[maskedmelon]

I was saving up for an item and was super close to having enough to purchase it back when I was a kid on live. Just needed to sell one more item, but was having a hard time. found an interested party, but all his money was on one toon and he wanted the item on his current one. little alarm bells flew in my head and I was liek, "yeah, no." took him a good half hour or more to wear down my bulwark of skepticism and get at my overly agreeable nature. i handed him the item and predictably he did not return to pay me. the injustice infuriated me and I harassed him along with broadcasting his treachery to every zone I visited for months, until one time I happened upon him in pot. this time it was apparently his brother piloting the toon. he apologized profusely and handed me an item from his in entity that was worth liek 5x the value of what his brother had swindled from me. was pretty cool and impressed upon me the vital importance of persistence, slander and truth. also accidentally left off a zero from an item in another game and managed to convince the buyer to sell it back to me at a 10% mark-up, which wasn't bad considering it was only 1% that item's value. that was a long conversation.