Uh, are you even allowed to show curse words even if they are through links, cause I've gotten 2 notifications from GMs about using foul language.

Maybe for everybody else. This is the first time I've never asked someone for inspection of their gear before buying though. I recall my other purchases like the Umbra driver. So, I guess the moral of the story is to encourage more physical/electronic robbery because no one is there to regulate it.

So alright, I feel that the honest buyers aren't going to be protected at all, and I guess it all results in more potential income for them. I don't want to get into how taking a risk in Spiral Knights is different from other kinds like from financial investments, cause I'm not completely sure if they're all similar, cause I guess you can be cheated if you forward the money in some indirect sense cause I'm not sure if financial institutions would have you waiver their responsibility as I don't have that experience. Anyway, I feel that they could easily give back the money, but won't, either cause they'll believe the story is fabricated or whatnot.

Anyways, I should've inspect the guy first, even though that is probably no way to secure the trade or minimize the risk. I wish there was some freaking sleepy-proof ways to protect the buyer, cause man, I shouldn't have stayed up all night.

As the saying goes "You'd think it'd can't be scammed or whatever, but then that day comes". My excitement overcame my common sense. Plus, I'd questioned why in my head once he would sell at that price, and my guess was that it was x-mas and he was in the spirit of generosity. Cause the guy knew what he had and I knew immediately after what he said at the bazaar. When he asked me why he wouldn't give me the full 1kce(400 ce of profit) he told me that everybody would want a sword at that deal or something. I took snapshots, and will post them if anybody wants to see later on.

Calling out good or decent players is bad. But calling out punks like Epicpwnster is something that should be encouraged for other people to benefit in the future and to watch out for the guy. You shouldn't discourage that at least. At least for guys that just walk out and quit the game out on you after taking your items. The guy had a dusker set, which still shouldn't fool anyone(since regular sellers use beginner gear sets), since they can just delete their account and make a new temporary one. Unless they're that mental about getting ce and paying the costs to recraft or re-buy 3* sets, I hope that is not an intense practice for people like him.

And I only euphemistically cursed.

I think using a middle-man like boost is a great idea, so it protects both the buyer from getting his CE stolen and also the seller from paying unbinds(but I think the seller would eventually find a buyer anyway). It's a good way to protect yourself from mistakes, but I'm guessing this would take a lot of work, and that people have faith on the current peer to peer trade system and that people will operate their brains at 100% at all times.

No, but that's because I operated my logic on past events and most people have trusted me on paying upfront unbinding fees and vice versa. This was the only deal that went wrong. There are still some shady people in this world.