I'll will start of by saying that I have known Sythe for many many years, but never wanted to join due to all the negative feedback I heard from other people. EVERY person I have talked to said they got scammed. I then decided to join in January this year because I had to make an account to buy some gold from R2 at the time.
I'd say though I had more positive effects from this, as I have gotten into rare names and have A TON of them in my collection, otherwise I would never have before. Was pretty entertaining my first few months on Sythe and the rare name business. Also have met alot of great people including many friends I could call that I generally talk to, even those who you can trust regardless of what I am going through right now. I've also found out that RS gold is like real life money in a way and actually does have value and can be used for real life items as well.
Also have learned business aspects and learned from all the mistakes I have done through here, as well as that this is a risky business and it's always possible to have a trade go wrong in the end.
The pretty much worse part and really the only time I truly had a big emotional problem was getting scammed around $1000 dollars a few months ago. I now can't trust pretty much anybody even my real life friends or many other people I have met. Really changed my opinion on trading and doing business in the Runescape blackmarket. I have only been scammed through Runescape blackmarket as well, never even been scammed in Runescape itself, otherwise I never had any problems with anything else when it came to the internet. I should have known from the beginning that it was a big risk to begin with. I only right now can trust myself and most of my family due to it being $1000 and how emotionally fucked I was for a couple of days since the scammer really manipulated my mind. Sucks pretty much especially when the scammer says he will pay you back and keeps saying it over and over just screwing you over while enjoying doing it.
Also I did improve my grammar and typing skills on the internet beyond from what I originally used to type like. I blame it on text messaging and damn social networking when I typed "lyk dis" and pretty much was overall disgusting. Sythe gave me the edge and helped me realize how to formally type and that typing like an idiot is really not "cool". I also gave up on text messaging as well so that could be a big reason on my improvement.
Oh and I also have been able to actually learn to type long ass paragraphs on most of my posts lol instead of taking the short bus and typing only 5 words or so. It seems it also has taken over my real life as I tend to write stories and random stuff when I feel like to.
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Just started. Hoping it helps me out a lot
Just lol'd at this post.