WARNING: MA, Banks, and Bait and Switch = Stolen Helicopter

Well MindArk, you did it again. Thanks to your unwillingness to help, I am blowing the whistle on you.

I redeemed my loan voucher on my dragonfly helicopter. Day or two later I repawned it at the same bank in new oxford.

After YEARS of having one month terms, I HAD NO REASON to expect all of a sudden they would decide to give me a 1 day term.

So... I get the notice that my loan expired.

Support is NOT helping in ANY way.

PLEASE DO NOT PATRONIZE ANY BANKS PARTICULARLY THE ONE IN NEW OXFORD IF YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT HAVE TO. I am calling for a boycott of Banking in Entropia.

If they've screwed me over and are so happy to, just wait til you pawn something unique or rare and lose it because the terms have been changed on you.

They claim it is not bait and switch... But after years of having one month terms every time you apply for a loan, WHY the hell would you expect it to change?!?!?!?!

ALERT! NEW AH SCAM WARNING

This may not be a NEW scam, BUT it is increasing in noticeability and I know someone who bought an L gun for a three digit sum that was BROKEN. It would seem unscrupulous sellers are listing their broken L items and getting market value on them and or maybe more than that from people think they are UL items.

Before buying something with very low condition that is L, ALWAYS look at the info. If it says minimum condition is 3%, then multiply the total max condition by .03. So 120 ped item would have a min condition of 3.60 peds. If the item has a value around the minimum, MAKE SURE that it is unlimited and repairable, and if it is L, do not buy it! You will end up with a very expensive display trophy for your apartment if you have one!

I only post this warning because we are broke enough with MA's crappy loot right now, we don't need bad sellers ripping us off to boot. IF everyone stops falling for this trick, then they will get tired of spending the auction fees to list broken items and we will effectively have this shut down and under control. It is doubtless MA will do anything about it, since they only seem to send a general response that says please read forums or articles or guides and learn how to improve your playing experience. I call BS. They seem perfectly happy to offer safe harbor to exploiters and scammers as long as it doesn't come out of THEIR pocket. Oh, don't get me wrong as soon as someone does something that hits MA's pocket book, I guarantee they will put a stop to it like the time deposits were messed up and people were depositing but the processor wasn't debiting their cards. They went through and traced every counterfeit ped, reversed trades and purchases, etc.

If you have been taken advantage of in this manner, PLEASE fill out a ticket and complain to MA. If enough of us make it clear we are tired of this crap, maybe they will do something. Broken L items should NOT be sellable... At least until such time as broken items become useable in blueprints.. It would be nice if you could put a broken gun into your refiner and have it break down into crafting materials. Then it wouldn't be SO bad... But they would have to change the name from CB19 to BROKEN CB19... SOMETHING would have to be put in the name or description alerting us it is broken and not useable.

This is the Goldbaron signing off... And in the mean time... Caveat Emptor!