Trading Scams in XY

I once was scammed on an old D/P site. I had a couple of chained shinies ( I was pretty durn good at chaining in that game) and I was trading them off for perfect IV/ nature match ups. Well it's easy to say you have these when you don't, I lost ALL of them to scams and all the users were banned. Didn't help that I had a bunch of POS pokemon now. I, however, have had no such experience on this site. It's pretty secure over all.

I've being seeing scam shiny for days now i got some ligit shines

Dusk White said:

I've being seeing scam shiny for days now i got some ligit shines

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Like on PC or just generally? I've only been scammed on the GTS never PC ^^ love this community's trade place!! Thanks Cordelia, Absol, Keiran, and tabor62 for their great mod work :)

Well recently i've seen a lot of random passerby's trying to trade me a gengar with gengarite and saying its a shiny. I can't really tell the difference O.o.

uncleteemo said:

Well recently i've seen a lot of random passerby's trying to trade me a gengar with gengarite and saying its a shiny. I can't really tell the difference O.o.

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When you trade, look at the summery of the Gengar, you should be able to see a shiny star if it's shiny. If there is no star then it's not.

Elements1 said:

When you trade, look at the summery of the Gengar, you should be able to see a shiny star if it's shiny. If there is no star then it's not.

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Yeah I can't believe i just figured that out like a few weeks ago :P
Considering the fact that i had the same since jan

Yea well before X and Y i have never used gts. I mainly traded with 1 friend. My friend did use gts and he got a lot of (very badly)hacked shiny pokemon for his legit shiny's. When i uploaded all his pokemon on pokécheck all his traded shiny's were hacked and had just big red flags. Now he doesn't use gts anymore, only for dex completation.

hey yer I haven't been scammed on the GTS its been quite good really A++ :-)

yeah, you have to be careful bout it..

Never have been scammed before..... and that, is all I have to say about that.

I've never been scammed on GTS or internet trades with passerby because whenever someone says "5v, 3 EM" or "shiny egg", I automatically assume they're lying. If I want to get something like that, I'll trade with someone I can actually message or talk to.


Haven't done any trading here yet, so we'll see. Seems like this place attracts honest folks (and/or discourages dishonest ones XD), but... I'm the type of person to take a chance on a newbie, so I might end up getting burned >.<


EDIT: Uh, is this thread dead or not????

Apparently I scammed someone (I'm on the blacklist). I just find it funny that the mod who temp banned me is now retired, the guy I apparently scammed hasn't been on in a while and that my infraction points have vanished.


Funny world. But yeah, if you do get scammed you really should report it to a mod. But use common sense, guys.

I don't really trade except through wonder trade.

Trade scams are the number one reason I'm afraid to trade with strangers (huehuehue)

At least with wonder trade I know I'm likely to get duped in the first place and just trade common pokes.

This was actually on OR but I saw a good deal on a shiny Charizard in GTS. I rushed to get it and succeed only to see on its summary that it was apparently hatched in the year 2049! Obviously a fake and now it just sits in my box. But no one can stop me from using it if I want to use it!

I dunno. I had never set my system clock before I collected my shiny beldum from the ORAS event. It ended up with some ridiculous date like 1900!

If you aren't trading shinies or pokemon that are really rare, you don't get hacked pokemon that often, right? Now I'm all worried, cuz typically I trade normal pokemon for normal pokemon I don't have on gts. Hacked pokemon don't mess up your have do they? :/

Once, Someone offered an Egg that had a bit odd name (probably just an egg from a different
country.), and told me it was a Diancie egg. Gave my shiny Cofagrius for it :'(
I didn't know anything about it back then so yea..