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       #Post#: 10171--------------------------------------------------
       Re: It is time to sell your equipment.  EVENT WAS CANCELED BY WG
   DIR By: FifStreet315
       Date: September 12, 2014, 2:29 pm
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       --- Quote from: cheesie burrito link ---
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       > Every buy something and then it appears in the weekly ad for
       less money?
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       > Did you go back and get the difference refunded.
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       > No different here.
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       Ever have some old piece of crap laying around the house...  See
       it in an ad for less money than you bought it for 6 months
       ago...  Go to the store buy a new one...  Put the old one in the
       box the new one came in, go back to the store with the receipt
       and return it?
       No different here.
       #Post#: 10172--------------------------------------------------
       Re: It is time to sell your equipment.  EVENT WAS CANCELED BY WG
   DIR By: Greyza Badger
       Date: September 12, 2014, 2:37 pm
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       Got my gold back with no drama, so +1 to WG for being
       straight-up with us.
       What's the phrase you Americans use? "No harm, no foul"?
       #Post#: 10173--------------------------------------------------
       Re: It is time to sell your equipment.  EVENT WAS CANCELED BY WG
   DIR By: Turkey Son
       Date: September 12, 2014, 2:40 pm
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       You cannot exploit something that is designed to perform a
       certain way.  This game is a business. and they create the
       design and the protocols.  If you can sell something and then
       buy it back at a discount that is becasue it is designed that
       way.
       If we are going down the slippery road of exploitation, than
       what about the person who takes advantage of a sale, and
       exploits the one who paid and played his way to the full price
       item.
       Cheating is when you nefariously break the rules, when you hack
       into something, when you steal.  Utilizing a system, by
       operating within its design is never exploitation nor cheating.
       Likewise, WG can always decide to not have a sale, or any sales,
       or create a sale that functions how they want, or whatever.  But
       this guilt trip being presented to people is silly.  I gave this
       scenario on the forum, if we wish to act on this false sense of
       integrity:
       [i][i][i]Another thought for all you who are from the school of
       "fairness and social justice kind of sort of."
       
       So player #1 has played and spent his butt off.  He has 60
       pieces of equipment worth 22.4 million in silver on the 20 tanks
       he owns.  It has taken a lot of play and a good chunk of change
       on Premium tanks and the rest to get where he is.
       
       Player #2 also has 20 tanks, but he has not played nearly as
       much and spent nothing.  He basically has a gun rammer on each
       one of his tanks and moves on and off equipment that do not have
       gold penalties on the rest.  He has been saving up for a new
       tank but now the sale comes.  He can fully equip all his tanks
       at half price, and he does.
       
       Player #1 can do nothing with the sale, he is fully loaded, and
       his Mom, Mother Teresa (his Mom, not known publicly--but trust
       me she is a great mom), taught him that he should feel immense
       guilt if ever anything works out to his advantage.  So, he
       figures that it would be stealing to move anything around.
       Forget the fact that all his time and money was gained, or
       should I say exploited, by player #2 who is now in the same
       place as he.
       
       All sales have the inherent quality of hurting the schmuck who
       payed full price.
       
       What really should happen, if we have a sale on equipment again,
       is everyone should think, do I really want to get this equipment
       at half price, when my fellow citizen of the world had to work
       so hard for his.
       [/i][/i][/i]
       #Post#: 10176--------------------------------------------------
       Re: It is time to sell your equipment.  EVENT WAS CANCELED BY WG
   DIR By: ReverendBeast
       Date: September 12, 2014, 3:15 pm
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       I thought "buy low and sell high" was the entreprenurial way!
       Honestly, if it is available in the game code and can be
       exploited(not a negative meaning in that word) by the player,
       "Clever use of game mechanics" is the official term, and I have
       no problem with that.
       #Post#: 10178--------------------------------------------------
       Re: It is time to sell your equipment.  EVENT WAS CANCELED BY WG
   DIR By: SgtEhrenfried
       Date: September 12, 2014, 3:50 pm
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       I have seen other games that have a buy/sell function. It just
       creates it's own economy. Just a way for the players to play the
       game. Couldn't tell you how much I would love to sell off the
       Large Repair Kits I won during the Missions for silver value.
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