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Online Site Selling Ships, Items and PLEX for isk @ under Jita prices?
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isk4trade
Cogitation Mining and Industrial Trading
#1 - 2014-02-13 17:25:15 UTC
They have been advertising on Arnon Local Chat lately and have an OK looking website.

They claim to be able to do this as they have large stock and don't have to bother with one-cent-undercutting bots in Jita.

Has anyone seen their ads? ... sorry lost the URL ... will ad here if I find it again ... and if so has anyone had any experience with them good or bad ? ...

... and its is against the TOS or EULA to arrange sales of goods and/or PLEX for isk (NOT RWM) to be consumated in game?

thanks,

me

Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#2 - 2014-02-13 17:27:33 UTC
If they're trading in-game items for isk, its a-ok. Its no different than arranging a sale on a private forum or via phone call or on the sell orders forum here.

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Abaat
Entropy Industries
#3 - 2014-02-13 17:28:04 UTC
Nope, not against the rules to arrange for a valid isk to plex transfer in game in any fashion, whether it be on the phone, irc, a website, etc.

It's fishy though, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was something illegitimate happening on the seller's end, but regardless accepting a contract with isk for a plex will never be against the eula unless real money is involved.
mcdoodle
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#4 - 2014-02-13 17:29:48 UTC
Watch out for keyloggers
djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#5 - 2014-02-13 17:34:41 UTC
I'd be super skeptical about doing business with anyone for items that can be traded on the open market - without using the open market.

I'd advise against it.
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#6 - 2014-02-13 17:59:13 UTC
The only advantage I can think of to using a website to sell in-game items when the market is perfectly capable of doing the exact same thing is to avoid market bots and competition.

Also to upload a virus, malware, or other nasty business to your computer.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2014-02-13 18:10:15 UTC
Soldarius wrote:
The only advantage I can think of to using a website to sell in-game items when the market is perfectly capable of doing the exact same thing is to avoid market bots and competition.

Also to upload a virus, malware, or other nasty business to your computer.

Well, to buy anything on a 3rd party site you first have to send some isk to your account on that site... Roll

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Pyllantra
Corporexu
#8 - 2014-02-13 19:44:22 UTC
Fishyyyy
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-02-13 19:48:53 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
Soldarius wrote:
The only advantage I can think of to using a website to sell in-game items when the market is perfectly capable of doing the exact same thing is to avoid market bots and competition.

Also to upload a virus, malware, or other nasty business to your computer.

Well, to buy anything on a 3rd party site you first have to send some isk to your account on that site... Roll


a lot of work went into that scam. i'm impressed
isk4trade
Cogitation Mining and Industrial Trading
#10 - 2014-02-13 20:13:59 UTC
Well thanks for your input ... I was hoping that someone had seen the ad and caught the URL ... I will post it here if I can find it again ...

I was hoping to get it all out in the open and under a spotlight and I still am ...

me


Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#11 - 2014-02-13 21:31:52 UTC
Posting in obvious advertisement for a scammer. IBTL.

Signature removed - CCP Eterne
isk4trade
Cogitation Mining and Industrial Trading
#12 - 2014-02-14 13:51:58 UTC
Well I guess its one of those things that seem "too good to be true" and probably for a reason ...

me
Marie Trudeau
Trudeau Industrie SA
#13 - 2014-02-14 14:00:31 UTC
isk4trade wrote:
Well I guess its one of those things that seem "too good to be true" and probably for a reason ...

me


Yes. With the market, contracts, trade channels and bulk trading mailing lists already available in the game, it's ... not the best risk.