GTN Scam Solution - Please Consider This Bioware

It's quite clear that anon is just trolling people at this point with is retaliative insults, but I just want to ask one thing. How would his suggestion protect people any differently then what they are now? If, by his own thought process, people aren't noticing the , and., what makes you think they will notice the colors as well? When people rush through the sales (Which, again, is obvious considering you have to double confirm sales), why do you think adding colors will have any difference on the outcome. Will you be refunding people that complain they were 'scammed' using your method? If not, I guess your method isn't as great as you praise it out to be.

Try telling that to people who accidentally bought tiny stacks of resources off the GTN for MILLIONS of credits, thousands of times more than they're ever going to be worth.

I'll just repeat myself from a mere 12 forum posts ago (none of them mine):

"The only valid buyer protection is the buyer protection that's automatic... something built-in and guaranteed to occur that doesn't require the person to remember to click something extra and figure out numbers to type into boxes."

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My other issue with the idea that poster has is the popup with a timer. It would be a punishment for those who already use the available tools, and I would stop using the GTN and go to the /trade channel instead, personally.
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Scam: you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I'm sure you can figure it out, if you bother to use your brain. Look at the GTN under the materials category, pick any sub-category and look at the MOST expensive listings. There are people who repeatedly post 1 unit of material for ONE BILLION credits. It would be ridiculous to assert that these postings are intended to be accidentally purchased, since it sticks out like a sore thumb so much. These postings are placed there to alert buyers that they're looking at the MOST expensive end of the listings.

These people wouldn't be going to such a level of effort every 2 days, just to be cute. They're attempting to end the GTN mistakes that keep taking millions of credits from players for items that are worth at most, probably 20K credits. Whether or not any or all of these mistaken purchases were intended as scams is a side topic. It doesn't matter at all whether any are scams, the problem has to be fixed either way, and the solution is the same solution either way. Whether any are scams are completely immaterial to what needs to be done about the problem.

Never mind that there are blatant pricing scams that can be seen all over the place on the GTN, and that time after time a weary and unaware new SWToR victim falls prey to these pricing scams and loses millions of credits. Anyone being particularly outspoken about this GTN problem not needing to be fixed is obviously either one OF the scammers, or is just simply very very stupid.

I made an accidental purchase late one night and contacted the seller to say "yeah ok you got me, how about giving half back?". They declined and bragged something like "it happened to me and sucked but then realised I could make a lot of credits doing this so I decided to do it as well , Bioware know about the problem and don't care so no one can stop me". Then they spent days mailing and /w taunts..

...There are some opportunistic sellers that definitely do as evidenced here:

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However, judging from a lot of replies on the GTN topic in general it would appear that a lot of players do not think it is reasonable to think that buyers could be confused into making these mistakes...

I'm sure you can figure it out, if you bother to use your brain.

I'm sure you could figure it out, if you just used a dictionary.