Stalking and Harassment on the Market Board

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This ins't the first time my friend has been harrassed on the market board. This other player has basicly admitted to stalking when they changed their retainer's name to, Staulkerofscumbags.

My friend said that they have made attempts at changing retainer names and even waiting for an amount of time to pass before relisting their items. A few days ago, I noticed a random player speaking with my friend in /Say chat. They specificly mentioned my friend's retainer on another server after my friend had changed that retainer's name. That retainer wasn't selling anything with a signature on it so, how could that player have known or even guessed that retainer belonged to my friend? This random player was using an alt character from a different server from the one my friend was selling on, so they were clearly trying to hide their identity.

Since my friend observes the market board all day to fight against bots, you can figure out who's retainer belongs to who based on many facters.
1. If you have a retainer out on your plot of land, someone can come by and look at what you're selling and see which is your retainer's name.
2. Is obvious, your signature is placed on the items you crafted, so when you post them another player knows your retainer's name.
3. If a player intentionally follows another player's market activity they can figure out their retainer's name. This works vise versa, someone could be watching the activity of a specific retainer to determine who that retainer belongs to.
4. If you are competing with another player for the sale of an item, the other player can purchase your item and then immidiately post it after buying, doing this would allow you to know who the retainer belongs to.

At this point in time there are a lot of players who are familiar with my friend's market activity and retainers. Simply changing retainer names and spacing out items, doesn't work if the other player is wacthing the market board or specificly watching my friend's activity.

For example: if my friend buys a high value minion and lists it higher, the other player will see his activity and buy the same item moments later and then prevent my friend from selling it. If my friend removes the item and transfers it to another server the player will do the same. If my freind removes the item, the other player will either change their price to 99,999,999 or remove it and wait for my friend to change retainers.

If you want proof, go to Goblin and look at Voidcast Barding, one item is listed at 99,999,999 not undercutting the one listed at 909k. You can also see this retainer is selling Eventide Sword Stand listed at the same price. I won't include the items that my friend is selling, however, there are other items that this player is selling with multiple retainers which are either insults to my friend or similar names to his retainers.

Last time I checked players don't intentionally change their retainer names to insult other players or change them to match their competitor's retainer names from other servers.

Feel free to speak to my friend directly. They're always at my FC house.