I lost full gtuhix whip and drag sqr that way. Not a good idea. NEVER, and i mean NEVER. Lend you're stuff to anyone ingame without proper collateral. And what kind of friend are you if you seriously think someone who barely knows you will trust you with there fortune.

A couple month ago, my friend got a Whip. He worked long and hard for it. His friend asked him to borrow it, to try it out. Next thing you know, the "friend" stole it. And this friend was a high lvl - 100 something - too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seems like these days the biggest thiefs/scammers are the 100+ because they think they can get away with anything. Back in the day these idiots couldnt make it to lvl 100 sad to see so many of them have suceeded. I also dont see how people can live with thereselves acting like a friend then just walking away with it, Idk I guess I was just born with a rare gift, A conscence(sp?). Would sure like to meet some of these kids in rl, but thats just it there kids and will grow out of it someday, or die slow, either way it works out good.

u did the right thing, u can never trust anyone in this game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

theres no shame in not handing anything over just cos they ask for it.

most i've ever lent someone was 500k, and that was my rl friend lol

Put them on ignore too, they'll come back be all nice and friendly until you refuses them something again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After I'd known a guy for about 4 months, he asked out of the blue to borrow my Dragon Platelegs. As this was my most valuable item I naturally refused, partly through fear of losing them and partly due to the fact I was training in them at the time. He threw a fit and promptly put me on ignore, claiming he'd never speak to me again. 2 days later he's PM's me apologising for his short temper. The same incident occurred again, and I gave him another chance. Then just recently on two occassions he's called me a bad friend and promised to quit because I wouldn't hang around with him all the time and PMing each other wasn't good enough. I had had enough of him and have put him on ignore indefinatly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another incident, preceding that one was when I had met someone at the Ardy market. I agreed to help her do Monkey Madness as she was finding it tough and it's a quest that I paticularly enjoyed. Upon completion she asked to borrow my Dragon Scimitar. As soon as the trade had occured I got a "haha, noob loser" and she teleported away, and assumedly put me on ignore. About an hour later I spotted her at the Castle Wars bank. "Stop thief" I said, and she replied with "omg it's you" then promptly logged. I never saw my sword again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's not easy to trust everyone in Runescape, and for good reason. It's best to only trust friends you know outside of the game, or people you have gained trust with over a long period of time.

It's been said many a time, but it bears repeating: You did the right thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If people ask me if they can borrow my things, I ALWAYS tell them yes they can, if they give me collateral. None of my friends have ever complained about that policy. I have lent a few things out this way and always got them back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same thing for money too, I'll lend friends money for collateral, and we agree upon a length of time that I can't sell the items for, but after that if I need the money and they haven't returned it then I'm free to sell it to recoup my losses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems strict, but since I hold everyone to that standard, nobody seems to mind.

"Friends" is like my friend asking to borrow my party hat, and when i say no, he pretends like nothing happened...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or when he decides to let me hold about 300mil in stuff belonging to him, without me even asking. (Yes i gave it back. We ARE friends.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friends is not when someone asks you to borrow something, and gets ticked off when you don't let them borrow it..

Theres only one person in game I trust with one hundred percent of my wealth, he knows who he is no need to call names.

 

 

 

And of course my IRL friend but he never asks to hold my santas :P

I don't know if this is the right forum for this or if there even is a forum for this so don't blame me for that :)

 

 

 

Here's the deal:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not really a very rich person, and almost all of my wealth is my precious whip.

 

 

 

I was planning to buy an obsidian shield aswell but a friend told me I'd be better off killing the TzHaar to get one as a drop.

 

 

 

So we went to the volcano and started killing them.

 

 

 

At some point my friend asks me if he can use my whip to kill them...

 

 

 

I hesitate because, as stated above, its about all I have of value...

 

 

 

Plus the fact that my nephew, who plays this game aswell, got scammed and hacked by a so-called 'friend', didn't really convince me to give it to him...

 

 

 

I told him I'd rather not give it to him at this point, and he started insulting me, put me on ignore and logged off...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to know what you think, did I do the right thing to not give it or should I have trusted him anyway ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You need to ask yourself: Do I care about what some guy miles away thinks about me? Answer: No.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But that's how I came to the conclusion that I can do whatever I want in real social situations. There must be a happy middle in there.

You did the right thing. You have every right to or not to give your whip to him, seeing it is your item. He was probably going to steal your whip seeing h ow he swore at you etc after you refused to let him "borrow" it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hardly trust anybody on RuneScape, very few people on my friends list I can trust iwht rare items. I can trust a handful of them, and one person on my ignore list I have known since he was a level 13. We met each other on RuneScape, and do not know each other IRL. But I know I can trust him with my password even. Recently I lent out 600k to a friend of mine, and I know that they will give it back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trust few people, people.

glad to see you didnt learn the hard way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About a year ago, I let my "friend" emo[bleep] grand slayer wear my green and full guthix for a screeny. Well this "friend" who I had known since classic, turned on me and stole. Pretty sad what ppl will do to ppl for pixles..

i have 2 people on my friends list of 200 i would trust with an item. 2 out of 200! this game attracts children and those children really have no morals when it comes to a conjunction of different color pixels. I am always asked for money and items, even begged...the only answer you can give is no.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there are a lot of nice people in this community, but unfortunately, those people are overshadowed by those that lack morals and good-will. and as much as it sucks to say this, it needs to be said. when it comes to the runescape community..DONT TRUST ANYONE! alleged 'friends' are just that..just because they are on your friends list, does not make them automatically trustworthy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dont feel bad about saying no, it was the right thing to do.

My advice is don't trust anyone in the game, maybe except for people you are personally close to and very trustworthy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That guy was probably upset that his little plan didn't work. Your intelligent that you didn't give it to him. :wink:

If he got as pissed off as you said he did, he was gonna take it. He's probably online right now finding a new "friend" to take advantage of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

what he said. Real friends dont play the " so-called" trust game and understand if u dont wont to risk ur stuff for a player u never met in person.

Talking of whips, just gave mine to my friend tonight lol. Lucky I know him in real life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But yeah, you did the right thing, sounds like he was gonna scam it if you gave it to him.

There are also nice people who will ask you if u want to borrow their whip... :twisted:

 

 

 

The guy i knew for like 2 weeks said :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ur gonna borrow my whip

 

 

 

I was like ok

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He hasn't logged on since :shock: :(

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So if someone asks never say yes but if you thrust someone it's right whenever its r idea

You did the right thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even if you trust them, you shouldn't let them "borrow" multi-million dollar items. There is no exception in this rule for me. IRL friends, friends I've known since day 1... anybody.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one gets password, including parental units.

 

 

 

No one gets items, including long time friends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unless its Leesters, you shouldn't test the trust. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I even had a situation recently. Someone that I do barrow runs with, that has been very cool, seems very trustworthy, asked me to borrow Guthans for fight cave. Although I trust him, I just never break the rule.

 

 

 

Besides, he COULD be tempted to keep it and delete me, and then I'd lose a good barrows buddy AND my Guthans. No exceptions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do like the collateral idea. If someeone is honest, they won't have a problem with this.

You did the right thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I trust no one in runescape

 

 

 

no one, not even you...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Really I do that more to avoid discovering the my "friend" is really a fat 45 year old child rapist then to avoid loseing valuble items.

that was a good choice the only person i trust is my friend in real life that ive know for 7+ years i trust him with anyhting even with a party set and he trusts me with anything

Good choice. At the moment I have a friend that I met about 6 mths ago asking to wear my p-hat. I'm never going to let him touch it as he's told me stories about how his brother has scammed friends trying to make a funny :roll: Lol, I think the worst part is he's telling me to sell stuff to get a "better" p-hat before I let him try it on. I only keep him on because when he isn't begging he's pretty cool.

Lemme put it this way.. I used to trust friends with my pass, my drag, my everything and now look at me.. Hacked and now sitting here without full drag... Boy did I learn my lesson, also bank what your wearing before you log off *sigh*

He was going to take your whip so quick you wouldn't of even had time to say "Omgz h3 st0lze m3h wh!p lol" So yes you would of stolen it. :?