I used to play with ~7 school friends. The last one to join us started playing EQ about half way into Kunark. He was well behind on the level & money curve at that point, and was really eager to catch up. His initial goal was to do the day trader thing in EC, and slowly work his way up in gear, and then level his monk with good gear.
One of our other friends had a fungi, and let us use it while he was on vacation for a few weeks. After experience this power, my friend that was new to EQ became dead set on obtaining a fungi before taking his main, a level 10 monk, any further (lol).
I pointed out to my friend that the fungi tunic and cloth tunics have the same graphic in the inventory... and he took it from there.
He went to EC and /auction'd that he had a fungi to sell. Of course, people were interested in making the trade. So my friend would initially put the borrowed fungi in the trade window, let the other person put a mountain of plat, and then he'd hit cancel and say "oops sorry". He'd then proceed to place the cloth tunic in as scam (note: this was before the time of chat notifications about what has been offered in a trade). Of course, he got caught multiple times and was constantly re-rolling banker alts to escape his other alts reputation. On about the 8th attempt, he was successful in scamming somebody out of a ton of plat for a cloth tunic. A few days later, his level 10 main had a fungi of his own! The person he scammed completely lost it in EC shout and I truly felt sorry for him, but the GMs never reversed the trade because it was his fault for being scammed so blatantly.
So, sorry to whomever my friend scammed!
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