Talk:Fraud and Scam Center/@comment-124.183.82.3-20121212015939/@comment-5428123-20121215091722

Fair enough. The problem with that idea though, is where to draw the line when it comes to judging intent.

When someone sends a blank trade, it's usually with the intent of tricking you into giving them your stuff for free. It's obvious in this case. But what if for example, someone sends a trade for your Vampyr and they only give 1 ed? Or maybe 10 ed? Or even 100 ed?

When you look at it, blank trades are essentially just lowball offers. But not all lowball offers are necessarily attempts at scamming. They could be. But it would be hard to make that judgement at face value.

Yes, I know that blank trades are pretty obvious attempts at scamming, and it would be hard to argue against that. But if we considered blank trades a form of scamming, there's the potential issue that people would want to consider other forms of lowballing as scamming as well, which may not be entirely fair or accurate.

Maybe I'm being a little arbitrary with my line reasoning, but that is a potential issue which could arise from considering blank trades as a scam.