Game Mechanics: Trade Bug

[Judgement]

I lost a whopping 50pp to this bug. Here's how!

I decide I'm going to sell a savant's cap at Kelethin bank.

Wessubba decides to buy it.

I load the item on my cursor and click on Wessubba several times, just as a violent lagstorm washes over the Greater Faydark zone.

I receive a busy message several times.

Wessubba is apparently attempting the same with his plat.

I get a trade message with Wessubba's 50 plat, which quickly disappears, due to Wessubba, I assume, cancelling the trade.

Wessubba relates to me that he did not receive the plat back upon cancelling the trade.

The lagstorm passes, and feeling mercy, I give Wessubba the savant's cap.

Wessubba /petitions and has not yet received a response after several days.

Unable to bear the senseless loss of the tragedy, I fling Judgement from Kelethin unceremoniously. A brief funeral is presided over by a pixie trickster.
The CR is uneventful.

Jesus appears with minimal fanfare in my office and slaps me on the back for my good deed, with a warm chuckle. In the process, an ingrown hair just below my chin is spontaneously healed.

[Lazortag]

I tried to trade with someone but misclicked and traded with someone else. Then I hit cancel soon after I put the 100 plat in the window. I then re-traded the 100 plat with the person I needed to but for some reason needed to cancel again (I'm not sure why, if you ask Gnada about the situation he might remember). After that when we tried re-trading I didn't have my 100 plat.

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[Wessubba]

After two weeks of waiting for a reimbursement, and finally being at a level where 50pp is a much smaller chunk of change, I repaid the 50pp Judgement I owed him for the cap. I would like to point out that Judgement is on my list of wonderful people of p99 because of how gracious he was to a poor newb.

[Bones]

This happened to me 4 months ago or around there.
I opened trade with this person with 1kpp and I don't remember what I was buying but we both clicked accept at the same time and his item disappeared and my cash did too.

Cant prove any of it and I barely remember it, so I am not asking for any reimbursement or anything.

Just adding what I've experienced.

[Omnimorph]

Don't think there's much can be done about it (especially at the moment) i've lost money to it before, and as a result i only ever open trade with someone when i'm buying someting with 1cp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] they put the item in, I put the right money in and seems to be alright for me.

This is quite a nice touch on classic as back then if you missed clicking on someone with your money you'd end up dropping it (as with items, no confirm box iirc) so i have to be extra careful [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Bones]

Originally Posted by Bones [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This happened to me 4 months ago or around there.
I opened trade with this person with 1kpp and I don't remember what I was buying but we both clicked accept at the same time and his item disappeared and my cash did too.

Cant prove any of it and I barely remember it, so I am not asking for any reimbursement or anything.

Just adding what I've experienced.

LoL this event suddenly surfaced in my memory recently and I sort of remember what happened now. Unfortunately I still cannot remember who this was.

I did open the trade but not with plat, with a Runed Cowl from lower guk.(I had been camping and selling them all week). We met up in EC tunnel at Shady. I click trade and he clicked trade, and lag commenses. For about 5 seconds the trade window just sat at a standstill both both of us already having accepted the trade.. we swapped a bit of dialogue back and forth regarding the confusion. After about 10 seconds or so I decided to back away from him (closing the trade). He did indeed get the Runed Cowl, but the plat disappeared. I sent a tell to a gm who was in game at the time, and he directed me to the forum. Since I am lazy and it wasn't a big issue at the time and 1kp had little to no value to me, I didn't make a post.

Not sure if that sort of describes the same issues other people have had.

I am still in no way asking for a reimbursement, thanks.

[Malrubius]

Bumping because this just happened to me. Didn't seem particularly laggy at the time - just clicked my whopping 75pp onto the Plat portion of the trade window, and BAM - trade window instantly disappears and it reports that "Malrubius cancelled the trade". 75pp was gone.

I will use Omni's 1cp trick from now on, but it's still a bug that could potentially cause someone a HUGE amount of pain.

[joshbc]

Same thing happened to me with 1kpp that I was trading, I petitioned about it and was told "we are currently unaware of any bugs relating to this issue" ..

[astarothel]

Have only had it happen once to some guy I was selling a deity to. We both tried to open trade at the same time I figure. (The 'interested in a trade' message popped up while I already had trade open with them.) I cancelled out of it because it was lagging when I tried to drop the doll into the window and it ate the poor guys pp.

[Lazortag]

If it is, there's an easy way to avoid this when making very large transactions for multiple items: do several trades at once and smurf the transaction (ie divide it into several micro transactions). That way the chance of a failure eating 10K and making you slit your wrists is ridiculously low.

Also, I think when making transactions of say, 5K or more, using a GM as a middle man would be an acceptable short term solution, provided the GM was willing. Both players could trade their money/items to the GM, and the GM could trade everything back to the opposite players, so that if a mistake happens, the GM can always fix it and verify that the transaction occurred.

I have a question - is there a way to actually recover lost plat (due to game logs verifying that a certain amount of platinum was deleted for no reason)? Thanks.