this overlooks the legitimate use of the skill , buy orders which will be filled gradually , and the issuer’s wallet will keep up through sell orders being filled at the same time .
i saw that the scam requires to buy an overpriced , rare item , to fill -one- buy order . a buy order that could be filled or cancelled and i get stuck with the item .
then i applied the ‘too good to be true’ rule .
then i asked myself ‘am i smarter than the other 2000 people in jita local who seem to have overlooked this great deal ?’
in the OP’s case he answered yes and now has a wonderful memento to remind himself NO YOU’RE NOT .
It really can’t. The key element of the scam is not the offer to pay a lot for an item, if it was just a person saying “I’ll give you 1 billion ISK for this” in local chat hardly anyone would ever fall for the scam. The thing that makes the scam work is the fact that the order is presented on the market interface and players expect the market interface to be accurate (as it is in every other case), which means they’re willing to take the risk of buying that expensive item to fill the order. And that’s where it crosses the line from exploiting trust in another player to exploiting interface issues and broken game mechanics.
It overlooks nothing. If your wallet is keeping up with the orders that are actually getting filled then all of them stay on the market. If you no longer have the ISK to fill an order it gets flagged, but once you put more ISK in that character’s wallet and can cover the sale the flag is removed and it goes back to being a normal market order. All legitimate uses continue to be valid, the only thing that is removed is the ability to break the expected market behavior and exploit it for a scam.
It’s a scam, but it’s a legitimate one because it isn’t relying on broken interface behavior. Also it requires you to be constantly monitoring your orders so you can cancel it in time, and forces you to pay that x+10m if someone is faster than you or gets the item elsewhere without you realizing it. Take away the ability to auto-fail the order and this scam likely disappears.
We are having to make a distinction because some players think scams are a good part of the game.
By defining a distinction we show that this particular fraud is different. It doesnt allow a player to discover it except fraudulently…how can anyone know any buy order is real?
