Sythe - Everyday dealings...

Oh right, that's pretty interesting Some of the posts are quite interesting but overall Sythe is generally about the black market. I wish people posted more often in the other sections

Oh right, I don't really know much about UE as I wasn't around when it was happening. But 5 guides a month does seem a little absurd as there's only so many guides out there, and there only needs to be written one good version of one guide.

Yeah I thought that's what UE was when I first heard about it ; helping others out and by replying to posts. That would make more sense. I mean it would be awesome if something like that was developed which would acknowledge users for helping others out and just generally being friendly and willing to help others out. Who knows, something like this may come in the future

 

I am going to start being active, i used to be a real forum "whore", but not so much anymore. I want to settle down at this community.

 

I’ve lost count of how many of these types of threads I've replied to.

First thing i want to mention is this is being written via pad with autocorrect off, so there will be a lot of capitalization and punctuation errors.


When I originally started on sythe, I was here only for one thing, and that was to make a profit. I started skilling, questing, and mming for tips. Eventually, free trade was removed from RS. When this happened, I took a fairly lengthy hiatus from sythe, although occasionally popping in from time to time to harass some old friends (giverny, Darcy, govind, just to name a few)

I’d come on to sell or buy a couple things here and there, but i was never anything near what you’d consider "active"

Finally, in the beginning of 2011, the announcement regarding the impending return of free trade was made. My first thought at that moment was about sythe. I immediately started becoming active again as I knew that my money making opportunities were about to flourish (which they did.)

Free trade dropped at the perfect time. I was home in Cali on leave, and i had just received my income tax return. I immediately dropped $100 into rsgp, and began reselling it. I continued this for several weeks until, alas, my PayPal had been limited, I freaked. My payments had all been put on hold (in the thousands of dollars. Remember, I started with only $100 investment. Not bad of a turnaround in such a short amount of time.)

I freaked. I feared the worst at this point - an untimely ban from sythe (which was also mere DAYS after my initial promotion to market moderator.) I had to act fast. I immediately started contacting the users who had been affected by my PayPal limitation. I’m to this day glad I've always kept good logs of my transactions. I explained the situation to all of them, and told them I’d make reparations as soon as PayPal released the payments. By this point I was certain I was going to end up banned for scamming, luckily, everyone i spoke to was understanding and grateful for me reaching out to them, to explain the situation.

One scam report finally surfaced. The PayPal claims hadn’t been resolved yet, so obviously I had no intent on giving the guy anything as i didn’t want to have PayPal release the cash back to him, and have him essentially scam me. Luckily, the staff were understanding of the situation. Finally, the payments were released. Most back to their rightful owners, but a few were reversed back to me. At this point, i went out of my way to begin sending payments via western union (as my PayPal was still limited) and not only repaying everyone, but paying fees AND sending an extra little bit for the troubles. (reports/thanks found here: http://sythe.org/showthread.php?p=8190919 // http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1024052 // http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1048770 )

After that fiasco was all taken care of, I handled things with PayPal, and was able to get my account limitation removed under the terms of a rolling reserve. I continues my rsgp shop for several months, eventually netting myself around $20,000 in profit by the time all was said and done.

After my stint as a rsgp reseller, I stopped concentrating on the market as much, and eventually started becoming far more community oriented. By this time i was already a global moderator, and had been for a few months. Around early august, had been promoted to the position of HMM after nick temporarily stepped down from staff. Shortly following, i had finally come to terms with my past.

Back in late 2007, I had scammed. I go away with it too. I kept my mouth shut and kept it silent for years. Finally I had to clear my conscience. I wrote a pardon and was banned shortly after pending the results of the pardon. I believe i was banned for 6 days.... It felt closer to 6 months. Anyone who knew me and spoke to me back then will agree, I was a wreck. I couldn’t sleep, could barely eat, and spent hours browsing the forums, only to have harsh reality kick me in the face every time I attempted to reply to a post or a thread.

Finally, the day came. I got off work to multiple messages on msn congratulating me on my pardon. Relief slowly started to settle in. I began working towards re-gaining the trust and respect that i had lost, and trying to regain my position on staff.


---- TO BE CONTINUED (ran out of time to finish writing this)

 

Haha Hopefully you stick around man!

That's actually a really cool story Read every single bit haha. Sounds like you've been through a lot on Sythe...

Glad you cleared your conscience! You made a nice little packet too from selling RSGP. I may try and get into it myself sometime in the future. Hopefully not go through the ordeal you went through with the whole PayPal issue. I'd freak out if something like that happened too. Good job on returning back to the community though and regaining staff. You're doing a great job!
I hope I never get banned as I come here everyday and would feel pretty lost hehe, I can imagine 6 days felt VERY long. I come here and help the odd person out and reply to a few threads. Probably spend a couple of hours here a day (if not more sometimes!).

Thanks for the lengthy reply man, look forward to reading part 2!
I hope we can talk properly sometime on MSN or something as I haven't really go to know many people on here and I've been a member for over a month now.

Sorry you've replied to so many of these threads before! I thought mine was a little unique but what do I know, "Newfag" aye hahahahah.

 

I'll continue the story later this evening.

 

Edited my original post. Made multiple spelling/grammar/punctuation corrections. I'll eventually get around to writing the rest.

 

like everything that relates rs