Is this a scam or banable?

[GhostSkull]

Why has MMO-Champion become the forum for discussing how to be a jerk? Yesterday it was bragging about being a parasite in LFR, and today it is taking advantage of the unwary.

[Druidjezus]

Just because you say you will buy something from someone doesn't mean you have to. Nothing changed hands. The only time Blizz will get involved is if you agreed to a trade and 1 side didn't hold up their end. As in, you agree to buy it for 10k, but only put in 1k.

I am not saying Blizz will ALWAYS back you, however I have seen instances where they followed through on complaints of violating verbal agreements. It's the same as in real life, verbal agreements ARE binding. But there's a difference between "WTB '93 Chevy for $3000" and "Hey, I will buy your '93 Chevy for $3000". The first, is almost completely non-binding. The second, however, constitutes an offer; which, if accepted, is a binding agreement. Blizzard, sometimes, treats in game agreements the same way. IRL if this is only spoken then it can turn into a hearsay fest in which case you have no shot of getting recompense if nothing changed hands, however Blizzard can see what people said to each other, so they can easily uphold it if they choose to.

That said, will they? In some cases I have seen friends who had similar things happen (crafted something for someone to sell it to them and they backed out of buying it) have the trades enforced by GMs. I have also seen the opposite where they would not. So simply not making an exchange at all will not prevent a backlash. The important thing is to not make any direct agreements.

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Why has MMO-Champion become the forum for discussing how to be a jerk? Yesterday it was bragging about being a parasite in LFR, and today it is taking advantage of the unwary.

A fool and his gold are soon parted, better they learn the lesson in WoW than in real life when it counts for more. Besides, it's just business, and business is war. Anything goes in war.

[Deafknight]

are you the one making 3 threads in wow eu general ?

[r3d3mpt10n]

Id personally class it as a scam, if you pulled it off..

In all fairness, it does take stupidity of somebody to actually buy the item off the ah from your alt to try and sell back to you.

to be honest though, its more about how you set it up, if you AHed the item, which somebody bought, to try sell back to you, then its not your problem, thats their greed in trying to make a few k more.

Ive seen people fall to this before, and whine about it.. you may get the result of somebody adding you to try sell you the item when you log back on, for you to tell them "that you already have it now, but thanks anyway"

Eventually if you manage to pull it off, it will turn around and bite you on the ass becaus people will eventually become wise to your schemes.