Cat Shop Scam

Heh I had the same issue with that on my sever too. I Reported it and sent a ticket but the player is still there of course after some one bought her tokens for 114k she put up a "normal" shop. Still think she deserves to get banned.. but not sure if they ban it. I hope it helps a bit.

Same thing happened to me. Someone was selling teles for 14k, buying for 140k and it didn't work. I'd like some kind of answer for this.

Airyll - Dreamweaver wrote: »

It becomes a scam when this person is watching their cat shop and the instant they have enough money to potentially "buy" the item that people try and sell them, they leave shop, put the money in the bank so they are down to 0 coin once again, and then set up their shop again, meaning players will buy their items but cannot sell them back to the player.

but u cant put in cs something u wanna buy if u dont have enough coins.

Airyll - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Alts exist for a reason. You didn't ever consider these people probably had alts that buy their item from their shop, meaning they no longer have the money on the account cat shopping, then put that money in the bank on their alt?

Tsk tsk.

-edited due to a derp blonde moment-

That doesn't change the fact that you cannot set up a shop with less cash than the items you are trying to buy. the coin total turns red and you can't set up the shop. once you have she shop up, there is not a way to get rid of the coins you currently have that isn't through the sale of items. you can't trade once you are in catshop mode.

EDIT: I just went and tested. You CAN NOT Trade OR drop coins when you are in catshop mode. And since you cannot open a catshop that would create a negative coin balance, how would someone pull this off? They must be taking advantage of some bug to do it, who knows what it is though.

**removed**

Still trying to figure out how you set this up....



So far none of the theories have worked.


Note, this was set to sell at 75k ea and set to buy at 250k ea. The 'Done' button will not highlight to click as long as the coin purchase number is red.

Most scams work by estimulating the victim's greed. It really comes down to basic common sense to figure out that if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Now, take this scam as an example, someone is selling something at a lower price than they're buying. It is obvious something is wrong here. What do people buying think? That the guy who set up shop made a mistake? And what's their answer to that? Let's fleece this dumb **** before he realizes what he's done? LOL Come to me with an honest explanation for why a decent guy would try to buy from this shop and i'll have some simpathy for the so called "victims" of this scam...

Now, there are scams that truly abuse other players. I get especially mad at the people selling pet collars or quest aero at huge mark ups in noob towns, since new players have no way of knowing what the real value of this items is. Yes, the scam does rely on the ignorance of the target but in this instance is abusing llegitimate intentions.

Buyer beware. Back when CS was a common activity there were people who would sell the stones at a bargain trying to slip a higher priced one on the idea people would not verify the price on every single stone. It unfortunately made it a common thing for many people to price check every single item they were buying. And this is what you're suposed to do irl, so maybe scams do teach you valuable lessons. Are people running scams scum? Yes, but it is often the case that it's scum that fall for them. The scam the OP is describing falls in this category, it encourages you to take advantage of someone else to make a profit. No inocent explanation for this, people falling for this are greedy, abusive and, most of all, dumb...

Yeah, I believe this is a bannable offense; please take a screen shot and submit a ticket