Quote Originally Posted by ChrisBabaganoosh View Post
If people are undercutting that severely, I'm buying that shit up and reposting it.
That's an excellent idea, which benefits you and the seller both!

...as long as you haven't misread the market. If you buy all that cheap stuff and relist for a price that few are willing to pay anymore, you wind up with egg on your face.

Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
They said it was griefing, which to me read as me breaching the ToS. I have sent numerous reports to the GMs about myself over perceived rule breaking. More than I can count. I'm very tough about rules. A very black and white approach to them too.
I'd like to say that this is an admirable attitude to have - but sadly, it is not. Very few things in the ToS can be properly interpreted in black-and-white terms. Consider, for example, Yoshi P's stance on selling housing plots to other players. He says that it's absolutely an infraction to resell a property for an enormous sum of money - but does not go into any specifics as to how much "an enormous sum" actually is. Debate on what an appropriate price is to sell a plot has generated more than one thread on these forums - and in the end, it all comes down to the mood of players observing the sale (who may or may not report the individual) and the whims of the GM assigned to investigate (who likely also has no official rulebook stating how much is too much).

Worse, by frequently reporting yourself (or anyone else!) to the GM for minor infractions, the GMs are distracted from handling more serious issues, such as freeing players who have gotten stuck due to some game glitch ("I'm trapped behind my bed, I can't reach the door, and can't use Return or Teleport inside an Inn room - please help!").

On top of this, it sounds as though you reported yourself just because someone told you you were griefing. This indicates an uncomfortable degree of credulity; folks say all kinds of unfortunate things when they are angry. Even if you do not have the tendency to resort to emotional outbursts when frustrated, it's important to understand that many, if not most, other players will from time to time. When someone confronts you for some wrongdoing you've supposedly done, you should verify that you're actually in the wrong before incriminating yourself. You seem to be doing so in this thread - but you did so AFTER reporting yourself. That seems backwards to me: you should verify your own guilt before submitting yourself for punishment. Leaving it to overworked GMs to decide whether you're guilty or innocent is the lazy way out.

At any rate, I hope that you've learned from this thread that undercutting is not against any rule. Yes, it will make some folks mad, but just about anything you do on the market has a shot of doing that. For that matter, anything you do in game or even in real life has a chance of angering someone. People come in all kinds, some more reasonable than others, and this sometimes results in friction. It is unavoidable, as long as you're interacting with other people in any capacity at all.