh?

[Grumbs]

If you made a very reasonable attempt to reverse the trade you should be able to keep it after a while if he's messing around. Just make sure you get back your war hammer or gold value too

[BlindGuy]

If you made a very reasonable attempt to reverse the trade you should be able to keep it after a while if he's messing around. Just make sure you get back your war hammer or gold value too

true, warhammer is not cheap. Infact, YOU should ask for money also, since this guy is giving you the runaround.

[Bulzur]

Publicly putting the shame on that guy is what cRPG forum is what about.

Well done, since that guy is indeed unworthy of any trust.
Save his loomed weapon, waiting for a gentle "please give back", but he even has to show the rules, and try to add gold in th transaction.

If i didn't know better, i'd say this Lothar_the_Slayer_II is used to doing all this to actually scam in gold poor fellow who accepted his previous transaction.
In fear of a bad reputation, or worse, they'll do the reverse trade adding money on top of it. Filthy Lothar indeed.

[[ptx]]

Purpose of this thread is both to draw attention to the fact, that, if this is indeed an attempt at blackmail, such things simply won't go through, as well as to establish a precedent - AFAIK, no one has done such a thing before (or, at least, not been reported).

[Ulmarth]

Ok so quick update so ptx can see.

I got this reply :

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Lothar_the_Slayer_II
06/11/2013 14:02:59
to Fenris_Ulmarth_Mad_Haggis
Hi Ulmarth,

I am very sorry if you understood my message as being rude. that was not my intention at all :-(. In my native language we don't use politeness markers very often and I clearly see that this has affected my EN writing as well. Please accept my sincere apologies.

What I really meant was that I would be very thankful if you would be kind enugh to return my poleaxe to me in return for your warhammer and 15k gold.

I was merely posting the rule as a formality, in case you were not aware (for all I knew at that time, you might have been a troll). I am glad that you are not a troll though and thank you a lot for securing the poleaxe from trolls.

I haven't dealt with mistakes in the market place before, so I am not used to this process. I actually wanted to give you 10K gold, but I failed yet again and added them to the wrong sid eof the offer (OMG how hard can it be???).

I have rearranged the offer and I will give you 15k

Hope that you may forgive my unintentional rudeness from before and my incredible clumsyness on dealing on the market.

Thanks a lot and kind regards,
Lothar

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Fenris_Ulmarth_Mad_Haggis
06/11/2013 14:52:57
to Lothar_the_Slayer_II
Thank you for the much better reply, please remake the auction for just the hammer i done this to save the loom not make money.

I understood that you are maybe a new player and this is why i traded not to take the loom for profit.

I will trade back when u create this new trade

Kind Regards
Mad Haggis.

And he did, and i traded back the poleaxe.

Case closed i guess unless he was trying to safe face (my paranoid side of the brain)

But yea thank you to ptx for the advice. And can lock thread.