'tis the season to be folly...

due to the arrival of the festive occasions, i've decided to follow suit in what my fellow bloggers have been doing of late. apparently everyone have had their share of frustrations lately be it from poor attitude of others or just plain cheated. so i'll post mine, too.

so i was in gunbound happily playing, and i came across this person with a golden hammer(hey it looks like a spiked ball on a chain + a handle but dun ask me why they call it the golden hammer. i had recently procured a propeller avatar item that looks like a fan behind my back. it's cheaper than the golden hammer. but with different stats anyway. so the guy asks me if i wanna trade(that's supposedly illegal in gunbound) and i concurred. and i got cheated. well not quite.... read on.

i sent him the propeller as a "gift" in the gunbound avatar system. and he sent me back an avatar that was a suntan "hairstyle"(he added in the msg with the gift "sorry this is what i have"). not what we agreed upon aka the golden hammer. and either he removed me from the buddy list, or the server had a hiccup(you need the person to be on your buddy list to be able to msg the person) and i got disconnected by the server due to some hiccup. when i came back his nick was no longer in my list. i realised i got tricked and profusely requested to add him in vengeance. i gave up after 5 times or so, and got out of there.

i immediately went to the gunbound website to login and lodge a report to expose the scammer for what he was. i managed to locate the page and selected my transaction with him and it was processed. satisfied with my call of vigilante vengeance, i went back in the game. (of course somehow the system reset my password from my actions and i had to get a fresh one)

upon logging in, the scammer apparently acceded to my adding him in the buddy list. and he msged me. his golden hammer was gone(no i don't have it) and he believed he was hacked. but he couldn't give me a satisfactory reply why he sent the hairstyle!?! so he was apologising slightly that too bad our stuff were gone(i didn't tell him somehow the system returned my propeller to me) and it's ok that i can't return him his stupid hairstyle(we can't send/sell gifts to us sent by others) and asked if i wanted to play. i declined and disconnected. no i didn't tell him i reported him to the system either. i'll let him think he'd been hacked, and if he truly was, my condolences. else he was just lying to me. the cad. no decent reply why he sent the hairstyle. wtf click wrong? who the heck would believe if the system asked if u confirm you want to send the item(with picture showing) man...

and so end of the day i earned a useless suntan hairstyle with stats poorer than what i have that i can't give away nor sell. and he lost his golden hammer. and i'm not sure if he really got hacked, or it was cos of me reporting him and that the system reversed our transaction. __ suck this ass hole!

oh yeah here's a bit of obituaries. my condolences to:

• henrie and xiaoya, for their getting loss of monetary/proprietary possessions,
• lindie, for her kids at work and online transaction woes,
• ter, sorry to hear about the passing away...
• to silk and xalmon... well they always have this huge amt of angst with them ^_^

and yes... primarily i wrote this in inspiration from henrie/xiaoya... cos they lost something somehow. world peace~

i just thought of this lame quote: "the world revolves around you, if you work hard at it."