So how bout them Rental Skills

I'm not faulting anyone here except those who seem to be ok with greed, including Nexon itself. People with this type of "I'm just doing business hurrdurr" mentality will do anything they can to serve themselves and don't give a crap about anyone else. This pure selfishness is the worst thing about the game, more so than Nexon's mismanagement of it. Your "don't hate the player, hate the game" excuse is overused and cliche. It's the same excuse that was used when the OPQ exp glitch came about, it's the same excuse that was used by MTS merchants who sold hacked items, it's the same excuse used by greedy businessmen in the real world or people sitting on welfare and taking advantage of the system instead of making themselves actually useful and looking for a job they're easily capable of doing.

@the other guy: So you'd expect a store to not give you any kind of refund for a shirt that you noticed had a hole after you bought it?

Except the hole would have been there to be seen already. You would have willingly bought it with a hole.

You really can't compare Maplestory's economy to real life's without having some glaring problems with that. There is no governmental system to prevent someone from scamming someone else in Maplestory. The GM presence is nonexistant, the Ticketing system is a joke. Whether you like it or not, people will be greedy. Its how this game has unfortunatly panned out. You cannot force someone to stop being greedy just because you dont like it. People are going to do what they want because ITS A GAME. You dont play maplestory to try and replicate real life or its faults, You play it to have fun. Dont like the greedy merchants? Dont buy from them. Simple as that. Ignore them and go about your business. Nobody is forcing you to buy items from them, Nor is anyone forcing you to buy the best/greatest item to try and have "godly" damage. You put that upon yourself.

You may be sick of people being greedy on maple, I'm sick of people acting arrogant and superior whenever they feel they are in the right.