User blog comment:Godofcyanide/A Trade Proposal/@comment-99.62.18.146-20130716112553/@comment-9890645-20130716123120

Yes, Caveat Emptor... But don't dismiss the reality of how people react to learning they have been scammed. My point with #3 is if TFL has players who would behave like those jerks who rip people off, the game will get a reputation that will turn current players off and keep new players from trying the game.

And it's not true that "people will always get ripped off if they don't have a certain level of knowledge." It takes two to rip someone off; while there may be no legal way to deal with a ripper, it doesn't make what he does right, and the ripper ALWAYS has conscious knowledge that he is being a scumbag. HE has to make the final decision to be scum; pushing blame off onto the victim is a cop-out.