ever been scammed in acnl?

[tobi!]

I'm not sure this is scamming but it makes me mad.
When I enter an auction or something and the person keeps pressuring me to spend more.

(I win the auction for 2mil bells and the person tells me he'll only sell it for 2.5mil cause it's worth more. I WON THE AUCTION.)

 

[Sephiroth]

Someone stole all of my hybrids. He tried to leave, even asked me to end the session. I reset the wifi before that terd left.

 

[Classygirl]

I invited someone in for a petition once on my complete original main built up town I did not know well and they ran off once and I got flower swiped so I learned the lesson if it something like that I just invite to my newer doesn't have much town, nothing to take.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I said who was outside, kept saying was in houses I asked where are you, after I saw them behind my bus stop a spot no one was or goes no houses but is where my gifted good rose was ran into a house said was done and to end. I had not played there so long I didn't inventory, but after just walking past my house and zen garden I knew...pink carnations, purple or blue rose, black tulips...everything non hybrid except that rose I was guarding. The running off very fast not following when asked and not coming outside the house I should've flipped but we learn early on. After though same day figured is all gone anyway and let another come, was nice I saw her sig board with someone outside so saw it was real and got unexpected tip and offer of flower help. So for every bad seed there are a million shining stars.

 

[AnnaThePolarBear]

I've had a girl from Tumblr steal about 10 or so gold roses from me, it wouldn't have been so bad if she'd asked for them since I probably would have let her have them.. But nope.
I deleted her right after though, and I'm more careful when letting strangers into my town now.

 

[#1 Senpai]

yes. by fang. he didn't even know if the painting was real or not.. for about 3k

- - - Post Merge - - -

AJAJAJJA oops not villager shaha

ajaja but I remember one time I was scammed by a person, trading a villager, they talked to the villager then while i wasn't looking they just left..without leaving the bells..

 

[Rivers]

In advance HI MAYORMIKE

Seems like members other than MayorMike might have some comments.

 

[TykiButterfree]

I was visiting my brother's town and he has the name Yoshi spelled out in gold roses. I walked by that part of town and noticed half of them were gone. I obviously didn't do it so I showed him and we both reset so it didn't save. I have also had someone try to take a few of my flowers. I don't see the point. I like flower breeding so I would probably just give them away if I was asked.
Right now I have random stuff in my town square that I don't want. Too bad no one has tried to steal those haha.

 

[Nanobyte]

No, and thank goodness for that. I'm super glad that The Bell Tree is such a safe site, with the WiFi ratings and all.

 

[sej]

Never been scammed. But I am super careful. When someone says 'please can i look around your town' I say why and then they give their reason. I walk around with them anyway, just in case

 

[CuteKatie]

In advance HI MAYORMIKE

do you mind not posting that? its not anything about this topic at all please stick to this topic only, thanks

 

[peachesandicecream]

This was on gamefaqs and one of my first trades so I let this guy in to catologe some stuff so I did he said only 4 out of that 40 was on his list so I belived him then we went to my plaza because I had some more then he ran away and I could not find him I found him and saved and quit I found out 30min later that 1 All the items that he catologed was on his list 2 He shook my money tree.A couple days ago I did not know it was him again I was giving him the card set for 10mil and he started dropping crowns he took them all and said "This is not all of them but I will still let you have 5mil I found out it was hime from the start and was trolling so I hit the WiFi switch.I told him that he shooked my money tree and he said "You said I could" Such a brat then he kept telling me to open my gates for him

 

[Pietro:)100]

This is really late but today I went to the island wearing my Crown. There was a girl there and she said I'll buy your crown for 3.5 million in game bells. I put the crown down she took it and got out 350 thousand bells. I asked for more bells like she promised but then somebody flicked the switch.
I was left feeling really ripped off and it's put me off the multiplayer island.

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

Nope. I am usually very careful with trades and I never visit club tortimer anymore.

 

[fuzzybug]

I was scammed. First time, about a week ago. A person who I didn't know came in randomly, and they said that they used to come to my town all the time. I still didn't remember, but I went along. She asked if she could look around, and before I said yes, she said, 'I don't steal stuff or run'. I was said okay and we hung out a bit. She took 13 pink lilies and all 3 of my Jacob Ladders. She said she hadn't been on TBT in forever, so I'll probably never be able to catch her. I was so mad I fell for such a stupid trick.

 

[honeyaura]

A couple times.

The first was only an attempt, but it was here on TBT.
She was very rude and begging in my town (she had an auction for a 7-11 set that I won, and she started a new one just because she wanted more bells). When I bought something else from her (I think it was a golden axe?) she asked for more than twice the amount of bells that I won with for the 7-11 set. After numerous times of saying no, we finished the trade and she tried to run off. I stopped her, thanked her, and wanted to end. THEN she asked to shop. Fine. She finishes, asks AGAIN for bells. No. The next morning, what I can remember, I saw something I wanted that she was selling. I asked her a question about it on her page, then she brings up a golden axe up for sale. "No, I already bought one from you last night." "But I didn't get money." "Uh, yes you did. I laid em out, you picked up, I ended." "No, I didn't, I never ended up with it, you scammed me." "Nah, sweetie if the session ends successfully, nothing is lost." She replied with a neg rating, saying that I was scamming her. I reported her, then she claimed it was her brother doing this whole thing. Bull. Luckily she's not active anymore.

This second time almost ended all trading for me. I was so done after this.
This was on Gamefaqs. I won an auction for Lolly, settling on 5 million bells. While I was finishing up, she saved. I didn't know then what I know now, but I just went with it, thinking it was just for safety since it was a lot of bells. She said it was because it was storming where she was, and she was afraid it was gonna cut off. That's cool. However, when I was all finished, she just cut it off. Hmm, maybe the storm? Nope. I messaged her, kinda fearful that it was on purpose. "Uhhh... what happened?" 10 min later "Idk? I didn't do it." "Um okay... can you reopen please?" 20 min pass. "Nope." My day was already bad, and my body started aching from shock. First time being scammed. I knew that there wasn't much else I can do, but I was seeing black in sadness and anger, so I posted something about her on GF. It wasn't allowed, but I was just furious. According to another friend on GF, she's no longer active most likely because she continued to scam others, and that there was less trust in her name, especially after my post and posting "SCAMMER" on her thread.

These events, and a few others, have nearly let me end my trading altogether. It's only a game, but a game I put a lot of sweat and tears into </3

 

[Becca617]

no, luckily

 

[WonderK]

I've never been scammed.

 

[oreo]

I don't think I can do trades on other communities but the bell tree forums.
I luckily never got scammed but my close friend was trying to help a new guy out on another Animal Crossing community site (ACC).
She offered him a few gold roses, and golden tools. She made a terrible mistake of being afk from her DS for roughly 10 mins. The guy stole a bunch of her famous mushrooms, lucky clovers, and stole plenty of her perfect peaches. Now she only plays with her real life friends and only wifi with strangers for trading purposes.

 

[NewLeaf01]

I was not scammed dont think but took clovers (oops!) and then restarted my town.

Was also slapped in the face i had a villager for someone and restarted my town and they left me negative say ing i was " Unreliable and makes false promises." I commented in almost all caps.

I was mad. Same with clover lady. I resarted so does it make me a scammer or no?

 

[Maruchan]

Fortunately, nope.
I guess being extremely careful/selective on who I choose to trade with,
and (usually) not letting anyone in my main town really helped.

One thing I love about The Bell Tree is the wi-fi feedback system.
I always look thru members' actual feedback (not just the %) plus the feedback they left for others,
to get a general idea of how things are. Well, not a complete guarantee, but it has been very effective so far.

That said, I do have two minor incidents that I can recall, so I'd like to share them here.

1) A certain member (probably inactive now), let's call her D. They wanted to adopt a villager from one of my cycling towns.
Fee is 50 BTB. Initially I am reluctant to trade with them, as I can see they are shady & annoying.
But hey, benefit of doubt, right? So I replied in my thread & PM'd them, stating clearly that buyer need to pay first before coming into my towns, and gates will open once payment cleared. I say that in every trade, to everyone.
And guess what, D keep pressuring/rushing me to open the gate, yet made no mention of payment.
So after the 3rd try, I told them the trade is off, as I won't be dealing with the likes of them. D, of course, tried to shift the blame on me, saying that I wasn't clear on the payment thing.
Seriously, what part of "pay first and I will open gate after that" is not clear enough.
Trying to pull a "talk-and-run" on me? Nice try.
TL;DR: Cyclers or not, always ask the buyer to clear payment first BEFORE letting anyone into your town to adopt villagers.

2) Also happened in my cycling town. One member, A, paid for a villager whom their friend, B, will show up to adopt.
I have no problem with that whatsoever, and actually it's v kind of them to do that for their friend.
Anyway, things got a bit bizarre when A keep rambling on and on about how I should meet in their town with friend B.
It's like....listening to a high/drunk person. So, I politely told them no, and reminded them whoever wants to pickup the villager should, in fact, come to my cycle town for that, no the other way round.
Someone finally showed up at the station, I was greeting them there, and long pause of silence, no response from that player at all. From the posture that I can see from my screen, it seemed like they are checking out the rest of my cycling town, while searching through their pockets. Why they did that, I have no idea. Before I can ask are they ready to walk to the villager's house (after that awakward long pause), they took a mad dash from 0 to 60 and ran out of sight.
Funny that they are not even at that villager's house. So at this point, the benefit of doubt is basically flying out the window.
I flipped the wi-fi switch (for the 1st time), promptly refund the BTB to member A, and told them this is a jerk move, and the trade is off. The member replied, blaming it on a bad connection. Yeah, right.
TL;DR: When things starts to not feel right, wi-fi switch is your friend.