Not sure if all would consider this a scam or not, since you do not deal with the person directly, but I think any new player in the game should be aware of the selling of broken items in auction.
I have had this happen because I was in a hurry to find a h400 with low tt for a quick soc hunt. Scrolled though the lists of pistols and found a h400 with 34 or 35 tt value at a buyout of 160% which was perfect for what I was looking for. After I got to the meeting point I noticed that the h400 was actually a adjusted h400 and was broken. I wrote off the markup as a lose for me for not checking the 3% rule before I placed a bid. Now this was just over 17ped I lost and can live with that as a reminder to check for anything else I place a bid on.
I was looking though the ore finders this morning and found a tk320 that just looked funny. It was just below the 3% and broken, but the person still put it on auction with a start bid of 100ped and a buyout of just over 1600% or 150ped. This for a item that will have to be resold, or tt'd for 9.32. I would figure anyone that has the skills enough to use this finder will know to check the 3% of the tt value to make sure that it is still working before they pay for it, which means the person that put it up on the auction will just be wasting the auction fee's.
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