CoreyJess Posted:

Like this one.

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/36802-help-i-ve-lost-my-marbles

Is this abuse of what is supposed to be a legitimate auction house?

I’m honestly not sure here, so I’m asking.

Publicly keeping track of which people you’ve made purchases from, and making it a ‘theme thread’? I don’t see why that would be an issue, especially since multiple people have been doing it for months.

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/24529-buying-a-lot-of-zomg-im-so-fat-xpeg

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/33241-buying-magic-mushrooms

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/36069-please-help-sell-me-your-male reproductive organ-enlargement-tutorials

No one has reported any of these threads for abuse (and one of them has been around for 4-and-a-half months), so it would seem that the community at large has no problem with the concept of advertising an intent to make a purchase. Add in a ‘public record’ of purchases, and while it’s obvious that it’s an attempt to chase the Bidder Peen, I don’t see anything nefarious going on. Some players simply keep track of their purchases privately, and Buyout any item listed by a ‘new auctioneer’ that they see.