Is it just me or are all these gil sellers ran by 14 year old kids?

[Clavaat]

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Yeesh...that's disturbing.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

maybe in addition to one's blacklist macro (mine being: /r t(-.-t ); /bllist add <r>), you add a shout line to the macro that says: /sh Receiving RMT tell from <r>. Please spam <r> with tells

A little payback?

[Marael]

do they understand that 1000k is 1 mil?

Actually, many countries do not use the word "million" for that number, including Japan and China.

[DefendPopPunk]

Like, I mean, for real, like, totally. Like.

[Welsper59]

RMT promoters are essentially the same as those people you see shouting and handing stuff out on the street. They're just yelling out indiscriminately (for the most part) and trying to get your attention for a product or service they know most don't want. This is all in hopes of either getting that one person who buys into it or being remembered for potential future business.

Just because it's a fresh memory, it reminds me of my recent trip to Tokyo. All those Nigerian (mafia?) people asking if I want ***ties or drugs. Or those maid cafe girls handing out fliers. Dat advertising.

[LineageRazor]

maybe in addition to one's blacklist macro (mine being: /r t(-.-t ); /bllist add <r>), you add a shout line to the macro that says: /sh Receiving RMT tell from <r>. Please spam <r> with tells

A little payback?

That's actually a pretty terrible idea, both the reply and the shout. The reply lets the seller know that you're a real person, not another seller, so they can put you on a list to make sure you get more advertising. The shout draws peoples' attention to the seller - INCLUDING potential customers. You're doing their advertising work for them!

And spamming them with tells - they don't care. In all likelihood, they are automated by computer, and can neither understand nor be annoyed by tells. Even if it's a human behind the spam, they will be used to abuse and probably don't even read tells sent their way. Their only purpose is to draw folks' attention to their websites.

[ReplicaX]

Yeesh...that's disturbing.

You miss the article on the Chinese Prison that setup a WoW RMT service using inmates?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...et-gaming-scam

[Kimbot]

Cry cry cry , whine whine whine, me me me

[Clavaat]

You miss the article on the Chinese Prison that setup a WoW RMT service using inmates?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...et-gaming-scam

After I quit FFXI, I never really touched MMO's till now so it hadn't occurred to me to think about. And back then I was a dumb teenager who didn't think about who was actually behind the screen. They are annoying, persistent, using cheating tactics and provide a service counteractive to our idea that this game is always fair. They also aren't actually doing anything illegal (the actual selling that is). You can't be arrested for being a gold farmer. After reading this watching the vids the other poster linked, I gotta say I feel kinda bad for them. China's population is so gigantic it's nearly impossible to find a job, so you take what you can get. Either that, or you're forced to do it (or both). I wouldn't buy gil, but I also wouldn't harass them. Usually the messages are automated anyway.

[TeganLaron]

Sadly as idiotic as these gil sellers are, even stupider people still buy from them.