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Trading Scams in XY

hiff8

Gotta Derp em all
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    • Seen Apr 4, 2015
    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.
     
    Belldandy

    Belldandy

    [color=teal][b]Ice-Type Fanatic[/b][/color]
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    • I was almost scammed a few years ago, but it wasn't anything major. I was then harassed over mic by the individual who I believe was trying to con a decent-IV Eevee out of me in exchange for a Totodile that was supposed to have a certain moveset and nature. I took my time to discover that it in fact did not have what was promised whilst being rushed by the other individual.

    I'm not 100% sure of details. I just know that the person thereafter tried to do it again with a different FC and forum name (I recognized the voice over the mic) with a different Pokemon. It was really, really stupid lol
     

    Dusk White

    Terra's Protege
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    • Seen Apr 3, 2014
    I've being seeing scam shiny for days now i got some ligit shines
     

    Elements1

    Meh
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    • 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 :)
     

    Elements1

    Meh
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    • 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.
     
    KillerTyphlosion

    KillerTyphlosion

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    • 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.
     
    Tek

    Tek

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    • 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????
     

    Burcol

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    • Seen Jan 15, 2017
    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.
     

    Creator Limbs

    #rekt
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    • 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.
     
    Nidorina of Time Lord

    Nidorina of Time Lord

    Waiting for the Sun to come...
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    • 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!
     

    Giga Wurmple

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    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!
     

    Purl

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    • Seen Sep 20, 2015
    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? :/
     
    SleepyTrainer

    SleepyTrainer

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    • Seen Jul 3, 2018
    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..
     
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