Medusa
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One point which came up to my concern recently is that the behavior of several "traders", "entrepreneurs" and similar in EU lacks any business ethics and in some way normal moral standards.
For one part I experienced:
- over night change of agreements without giving the 2nd party the possibility to maintain the agreement.
- Interferences in running deals when someone bid more for a desired item than the person who interfered (Dont want to name anyone, but someone warned a buyer of an item, that the item wasn't worth the buyout and at the same time pm'ing the seller to offer higher under different terms)
- Massive market manipulations "just for fun"
- Underpricing of an 10k+ item and buying for way lower price just in order to resell it.
- Badmouthing by unsatisfied buyer because the seller made a better deal.
Some of those actions would in a regular economy have been highly penalised, but given the fact that there is no market control in EU, even though the turnover is big, unethical behaviour is something we can expect to experience day by day.
MA's / FPC's not interference policy in regard to deals between 2 avatars opens all doors to market scammers, market manipulators, unloyal competition, and similar subject.
Here where "a mans word" has to count like an agreement IRL we have to hope that the other party will hold whats promised, and the moral has gone down in the past couple years.
Im pondering what could be done against it, but cant reach any reasonable idea which might work.
What is your opinion about this matter?
Is there any solution to the degradation of ethical and moral values in EU?
Are we doomed to avoid trust, and doubble and tripple check any possible "employer", "partner" or straight agreed deal in EU?
It is sad if its so...
For one part I experienced:
- over night change of agreements without giving the 2nd party the possibility to maintain the agreement.
- Interferences in running deals when someone bid more for a desired item than the person who interfered (Dont want to name anyone, but someone warned a buyer of an item, that the item wasn't worth the buyout and at the same time pm'ing the seller to offer higher under different terms)
- Massive market manipulations "just for fun"
- Underpricing of an 10k+ item and buying for way lower price just in order to resell it.
- Badmouthing by unsatisfied buyer because the seller made a better deal.
Some of those actions would in a regular economy have been highly penalised, but given the fact that there is no market control in EU, even though the turnover is big, unethical behaviour is something we can expect to experience day by day.
MA's / FPC's not interference policy in regard to deals between 2 avatars opens all doors to market scammers, market manipulators, unloyal competition, and similar subject.
Here where "a mans word" has to count like an agreement IRL we have to hope that the other party will hold whats promised, and the moral has gone down in the past couple years.
Im pondering what could be done against it, but cant reach any reasonable idea which might work.
What is your opinion about this matter?
Is there any solution to the degradation of ethical and moral values in EU?
Are we doomed to avoid trust, and doubble and tripple check any possible "employer", "partner" or straight agreed deal in EU?
It is sad if its so...