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Perhaps a solution like having the official Bank email appear in a Red Colored Font is all that really needs to be implemented. And instead of it showing as the name of the player show as the person sending the email just create a "Galatic Entity" know as something like "Intergalactic Funds Transfer Department". This way if you do recieve a bank tip you can open your email, quickly and easily identify those that are legit versus forged.

Just a thought, but not sure how difficult it would be to implement.

I did follow the advice about setting up a chat tab for use while buffing (system messages and /tells only), I have macroed all /replies and /says for all the common questions, and I still find myself easily overwhelmed by all the incoming traffic. Having to watch for bank tip scammers as well just adds too much complication to an already exhausting situation.

While the suggestions of only buffing by a bank or insisting on secure trade are good ones, they're again adding complications.

As a doc providing a service, I want to provide a quality that goes beyond just the numbers: I like greeting people, smiling, thanking them for their business, and wishing them good hunting. Insisting on additional strictures such as cash tips only or using a location other than the "standard" in front of the starport makes me feel like I'm not providing customer-friendly service.

I hope the scam gets resolved ASAP; I've been hesitant to provide buffs since learning of it.

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Pirotess al'Khairan
Master Doctor, Scylla

Glad I read this post. Having been a master doctor for only a few weeks, I've been slowly gathering the materials to make enhancement packs decent enough for commercial buffing. Last time I dealt with bank tips was well over a month ago when I was still a droid engineer, and of course it worked fine then, as I wasn't thinking anything of this.

Thanks for the heads-up. Time to do another themepark until this problem is resolved.

It is a large pain in the @$$. I had all the info included in my anouncment macro and was still accused of scamming as I told them in the macro I would not buff or refund any bank payment recieved I stated cash only payment in my macro 2 times. and still I have people bustin my chops because I won't give them buffs or credits back for their "bank tip".

now I'm the bad guy

new to the doc profession, was a cm use to pvp alot , but now that my guild is doing some of the newer dungons I figured buffs and rez would help them more them a poison.

only thing I have to offer on this is sometimes a bank transfer can take up to 24hrs to complete. I have 2 accounts(well had) I use to tip my crafter some cash couple 100k or so. There were times it would take over 24hrs almost 36hrs to transfer.

The transfer system is a dinosaur left in place from the corpse run days. It was there so people could bank their cash and not loose it on a dead body. They should just remove the bank transfer. There is no reason for it to be in game anymore, people can carry all their cash without worry of loosing it.

Message Edited by fletcherreed on 03-28-2004 11:08 AM

That's it, im not going to stop buffing but I will now only accept trade window credits.

Unfortunately it's not always possible as lots of people bank tip before you can tell them you're not accepting them. But most people have a last name so it's not such a problem I think.

Im on a buffing-boycott until this is fixed.

March 30th patch and I've confirmed with guildies that fake tips still work, and are indistinguishable from real ones. But stop the press, 'cos now NPCs emotional state is more accurately reflected when entertainers stop playing! Yes I'm whining, but it's really hard to understand why they can't just fix whatever broke capitalised bank tips at least in the meantime if they're working on some final better solution. So /bump because this is important.