If you ever suffered STEALING! (read from post 88)

[GuerreraD]

So, yes... I am barely a month registered in this site, and already happened to me. That's why I preferred to go other's towns instead allowing in mine. Few days ago I thought maybe I was exaggerating, I couldn't be the only person out there having MORALS... and look at this! Not even a week after opening my station, and I already noticed things missing!

I don't know about other people, but I remember perfectly what I did or didn't in my town, and how should look at given moment. Today, after having some visitors yesterday, I saw two Jacobs Ladders were missing and a few hybrids, plus perfect peaches on my trees. I can't know who exactly did it, if it was on purposed theft or running accident (though I specifically asked to not run).

I am not asking to someone give them back to me, I guess they will grow again eventually... but for the people out there doing this, I HOPE YOU FEEL ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES! Now, if you are the victim and not the criminal, please share your experience with me so at least I feel a little better.

 

[#1 Senpai]

You should monitor them at all times if you don't want items stolen.
If you see something suspicious or anything, you should just flick the switch.

but yea, sorry for your loss, i feel the pain, i remember in my old town few of my things were stolen..

 

[Sanaki]

Can't say it's happened to me personally. However my sister got stuff stolen from her, but I don't wifi anymore, only in my cycle town.

 

[GuerreraD]

You should monitor them at all times if you don't want items stolen.
If you see something suspicious or anything, you should just flick the switch.

but yea, sorry for your loss, i feel the pain, i remember in my old town few of my things were stolen..

It's not like I can monitor three people at the same time... and I didn't want to "play police" But I'll have to do that from now on, with only one visitor ar time. Thank you for sharing!

 

[Reindeer]

People have attempted to steal from me several times. However I'm a very cautious person, so I just flipped the wi-fi switch when I noticed things were going missing while they were there.

If you ever notice things went missing after a specific person has come over, leave negative feedback. It'll make other people more cautious about them.

 

[GuerreraD]

People have attempted to steal from me several times. However I'm a very cautious person, so I just flipped the wi-fi switch when I noticed things were going missing while they were there.

If you ever notice things went missing after a specific person has come over, leave negative feedback. It'll make other people more cautious about them.

Oh, you're back from the dead! Thank you. I honestly didn't think it would be necessary to be a watching dog, but seems I was wrong...

 

[Zulehan]

I imagine that such people, if confronted and actually attempting to defend themselves, would point out that this is just a game, and there are more important things in life to be concerned about.

If yes, interesting that someone who thinks this is just a game would resort to stealing to get what he wants. After all, if this is just a game, why be so intent to get virtual items through any means necessary when there are more important things in life to be concerned about.

 

[GuerreraD]

I imagine that such people, if confronted and actually attempting to defend themselves, would point out that this is just a game, and there are more important things in life to be concerned about.

If yes, interesting that someone who thinks this is just a game would resort to stealing to get what he wants. After all, if this is just a game, why be so intent to get virtual items through any means necessary when there are more important things in life to be concerned about.

I pretty much agree with you Thank you.

 

[Melyora]

I do always dread it, but have up until now never experienced thieving, not even when I had 2 people coming over to sell turnips and I was just being afk XD But these people were also very attentive when PMing with them and when they entered my town, and they had good Wifi ratings, so I felt quite assured I could leave them be.

If I visit a town and I see things I'd like (like some fruits), I'd always ask first to get permission to take them. I usually don't run in other people towns, but if I accidentally do and I trample a flower, I'd be sure to mention in to the host. It's just the right thing to do, right?

I'm really happy I haven't experienced the horror stories I've heard about people stealing and being rude. The rudest thing I experienced was that people just get straight to the point, adopt/let me adopt a villager and end/leave the session promptly with only a short 'ty bye' before they're gone.

I hope you'll also get positive experiences, GuerreraD, because there are also a lot of people that know how to behave =) It's only a few egocentric people that ruin it, but don't let it get you down! There are people here that would also like to help you ^_^

 

[GuerreraD]

I do always dread it, but have up until now never experienced thieving, not even when I had 2 people coming over to sell turnips and I was just being afk XD But these people were also very attentive when PMing with them and when they entered my town, and they had good Wifi ratings, so I felt quite assured I could leave them be.

If I visit a town and I see things I'd like (like some fruits), I'd always ask first to get permission to take them. I usually don't run in other people towns, but if I accidentally do and I trample a flower, I'd be sure to mention in to the host. It's just the right thing to do, right?

I'm really happy I haven't experienced the horror stories I've heard about people stealing and being rude. The rudest thing I experienced was that people just get straight to the point, adopt/let me adopt a villager and end/leave the session promptly with only a short 'ty bye' before they're gone.

I hope you'll also get positive experiences, GuerreraD, because there are also a lot of people that know how to behave =) It's only a few egocentric people that ruin it, but don't let it get you down! There are people here that would also like to help you ^_^

I know, thank you I also met wonderful people here who helped me tons! But just like you said, it seems as always has to be a black sheep in the group...

 

[AkatsukiYoshi]

I had a couple of instances where people tried to steal from me. The first time was when I hosted a full town with my sister and two other people. While I was entertaining one of my guests my sister told me that over half of my Yoshi flowers were missing. By Yoshi flowers I mean that I spelled Yoshi using gold roses. I started to complain about it and simply asked the person to return what they stole. I knew very well who the culprit was, but the first thing they said after I explained the situation was that they said was that had to leave my town for a bit. I told my sister to purposely disconnect right after that because I was certain they wanted to escape with my gold roses. The roses were saved, but I deleted them on 3DS right away. It wasn't a member on TBT so I couldn't leave a negative feedback giving a warning to others. The name of the person is beed00.

The 2nd instance was on club tortimer. Someone said that if I gave them 30,000 bells they would teach me some island cheat. Since I was curious I decided to pay the bells since I didn't know much about the island at the time. The first thing he told me was to talk to Lloyd and soon after that I seen a message saying that he was leaving the island. After seeing that message I purposely disconnected. My bells stayed the same when I got there minus the 1,000 entrance fee. I know that 30,000 isn't much bells, but I have a very low tolerance to those that steal. I'm glad I outsmarted the theif. It is just a shame that people would do something like this.

 

[Kip]

I imagine that such people, if confronted and actually attempting to defend themselves, would point out that this is just a game, and there are more important things in life to be concerned about.

That's one thing that can really tick me off.

Back in City Folk and Wild World this would happen quite often to me. Had people stealing money (from money trees), golden roses and other hybrids, and rare mushrooms.

Its really annoying, but i just blamed myself for letting them in.

 

[Radda]

Yes,I was pretty mad.And I vowed to never do giveaways again.

 

[FancyThat]

Sorry that happened to you . I've never had things stolen from my towns but I'm overly cautious and never let people just explore on their own. I've had people run off in my towns before but I've just flipped the wi fi switch if they didn't stop when asked.

 

[Leela]

I have had someone attempt to steal my hybrids before. It was so obvious that they were stealing them, I waited until they were about to walk in the train station before flipping the WiFi switch, just to waste more of their time.

Other than this one instance, I've never had a problem with people in my town. If people have good WiFi ratings, I just let them go wherever they want and they haven't caused any issues.

 

[Sinister]

Back when I just started going online with other people, I wasn't as cautious as I am now. While on the Island once, I met a nice person through Club Tortimer and we exchanged friendcodes. We best-friended eachother in-game and while visiting her town once, a friend of her joined. As soon as she joined the session, she added me as a friend, so I added her back and we played together.

Then, this one evening. I was preparing dinner for myself and I had my gate open. I heard the sound of someone coming, so I grabbed my DS and looked who it was. It was her. She asked if it was okay for her to stop by. I was like, alright. Go do your thing, since I was preparing dinner. The whole time she was in my town she kept saying how pretty she thought my town was and that she was jealous and all. I had no clue she was stealing 3/4 of my hybrids the whole time. She left all of a sudden and after a while, I grabbed my DS and noticed my hybrids missing. I remember being so upset about it. I couldn't believe it, since it was one of my first times going online and I just didn't expect it, you know.

I've never let anyone visit my town without following me ever since, except for friends. I really don't get why people steal, it's not necessary. If that girl had only asked, I would given her 1 or 2 hybrids. It wouldn't be a problem.

 

[ellabella12345]

Back when I just started going online with other people, I wasn't as cautious as I am now. While on the Island once, I met a nice person through Club Tortimer and we exchanged friendcodes. We best-friended eachother in-game and while visiting her town once, a friend of her joined. As soon as she joined the session, she added me as a friend, so I added her back and we played together.

Then, this one evening. I was preparing dinner for myself and I had my gate open. I heard the sound of someone coming, so I grabbed my DS and looked who it was. It was her. She asked if it was okay for her to stop by. I was like, alright. Go do your thing, since I was preparing dinner. The whole time she was in my town she kept saying how pretty she thought my town was and that she was jealous and all. I had no clue she was stealing 3/4 of my hybrids the whole time. She left all of a sudden and after a while, I grabbed my DS and noticed my hybrids missing. I remember being so upset about it. I couldn't believe it, since it was one of my first times going online and I just didn't expect it, you know.

I've never let anyone visit my town without following me ever since, except for friends. I really don't get why people steal, it's not necessary. If that girl had only asked, I would given her 1 or 2 hybrids. It wouldn't be a problem.

That's so rude! I don't understand those people. How dare they ruin our fun. Do they not feel guilty?

 

[Eline]

What happened to you is crazy! I'm so sorry! Luckily, I never had something like this. I don't have much to steal for anyway, but I do have some hybrids. I'm glad no one has ever done something like this to me

- - - Post Merge - - -

Bye the way, I think its super pathetic to steal from someone in a game >.<

 

[unintentional]

In my last town, I let someone in (who I thought was a friend, but it was her sister playing) and she took 99% of my blue roses. Not a major loss as I could breed them from said roses, but still :c

 

[Sinister]

That's so rude! I don't understand those people. How dare they ruin our fun. Do they not feel guilty?

I know, right. I guess some people are just like that. I can't imagine that someone would be having genuine fun playing the game if they do stuff like that.