I should have known better...Follow

I have been playing this game for a while now. I must say I have good friends in the game that have helped me and I am grateful.

I have always and will always continue to help with AF, genkai, RSE, etc. when people need it, however I learned something. (I should have known all along but I am naive, I really wanted to believe people were honest.)

I was in Jueno about to sell my signa, I saw the price at the AH and about dropped. 450k!? Wtf? That is ludicrious.

1. I didn't have the money to put it in the AH.
2. I felt that it was too high of a price.

So I decided to just do a /sh in Jueno.

Avela: Monster Signa for sale, best reasonable offer. AH too expensive, I didnt buy it for 450k, im not gonna sell it for 450k.

That is what I said. (I bought it for 390k, still pricy)

I get a tell. I am not going to hide the persons name, Cattwoman. (Mithra)

Cattwoman: I need a signa real bad, I only have 250k.
Avela: Ok, Can you get 300k?
Cattwoman: Lemme check AH.
Avela: Ok
<Minutes pass>
Cattwoman: I have 296,435 gil.
Avela: I will sell it to you for that.
Cattwoman: Thanks so much, I didnt have the gil to buy one and I really needed one.
Avela: No problem, come to top of AH.


We traded and did small chit chat. Only to realize that She/he had put the money up and I put signa up and he/she switched it to 246, 435. AND i had alreadey pressed ok. ;;

To make matters worse they logged off. I don't know why I did this but the next day I played I was checking the AH and low and behold Cattwoman sold a signa for 500k. :( Why must I be so stupid I ask myself?

I tried for days /telling Cattwoman and when I do get ahold some person tells me they share an account with thier brother and that he sold it, blah, blah.

In one way, I feel like I have a right to be irritated. In the next, I feel that what's done is done and I got played and fell into it and to just stfu.

The reason why I am the most bothered by this is because this game is meant to bring people from afar closer and working together. The idea is to inter-mix cultures, races and build friendships.

I love FF, very much so. Sometimes I believe too much. Some people might say, You should of just sold it through AH, kept the profit, etc.

I am not gonna do that. Everyone in this game should have the opportunity to buy good gear, potions, meals, etc.

The thing that "irks" me is people lie to get what they want. This game strategy is unacceptable.

If we want to get anything in this game done about botting, gill selling, buying, the price fluctuations, etc. Then we need to work together to do it. How in the heck are we gonna do this by taking advantage of each other (the true players) and lying to get gil?

Cattwoman, I understand you did what you though you had to do, it doesn't make it right. (And it doesn't exactly make me the smartest because I trusted someone I didn't know.)

I just wanted to get this off my chest.
Enjoy your adventures in Vana'diel everyone!


Avela
Cerebus Server
51 Bard
31 RDM
16 WHM
14 BLM
Rank 4

It's very unfortunate that someone felt the need to take advantage of you like that. It wouldn't have been AS bad had that person not made up the sob story. Now it's just straight deceit. :-/

Just a suggestion if you run across a need to sell something later that you feel is over priced, put it up on the AH for what you feel is reasonable or sell it in your bazaar. It was very noble what you attempted to do, unfortunately, the kind are generally the ones taken advantage of. Don't let this impair your kind nature, however. There are good people out there. I'm sure an act like that could have really made a BRDs day. :-b

What the hell? 500 k for a Signa?

To Giddeus!

Oh and on topic, that really stinks. I would have probably fallen for the same thing if I thought I was helping a future bard/beastmaster get something they needed.

some people are pathetic..

ElvaanKrem Wrote

And i hope she gets high off catnip and dies! Seriously that's soo mean you try to help a poor person out then they backstab you. Dishonesty will get its just rewards!

Edited, Fri Jan 7 20:03:53 2005 by Raikuken

Hey avela long time no see. Where ya been?
Sorry to hear that, is there anything u can do? GM maybe i dunno if they can do anything but it might be worth a try.
I heard a guy had a similar experience with leaping boots and he menaged to get a reverse trade. Might be worth a try.

Also my smn is now lvl 52 and i am always looking for a nice brd to party with.
I do /sea all avela once in awhile but never see you around, maybe cos of the time difference.
Look me up next time your on.
I also been leveling brd a bit lol lvl 9 now.
I seem to spend most of my time serenading random people rather than getting the precious exp. =)