Interesting...
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 06:25
The other day I was walking around the haven, stalking people and dragging them into my guild, when I saw a message on zone chat saying: "If you have Xbox Live meet me in the garden." Well, being the curious person that I am I went to investigate. I walked into the garden and a knight greets me. He asks "You have Xbox Live?" I say, "Yes" He says, "What games do you have?" and I tell him. He asks "You play Halo Reach?" I answer, "Yes" He then tells me that he'll sell me a Halo Reach DLC pack code. We seeing as that I did not have a DLC pack I gave him the money that he asked for. He then ran out saying, "You just got scammed bro." I chased him and reported him. I told him that I reported him. He instantly turned around and gave me the code (which I'm sure doesn't work) and I dropped the complaint. After a little while I logged off and then when I logged back on I found a message from the devs saying: "please do not trade anything in game that cannot be used in game. A slight refund has been given to you." Sure enough I checked my cr and I got almost all of it back. So... what did I learn today? Never hate on OOO again and never trade with anyone under 3*.
-- The one and only (and easily scammable) Dammasta
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 07:10
#2
Well,
I haven't had a chance to try the code yet and who knows? He might have been true. Also he asked me if I had tried the code yet and I said no and he said to let him know when I did so he could rub it in my face when it worked. And I don't think getting banned would have hurt him. If I was a scammer I would have an extra account on hand for when I got banned.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 07:13
#3
..they'd just IP ban you.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 07:47
#4
....
Erh, why not actually try the bloody code before posting this, reporting him and getting a refund? >_>
If the code works though...... what will you do if i may ask?
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 08:23
#5
@Rangerwillx, True dat
@Enclavean I reported him after he scammed not after I got the code. And I thought this was an interesting story to tell you guys, obviously I was wrong. If the code is good I'm gonna be very happy.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 08:33
#6
May I ask why havent you checked it yet? 99% it wont work, but meh.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 09:11
#7
Well...
My Xbox is not with me right now. It's at my Grand Parents house until I can talk mom and dad into letting me bring it home.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 09:26
#8
Wow.
So, uh, even if he'd given you the code immediately. . . you'd have no way of knowing if you'd been scammed till days after the transaction?
Not trying to be mean here, but I think there's a deeper lesson here than "don't trust 1-3*s".
(A lesson for the other guy is "don't declare that you've scammed your victim". If he'd just given you a fake code then, he'd have gotten clean away.)
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 13:38
#9
@Derpules
Haha, I know I'm a moron you don't have to be nice about it.
Glad to hear you got your cr back, but isn't the lesson really "don't perform trades for out-of-game stuff"? Hardly matters what *-level he was at.
Also, you didn't try the code? I mean, I doubt it works too, but I don't see why you'd drop the complaint if you were so sure the code wouldn't work.