Bad Trades and Rip Offs by Baneful

 

I've seen a lot of ripping and lots of unfair deals.  I can totally understand if one side is willing to give a little bit more because time is urgent.  Deals where one side easily profits at least $10-20 of value within a single-trade are clearly rip-off's. 

 

I've been ripped before.  I've traded a third of my binder of holo's for a Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys at the time of it's release, probably losing $50 of value in my collection with that one trade.  And I've traded some valuable holos for commons I thought I needed. 

 

In the distant past, I've been that ripper before.  No, I didn't deliberately decieve anybody but I did bank on some one-sided deals and I felt horrible about it afterwards.

 

When all's said and done, I might've lost $500 to $1000 worth of card value in my young dueling career due to bad deals.  Including internet trades where the other user (with a much better reputation than me) never sent.  But it's important that no matter how much you've been burned, it's not constructive or helpful to anyone by trying to burn someone else.

 

Some people have the mentality that only kids should be protected from rip-off's and that if you're over 18, you deserve to get ripped off because you are stupid.  While, it's important that younger kids are always protected from adults who are looking for easy prey, ripping people off is wrong, even if they do know better.  I remember on one occasion where I was trading a kid for a Mirror Force. 

 

One guy from the shop (an acquaintance who wasn't partial toward me) mediated the deal to make sure I wasn't scamming him.  I gave that kid more than his fair share, but I felt good knowing that I did it right.

 

Baneful

 

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