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| 12 Nov 2013 11:40 PM |
I love your game. Thank you for creating it. I would like to tell you a little story about my week in roblox.
On day 1 I had 5R in my account. I turned a couple of pages in the catalog before I got my daily stipend. So now I have 65R in my account. I started buying some very cheap items, 1R to 60R and turned them into profits from 20R up to 100R. By the end of day 1 I had made 1000R+ in sales, yet there was minimal profit showing in accounts.A few sales still pending.
Day 2 the pending sales came in and I had close to 400R to play with.I kept turning pages,looking for deals that stood out. I wasn't dissappointed, I came across sales of 1R 50R and 60R for items that would run about 100R+ on average. I did pretty good on day 2 ending with 2500R+ in sales. Day 3 was also another good day finishing at a total of 4760 in sales for the week. All the profits made where immediately put back into buying more items to sell.
Well this must have raised some flags in Roblox HQ because on day 4, everything I had for sale ended up being priced fixed into worthless items for trade. I still managed to make sales because I wasn't selling things I had, I was selling things I bought cheap. Before the day was finished everything I owned was knocked down to the worthless catagory,I assume by price fixers. Hehe and I was still making money in sales.
I don't know why this would have raised any flags because, I still have no money and the sales I made had cost me about 3800R. I did manage to increase my limited items.
Isn't it against the law to price fix any public auction? You might want to ask your lawyers about that. There must be a better way for roblox to control the sales without pricefixing. As you can see by my story the pricefixing did nothing to stop me from gaining profit. It only hurt the community.
You could set a limit for weekly sales that would cut off access to the catalog when reached. This would be a fairer solution than what you did to me.
Another idea I had was setting a time limit for current bids. So that no one can post a lower bid until 10 mins ran out from the previous bid. This would give the seller a guaranteed time before getting underbid. And it would slow the sales down considerably. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:06 AM |
"This must have raised flags at roblox hq" lol |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:29 AM |
Someone asked me how the price fixing was done. This is what happened.
I wasn't too sure about the price fixing wether it was coincidence or not at first. What happened is that a group of people would underbid me until the item couldn't make a profit for anyone. This happened to all the current sales I had up at first. And then later ended up all my items where so low I couldn't make any money with them. Having 60 plus items I could count the same people involved in all the lowering bids. Each person would have an old robloxia house in their game. And their inventory only had the limited items they where down bidding. In this list of people there was 2 admins with the same minimal inventroy, except the items they down bidded. I guess they forgot to log in to their alts. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:36 AM |
Hold on, are you basically saying that you bought cheap limiteds and sold them for more?
That won't raise awareness or anything, it's normal - it's called fluctuation. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:36 AM |
Agreed, well said buddy. :-)
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:41 AM |
Reread it if you didn't understand. I know it is long. The point of the story was for roblox to change the way they control the people who could make too much money. There has to be a better way than reducing the bids in order to stop people from getting rich. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 02:02 AM |
| Nice story. (Only got to read the first paragraph) |
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| 13 Nov 2013 02:21 AM |
If you didn't bother to read this, then I have to ask. Why did you bother to reply?
It wasn't addressed to anyone here but ROBLOX. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 02:26 AM |
>Isn't it against the law to price fix any public auction?
virtual money |
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| 13 Nov 2013 02:30 AM |
Yes it is virtual money , but it can be exchanged for real money. And roblox has to control this somehow.
And yes it is illegal to price fix. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 05:19 AM |
I must say, you're really smart, and I'm cynical.
> "It wasn't addressed to anyone here but ROBLOX."
You mean, the community? (Everyone). Or the user - 'ROBLOX' (impossible).
I better kiss a dog than reading this junk, You just annoy us. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 08:46 AM |
You aren't making any sense, roblox doesn't cause your items to fail. Just because you bought items and suddenly people who own that item decide to sell it for cheap to get it sold doesn't make it robloxs fault. People sell items for cheap because people won't buy it fast for the prices they are, or they need money, but its not robloxs fault They don't just sit there and go "Oh this guy has a lot of robux, lets steal the accounts of people who have this item and make them sell it for cheap" Besides you didn't even make "a lot" (You did make profit however, and good job) If roblox wanted to stop people from making money, they wouldn't go for people who make like 5K, they would go for people like TheGamer101 who make a average of 250,000 robux a week |
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| 13 Nov 2013 09:16 AM |
You children don't understand what this is about, at all. But I am not going to explain myself constantly to you. You pick one thing out of my whole statement and make a moccary of it.
Just wait until the day that you do good sales in the catalog. Then you will get to see this firsthand. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 09:36 AM |
There is no comparison from me to a player like gamer101. My money was made by buying and selling in the catalog, the only one who benefits is me.
People who make money through games and badges draw other people into roblox. These other people read and click ads making roblox money.
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| 13 Nov 2013 09:58 AM |
TD;LR . . . . .
ogm it wont let me post td;lr becuase i post eet to mush |
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| 13 Nov 2013 10:35 AM |
"Children" Im 16 as of yesterday I've bought and sold from the catlog (When I was BC) Roblox doesn't steal other peoples accounts to sell their items so you can't make money >.> you are just being stupid Explain people who don't have famous places and have made hundreds of thousands of robux, its crash sometimes, roblox doesn't make or ask people to sell things for a certain price |
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| 13 Nov 2013 11:06 AM |
Lol scriptoral I used to have respect for you. Not anymore. You are taking my words and twisting them into an arguement that no one can follow or understand. Troll much?
Here is another idea, for a solution to this. Roblox can make a seperate monetary value for buying limiteds. You could call it pixilim or limibux. You could buy this money with robux and buy limiteds with it. But you can't trade it back to robux. This way the limiteds can be bought and sold at any cost without affecting the balance of robux. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 11:40 AM |
| I couldn't care less if you, a person I don't know, has respect for me. Im not a troll, and I twisted nothing. You were unclear and still are unclear about what you are saying, limibux would ruin the point of limiteds (Making robux) |
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| 13 Nov 2013 12:39 PM |
Lol script, You have completely turned your point around to agreement, now your starting to see the problem almost.
This isn't about me losing money, I didn't lose anything other then a chance to make a sale.
This is about roblox reconstructing the limiteds so that people can't destroy the robux economy. I am only watching out for the company because I care. In their attempts to stop me from making money they also stopped anyone else from making the sale of the items I am selling. And the method roblox used to stop me failed and is also illegal.
This doesn't concern you at all so you are trolling. You can't buy/sell limiteds at the moment , so there is no way for you to see what I am talking about.
And for the last comment I am going to say to you, When you reach the age of 21 then you will not be considered a child. Oh to be 16 and know it all, again lol. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:04 PM |
I haven't agreed at all. No one tried to stop you from making money, other people who own the item decided to sell it for lower prices so theirs would sell sooner And its not illegal, you are talking nonsense. |
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| 13 Nov 2013 01:10 PM |
Also, I was recently bc. So I bought and sold and do know what you are talking about. I didn't say I was a adult (And thats over 18, not 21 anyway) I said Im not a child (12 and under) Im not being a know it all just because I point out you are being a idiot. Roblox doesn't care that you make money from limiteds snd doesn't try and stop you. You didn't even make a lot, you made more than you had, but not a lot. If they wanted to do something about people making money, what about the TCers who rack in 100K per month? (Although most only make 1 to 10K, some do get 100K) You are just upset because the items you bought went down in value. So you blame roblox saying they made it happen. |
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