[PC EU] There's something fishy in those sticks - maybe gold selling?

OsManiaC

PC EU, learn it, you can hide from ZOS but you cannot hide from me.

Neoealth

Some damned good bargains right there!

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

@OsManiaC Keep up the good work exposing them!

idk

FYI, make sure you have a good password for both your game, email and forum accounts and that they are not all the same.

i say this because you made friends with the gold sellers last time. /s These are not the most upstanding business types.

And keep up the good work.

Dusk_Coven

Last year ZOS said they "have already rolled out a fix to prevent this from continuing to happen" in this thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6507796/#Comment_6507796

What you have reported is "impossible".

@ZOS_GinaBruno

thissocalledflower

OK so i'm dense, what am i looking at? Other than people posting things for sale at a price that they will never sell for?

VaranisArano

thissocalledflower wrote: »

OK so i'm dense, what am i looking at? Other than people posting things for sale at a price that they will never sell for?

In general, what we suspect you are looking at is the in-game side of gold selling. Players who buy gold outside of the game need to acquire the gold somehow, while the system flags mailing large sums of gold. So typically they will "launder" the gold through guild stores by selling items for much larger sums than their value.

That's how its been done in the past. There was a fairly recent incident that ZOS investigated and, finding that it involved some sort of exploit, patched it. This might a repeat, a new exploit, or just regular gold-selling antics.

Its a big issue for the trading guild that's being used as a clearing house because they get a guild tax from those sales. If the gold isn't legit, they don't want to be punished by ZOS. And obviously no one wants to be associated with gold-selling.

iiYuki

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

Last year ZOS said they "have already rolled out a fix to prevent this from continuing to happen" in this thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6507796/#Comment_6507796

What you have reported is "impossible".

I dont get how you could "fix" this though. Its impossible to track and very hard to prove someone is gold buying or selling and not people selling at inflated prices and people just buying them because they don't care.
I've bought items I know to be ridiculously overpriced because I was lazy, worst I think I did was 100k for 200 Heartwood. I was too lazy to port around buy every stack of 1-5 that people were selling and just got the biggest stack to save time.

Toanis

thissocalledflower wrote: »

OK so i'm dense, what am i looking at? Other than people posting things for sale at a price that they will never sell for?

They're either delusional with their pricing, using the vendor to store random stuff, or wait for the gold seller to buy the junk.

thissocalledflower

VaranisArano wrote: »

thissocalledflower wrote: »

OK so i'm dense, what am i looking at? Other than people posting things for sale at a price that they will never sell for?

In general, what we suspect you are looking at is the in-game side of gold selling. Players who buy gold outside of the game need to acquire the gold somehow, while the system flags mailing large sums of gold. So typically they will "launder" the gold through guild stores by selling items for much larger sums than their value.

That's how its been done in the past. There was a fairly recent incident that ZOS investigated and, finding that it involved some sort of exploit, patched it. This might a repeat, a new exploit, or just regular gold-selling antics.

Its a big issue for the trading guild that's being used as a clearing house because they get a guild tax from those sales. If the gold isn't legit, they don't want to be punished by ZOS. And obviously no one wants to be associated with gold-selling.

TY for the education.