It is also a fact, that sometimes you highlight a specific item in order to buy it out, but when the transaction happens, the line of items has shifted, and you get the item that was placed below the one you wanted.
It's darn irritating, and it's happened maybe 5 times in total to me. Once I had payed over 2,5 gold for 1 egg, and I never even saw the egg until afterwards when I found it in my mailbox.
This is most likely to happen when there's a lot of people selling and buying at the same time.
It doesn't matter if the server is pvp or a pve. Every server get's their own dtyle and habbits, and people are quick to take up ideas that others start up.
On my server it is mostly low-lvl grey items that are being sold, and for very cheap prizes. I can see no other reason than maybe someone newly started is making his first few transactions and he has noticed what others like him might find useful.
I myself have a few times tried seeling greys, out of curiocity to see if they were actually being sold (had no Auction(eer)-mod at the time). But I soon returned to what I've always done: Selling whites as the lowest quality items I am willing to sell. Greys I may give to someone who happens to want it while I have it in my bag, but that happens rarely.
It is good info about a scamming technique, btw!
Keep them coming, folks!
We can all benefit from knowing about such things and avoid becoming victims of them!
Thanks for posting about this one! ^L^,
Chayzr.