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Risk vs Reward
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Nephthys Tacita
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-07-25 09:11:21 UTC
One common theme in eve is risk vs. rewards.
The big rewards usually involve bigger risks.

So out of curiousity, how rewarding are the average scamming enterprises ?
What kind of risks are involved ?

Did you follow some sort of progression from basic, mostly riskless activities to more profitable activities ?
Odin Tribus
KFC Delivery Service
#2 - 2012-07-25 09:26:45 UTC
go to jita
lanyaie
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#3 - 2012-07-25 10:11:36 UTC
This npc alt is not even trying..5oesn't even have a face

Spaceprincess

People who put passwords on char bazaar Eveboards are the worst.
Tah'ris Khlador
Space Ghosts.
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#4 - 2012-07-25 13:11:55 UTC
lanyaie wrote:
This npc alt is not even trying..5oesn't even have a face


The risk was too great.

Member of the Pink Pony Killboard Padding Alliance
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#5 - 2012-07-25 14:43:16 UTC
The risk in scamming is spending days or weeks without a single reward. It relies completely on the gullibility of others; every scammer risks investing all their play time in a completely fruitless activity.

The problem is, people actually FALL for these things.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Ristlin Wakefield
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-07-25 15:43:13 UTC
I suggest running scams as a hobby thing to do while you are at a trade center on actual business. Like Floppie said, the biggest risk is wasting your time.

I have a lover, her name is EVE. I see her every night and all she asks in return is that I have a pilot's license.
Xzi Shihari
Shadow Legion X
Seriously Suspicious
#7 - 2012-07-28 06:23:18 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
The risk in scamming is spending days or weeks without a single reward. It relies completely on the gullibility of others; every scammer risks investing all their play time in a completely fruitless activity.

The problem is, people actually FALL for these things.


Yeah I believe the only risk in scamming is your time and your alt's reputation.

I believe the saying applies better to PvP.