New Goldseller spam, Square please fix

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Originally Posted by kidvideo

Same! I don't understand the logic behind this new tactic. Why would they want to make themselves more annoying? That's the opposite of good salesmanship.

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It's kind of like the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" rule. All they care about is making sure you see their name/URL often enough that you'll think of it if you ever do decide you want to buy gil from someone.

So, they're trying to stay off of people's blacklists so they can keep spamming them. They've been using the /tell and then disconnect pattern for a while, to exploit SE's rule that you cannot blacklist someone unless they're online (which is another rule I wish SE would change to avoid this exploit). But a lot of players are getting pretty fast about blacklisting, and can get it in before the gilseller has time to disconnect. By adding in the extra Friend invite, they make it take a moment longer before anyone can blacklist them, and that gives them the time to logout, so they can't be blacklisted.

They're probably also hoping to catch an occasional new player who's just joined the game, is looking for friends to play it with, and will accept a random friend invite mistaking it for a genuine offer of friendship. Then the gilseller can't be blacklisted for a much longer time (until the player realizes what's going on and finds where to remove them from the friend list), and they get the new tool of gil spam through moogle-mail.

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Originally Posted by kidvideo

Same! I don't understand the logic behind this new tactic. Why would they want to make themselves more annoying? That's the opposite of good salesmanship.

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RMT has never cared about how you feel, the goal is to make sure you see the adverstiment, back when this game started they were incredibly aggressive and was spamming you nonestop in shouts, tells, yells, everywhere untill they were stopped. they want to catch the weak people.

Regardless of what they "promise" you they are only after gill, like if anyone is actually stupid enough to use their PL service, good chance you won't be seeing your account again or have a very high chance of it being "hacked" and since you willingly gave your info you are helpless to ever get it back easily.

So they are not "salesmen" as much as they are aggressive salesmen who keep shoving their product in your face regardless if you want their business or not.

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Originally Posted by Mahri

What we really need is a right click > report function.
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Amen. Or at least put a system in place where 1 account being blacklisted by X number of people in Y period of time be flagged for investigation.

I mean come on 1 person getting blacklisted by 200 people in an hour? Check that #(*&@ out.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Why would anyone want to buy from someone who does that to them?
That's just counter progressive.

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Telemarketing, e-mail spam, snail mail spam, web popups - most people find these annoying as well. The problem is that they are so very, very cheap; if even a tenth of a percent of recipients take the bait, the marketing has paid for itself and more.

As long as a gilseller finds that ONE individual in a thousand who gets that tell and friend request and instead of instantly hitting blacklist thinks to himself, "Damn, this Novus is a pain. If only I had a little more gil to buy Det Materia..." then all of the effort was worthwhile.