Someone wants me to hold gems for them. :/
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Someone wants me to hold gems for them. :/
Basically, this morning, a 'friend' sent me a PM asking if I could store some gems and treasure for her before she joins FR. Long story short, she's selling stuff on another website for stuff on FR, idk, I don't understand how she's doing it without an account but the point is she's asked if I can keep this stuff for her for a while until FR opens for registration again. Well, problem is she's not really a friend. I have her on Facebook and we were friends at school but she never, ever speaks to me and only started a convo with me for this reason, so I could do something for her.
Normally I'm totally up for giving people a hand with things they need and problems they have, I love helping people, but somehow I don't feel comfortable with this. Not just cause she never normally speaks to me but also because I have terrible spending habits on FR (I'm sure we ALL do xD) and I don't want to accidentally use her stuff. Plus registration probably won't be open for at least another month or two so I'd have to be careful with what I spend for a while and I dunno... I just don't feel too comfortable with doing this. :/ I can't explain it properly. But I want to know what I should do.
Is it even allowed? I can't see why it wouldn't be because there's no rules being broken or anything but it seems like cheating somehow, selling stuff off another breeding website so that you don't start poor on FR. I mean I started with nothing and it's not exactly hard to gain your first good bit of treasure. She even said she'd let me keep 10% of the treasure and I'm like, eh, what? If I'm holding your stuff for you for possibly quite a few months, I'd want a bit more than 10% of your treasure, especially when that much would be so easy to come by in less than a day for me if I really wanted to earn it.
I just don't know what to say to her. I can't just say that I can't do it because it'll make me seem like an unhelpful ass who can't be bothered. :/
TL;DR: Old friend who never speaks to me wants me to hold treasure and gems for them until they can make an account then send it to them, I don't want to do it but don't know how to tell them.
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Re: Someone wants me to hold gems for them. :/
Sounds well dodgy to me and defo not worth an account ban o.O
I'd be totally honest and plead that you don't want a ban. If she gets the huff - then she isn't worth knowing! I wouldn't put any of my friend's accounts in danger of a ban - heck, I even charge my mom, dad, brother and sister Petopian prices for dragons - I don't want the admins thinking we are account sharing if they see dragons moving for free between our accounts on the same IPs (house full of FR addicts )
Edit: Unless she's gonna get you to be the 'middle man' of the trade and have the buyer send the gems to you....I've seen people openly sell other site stuff for FR currency and vice versa on the forums so I don't think it's gonna be a rule breaker - personally I'd feel uncomfortable since they don't interact with you in any other way >_> I'd feel a little used And you don't want to get into any arguments about what you should be holding for her and what you actually have >_> Gosh I types lots when I'm hyper - sorry
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I'd just say your not comfortable holding gems for her since they have real currency value. I feel uncomfortable holding currency for Petopians when I'm MP stalking and the scrolls they want me to buy don't stock xDSnowy wrote:Yeah I'm also unsure. I didn't want to pry too much and show too much interest in case she got her hopes up of me actually doing it. I'm under the impression she must've sold her stuff on another breeding website and whoever she sold it to agreed to give her gems/treasure on FR for it. So I don't get why she doesn't like... sell her stuff a bit later on or when she's made an actual account. As I say, it's not like she's someone I know that well, we live in different countries now and we neeeever ever talk. But since she found out I play FR she seems to want to take advantage of me and I don't like it.
Taking the advantage thing is what I see and I wouldn't like it either >_>
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There is also that risk that this could look REALLY suspicious to the FR team and could get your FR account banned! So checking the Help chat is a good idea for such a thing.
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I posted this exact post on the help forums either way. I hope someone can help me figure out what to do or say. >.< If I'm honest, I'm hoping that it's actually not allowed since then I can just tell her I don't want to get my account banned, simple as, nothing more to add to that really. xD Neopets though... urg. I loved it as a kid but I got banned so many times for absolutely no reason! >.<
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Last night I sent her a message basically just saying, "Nah, sorry, I don't want my account to get banned." and so far she's blanked me haha.
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Snowy wrote:Yeah it sounds far too dodgy whether it's allowed or not. I don't want to take a risk for someone I barely know who clearly only bothered speaking to me for this reason.
Last night I sent her a message basically just saying, "Nah, sorry, I don't want my account to get banned." and so far she's blanked me haha.
Pfffffttttt - let her blank ya! She obviously isn't worth it cos if she was, she'd understand and not want you to get banned anyways
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But I've been a member of another virtual adopts site called Chickensmoothie for four years now, though I haven't been as active this last year. But I do still go on and adopt monthly and such... Naturally I've gotten a lot of rare and valuable pets - some of which are worth one million treasure each - up to three, four or even six million. Flightrising, and trading for FR currency, is really popular over there so I've started trading some of my pets off for treasure.
I'd assume the way your friend would get the treasure/gems to you, is that whenever she makes a trade or sells something she'll just tell her customer/trading partner to pm the currency directly to you.
All of this isn't to say that you should go through with it though, just clarifying things. I certainly wouldn't do it unless they were an actual friend. Too much of a hassle for anyone else...
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Bah! Leave her be - it's most definitely her loss!Snowy wrote:As I say, I ended up telling her no and she just ignored me. Probably for the best. She wasn't the nicest person back at school either (this is looking back about 5 years ago), she was quite the snob and liked to boss everyone around, me included since I was a bit of a suck-up. It's more or less now about me trying to show her she can't just do whatever she wants with me anymore. I wouldn't have a problem with this at all if it was a proper friend asking me to. But especially after she completely blanked my comment I've realised she'll probably never speak to me again anyway. Which is fine. xD
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Thanks for making me feel better about it! Even if I do need to give her a kick up the ass, I basically feed off helping people out when I can so I can't help but feel bad.Zhuge wrote:Bah! Leave her be - it's most definitely her loss!
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Exactly. She'll never know the wonderful friend you actually are. <3Zhuge wrote:Bah! Leave her be - it's most definitely her loss!Snowy wrote:As I say, I ended up telling her no and she just ignored me. Probably for the best. She wasn't the nicest person back at school either (this is looking back about 5 years ago), she was quite the snob and liked to boss everyone around, me included since I was a bit of a suck-up. It's more or less now about me trying to show her she can't just do whatever she wants with me anymore. I wouldn't have a problem with this at all if it was a proper friend asking me to. But especially after she completely blanked my comment I've realised she'll probably never speak to me again anyway. Which is fine. xD
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Pffttt you guyssss xD I knew there was a reason I'd stuck around this forum for so long. <3Junrei wrote:Exactly. She'll never know the wonderful friend you actually are. <3
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Cause we love you forever and forever and you're not allowed to leeeeeeave?Snowy wrote:Pffttt you guyssss xD I knew there was a reason I'd stuck around this forum for so long. <3Junrei wrote:Exactly. She'll never know the wonderful friend you actually are. <3
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Well given that I quit WoW a while ago and I'm still here, I doubt I'll be leaving anytime soon. x'D <3Junrei wrote:Cause we love you forever and forever and you're not allowed to leeeeeeave?
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