Sunday, February 13, 2005

A rant, and some other stuff

Let me start with the other stuff.

Betteh wore this outfit for about a day, there are two versions - the colorful, and the not-quite-as-colorful. She's wearing neither now.

She ate this food called Savory Deviant's Delight, and it gave her a disguise!

Sight-seeing at the Tomb of Uther.

OK Here's the Rant...

People who do this attempted scam on the Auction House really annoy me. First of all, who is stupid enough to fall for it? Secondly, even trying to get away with it is just cheesy and lame beyond belief.

Here's one example. I really shouldn't have blurred the scammer's name, but there it is. Notice how the scammer has listed a buyout price of approximately the appropriate numeric value - but in gold, not silver. Lame.

Here's an even worse example. See how this same person has several listings for Thick Armor Kits? Most of them he has priced at 60s starting bid, 80s buyout. Then he lists one with an 80g buyout, hoping to trick a person not paying close attention into giving him a fat payday. Extremely lame.

I hope nobody actually falls for these things. One could argue "buyer beware," and if you're not paying close enough attention at the AH, maybe you deserve to be tricked. I would argue that it takes a pretty low person to resort to scamming like this on the AH in the first place. I make a note of the names of these scammers, and try not to purchase anything from them.

Be careful out there!