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the common taxi scams

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for people that don't know, if you taxi a lot, or are going to start being a taxi for people in the future, a few scams to watch out for, they will be demonstrated in a scenario below:

you advert in party window that you are taxiing on sungsungs, 200k an hour, and someone comes and trades you the 200k, they will accept the first time, wait a moment, and decline the second time, making it appeared as if you received the 200k, but didn't, keep an eye out for this and MAKE SURE you received the cash.

another one they will do, is trade you an elixer and, say 72,038 GP, making it look like all they have is 72,038 GP and you made them run all the way to the Plvl spot only to decline their trade of an elixer and the small amount of gold, you would feel bad for them and give them an hours worth of powerlevel, don't feel bad for these people, more often than not, they have millions of gold in their inventory, and by trading you 72,038 GP instead of 72,000, give you the the false impression that thats all the money they have, do not fall for this and be FIRM with your prices, ban them from your parties, and if they try to scam you more than once, tell them to fist a goat.
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Cool i only get power level for a 1mill an hour :(
but good tips.


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Tokughavita wrote:for people that don't know, if you taxi a lot, or are going to start being a taxi for people in the future, a few scams to watch out for, they will be demonstrated in a scenario below:

you advert in party window that you are taxiing on sungsungs, 200k an hour, and someone comes and trades you the 200k, they will accept the first time, wait a moment, and decline the second time, making it appeared as if you received the 200k, but didn't, keep an eye out for this and MAKE SURE you received the cash.

another one they will do, is trade you an elixer and, say 72,038 GP, making it look like all they have is 72,038 GP and you made them run all the way to the Plvl spot only to decline their trade of an elixer and the small amount of gold, you would feel bad for them and give them an hours worth of powerlevel, don't feel bad for these people, more often than not, they have millions of gold in their inventory, and by trading you 72,038 GP instead of 72,000, give you the the false impression that thats all the money they have, do not fall for this and be FIRM with your prices, ban them from your parties, and if they try to scam you more than once, tell them to fist a goat.



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lol, ive experienced each of those situations so far, sucksss..
MaliceArmy?? ewww. Im not saying you are, but that guild has the MOST bots of any guild ive ever seem =P
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heres one , you can be in a job suit , which doesn't let you join grind parties but some people don't know that. So you get one of those people and scam them for their money , than you do it enough times until you have to change your job alias because they will know, but alot of times you end up spending more gold changing it than you make :banghead:
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Zinan wrote:lol, ive experienced each of those situations so far, sucksss..
MaliceArmy?? ewww. Im not saying you are, but that guild has the MOST bots of any guild ive ever seem =P

Either that came out of poor sarcasm or pure ignorance.
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I have another way was about to happen to me:
you search for taxi you, you join one get on your horse to the party place, as soon as you there an exchage request appear you accept and give him the money.
and oops this person that you gived him the gold is just another party member not the taxi leader
of cource the next second the taxi leader start asking for his money or ban you.

the problem is no one looks at the name who asking for exchange
as a taxi man I don't know how to solve this I think you should be faster than any one for asking for exchange :banghead:

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First thing I ask when I join the party, before I even get there, is to look at the highest level. (He'd typically be the one running the taxi). So I whisper to him and ask who do I pay. Then I put it in party chat so there's no way anyone misses it.

When he says "xxx person" I repeat it in party chat. Then I pay that person. IF someone else complains, I tell them to take it up with the leveler.
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*begin troll post*
Best way to avoid being scammed for a taxi is.... to level your character yourself. :shock: Amazing but extremely effective.
*end troll post*

Bring on the flames lazy bums :D
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chickenfeather wrote:*begin troll post*
Best way to avoid being scammed for a taxi is.... to level your character yourself. :shock: Amazing but extremely effective.
*end troll post*

Bring on the flames lazy bums :D


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Best taxi scam ever:

Join a taxi.
Put on a cape.
Have another person in the party quota you (maybe your friend who joins too)
Get a lvl 90 nuker to nuke you.
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you can use this to clear out the AFKs in your taxi so you get all the exp or just to fuc.k up the taxi.
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Argonaut wrote:Best taxi scam ever:

Join a taxi.
Put on a cape.
Have another person in the party quota you (maybe your friend who joins too)
Get a lvl 90 nuker to nuke you.
PWNT

you can use this to clear out the AFKs in your taxi so you get all the exp or just to fuc.k up the taxi.


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chickenfeather wrote:*begin troll post*
Best way to avoid being scammed for a taxi is.... to level your character yourself. :shock: Amazing but extremely effective.
*end troll post*

Bring on the flames lazy bums :D


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If you're going to be so lazy at this game that you have to sit on a horse and just absorb experience, and then get scammed because of it, that's just sad. Just grind :P

I've been tempted, in the past, to go out onto the penons announcing "Free Hotan taxi". Get a party going, and let them trace me as I run back to Hotan and disban the party. :-D It's free, so no scam really. Just transporting everyone back to town for free.
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PR0METHEUS wrote:
I've been tempted, in the past, to go out onto the penons announcing "Free Hotan taxi". Get a party going, and let them trace me as I run back to Hotan and disban the party. :-D It's free, so no scam really. Just transporting everyone back to town for free.


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most common taxi scam-->

Euro players <lvl 60 trying to taxi at ongs==scammer 95%of the time

remaining 5% is retard that dies then disappears

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it takes some ppl 2 yrs to reach cap wats the big deal if they taxi out a week or so from that time?? :?
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aishsharma wrote:most common taxi scam-->

Euro players <lvl 60 trying to taxi at ongs==scammer 95%of the time

remaining 5% is retard that dies then disappears

OFFTOPIC:

it takes some ppl 2 yrs to reach cap wats the big deal if they taxi out a week or so from that time?? :?



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