I simply go by "If you don't try you'll never know" in fact, the first person to dupe me 5 gold chrome, I gave them back without duping because I'm so trusting that when you need help with something people will have an answer, especially when you've just helped them out. I'm not the type of person that even thinks of backing up game saves and reloading them unless it is simply the normal trick people are using. And it works quite well, because all I've got in return are some cars that I didn't want lol.. actually that's not true the one trader did give me some cars I was looking for so I'm thankful it hasn't all been a wasted cause.
Although, why people ignore some things is beyond me.. like the OP says HE is approached for the trade, and then the trader just sends something different. Well clearly the person is uncommunicative, because otherwise he could ask and/or say "Hey, I lied about having (Insert Object X here), I hope you're not upset, is there anything else I could possibly give you?" no that's too much typing he simply doesn't type anything and sends something that the OP doesn't want or need... well what is the point? Why cant people just be open and tell each other that they're going to screw them.. In fact when I was PM'ing back and forth with the one trader about the shelby ticket mixup, and he PM'd me back saying "I'll take the '65 ticket" or whathaveyou, I was going to PM back to make sure he knew that it was a GT350R, but I stated it so clearly in my first PM I didn't think it needed clarification. I type so that everything is pretty much out there to be read as it's typed, and you couldn't miss that I was offering the shelby, he understood after he reread it so why didn't he initially? I have no idea.. I could ask him but it's in the past anyways. I was thinking about apologizing but I still am confident that there's nothing to apologize about, I got screwed, he misread. He got double screwed because the guy that gave me the ticket I thought had a nicer car had a car that wasn't so nice at all. I still feel bad though because no one got what they wanted except me and the scammer :\ and I have asked the person I incidentally gave a crappy car if he wanted anything else instead, and I don't remember all too well but I'm pretty sure he didn't want anything.
@WeShallNverStop even if you lost all your data, so long as you're a reliable Sony customer and you have a usb stick with all the gt5 you had, with your account information, your data will be retrievable (from the USB). I'm pretty sure Sony doesn't plan on screwing millions of people out of their game saves. Plus, if there hasn't been a patch for it yet, there probably wont be... Also I would suggest backing up your data because the PS3 is just a system, and while there is a quality control, you never know if you get one that is just a defection waiting to happen. After hearing that some peoples PS3 have died and they lost all their cars, that's when I really started just leaving my stick in the PS3.
It helps to send the whatever after you receive your trade.
The problem is that it's a waste of a day when you could have been sending something to someone that cares more and would send something you actually need back.
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