Beware Astramentis Stellar Amulet scammers - Its GGGs fault i think
" And yet scams would still happen. It's on the players to check. The devs can't hold everyone's hands on trading. |
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" Yes, scams will still happen. Very good, Exile. But actually, there is a lot they could do to help prevent it. But they just don't. So the scams and RMT bots continue. |
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" Oh, okay. I see now. I didn't understand where the switch was. The person posted an actual Unidentified Astramentis on the trade site, so the site is not in error. Then when I went to make a trade, they gave an unidentified unique "Stellar Amulet" with the same All Attribute stats in the trade, but I should have noticed the image is a slightly different round silver amulet with a silver chain. It is my bad. I trade while at work on my phone using the Xbox App. The images are really tiny. The text magnifies and I paid more attention to that rather then really studying the image. It is a poor design choice to have two Uniques of the same base with nearly the same image... but it is what it is. I get people that say that you should know by the price, but it's not that simple. I pick up items all the time for 1/2 to 1/10th of what they are generally traded for. Plenty of people don't know what a thing is worth or just want a quick sale. I do 20-100 trades a day and 99.9% are very fast with no intent to deceive. But yes... still on me. |
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" I mean, stuff like that sadly happens because scammers are a pest, but at least you are aware of that strategy now. The PoE1 community was pushing for many years a "market" (ppl call it AH) where we just set items up for a price and ppl can buy them out. GGG at least admitted that they understand that they need to go with the time and implement it. A modern ARPG without an "AH" is basically a joke - regarding trade and the only ppl benefiting from trade how it is now are scammers. Sadly we don't know how long it will take GGG to develop the "market", so we have to deal with this trade system for now. |
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" IMO expecting players to know scams by the price is a poor excuse. But yeah, trading without properly being able to see which items you're buying is pretty risky, specially these high-value items... Living and learning |
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They have more important things to do than work on ways to prevent scams that players can prevent themselves. Zuletzt bearbeitet von StrykerxS77x#8221 um 11.02.2025, 19:51:00
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Would of never happened with an auction house or automated trade with a list of items you're trading for.
Truly this is beyond comprehension having a list on the left or right side of the trade window displaying every item in the trade window. Wow, innovative, was only introduced in the early 2000's. Zuletzt bearbeitet von BIGMP#3106 um 12.02.2025, 00:05:59
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" The Trade site does not list them as "Unidentified" Astramentis. It lists it as "Unidentified" Stellar Amulet. Yes the images are the same but the is a high chance the Stellar Amulet is NOT an Astramentis. |
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" Short of doing the trade for you.....GGG has literally done EVERYTHING in their power to stop scams. At some point, the player needs to take ownership of their own inattentiveness. In order to be scammed, a player needs to totally ignore 4 layers of GGG-created anti-scam. 1) Trade site with full info and a picture of what you are getting 2) Trade screen with no time limit 3) You MUST look at the item prior to completing a trade 4) You MUST press a green checkbox to confirm AFTER looking at the item. What more could they possibly do?! Again....short of doing the trade for you. Dicks exist everywhere, games are no exception. There is no way to prevent them entirely. YOU need to protect yourself, just like you do irl with secure info and passwords and things. Starting anew....with PoE 2 Zuletzt bearbeitet von cowmoo275#3095 um 12.02.2025, 12:05:40
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An auctionhouse would eliminate that king of scam.
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