Nurse/Doc Scamming/Abusing
Misticall
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in General Chat
So the Nurse and Doc hats are still available by donating to Trevor. But today, a player named $Sirgrapeapplesauce$ was severely overpricing his Nurse, for 80K. EVEN AFTER I told him, got banned for telling the TRUTH, and hollad multiple times, when I went on an alt, he was still pricing it at 80K. You can get a nurse with only $20 of IRL money - how is it worth 80K? Easy. Not many players know the Nurse and Doc are still available by donating, so owners of them jack up the prices sky-high for easy, unfair profit.
The worst part is, these hats were meant to be a means of support to someone in need. They are profiting off the sickness of another. This abuse of the hats needs to stop. Seriously.
The worst part is, these hats were meant to be a means of support to someone in need. They are profiting off the sickness of another. This abuse of the hats needs to stop. Seriously.
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The price of the item in game does not effect the means of supporting someone in need. No matter the price it's still being donated, as I see it, the higher the item is in game more people are willing to donate money to get the item. If it lowers more people won't support him/her.
Not taking sides Val <3
Everyone has the right to sell items at their price,people cant decide the price of someone else.
And who says the price goes down?Just because you still can donate,doesnt mean the price goes
down.
Now when you do see a guy saying, "Hey man, I'm selling rubber to you at 5/c, but the moment you buy it all I'm gonna tp to Mr.Rubberman and restock all that rubber at 10/c, and bag the profits myself. If you were any wiser you'd befriend Mr.Rubberman yourself." You don't. Is hiding this information wrong/scamming/abusing? It isn't.
I have seen a lot of people "cheating" others in this way through hiding information or lying about the real current market price etc. or prophesying an item coming back or not. Is this cheating? If it is, I'm afraid half the world of CC is doing it. It's the same thing with Sirwhateversauce guy. It's always the same with businesses buying and selling stuff. But that's how businesses are. There's a gap in information, and the businessqbee takes advantage of it. Hiding information and lying is basically the same thing. You can not call him a scammer for that. It's not his fault that the buyer doesn't have information. I'm always the buyer who doesn't have the information. Do I complain? No. Because it's my duty to gather the information. If I'm being a lazy bum and not trying to find out the truth, it's my fault. The other guy's just doing business, same way everyone does.
And about people wanting the bumper back, you guys should realize this is a MMO game. This isn't a spoon-feeding mechanism. There's no rule that it's supposed to tell you everything. If they decide they don't want the bumper because they think it's been there long enough, they won't do it. Constantly whining about it isn't gonna fix it. And you've been whining about a lot of stuff a lot lately.
This game gives players way more freedom of speech than any other MMO I've seen. These guys listem to you. Now if you all keep wasting that freedom, this whole nice business will disappear and CC could become like all the other games which don't listen to the players much if at all. Good luck to you guys if that happens.
And personally, if you decide to spend 80k on something and don't even try to find out where it comes from for real, not even with a simple Google search which would lead them to the forums, then you deserve to get ripped off. Cuz apparently that's the only way people learn in MMOs. All the bumpers and system messages in the world isn't gonna fix that. Not even a big fat instruction manual placed in every single starter realm for the rest of eternity with every single information on the game. Because people are lazy. They don't read. They don't try to get information. They just expect everything to be given to you exactly when you need it. There's a solution for that. Babysitters for every single player in the game.
Rant over.
I can't explain it any better.
Well said. I agree, this is business. People sell cheap, and more than the average price. People's gain, & loss
If a person wants to buy a nurse hat for 80k that is their right, if a person wants to sell a nurse hat for 200k that is their right. This is not a question of rights....it is a question of morals with the nurse and doc hat being intended to lead people into helping another a boy named Trevor who has not had a chance at life like you or I.
Here's what SirKewb had said on the topic in another old thread: So clearly the devs aren't evil people who hate Trevor and don't want people to donate for his cause. It's simply that people had stopped donating as much, so they removed it. Now that there is again a demand for donating to Trevor, maybe they will put it back up.
Everyone is free to set their own prices, even if you disagree with it or if it is a ridiculous amount.
The nurse & doc hat are subject to the same price changes as any other item in-game.
Just because someeone bought them for 20$ irl money doesn't mean the have to be sold for equal amount in cubits. Dragon pets are sold for rl money but in-game the sell it for less cubits then that(even at other pet levels) and yet you don't complain about that as it fits in for all.
I know there is a "moral" aspect about this and i would not mind seeing it come back if it means more people would donate again(that's the only reason i think of why it should/could return).
But that is not the main focus of this topic. The price fluctuations would still be happening, players would still try to sell for way too much or far too little, that is part of CC economy(if you can call it that).
But, my opinion is mostly what @Mcwolf the Sane said.
OP explains it all. Its a reward for helping someone in need. Not a means to get rich, Wish people wouldn't be so greedy.
Quick note: No I don't care about the high price for the reasons most people might think. I don't want the items not do I plan to buy them. If I have $20 to donate I'll do so, And keep the items as a reminder. They are a gift, A reward and I don't sell gifts :3
Also.. the price of these items don't always go together with the donations that one makes.
Why do people have to tell others where they got it or why they have it on sale.
It's like i start a company and a complete stranger tells me how to run it!
We don't have to like it but that is how CC-economy works, in-game cubit prices don't have to match the original purchase value.
I gave an example about this in a previous post(about the dragon pet).
this comment: http://forums2.cubiccastles.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/120626/#Comment_120626
But, I think people who scam others like that really need a taste of their own medicine... I hope the same thing ends up happening to them. There's nothing we can do though except bring the bumper back '-'