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  • Quim [2699286] · 12 likes ·
    The real reason is that if you're not paying attention, you might think it's in fact a Skateboard (high value SE) and buy it. To mitigate this type of scam, Torn introduced a warning which asks if you want to …

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Fraulein [2978675] · #1
Hallo leute <3

Im still new and had a question for you guys, I was looking at Mr-Philip [2625259] bazaar and saw he had snowbords for 200 million dollars? Why on Gods green earth would anybody pay this? He also had several other extremely overpriced items which baffled me.

What is the strategy here?

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McDallas [14757] · #2
He priced them that way in the hopes that one day a young innocent Fraulein would post about him in the forums. That is the only reason.
Quim [2699286] · #3 · edited
The real reason is that if you're not paying attention, you might think it's in fact a Skateboard (high value SE) and buy it.

To mitigate this type of scam, Torn introduced a warning which asks if you want to buy the item for x% over the value. Some people still fall for it.

For example, here is a common Box of Grenades scam (box of grenades looks similar to a Donator Pack):
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Solaris [459981] · #4
I list boxes of tissues in my bazaar for $69,420 for the lols, and also certificates of awesome for 1 million because that is what they cost me to acquire from the casino so clearly that is the real value of said certificate.

On occasion someone has bought the tissues or certificates, usually after I had helped them out in some way such as busting them out of jail, clearly done as a thank you.

The snowboards are more likely trying to bait someone into making a mistake though at that price.
Alfred_E_Neuman [2386306] · #5
Your situation is someone trying to rip others off.

I, and legitimate others, keep an over-priced item in my bazaar to keep the bazaar icon active, for easy access.
Tosko [3012279] · #6
I think the real reason is that his inventory was full and needed to store items without actually selling the item, so that’s why the high price *cough*joke*cough*
Steppenwulf [2960257] · #8
not so, sometimes people are in your bazaar for unrelated items and notice the cheap skateboard.

the other one to look out for is mistletoe / poison mistletoe... if the game designers were so concerned about this scam, why'd they make two items so similar in appearance and description but so disparate in value?