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Fahrenheit 30 May, 2013 @ 10:14pm
Am I suppose to give refunds?
Okay, so a few months ago, I traded a portal 2 box (valued 8-10 keys at the time) and sold it for a ts bill and some sweets (pink paint was the most noteworthy thing that was a part of the sweets). so about 10 keys + a few items that came about 2 ref.

The guy I traded with got cold feet and found out he paid a high price for his box and said that he did not want to wait for the box to open and wanted to do a trade back. I told him I already traded the bill so a refund was impossible. Then he started throwing threats of reporting me to be a scammer and crap. So to shut him up, I gave him his pink paint back.

My question is: are all sales final and is paying a higher than normal price/"ripping off" reportable? Thank you.

edit: also, need to say that I posted this on Outpost and I was not "sharking"
Last edited by Fahrenheit; 30 May, 2013 @ 10:15pm
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Currier Bell 30 May, 2013 @ 10:50pm 
It was his fault for entering in a trade he may have regretted later. You did nothing wrong and did not even have to give back his paint.

There is no set price for items and technically everything is worthless since they're pixels in a game. You will not be punished for sharking or any thing of the like because you got a decent deal of 2-3 extra keys on an item.
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FullOfLead 30 May, 2013 @ 11:15pm 
A trade is a trade! You must be responsible for your own acts - I would NEVER have refunded him according to the info you put up here.
Scamming is not to put up a high prize for an item - seller are free to state whatever price he/she wants. Then the buyer can choose or not, to buy.
Scamming is not to set a high price - Scamming is when the seller starts implying that the item is more worth than it actually is (as I sees it). To scam - the seller must have been active in some way aiming to get a price much higher then the item actually are worth.
As an example: I wanted to sell a hat and someone answered my tradeoffer in TF2outpost. Instead of paying metal he offered a Strange MarketGardener which had a lot of registred kills. The Seller valued it twice the price as was registred for example on backpack.tf - just bcs it had so many kills. When I informed him that kills are zeroed when item is traded - he said that he know that! And then he started arguing that I did not paid him enough respect bcs it was hard to get that much kills on a MarketGardener. (I have saved the whole chat - just for fun! and you can find it via a link on my steam profile)
That was an example of a scam - first implying that it was more worth and then starting to make small threats!
BUT if he had put up the MarketGardener for sale on a trade for the double price and I choose to buy it... MY MISSTAKE - not his!

Conclusion: Never refund if you really feel that there is no reason for that - let the other part be rude and whatever - let him report you and then let the "judge" decide.
IF you are certain that you have done nothing wrong - well dont back off - take the fight - We are all gamers - Or??!!!
Last edited by FullOfLead; 30 May, 2013 @ 11:20pm
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norby89 31 May, 2013 @ 2:56am 
Wait, did this happen a few months ago or did the guy come back after a few months asking for a refund? Either way throwing threats is not nice, he didn't deserve to get back anything from you either.
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Fahrenheit 31 May, 2013 @ 10:53am 
Originally posted by norby89:
Wait, did this happen a few months ago or did the guy come back after a few months asking for a refund? Either way throwing threats is not nice, he didn't deserve to get back anything from you either.

it all happened a few months ago. we traded and then the next day he came crying back and started throwing the S bomb all over the place.
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Regen 31 May, 2013 @ 12:23pm 
Originally posted by Kai9001:
Originally posted by norby89:
Wait, did this happen a few months ago or did the guy come back after a few months asking for a refund? Either way throwing threats is not nice, he didn't deserve to get back anything from you either.

it all happened a few months ago. we traded and then the next day he came crying back and started throwing the S bomb all over the place.

Up to you if you want to give him a refund in this situation.
But on another note, If he started to throw scammer accusations your way, actually trying to file a fake report, then he could get marked for it, personally I would get pissed at the guy for trying to ruing my trading and reputation, and promptly tell him to fuck off.
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