2009-11-14, 10:25 PM
There are people who are good at FM and do everythign from legit transactions to scamming. And there are people that just BUY in FM, and they hate stuff like this.
My answer is that this is all Nexon's fault. Nexon made the FM in such a way that you need NX for everything -- Mush shops, owls, chalkboards, Smegas to advertise huge items, etc. Gaia Online may be a $hithole, but its marketplace is very user friendly, and completely free. You simply list your item, it's right there with the same items by other sellers, and a person can freely search for it, compare the prices, and buy. I think on Gaia, Exchangers, (their FMers,) REALLY scam, because they actively create deceptive situations that exploit loopholes in the market system, but on Maple it's really really ambiguous because of the vastly differing levels of information various people come with.'
In this situation... honestly, if you CAME UP to a guy and offered this transaction, you'd be scamming. But when dealing with a store, the dynamic is different, so while this situation was unfortunate (for him) it's not scamming.
My answer is that this is all Nexon's fault. Nexon made the FM in such a way that you need NX for everything -- Mush shops, owls, chalkboards, Smegas to advertise huge items, etc. Gaia Online may be a $hithole, but its marketplace is very user friendly, and completely free. You simply list your item, it's right there with the same items by other sellers, and a person can freely search for it, compare the prices, and buy. I think on Gaia, Exchangers, (their FMers,) REALLY scam, because they actively create deceptive situations that exploit loopholes in the market system, but on Maple it's really really ambiguous because of the vastly differing levels of information various people come with.'
In this situation... honestly, if you CAME UP to a guy and offered this transaction, you'd be scamming. But when dealing with a store, the dynamic is different, so while this situation was unfortunate (for him) it's not scamming.