What's wrong with this picture?

[balissis]

I almost got scammed on Atl today. Be careful if you are buying cheap pirate hats on VS. Thought they fixed things like this with Power Scrolls. Guess no thought was put into the event reward drops. You can see folks have bought some of the 175m versions of Tricorne Hats.

 

[FishinFool]

Evil will always triumph because good is dumb

 

[Chrille]

Just wondering why would anyone pay 175 mil for a pirate hat? If it was 50k then maybe someone could fall for this scam but at 175mil?

 

[Pawain]

Just wondering why would anyone pay 175 mil for a pirate hat? If it was 50k then maybe someone could fall for this scam but at 175mil?

Exactly. At what point in the event was a hat worth 1M? Much less 175?

 

[Grugot]

I bought it. I think it looks nice.

 

[Scarlett]

there are quite a few that are doing this trick.. one was selling them for less than 300k each

 

[Phantasmagorian]

People who fall for the 175M scam are apparently as dim as they are rich. I am half-kidding, but if you so casually spend 175M where you don't pay enough attention to realize what you're buying... you may be too rich for your own good.

 

[Smeckle]

when you click buy and have plats or plat or that much gold it auto pays instantly is how they are getting Away with it just hold a million gold in your shopper's account and you will not have that problem lol

 

[Louboutin]

A little self accountability goes a long way. I got sold a fake black dye tub for all my gold back in 2000 and learned a valuable lesson.

 

[balissis]

So, they are putting a bunch of Tricorn hats on a vendor for 175,000 and sprinkling the 175,000,000 mil hats in the bunch.

You can see from the image that someone bought the expensive hats. When you are buying a lot of them fast I can see how someone could get fooled.

 

[Pawain]

So, they are putting a bunch of Tricorn hats on a vendor for 175,000 and sprinkling the 175,000,000 mil hats in the bunch.

You can see from the image that someone bought the expensive hats. When you are buying a lot of them fast I can see how someone could get fooled.

How do you know what someone else bought?

 

[balissis]

How do you know what someone else bought?

I'm assuming because when I looked at this vendor's bags there were rows of hats missing in the lot. The person was putting a 175m hat every 3rd or 4th hat. You can see that in the image I posted, there were 3 missing/purchased.

 

[Pawain]

They should make a confirmation gump that shows the price before we buy items.

 

[Keven2002]

They should make a confirmation gump that shows the price before we buy items.

Assuming you are being sarcastic because we do have that. The biggest problem with that screen is they decided not use a logical number format and display the number with comma separators.

 

[Stinky Pete]

Lol. I laugh every time someone falls for this. How Trammel can someone be to cry that they were scammed by numbers. Why can't people just pay attention to what they're doing?

 

[Stinky Pete]

Assuming you are being sarcastic because we do have that. The biggest problem with that screen is people won't read it and instead choose to whine on forums because of their inability to do so.

FTFY