EVE General Discussion

Type your scam into local, hit enter, then run a keyboard macro that does Ctrl+Up every 30 seconds and presses enter.
(At least, that's how I would do it).

Simplest way to avoid the market scam is to put lowest price first, so all the high prices are down at the bottom of the list. Might have to scroll a bit to get to your current available market on station sometimes though.

I once did the whole "i will double your isk" in jita local a few times out of boredom and a guy sent me something silly like 5.6 million isk and an evemail saying if i doubled it he would be able to buy a cruiser he really wanted and that was all the isk he had, if only he had more, etc etc.

I felt bad and refunded it, then sent him double anyway....


...I think he scammed me...

lol, thanks for the tips guys, on my way to be a billionaire!

"There is a sucker born every minute." P. T. Barnum

"Every crowd has a silver lining. " P. T. Barnum

^ This is so far from original i feel sorry for you..

Anyway.

Once when i won a ship on the lottery, i recieved a contract minutes after claiming the prize. This is the usual way to recieve prizes from the lottery.

Catch was the player had seen me win on the lottery site and issued his own contract to me before they did, his contract was for a billion isk instead of for free. I'm so used to just quick accepting these prize contracts i honestly almost fell for it. Player issuing the contract was even called LOTTERY PRIZE FUND or something similar.

Nice :)

I did once a long time ago, aside from the not so scammy Margin Trading games. Those are more like long, elaborate cons; truly they are more effective the longer someone spends on them.

The ones I fell for were relatively invested, with long histories and in one case, actual T2 Rigs that you might expect to be profitable. Actually both had T2 Rigs, but one had something I was somewhat convinced might be a Collectible, which was the marketed item, in addition to the rigs.

I actually figured if the marketed item didn't fly, the rigs would cover the majority of my losses. I'd calculated, between the 2 Contracts, I stood to make nearly 1.4 Billion profit off the rigs alone. I was wrong. Someone had stitched the price history together going back a month or more, then lumped all the T2 Rigs, (small, and mostly drone rigs which was the issue), into 2 contracts on different characters.

Might have been two players, but I doubt it. The first contract was actually fairly legit and only involved some market manipulation rather than a Margin trade ploy. The third I'd almost forgotten about, was one I found just after I fell for the first 2, (I was having a good night), and with that one I figured I'd see if I could set it up to beat them at their own game. I actually arranged everything so I could click through as fast as possible.



It was after that I learned about the Margin Trading skill, and how it really worked. Sadly, I dumped ~ 2 Billion on the Drones, 1.4 Billion on the 2nd Contract, and another 1.8 Billion or so on the third. I don't recall what the third had in it, but I was rather angry at that point so it didn't matter.

Turns out you can't beat a game mechanic. If they'd actually been players, I'd have had them if they'd been sitting at the same table running the scam. Literally, less than 1 second between Contract accept and sell. Yes, I was that fast.

Aside from that, I think I bungled a few Buys and sells, getting items for too much, or selling them for too little before the 5 minute time lapse to change order was over, (scammed myself), and might have even accepted a phony Contract once for not too much loss. I think I even got something out of it, it's just that it wasn't worth what I paid.

That's EVE for you.

using "new players" as a euphemism for "idiots" isn't being honest now is it

Best tip of the day for anyone wanting to avoid a scam in Jita.

Do not read/click anything in local!

Except if it is something sent by me .. in which case you know you can trust it and should accept straight away.

Never been scammed nope. I did get an APOC for a real good price once on a contract in Jita local... But one thing I've found in addition to being careful, for the most part, don't have more than 50 Million in your wallet when in Jita. But of course everyone knows (or should know) PAY ATTENTION...