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Ahrendel
Without a doubt a scam. You want to push your wares, then stick your butt in the AH and re-list items as you're undercut.
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Azazel
It's their own choice to buy your stuff from the AH. You are in no way forcing them to buy it. It's not a scam.
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489833
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Post by
asakawa
How about not worrying about semantics or what someone could prove and thinking about the person who loses out because you're being deceptive.
Whether a GM would ban you for it or not, it's still an unkind thing to do to another player so why would you consider doing it?
Post by
ZombieJesus
it's still an unkind thing to do to another player so why would you consider doing it?
to make money
i dont care about other people
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Jubilee
You're lying. It may not be a legal scam (because there is no contract), but that doesn't mean you're not scamming them. If you deceive someone for the sake of taking something from them that they would not otherwise part with, then I don't know what else you'd call it than a scam.
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deathbyte
How about not worrying about semantics or what someone could prove and thinking about the person who loses out because you're being deceptive.
As I agree it is deceptive on the sellers part, it is also deceptive on the one buying the item off the AH. He/she wants to make a profit by buying that item off the AH nd selling it to another person. I think that would be a devious plan on the buyers part with their intentions.
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489833
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Jubilee
How is "it's just a game" an excuse for anything? Games exist. The are part of real life. What happens in a game actually happens to a real person. It's real.
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489833
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Tartonga
It's their own choice to buy your stuff from the AH. You are in no way forcing them to buy it. It's not a scam.
Despite what everyone else thinks, I agree with you this time. Why does the game have to be way just too plain and simple, whereas the purpose is to simulate real life as much as possible, in the sense that buying and selling has no varieties and you can't outsmart someone? Why is it frowned upon that someone uses his creativity inside a legal frame (since I guess you are not violating anything) to experiment in the game hypothetically real life situations? Why is deception not taken as a natural act that can possibly occur and is instead categorized as a "jerk move"? I think you are being smart rather than being a jerk and I disagree that boundaries should be that tight in this case, where you are just playing and experimenting social changes, since the game does not promote a lot of varieties by itself.
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Jubilee
It's their own choice to buy your stuff from the AH. You are in no way forcing them to buy it. It's not a scam.
Despite what everyone else thinks, I agree with you this time. Why does the game have to be way just too plain and simple, whereas the purpose is to simulate real life as much as possible, in the sense that buying and selling has no varieties and you can't outsmart someone? Why is it frowned upon that someone uses his creativity inside a legal frame (since I guess you are not violating anything) to experiment in the game hypothetically real life situations? Why is deception not taken as a natural act that can possibly occur and is instead categorized as a "jerk move"? I think you are being smart rather than being a jerk and I disagree that boundaries should be that tight in this case, where you are just playing and experimenting social changes, since the game does not promote a lot of varieties by itself.
By that logic taken to an extreme, aren't people who commit murder and get away with it by riding technicalities being smart and acting naturally because they're creatively getting rid of something they see as a problem?
How is "it's just a game" an excuse for anything? Games exist. The are part of real life. What happens in a game actually happens to a real person. It's real.
No, it happens to their character.
They make the decision to spend their gold on my item. The gold that their toon has earned.
Seriously though, WoW is a game, nothing more.
Its Sunday 24th July 2011 right now..... do you remember what you were doing exactly this time last year? No. I'm sure you can say to me that you know what you were doing but that doesn't make it true - you'll just be telling me a story that I'll have to accept because otherwise... well... screenshot or it didn't happen.
Likewise, this time next year, you won't remember this conversation about a Warcraft related topic. You may not even be playing WoW.
In the grand scheme of things, its just a game. Fair enough, some people take it that seriously that they relate it to real life but its just a game.
Again to take a logical train to its conclusion, if I kill your dog, can I defend my actions by saying "it's just a dog"? Just because some act is not as bad as some other act doesn't make the former and less of a bad act in itself.
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489833
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Post by
Jubilee
No one ever said you were forcing anything. What you're doing is lying. You're taking advantage of someone's trust in you.
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