VShop Scam Prevention

I've noticed recently that there have been a large amount of insanely-priced items on the shop, that people are obviously hoping that someone will buy without checking the price. I feel this is really unfair; why should people be able to make hundreds of thousands of meebles for selling practically nothing and ripping someone off?

My suggestion is simple; all you have to do is add something so when the person types in the command to buy something, it calculates the price and says "Your purchase will cost x meebles. Would you like to buy this?" or something along the lines of that. The player would then type in a command, such as /buy confirm, and they will get their items. Simple fix that will allow players who haven't looked at the price yet (or accidentally type in the command) not to get ripped off.

Thanks for reading, hopefully this gets implemented so people aren't basically scammed. Feel free to leave a comment on what you think!

Edit: For those of you saying to check /find, if someone goes to buy a stack of diamonds and /find shows this:

• 12 diamonds for 449.99 meebles
• 7 diamonds for 454 meebles
• 23 diamonds for 463 meebles
• 38 diamonds for 472.3 meebles

Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just get one number instead of pulling out a calculator to figure out how much it will cost?

Edit 2: This could also be toggled so that it doesn't bother players (because then it would be their fault for not having it active).

 

+1
I agree, but I think that it would be a good idea to implement this on purchases that are 5000 meebles and greater to prevent spam.

 

I'm pretty sure that they already have this added on the trello page.. Fuzz wrote the same thing, he wanted a confirmation before purchasing.

--- Double Post Merged, Jul 6, 2015, Original Post Date: Jul 6, 2015 ---

Here it is underneath the suggestions part: https://trello.com/c/krWMeYZI/9-meepshop

 

I feel that this would further annoy the players that actually type /find before they buy the items...
Maybe could make it toggle-able, with the default being on. That way you can /confirm off or something, and if you buy a fence for 100K or something it's your fault.
then again it's also your fault for not checking first.

It'll be fixed in some way eventually. There's no real good reason to set the price of something that high- this is a problem, and it's

happened to several players, and staff will generally fix it sooner than later.

 

I've lost about 500k to this +100000000

 

-1, I usually do that to put a stock on items like stone. Then once I get a decent amount I'll lower the price. They are already being taxd a good bit out of it. Plus its the player's responsibility to check /find.

 

+1
I hate accidentally spending 10k on a block of dirt...
Also, Vshop scamming should be a bannable offense.

 

I like the idea, but then if it's a known amount such as 5000 meebles then people will probably sell for 4999.99 instead.

 

-1

There is an easy fix for all you lazy people use the following example type

/buy 15 Diamond 450

it will only buy 15 diamonds that are 450 or less. Never type just

/buy 15 diamond

You'll eventually be burned. Buying something like wood?

/Buy 100 Wood 5

Don't let the scammers selling 1 wood for 50000 get their payday ever.

 

1) It's not a scam, because you are willingly buying it, they are not obscuring the price, or using any deception. This is 100% not paying attention, or not doing something correctly.

2) Just use the commands provided in the plugin, and you will never _ever_ pay a lot of money for something again.

/find <item>
/buy <quantity> <item> <maxprice>

 

To prevent this i fixed some of those scams, for example I tried to find all of the overpriced ítems and sell some myself for a decent price.

Check /find: door, glisteringmelon, brewingstand, leatherleggings, etc

 

I understand that, but I just feel it wouldn't be that hard to add this in; it already has to calculate the final price, so why not just make a confirmation with the final price? You could always make it possible to toggle it off for people who don't want to have to deal with it.

 

No I mean if the total purchase exceeds 5000, not one item.

 

Oh that makes a lot more sense.

 

+1 i have lost 1000 meeples from this

 

When you type /buy there is no mention of the max price.
It is reasonable for people to make mistakes when it says proper use "/buy <quantity> <item>"

 

Exactly. If a new player comes on and makes 100k meebles, and then they go to buy a torch and type /buy, that will come up. If they then type /buy 1 torch and it charges them 100k meebles (all of their money), do you think that player will be ok with it or do you think they will get mad and never come back?

 

In this case, the only thing that needs to be added is a mention of maxprice when you type /buy. I'll mention this and add it to trello.

(https://trello.com/c/7GBR6piw/282-b...-whereas-it-should-say-buy-amount-item-maxpri)

 

Added to trello

 

This is resolved due to the shop forcing you to add a max price to your purchase.