I was going to put this in the idiot list thread, but I think this deserves its own.

A few months ago I helped this lowbie hunter named Betaomeyta get from Darnassus to Stormwind. I happened to be standing next to him in the AH when he /said "How do I get off this island?" I remember wondering the same thing when I was like level 10, so I sent him a tell and told him. Then he asked how to get to Stormwind, and I said that was a very long and dangerous trip for someone of his level (which was 6 or 7 I think). He wanted to go anyway, and I was headed for an instance, so while I was in the instance I was talking him through the trek in tells. Joy.

Then, when it was time to get his pet, he realized he had to go back to Darnassus. And he hadn't picked up any flight paths. And he sent me a tell asking how to get back, because he didn't really know anyone in the game at that point other than his brother. I didn't relish the idea of spending the next 3 hours telling him how to do it, so I just went to Stormwind and escorted him back.

THIS WAS A HUGE MISTAKE.

The kid seemed to have his heart in the right place, but he was obviously extremely new to the game and had not read the manual and did not have a clue about anything. So on the way, I was making sure he got his flight paths and talking to him about his professions and stuff and trying to give him a sense of how to play the game well. Then I dropped him off in Darnasuss and left. The only thing that bugged me was that he kept asking about how much gold I had and then following it up with "I am not asking you for money."

Apparently, taking him to Darnassus meant that I was his very best friend ever ever in the whole wide world ever EVER, and every time I saw him on, he sent me a tell asking me to run him through a lowbie instance. First I said in very clear, direct language that I was flattered that he thought so highly of me, but that I had in-game and RL friends who I preferred to spend my game time with. That didn't work. So I said flat out, "Do not ask me to run you through any more instances." I didn't want to put him on ignore at that point because he seemed like a nice enough kid (he sent me a tell all excited saying he got all Bs so he could play during the week now), but he clearly didn't know the rules of WoW etiquette.

"Do not ask me to run you through instances" shut him up for a few weeks. Then he sent me a tell asking me to run him through SM because all the other high-levels in SW already said no. I said I was in an instance. He asked again the next day, and said it was because he wanted to level and make money for his mount. I said a better way to do that would to be to do quests and to kill monsters that are slightly above his level, and that I made all my mount money selling crafted items. He said that was for noobs who had no life.

I thought I put him on ignore, and I didn't hear anything from him until this weekend, when he sent me this long blathering story about seeing his girlfriend at the dentist. I said, "Does this story have a point? Because the last time I talked to you, you implied that I was a noob who had no life, so I am not inclined to listen to this story that seems to be going nowhere." He got all defensive and kept claiming that IT WASN'T HIM. I am not making this up, that was his excuse. Then he started asking, "did u go see the raid on the world dragon? cause i did. it was real-time entertainment" (I cannot replicate his actual spelling of how he typed it.) And I, for real this time, put him on ignore.

The next day, I got mail from his alt asking why I put him on ignore, 'cause he didn't say that. I put the alt on ignore. Then he logged on ANOTHER toon to ask me AGAIN why I put him on ignore, and I said, "Putting you on ignore should make it clear that I do not want to speak to you. Please leave me alone." Then I put THAT toon on ignore. Then he logged ANOTHER toon and said "take me off ur ignore list I will log Beta again in about 5 min and see if you have done it."

I put that toon on ignore and contacted the GM (so thanks to the guildies who suggested that). The GM said it would be taken care of. I didn't hear anything else out of him for about a day.

Then he made a toon called Srrylyranne, and he logged that on and sent me a tell saying he didn't say the thing and he is sorry he tried to bypass my ignore and he is sorry he had his guildie talk to me instead of him (OH YEAH I FORGOT THAT PART IN THE STORY) and he prays for me every night that I will change my mind and forgive him and ALSO that he will always think of me as one of his best friends in WoW.

SO.

If a Betaomeyta, Exishealer, Omgbeeta, or Kekish sends you tells, DO NOT HELP HIM 'cause he is a stalker freak. And don't tell him anything about me because...STALKER FREAK. I am serious. FREAKY. STALKER.

That is soooo scary. What a terrible thing to happen when you were being so nice.

Let's have a Freaky Stalker hunt some time! ;-P

Your my VERY best friend in WOW. Can I ask you about 1000 questions PLZ.....

Sorry, You cant be nice to some freaking people.

Btw plz take me off ignore.........

Yeah I have come to realize that just making water/foodz and summoning up portals for money is as nice as I can be. Otherwise, these fools expect you to play the game for them.

.... I really can't summon up the energy for rage here, because he sounds pretty much exactly like my dog.

"Wait you closed the DOOR? What do you mean you closed the door! SURELY IF I BARK LOUDER YOU WILL PAY ATTENTION TO ME!"

Your dog plays WOW?

Seriously, Lyranne that is creepy. In an anonymous game world, some people aren't bound by societal rules and feel they can act however they want. Hopefully he and his alts will be taken care of.

Damn, sorry to hear about that Lyr.

Lyranne,

I am sure that he will be taken care of now... I contacted Guido and his goon-spuad and they will be sure of it...

Guido has asked me to find out how you would like the job done... I told him that you probably didn't have a preference... was I wrong? Do you have a preference?

Broken knees, fingers in the door jam, or my favorite: the cigar cutter to the thumbs?...

hmm...

Is it any wonder people like me solo almost exclusively? I mean, I want to pay back the community for the niceness I've encountered but incidents like this make you really think twice. I do random SMALL acts and run!

Recently, I advertised in /trade a Zealot Blade, make an offer before it goes in the AH. Someone asks me what I want for it. Realizing that he is interested but doesn't want to make an offer (/rolleyes) I say 40 gold. He says "no thanks I'll just use my mace". I talk to another person that strictly wants to know where it dropped, then send back to first guy to make an offer if he's interested because maybe he's looking for a bargain and I don't watch the AH enough to know what to list it at. He says "so I have to pay for it" and I say "no I'll give it to you for free" which ends the parlay on both ends.....

I list it in the AH for a buy-out of 41 and it sells in less than two hours. Go figure. But this guy is offended by me (apparently) for wanting money for a weapon and I get offended by him for asking if he wasn't interested. I mean jeez louise! I get a blue once every six months if I'm lucky. The blue weapons I'm using on my toons I bought in the AH! I've not found one yet that was useful to me at the time I found it, except one but it went to another toon and was held for a while for that toon to level up to minimum to use it.

/rant off

In my experience that's a pretty common occurance for trying to sell things on trade.

But here's one that really pissed me off.

I was trying to sell an epic that dropped (after asking if anyone could use it right away on /g). There weren't any on the AH, nor had I any idea what it was actually worth. I got a couple tells from people saying nothing more than "Lucky!" "nice drop" and things of that nature. Then I got a tell from a level 41 toon that really seemed like he could use it. He didn't have a lot of gold and I hemmed and hawed and decided to give it to him for the 40g he offered. (I know it's worth well over 100g)

But be before I told him my decision I asked him flat out. "I was hoping for quite a bit more. But I will sell it to you for what you're offering if you promise you're going to use it when you get your next level."

"Really? Ya I'll totally use it!"

So I sold it to him... and I felt really good about it. I didn't get what I thought I would but I did get some money and I helped out someone that looked like he could use it.

I logged off my bank alt and came on with Fox.


/Tradechannel : WTS PST with offers.


Fucker

I send him a tell.

Foxfyr: Nice
Assmunch: I know! I just got it!
Foxfyr: I know, I just sold it to you.
Assmunch: lol

/ignore assmunch

I was so pissed off I considered posting on their guild's site about it but I've since cooled off. I guess it's a good thing it was under construction at the time.

I was so pissed off I considered posting on their guild's site about it but I've since cooled off. I guess it's a good thing it was under construction at the time.

Fuck 'em I would have as soon as his guild site came back up. I woulda put it in the Eitrigg forums too just to be a dick.

God what an asshat.

Betaomeyta, who may actually be a girl instead of a boy, sent his/her friend to ask if I was still his/her friend yesterday.

Person: Are you still Betaomeyta's friend?
Me: Who are you and why are you sending me tells?
Person: um I am her friend and she wants to know?
Person: So r you?
Person: ????????????
Me: We were never friends. I helped Betaomeyta out like twice to be nice.
Me: /ignore person

Reply and tell them you just brought the account off E-Bay and tell them to take a hike.

... I totally support this. "I have no idea who that is, I just bought this account off ebay from some girl who said she had a stalker and couldn't deal with it anymore."

LOL - that's a great idea.

It REALLY IS.

In my experience that's a pretty common occurance for trying to sell things on trade.

I guess I wouldn't treat people like that in real life so I hate it in WOW. I have been in the reverse role and when someone advertises with make offer and my offer isn't high enough, I wish them good luck. I don't try to insult them.

As for what happened to you for being nice, I also think you should let their guild know. The only real problem is that the guild may not care and you could get your feelings hurt again so you have to be prepared to be told to suck it by the guild in question. If it's a good guild, they will want to know about the character (pun?) of this guild member. I would want to know. So sorry you got burnt being so nice....

What I have learned playing wow

1.They never have just 1 question, talk to then once and they will probably /tell you for a long time.

2.Never give money or items or help to anyone you don't know

3.You want to sell stuff and not deal with the Atards put it on the AH not in the trade channel

Sure sometimes it is fine, but the majority of times you regret it later

Someone sends me a tell in game, I don't know them or they are not in the guild, ...right click ignore first time every time.

Jack still tries to be nice sometimes and she almost always regrets it and I just sit there and laugh. (yes I am a bastard lol)

It's too bad it has to be that way but there are 100 knobs for every normal person in the game and if I want to gamble I will go buy a lotto ticket.

It's too bad it has to be that way but there are 100 knobs for every normal person in the game and if I want to gamble I will go buy a lotto ticket.

I dunno. I'm level 30-ish and most people seem nice. Though I mostly go solo as I fear freaky stuff like what Lyr went through. o_0 Anonymity + distance can breed some really horrible behavior.

Betaomeyta, Exishealer, Omegabeeta, Betaa and Kekish are all definitely Betaomeyta.

Kookiel and Betaa are PROBABLY Betaomeyta. He/she sent me tells today INSINUATING THAT HE/SHE IS OMEGABEETA'S MOM. Then he/she said she was "logging on my son's account and putting you on ignore." (Immediately before, Betaa was following me around Stormwind, and immediatly after, Betaomeyta signed on.)

Omegalpha is also Betaomeyta's brother and sent me tells the other morning claiming "I must know you, you are on my friend's list." He sent me tells from another toon, also, but I did not write it down.

Also, this kid is officially FREAKING ME OUT. Completely.

Sheez you need to report this kid and get his account banned.

She's reported him many times. :(

He's an odd duck. Really. o_0 I think he may need some medication. Or electroshock treatment. But you can't really shock stupid out.

I'm glad I remembered this before I was er.. "nice" to him. My policy of icy avoidal of all chit-chat during instances has once again paid off.

She's reported him many times. :(

Yep, I've reported him repeatedly and I've reported at least two players he's coerced into talking to me to try to get me to take him off ignore.