Hello, everyone. Flint here, to talk about a certain scam involving the My Shop den item, henceforth referred to as a shop.
When you set the price of an item in these shops, the upper limit of diamonds is 500. So, you can't price an item at above 500 diamonds. The limit is higher for gems, but gems are not used often, especially for high-value items, like the ones I'll be talking about.
Sometimes, people want to sell items at above the 500 diamond limit. One way they go about doing this is to ask the person they're selling the pricey item to to first buy a necklace or similar item for several hundred diamonds, to make up the difference. Then, they say, they will put the high-value item in the shop for 500 diamonds, at which point you can buy it.
This is often a scam. They will wait until you buy the necklace, and then either take the high-value item off the shop or never put it on. In this way, you have just bought a necklace for hundreds of diamonds and have not gotten anything in return for it.
You can avoid this scam by not agreeing to buy something for over the limit. Either trade for it, buy it at 500, buy the necklace after the main item, or don't get it at all.
That's all for today's post. Bye!
What I've done a couple times when selling/buying bigger items is to split it into smaller ones, sell those, then trade. So, for example if I wanted to sell a solid for 1000 diamonds, I would put 2 red longs in the shop for 500 each, the person buys, then trade those. It's safe for both the buyer, because if the person locks you out you still bought stuff worth a solid, and the seller, because you're getting your items' worth, just indirectly. You can disapprove this comment if you want but I thought it might be worth sharing.
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