Selling a Precisely Calibrated Boomstick in trade. A mage that I won’t name because it violates forum rules trades me. He puts in gold. I put in Gun. He pulls out gold really fast and gets the gun. He now has the gun posted in ah for 100g on Atiesh horde side. Don’t buy from the scammer.
And yes, I’ve already put in a ticket.
Well pal when you remove gold from a trade it cancels the trade and you have to press accept again so it sounds like to me you need to be more careful trusting people spam clicking during large transactions
Yeah, sorry but that’s 100% on you. It’s your responsibility to ensure that everything is correct before you click trade. Putting in a ticket likely won’t do anything because you accepted it. All you can really do is consider it a lesson learned and be more careful in the future.
That’s assuming he already accepted and then the scammer removed it after.
You basically have to be pretty lucky to time it properly in the way the OP is describing.
It’s sounds like to me what happened was he put in offer the guy put in offer, our guy hit accept then the guy paused took out the money and quickly accepted as our guy spam clicked accept because he saw a big stack of gold he wanted
Doubtful.
Scams are just that, scams. If there’s chat of price discussion and he found a way to swindle him there’s zero reason why he shouldn’t get his gold back.
I always point out that in Vanilla I was scammed out of hundreds of gold via a gift wrapped package (tanks to my naive 15 yr old self). Based on your logic of it being my responsibility to pay attention I should have been out the gold, but I put in a ticket and got my gold back.
Probably why there is AH. You pay a fee for safer transaction with a middleman.
Yeah but wrapped packages were one of the few scammer tactics beyond someone’s control that abuses the cod system this is a different instance
It seems if he put 100G, hit accept, then OP put his item in and right before hitting accept the other guy removed the 100G its a scam
Hell you could make an add-on that does this for you. Just go around and collect thousands of gold a day LOL
Not funny though
There is no circumstance where both parties in a trade should not be watching the details of the trade at all times. None. It’s not a scam. It’s someone being irresponsible.
Most likely this guy has done this a few times because I have noticed myself a lot of people are asleep at the wheel during trades because scamming is a rare thing in WoW (at least in my perspective over the years)
Maybe, you never know how it really played out. A scam is a scam is a scam, if there are chat logs of an agreed upon price and the guy tricked him out of the gold then there really isn’t much to discuss.
I mean I find it weird that you’re willing to label me being a naive 15 yr old thinking the guy was just trying to be nice as something that should be actionable but a guy finding a way to trick a player in a trade as fair game.
Doesn’t sound so much as he set out to scam you, but that he may try that “trick” with every trade and if it goes through he will claim ignorance or it glitched [which would still make him a player to avoid as much as possible]. Or just saying nothing and log off. If you have a image of the chat then you could upload that to a image hosting site then post the link here.
IF the scammer specifically agreed in chat to pay 100g for the gun, then pulled this scam, it’s actionable. If not, “the smart ones will just invite you, open trade, then put 100g in their window,” then Blizzard wont’ do anything.
The difference is, this isn’t vanilla. Yeah, back in the day they absolutely would have stepped in and done something about it, but Blizzard has been VERY clear about the fact that GMs will not get involved in many of the loot/gold disputes that they used to handle. They simply don’t have the manpower or time to dedicate to things like that in Classic.
Lol, you’re just wrong, I had to fight to get that ticket escalated. Their support system was WORSE back then, not better. Back then they barely acknowledged scams as it was just a “Be more careful” type situation most of the time.
I find it funny that you’d say back then versus now as if we have more people playing WoW anyways.
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Ha, I remember my first scam.
Live and learn, this is on you.
Interesting how you say I’m wrong and then deliberately chose to ignore the rest of my comment where I specifically said that Blizzard has stated they won’t get involved in disputes like this in Classic and then proceed to tell me you had to “fight” to get a response in vanilla. 
All your comment does is reiterate my point that they won’t do anything about OP’s problem. If you admittedly had to jump through hoops to get a response in vanilla and Blizzard has officially stated that they won’t get involved in minor loot disputes, then you’ve literally proven my point that OP’s chance of getting this resolved is very slim.
As for that correlation you tried to draw between me saying “back then” and the current WoW population…that was just dumb. Vanilla was 15 years ago so yes, it was “back then”. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the population then or now, it’s just acknowledging that we’re talking about two completely different times in the game’s history.
Yup, and contacting their GMs is a PITA now - their website has 50 different ways to get redirected to wowhead or to one of the 404 error pages for “help” [/s]. Their quality is just bad now, in the past it was easy to call them and it seemed like their policy was to keep the customer happy and handle the situation, whereas now they will find a way to weasle out of doing as much as possible.