Almost since day one, I was part of a very small group on Atlantic that was charged with helping newer players. Never giving a fish to a better that will feed him for a day... TEACHING him how to fish to feed him a life time.
I had NOT gotten hold of the first stand-along mall yet... and that was in big part to the 9/11 lock up the staff (of the time did) that made a new RASH of scammers pretending to sell houses they didnt own... by first time house buyers. A little black scroll... as it would look like in the real case of selling a house. The scammer would stand under the sign offering a common 5 gold scroll and hope the victim wouldnt click on it. 1-5 million in stolen funds and the staff doing nothing to police the system... as they MADE the issue... and refuse to correct it for years. Then the scroll changed to an open vivid blue scroll that could not be copied at all... that was a massive fix.
Before the fix... I had unexperienced friends looking for house... all the time. Any real house up for real sale didnt last all that long, so I'd have to drop what I was doing and simply change places with the friend buying the house. Then, sure as could be, it was a blank scroll scam... the criminal would recall off, busted... and the word would go out of his name and scam. I honestly dont know how many times I stood-in catching the criminal... or simple educated the buyer so the scammers couldn't pull the same crime.
So... in a way... as SMALL as the range of houses I was dealing in... I was a broker. Not that I claim to save the univerce... I was helping. Fee? Any donation would do. I wasnt pressed for gold... not having much. Sometimes I got the rubbish in all the containers. Sell that? Paid.
Houses were not the end of it. Connecting seller of A to buyer B was not uncommon... and without vendors. People all over Atlantic are from ALL OVER THE WORLD. Part of the amazing real magic of our world. I'd pass the goods and checks when both parties couldn't be in the same place at the same time. When the mailboxes came... this was a great help. Hold goods A... drop gold to seller in a mailbox. Cake!
We sure cant do that any more... thanks to the short-sighted removal of gold.
Did you know, on some online selling services... the seller can make goods for sale to YOU and no one else? Anyone would search and search and never find the goods that seller made ready for you. Clearly, when this happens to me... I'm on it soon as I know... OR when I have the funds. Everything agreed before the deal.
I could be wrong. I thought there was some talk about doing personal sales via our vendors... many years ago. Since the Vendor Search (that I love A LOT), you can turn off the search system when you use a vendor to store boxes/containers or even low-priced crafting tools so people wont clean them out... the vendor being off the beaten path from the vendor mall FULL of goods for sale.
Another thing... I always kept a bag with around 30-40 million gold checks so any 1 of my 6 accounts could grab them in a hurry. Those didnt vanish! But they cant be replace.
So now... I have a little problem. 2 friends, that do not know each other… who are on drastically different time systems. The goods... it takes time to collect black and white seeds, doing the ant seed quest, where she needs at least 20 or more seeds before the buyer will deal with it. Its extremely easy for me to take the seeds, pay her on the spot, give him the seeds and he pay me.... BUT I would much prefer getting the checks and handing them off between 2 containers. Containers can NOT hold gold. I also dont trust those wall safe things. Thus... I'm miffed, once again, by the lack of our dependable old check system.
Just saying.
I had NOT gotten hold of the first stand-along mall yet... and that was in big part to the 9/11 lock up the staff (of the time did) that made a new RASH of scammers pretending to sell houses they didnt own... by first time house buyers. A little black scroll... as it would look like in the real case of selling a house. The scammer would stand under the sign offering a common 5 gold scroll and hope the victim wouldnt click on it. 1-5 million in stolen funds and the staff doing nothing to police the system... as they MADE the issue... and refuse to correct it for years. Then the scroll changed to an open vivid blue scroll that could not be copied at all... that was a massive fix.
Before the fix... I had unexperienced friends looking for house... all the time. Any real house up for real sale didnt last all that long, so I'd have to drop what I was doing and simply change places with the friend buying the house. Then, sure as could be, it was a blank scroll scam... the criminal would recall off, busted... and the word would go out of his name and scam. I honestly dont know how many times I stood-in catching the criminal... or simple educated the buyer so the scammers couldn't pull the same crime.
So... in a way... as SMALL as the range of houses I was dealing in... I was a broker. Not that I claim to save the univerce... I was helping. Fee? Any donation would do. I wasnt pressed for gold... not having much. Sometimes I got the rubbish in all the containers. Sell that? Paid.
Houses were not the end of it. Connecting seller of A to buyer B was not uncommon... and without vendors. People all over Atlantic are from ALL OVER THE WORLD. Part of the amazing real magic of our world. I'd pass the goods and checks when both parties couldn't be in the same place at the same time. When the mailboxes came... this was a great help. Hold goods A... drop gold to seller in a mailbox. Cake!
We sure cant do that any more... thanks to the short-sighted removal of gold.
Did you know, on some online selling services... the seller can make goods for sale to YOU and no one else? Anyone would search and search and never find the goods that seller made ready for you. Clearly, when this happens to me... I'm on it soon as I know... OR when I have the funds. Everything agreed before the deal.
I could be wrong. I thought there was some talk about doing personal sales via our vendors... many years ago. Since the Vendor Search (that I love A LOT), you can turn off the search system when you use a vendor to store boxes/containers or even low-priced crafting tools so people wont clean them out... the vendor being off the beaten path from the vendor mall FULL of goods for sale.
Another thing... I always kept a bag with around 30-40 million gold checks so any 1 of my 6 accounts could grab them in a hurry. Those didnt vanish! But they cant be replace.
So now... I have a little problem. 2 friends, that do not know each other… who are on drastically different time systems. The goods... it takes time to collect black and white seeds, doing the ant seed quest, where she needs at least 20 or more seeds before the buyer will deal with it. Its extremely easy for me to take the seeds, pay her on the spot, give him the seeds and he pay me.... BUT I would much prefer getting the checks and handing them off between 2 containers. Containers can NOT hold gold. I also dont trust those wall safe things. Thus... I'm miffed, once again, by the lack of our dependable old check system.
Just saying.