NationStates Jolt Archive

I just love gaming whiz kids who go to the trouble of proving that some online betting sites are rigged. There is a $75 million class action against to card gaming websites after a young man analysed the card data and proved that cheationg was going on. Go to this site for the story:
:mad:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/09/30/1222651059903.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

In a similar vein, I get pissed off at e-bay where they allow the seller to offer videos for 1 cent and then you realise that when the bid is due to close that the bidder is automatically raising the bar repeatedly and that you are biffing against a dummy.
What online rip-off experiences have you had?

Damn it now how am I going to make Money.

NSG.

$50 a month I pay to Ardchoille, and lord knows you better not be late, and then you ask for some help in Moderation and what's the reponse?

'I'm not paid to do this you know'

Well, where's that $50 going, lottery tickets?

Rip off.

Mainly just bad deals from 'adult websites'.. Auto-renewing subscription, credit card fraud, all that jazz...

jokes.

Mainly just bad deals from 'adult websites'.. Auto-renewing subscription, credit card fraud, all that jazz...

jokes.

You seem to know a lot about it?

Indecline, I know a nice little Nigerian bank that might interest you - now if you just send your account details to ........

This is so why I don't buy off Ebay that much. I had a chance to get an Arwen necklace for 99 cents and it wasn't even that nice a necklace, in otherwords it was a 'silver' metal and had 'diamond' like crystals. In otherwords a fake. Then someone managed to push it up to $16.00's which was beyond my bid price. Anyway surprize, surprize, I got a secound chance offer for $15. I had my suspicious that it was the dealer who upped the bid. Can't prove it though, but again, I have my suspicions. I didn't go for it though because I had already bought a more expensive and well worth the price actual silver necklace, and so not worth buying a cheap peice of cruddy costume jewerly.

With ebay, check the feedback rating from other customers. It's still no guarantee buit it's something. My partner put me on tothat little tip!

Caveat emptor!

Damn it now how am I going to make Money.
There's always pimping. Unfortunately, you've actually got to dress up for that, rather than sitting in your underwear cheating poor losers who are also wearing only their underwear.

Idiots. Greedy idiots. Winning $300k in just 3000 hands + 13 out of 14 sessions is such blatant cheating I'm surprised it took this long for anyone to notice.
If, instead, they'd been a bit less greedy and a bit more subtle - say winning 8 out of 14 sessions, $50k in 5000 hands - they'd prob still be going strong.

Reminds me of when I was at Uni. The Uni gym never broke even, despite having a ton of members and a steady stream of casuals. A new manager was appointed and first thing he did was check the daily accounts. He noticed that when certain staff were on the front desk, casuals (cost $10 a visit) were almost zero while soap sales($0.50 a bar) was sky-high. Any Sherlocks out there can guess what was happening?
So he sent in 10 students in one hour, all wanting a casual visit. All were marked down as soap sales, giving the woman working the counter a nice $95 bonus on top of her $20 /hr wage. In a typical 6 hr shift working the gym counter, there'd be 45-50 casuals. She was pocketing the lot, which is why she got busted. Going through the a/c records, it showed she'd been doing this for years, stealing $thousands. They couldn't prove anything, other than those 10 casuals, but they did at least fire her for that.

I thought at the time - and still do - that if she's just pocketed 1 casual in 5, say, she would still have pocketed an extra $90-100 a day, cash. And no-one would have suspected a thing.

I get pissed off at e-bay where they allow the seller to offer videos for 1 cent and then you realise that when the bid is due to close that the bidder is automatically raising the bar repeatedly and that you are biffing against a dummy.
If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Incidentally, that's how the Nigerian scam works -- people are dishonest enough to think they're getting something for nothing. Then wail when they are cheated.

On Ebay it used to be you paid $.01 for the video and a "shipping fee" of $12.99, giving all the profit to the seller and nada to Ebay (they get a percentage for what you sell.) You can be sure they closed that loophole.

There's always pimping. Unfortunately, you've actually got to dress up for that, rather than sitting in your underwear cheating poor losers who are also wearing only their underwear.

Well you can always get a webcam, then you can be in your underwear cheating horny retards also in their undies.

Not only does an online cheating ring get exposed, a fairly prominent name in Tournament Poker is implicated as the main orchestrator of said cheating ring. This is gonna be fun to watch.

Idiots. Greedy idiots. Winning $300k in just 3000 hands + 13 out of 14 sessions is such blatant cheating I'm surprised it took this long for anyone to notice.
If, instead, they'd been a bit less greedy and a bit more subtle - say winning 8 out of 14 sessions, $50k in 5000 hands - they'd prob still be going strong.

Reminds me of when I was at Uni. The Uni gym never broke even, despite having a ton of members and a steady stream of casuals. A new manager was appointed and first thing he did was check the daily accounts. He noticed that when certain staff were on the front desk, casuals (cost $10 a visit) were almost zero while soap sales($0.50 a bar) was sky-high. Any Sherlocks out there can guess what was happening?
So he sent in 10 students in one hour, all wanting a casual visit. All were marked down as soap sales, giving the woman working the counter a nice $95 bonus on top of her $20 /hr wage. In a typical 6 hr shift working the gym counter, there'd be 45-50 casuals. She was pocketing the lot, which is why she got busted. Going through the a/c records, it showed she'd been doing this for years, stealing $thousands. They couldn't prove anything, other than those 10 casuals, but they did at least fire her for that.

I thought at the time - and still do - that if she's just pocketed 1 casual in 5, say, she would still have pocketed an extra $90-100 a day, cash. And no-one would have suspected a thing.


Where do I find a job that pays $20 an hour?

where else, but the safety of the social institution that is University.
She'd been there years, was well into her 50s. A sour-faced old boot she was. No-one, fellow staff or gym-goers alike, felt much sorrow at seeing her leave.
The people replacing her (and a few others who were also caught out in similar stings) were on much lower wages - $10-12/hr. Big difference from $120 /hr!
As a result, the gym made a decent profit the following year.

This is so why I don't buy off Ebay that much. I had a chance to get an Arwen necklace for 99 cents and it wasn't even that nice a necklace, in otherwords it was a 'silver' metal and had 'diamond' like crystals. In otherwords a fake. Then someone managed to push it up to $16.00's which was beyond my bid price. Anyway surprize, surprize, I got a secound chance offer for $15. I had my suspicious that it was the dealer who upped the bid. Can't prove it though, but again, I have my suspicions. I didn't go for it though because I had already bought a more expensive and well worth the price actual silver necklace, and so not worth buying a cheap peice of cruddy costume jewerly.
if you didn't even like it, why bid for it?

I wonder if she was stealing the money to spend it on the pokies - or online poker? She was one big LOSER anyway.
Jeez a hate that sort of dishonesty! Those characters do get their karma. Unfortunately those around them get to share in it.

Well you can always get a webcam, then you can be in your underwear cheating horny retards also in their undies.

Yeah, though my "Hot Y-Fronts" site didn't do too well.....

Well you can always get a webcam, then you can be in your underwear cheating horny retards also in their undies.
That only works for girls under the age of 20 who can act as if they are willing to show tits without actually doing so. For the rest of us, there is no recourse but pimpin' grandiosely.

oh man you guys are reminding me of those awesome "Owned on MSN" Clips, where pervs are exposed and posted! :D

NSG.

$50 a month I pay to Ardchoille, and lord knows you better not be late, and then you ask for some help in Moderation and what's the reponse?

'I'm not paid to do this you know'

Well, where's that $50 going, lottery tickets?

Rip off.


Pffttt -- it's not what I do for you, it's what I don't do to you.

Value for money, mate. :tongue:

Online gambling (I don't like this new "gaming" euphemism) is fraudulent? No.. couldn't be. Next you're going to tell me that the Pope is Catholic and that bears shit in the woods.