Cyr wrote on May 27
th, 2014 at 8:18pm:
Laundering duped goods is the last thing I expect to happen when reposting items on the ASAH.
I expect if Turbine kept a record of ANYTHING AT ALL it would be ASAH SALES as these involve real world currency converted to Turbine currency most directly out of anything in the game.
As such I always assumed, and still do assume, that Turbine has records that can be accessed by employees who are more competent then the ones who log onto an account and check stack sizes of unbound items.
I see no difference in buying a good from the ASAH and reposting, using it, trading it through channels, or giving it to someone else as far as the whole nonsensical argument about OMG you might have bought a duped good goes...
It's all the same except that the ASAH one has the most chance of being trackable by Turbine back to original source.
As to the mental midget spamming the thread I am pretty sure I had answered their moronic question already. Of course I bought items during the first week of U21. I buy and sell new items from every mod first week it is out because that is when you can make the profit from a voilatile market generally speaking. I didn't do so well with my purchases then actually as market went WAY down from initial spike. Made good shards from halls items (no meotoric augments sadly as I never pulled them
) which kept me in the black during that overall period. Did better with more stable prices later and a second spike in prices which occurred on thunder forged (they went to a stable 100 shards per 100 stack for a while and I generally had bought at that time for something around 550 per 1000).
Had plenty of shards going into the update also.
Your shards are providing the liquidity for dupers who need to sell to move their goods.
And no, they don't have records, not the imaginary NSA level records everyone like you who gets pinched assumes they have. If they did, they'd have busted everyone right off the bat. And no, they don't have the developers or bandwidth to keep those records. If they did, there'd be no such thing as a "customer service" problem for them.
Let me explain how this works. You got caught with a stack of x, that you can't explain the provenance on. Your assumption that provenance doesn't matter is your fatal assumption. Provenance very much does matter, especially when the authorities don't trust the provenance on anything that can't be proven. Because Turbine keeps no records to explain the provenance, they are going to assume, and you can argue otherwise until your blue in the face, that your stack is from illicit activities. You can argue you're just some innocent joe schmo moving goods in a market, but they clearly believe the market to be comprimised by large quantities of illicit goods (which it is). You move those goods, you risk their wrath, it is that mother fucking simple.
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