Is an exploit driving up classifieds prices?

Yeah... no way of knowing whether the exploits factored in, but at the time I started this thread, the top classified was L$500,000/week, and that same vendor has dropped their price to L$200,000-something. The top classified now is L$400K, and they have every keyword known to god in their ad, so it comes up in every search for anything.

The top classified now is L$400K, and they have every keyword known to god in their ad, so it comes up in every search for anything.

Skin, skins, men skin, men skins, man skin, man skins, avatar skin, avatar skins, sexy skin, sexy skins, womens, woman skin, woman skins, female skin, female skins, realistic skin, male skin, male skins, Shape, shapes, men shape, men shapes, man shape, man shapes, avatar shape, avatar shapes, sexy shapes, sexy shape, woman shape, woman shapes, female shape, female shapes, male shapes, body, men body, man body, woman body, female body, avatar, avatars, makeup, menswear hair hairs dresses skirts accessories earrings, cloth, eye eyes nails oil bikini, cloth, clothes, clothe Clothing hair, men hair, woman hair, watch watchs shoes bag bags cap car cars Sex sexy Adult bag bags shoe shoes neko neco high definition fashion lashes furniture boutique boots sandal sandals shopping jacket lingerie camp ghotic

For the people who were interested, and now that the exploit has been closed: without giving exact details, the exploit I found was that you can modify the client, or tamper with the network protocol, to allow you to "edit" a classified's PRICE, in the same way you could normally edit its title and description. You can then set it to any amount you like for free because you never get charged for editing a classified.

How did I find it so quickly? I looked on the libsl wiki and noticed that the packet sent for editing a classified is identical to that sent for creating one, so it was a natural first guess, which turned out to be right.

This would be a waste of 400K, and it also happens to be untrue.

I looked at the 400K ad, and compared it to what they sell, and it looks to me like they carry all of it, other than one word I don't recognize because it's probably a typo:



What about the ad is misleading, exactly? The fact that the store is huge and carries a LOT of stuff is quite a different thing than what you are accusing them of.

Interestingly, while I was in the store I got spammed with a competitor's landmark. Obviously there are disadvantages to being the top dog. Everyone else is nipping at your heels everywhere, bringing you down any way possible: in-world, in the forums, god knows where else.

--Avion

*chuckles* Oh dear, lighten up, Avion. *gentle pat on the back* The facetiousness of my post was not as obvious as I thought, apparently.

I agree, I use external websites such as SLX more these days than in world search.

I do not blame you, LL Really screwed up the new search

I do not blame you, LL Really screwed up the new search

I How can they pay or do what they did they luck out without paying or being banned?

Good point because as I understand it they had to deliberately do something to take advantage of this exploit and should have had their arses kicked from here to kingdom come.