QUALITY DISC0UNT SPELLBOOKS
May 6, 2015 23:37:50 GMT
Post by QUALITY DISCOUNT SPELLBOOKS on May 6, 2015 23:37:50 GMT
Thank you for your interest in our QUALITY DISCOUNT SPELLBOOKS products!
Our payment partner only allows us to accept zorkmids. We can ship anywhere in the multiverse for the LOW PRICE of only 25 additional zorkmids! For ALL THE INFORMATION YOU'LL EVER NEED about THE NATURE OF MAGIC, order our special publication, INTRODUCTION TO SPELLCASTING by XYZZY THE ORANGE for only 19 zorkmids plus shipping!
Finally, a question for everybody else: if you use an interface for this forum which does not use the Latin alphabet (which is the alphabet English, my language, uses), could you please describe each of the occurrences of the apparent currency this guy uses? For example, for me, each mention in the first post is composed of the letters Z, O, R, K, M, followed by a vertical line, followed by the letters D and S. This is weird (we rarely use non-letters like that vertical line), but given the nature of this forum, I didn’t think much about it.
However, in the second post, he doesn't use this spelling. Instead, the four different uses of this word are all spelled with different variations on z-o-r-k-m-i-d-s (the spelling from the first post, except with the vertical line replaced by the letter i; it might be relevant that this letter looks similar to a vertical line). The first one has the letter o replaced by the numeral 0, which looks similar; the second has the letter i replaced, not by a vertical line, but by the numeral 1 (which, again, looks similar). The third has the letter m replaced by the two letters r and n (which, together, look like the letter m). The fourth occurrence has the letters m and i transposed (which… does not actually look particularly similar).
This doesn’t seem to make sense whether it is a scam or not. Could their culture perhaps have a taboo against saying the name of the currency or something?
Our payment partner only allows us to accept zorkmids. We can ship anywhere in the multiverse for the LOW PRICE of only 25 additional zorkmids! For ALL THE INFORMATION YOU'LL EVER NEED about THE NATURE OF MAGIC, order our special publication, INTRODUCTION TO SPELLCASTING by XYZZY THE ORANGE for only 19 zorkmids plus shipping!
I agree that QDS seems suspicious, but he does seem able to respond to queries in some fashion. Moreover, I have relatively little to lose if it is a scam. Therefore:
- Are you able to accept alternate forms of payment (such as other types of currency, information, or non-magical physical goods like gold). If not, is there any way for me to get one of those exchanged for your type of currency?
- Do I understand correctly that, for an additional fee, you can ship to worlds other than the five you listed?
- Is the magic in these books likely to work for humans without this kind of magic native to their worlds, or even humans without any magic in their worlds?
- Are the books themselves magical in any way, or do they just contain information about magic?
- So that I know what I’m considering buying, can you give me the full title and author of one of the listed books?
Finally, a question for everybody else: if you use an interface for this forum which does not use the Latin alphabet (which is the alphabet English, my language, uses), could you please describe each of the occurrences of the apparent currency this guy uses? For example, for me, each mention in the first post is composed of the letters Z, O, R, K, M, followed by a vertical line, followed by the letters D and S. This is weird (we rarely use non-letters like that vertical line), but given the nature of this forum, I didn’t think much about it.
However, in the second post, he doesn't use this spelling. Instead, the four different uses of this word are all spelled with different variations on z-o-r-k-m-i-d-s (the spelling from the first post, except with the vertical line replaced by the letter i; it might be relevant that this letter looks similar to a vertical line). The first one has the letter o replaced by the numeral 0, which looks similar; the second has the letter i replaced, not by a vertical line, but by the numeral 1 (which, again, looks similar). The third has the letter m replaced by the two letters r and n (which, together, look like the letter m). The fourth occurrence has the letters m and i transposed (which… does not actually look particularly similar).
This doesn’t seem to make sense whether it is a scam or not. Could their culture perhaps have a taboo against saying the name of the currency or something?