Item Stack Resale Exploit

Not enough given posts like this on Reddit:


They are bragging about the slap on the wrist on Reddit.

I think (s)he was more concerned with instances like this:

As I stated previously: I bought ten companion gifts on the AH (grade 6 Cultural Artifacts) for 60k a piece. A total of 600k for the ten stack. I applied that to my Juggernauts Lana. Now, I have no idea if those gifts were received by fraudulent activity.

There are ways this can be handled that won't upset me at all. You can leave it as it is and call it "minor damage". It was two influence levels, not that much of a deal. You can also return the credits in an in-game mail and say: "We removed the influence from your companion due to the involvement of fraudulent activities of third parties. Here is your amount of credits paid for the transaction.".

I don't mind those two things. I'm not at all worse off in both cases. What I don't want to happen is that they go: We removed the influence from your companion. But since the gifts were never legitimate you won't see your 600k again. I earned that money legitimately. I wouldn't have spend it if I knew the companion gifts were fraudulent goods.

Give it a few more days, like the man said its a work in progress

Finally, some real end game progression I can take part in

That was someone already caught just getting a temp ban for all that.

What about guilds that were actively participating, and using it to up their conquest rankings. You could see large numbers of members of ranked guilds standing around the vendor for hours.

If a guild leader and significant number of officers and members were participating, that guild should be stripped and dissolved, and the leadership banned.

Are they going to be able to tell the difference between people who bought stuff off the GTN that the exploiters were selling and these alt accounts that were used for laundering?

I don't like the thought that just using the GTN could result in random people being swept up into this. Hopefully they know what they are doing and have ways of telling the difference. I have no way of knowing if I bought from an exploiter, but I did buy 2 stacks of companion gifts recently. Just the fact that the person was selling them in full stacks at all, and lower than many of the other pages of sellers, makes me suspicious. It is safe for me to use these gifts?

Wonder what happened to some of the posters vehemently denying this exploit existed. How many of them were participating.

Where did they say that specifically.

Sounds like they are only targeting those who participated actively, or assisted actively.

You don't fit either of those. The person who bought your stuff loses out, not you.

Right just do nothing for cheats, thanks for helping me to realize I need to ignore everything you ever post again.