Spamming scammers

Daranigan · February 2020

So my block list has grown quite a bit because of these people. There the ones that go city to city, posting a wall of text that they are buying all sorts of crafting items on the spot and offering an insultingly low about of gold for them. Had one tonight offering to buy chromium platings for 20k each among everything else he was buying for stupid low prices. Does anybody ever actually send these people things? And why is this allowed via the eso rules. Why can they post the same wall of text for hours on end just by jumping from city to city. I'm sitting there having a guild conversation or group conversation in the chat and three of these idiots come in at the same time and each post a wall of text, interrupting the conversation I'm having for this garbage. So again, does anybody ever actually send these people anything? And if not can we start requesting the admin do something about this. It's already well past old and annoying.

Chaos2088 · February 2020

Just ignore it and move on.....if someone wants to give these people gold, then harsh lesson learnt.

Synaki · February 2020

Daranigan wrote: »

. So again, does anybody ever actually send these people anything?

Sure. I used to send them things before I joined trade guilds and I am sure other players not in trade guilds send them stuff too.

bmnoble · February 2020

I usually call them out whenever they ask for stupidly low prices, providing TTC and MM info in chat right after their wall of text, usually results in them either changing their prices or leaving the zone to go somewhere else.

Only takes a few people falling for their prices for them to make a large profit on the guild traders, all you can do is ignore them or call them out up to you which.

Provided its one wall of text per zone I don't tend to worry too much about it more often than not they will be asking for things at the TTC rate but when someone keeps spamming the same wall of text over and over in the same zone so it keeps appearing in chat, that is when I will report for spamming if I can be bothered, really depends if I am in the zone long enough to see it happening.

Tandor · February 2020

Best decision ever when I installed the game in 2014 and disabled zone chat and yells.

Protossyder · February 2020

how about you use the tab creation tool provided by the game and put guild/group/zone/etc. chats into different channels? And if it still annoys you, you can simply tell them to "stfu" in the zonechat...

thissocalledflower · February 2020

Truly, you can create a tab just for guild chat that excludes zone chat and problem solved.

preevious · February 2020

Well, that's a though one.

It boils down on the prices asked, in the end.

I used to offer to buy at lower price than market price, in zone chat (reasonably lower, mind you)

My reasonning was this :

I was happy to make a little profit (like, 5-6k on an expensive motif, 10-12k on an ethereal dust). The seller was happy to be able to sell quickly and easily without having the hassle of joining a guild or posting in chat. I was providing some kind of service.

However, I was upfront about market price and told them I'd make a profit in guild store. The vast majority found that only natural.

But yeah .. 20k for a chromium plating is just evil.

Daranigan · February 2020

preevious wrote: »

Well, that's a though one.

It boils down on the prices asked, in the end.

I used to offer to buy at lower price than market price, in zone chat (reasonably lower, mind you)

My reasonning was this :

I was happy to make a little profit (like, 5-6k on an expensive motif, 10-12k on an ethereal dust). The seller was happy to be able to sell quickly and easily without having the hassle of joining a guild or posting in chat. I was providing some kind of service.

However, I was upfront about market price and told them I'd make a profit in guild store. The vast majority found that only natural.

But yeah .. 20k for a chromium plating is just evil.

See this I understand. I can even get behind this as long as there is a level of honesty to it. But this concept is scarce. Most of the people doing this are buying for scam level prices and the wall of text they use for it is nothing more than a annoying spam post. I see it every time I'm in a public zone.

Squidgaurd · February 2020

bro im so pissed rn i would totally be down fro trolling some scammers just to take it out on some people.

idk · February 2020

I rarely find anything people say in Zone chat worth my time. With the trolls and pointless comments filling up that chat there is very little that is worth keeping Zone turn on full time. With 5 guilds and a friend list, I just turn Zone off.

xXMeowMeowXx · February 2020

send them a potato

JamieAubrey · February 2020

I always have the same guy advertising his guild when I log in, ALWAYS when I log in, I dunno who he is but somehow knows when I log in lol

Nord_Raseri · February 2020

thissocalledflower wrote: »

Truly, you can create a tab just for guild chat that excludes zone chat and problem solved.

On ps4 it's either all chat on or all chat off

Daranigan · February 2020

thissocalledflower wrote: »

Truly, you can create a tab just for guild chat that excludes zone chat and problem solved.

Please explain how I do this on PS4.

Daranigan · February 2020

Protossyder wrote: »

how about you use the tab creation tool provided by the game and put guild/group/zone/etc. chats into different channels? And if it still annoys you, you can simply tell them to "stfu" in the zonechat...

Explain how I find this tool and perform this action on PS4. Not everyone is a PC player.

Twenty0zTsunami · February 2020

JamieAubrey wrote: »

I always have the same guy advertising his guild when I log in, ALWAYS when I log in, I dunno who he is but somehow knows when I log in lol

idk about ESO but WOW had addons that would automatically send PMs to players in your zone that didn't have a guild tag.

ApostateHobo · March 2020

Nord_Raseri wrote: »

thissocalledflower wrote: »

Truly, you can create a tab just for guild chat that excludes zone chat and problem solved.

On ps4 it's either all chat on or all chat off

Was going to say this, not everyone is on PC y'all. These guys get super annoying. If it's not the ones buying stuff for absurd prices, it's people linking 30 items in a row that they're trying to sell.

idk · March 2020

Nord_Raseri wrote: »

thissocalledflower wrote: »

Truly, you can create a tab just for guild chat that excludes zone chat and problem solved.

On ps4 it's either all chat on or all chat off

This is something that you need to request. I rarely have Zone chat turned on. When I used to have it on I felt I lost brain cells when I noticed some of the things said in Zone.

Kittytravel · March 2020

bmnoble wrote: »

I usually call them out whenever they ask for stupidly low prices, providing TTC and MM info in chat right after their wall of text, usually results in them either changing their prices or leaving the zone to go somewhere else.

THIS. If you can do this do it I can't tell you how many newer players have whispered me asking "How did you get that info?" and I direct them to TTC so they can stop getting scammed. It's completely worth it to just shut these people out by exposing them for what they are rather than just blocking them, and half the time outing them causes them to vanish from chat for a bit. ATT, MM, TTC whatever you want to use to let people know that they are getting cheated out.

Kadoin · March 2020

"Scammers" lol...