Vendors: The Worse Gold Farmers of all

dude bought stuff than gets mad that he did it, lulz

Point is, people make mistakes as do I. If there was just an option that let you sell back like you can buy back your items then that would at least fool proof it somewhat. It would save me at least as I am a jittery person and have had my fair share of expensive miss clicks.

Edit: I mean sell back whilst you still have the window open.

What I find odd is that there are all the vehicles that you can buy on display and you can look at them with out clicking the vendor.

That being said...I did the same thing.

What you're saying is that, after starting out offensively, you don't understand why people didn't read the later portions of your post carefully? Perhaps the pedantic English teacher needs a lesson in rhetoric: don't bury your major point so that it's lost. You clumsily started out with a lengthy and offensive distraction that had nothing to do with what you thought was the central point. To most readers, though, that distraction WAS your central point, and they didn't read past it. For clumsiness and poor planning, you get a D. Be less offensive next time, and people might read your whole post. And please don't indulge yourself in the hypocrisy of calling other people pretentious, after opening up on the OP with that utterly asinine reply. Just take your lumps and try to be more civil next time. There was no call the tone you took in your initial reply. Nobody gave you worse than you earned.

And no, the OP's problem wasn't "entirely user error," no matter how much you envy his credits. It was partly user error, and partly poor design. He's bringing his story to the forums, and he's describing what exactly he did and what he thought should be the result. It doesn't matter how much money he did or didn't have. (And on a personal note: if you're bitter about people being rich in a virtual universe, you must be loads of fun about the same in real life).

Put in a support ticket. The protocol droid should be able to reverse the transactions.

Also, add mount preview pl0x.

Depends on what you're talking about. Many things for sale are obviously things you'd buy a lot of. And, yeah, maybe a guy with loads of credits might say "I'm gonna buy me one of every speeder." A diligent game designer would put a simple minimally-intrusive "You just bought one of those. Did you really intend to buy another?" message up. How hard is that? Or they could allow sell-back of unused items at full price within a certain time-frame. Because it's far more likely that multiple purchases of items like that are an error. The user will be grateful the game caught the error. And the rare times it wasn't an error, the user won't care that he/she had to click a "Yes, I did mean it" button.

Are you *really* defending the current situation? Come on. Seriously, this is just sloppy design. Pointlessly sloppy design, in fact. It's a rough edge that should have been polished smooth during the beta period.

Think about it this way: the situation the OP found himself in BREAKS the feeling that you're really in that world. Imagine you go to a car dealership. You go and want to check out a few cars. Every time you sit behind the wheel of one of them, they get one of those models from the back of the lot and pull it around front. You'd notice them accumulating out front. And even if you didn't, you'd sit up and scream bloody murder when the bill was $350k instead of $35k, because they said you had just bought all 10 Lexuses (including 6 of the exact same model, because you sat in the demo 6 times). There would never, ever be a question of "Didn't you notice you bought one every time you shook my hand? Says so on the sign out front." You'd simply say "BS. I'm not paying for all those cars. I'm buying one, and if you don't apologize right now, I'm not even buying that."

They're kinda the opposite of gold farmers, as they take money OUT of the game whereas farmers pump money into it.

It's part of the currency sink, which is supposed to help balance the economy.

That said, I feel sorry for what happened to you. It would be good if you could sell stuff back for the same price, IF it hasn't been used. The reason for the current system is that it prevents people from "borrowing" items, like buying armor, wearing/using it, and simply selling it back.

Maybe bound items or "used" mounts would still take the same toll.

Hopefully that will work for the OP. I haven't had any luck with the protocol droid, myself. I've had a grey partially done quest "Twilek Trouble" in my quest log forever. I can't abandon it, and it counts against my 25 quest max. I put in a ticket and got a reply from the protocol droid. The problem would be resolved, it said. That was over a week ago. Nothing's changed. Nothing's ever gonna change. I've just got a character with a 24 quest max, and I have to deal with it. It's more of a nuisance than a major inconvenience. But every time I see it, I wonder how so many rough edges escaped the beta. The client seems pretty stable, and I'm grateful for that. I haven't had a crash to desktop since I started. But so many nagging little UI problems...

You have the solution there. If you bought it, and it's unbound, and "X minutes" haven't elapsed, you should be able to sell back at full price. Did you try it on first? It's bound now; you get the "used" price. Did you try and fail to sell it on the auction house for a big markup? The "X minutes" have elapsed. It's used now; you get the "used" price.

If they had a confirmation panel at the time of purchase, then it might be more acceptable to resell unbound duplicates at the 10% buyback price. But no confirmation + punitive resale... that's not right.

Seems like you made that mistake on your own, nothing to get mad at the game for. Paying more attention would fix that issue lol. Btw, in what game was it ever possible to "Ctrl + Click" to preview a mount? Not even WoW did that