Talk:Item Recovery/@comment-33759565-20180107014547

99 percent of the time, getting scammed is your own fault for being gullible. AJHQ said that being scammed was a hard life lesson to learn, but a useful. But they also mentioned that many younger/newer players may have difficulty learning to trade fairly and with item protection. This is exactly what AJHQ said on The Daily Explorer:Hello Everyone! We wanted to take a moment of your time today to talk about a new pop-up you may have seen, or have heard rumors about, over the past few days.



This pop-up wasn’t intended to function in the manner it has been. The appearance over this past week was due to a minor bug. The bug occurred when you received a gift from someone using a particular Jam-a-Gram; this pop up would appear when you logged in, instead of receiving the Jam-a-Gram. Mystery Solved! We are removing that Jam-a-Gram temporarily to reduce further confusion.







What does this Pop-Up Mean?



We have received a ton of feedback from players on their in game experiences. We know for some, especially newer or younger players, the process of learning the trading system can be challenging. We always recommend using our trading system, where what you present in trade with another person is the trade that occurs. Do not use the gifting system to trade, or trade an item for the promise of a better item.



We also do investigate reports of scamming by other players and do take action, but we have not returned your items per our current policy. We feel that for those learning the trading system this can be a very hard lesson to learn; for that reason, starting with the deploy next Thursday, we will change our policy as far as a limited item return.



This is where that Pop-Up comes in! When we receive a report from a player claiming they were scammed, we investigate the issue and take disciplinary action as necessary on a reported account. Starting after the next deploy, we may at our discretion return items ONE TIME ONLY. This pop-up will be the delivery method for this procedure.







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 * ONE TIME ONLY - The item return is a One Time Only courtesy for an account and is done at our discretion.  Do not fall for promises of something given at a later date, a trust trade, or an item sent to you as a gift in return for something else.  We will not return items after this courtesy has been extended. This is equal to member and nonmember alike.
 * NO HEADDRESSES - We will not return items that are unavailable in game. This means we will not return headdresses, horse coins or other rare items that have been removed from availability/purchase but may be still actively traded by players.
 * THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS! -  Don’t ruin this policy for yourself and the rest of the community by abusing or trying to game the system. If you make a fake claim of being scammed, we reserve the right to discipline your account, as well as any accounts involved in the attempt, and will reject any future claims of being scammed. This includes attempts to game our new policy with fake claims or conspire with friends to create a false scamming scenario.
 * WE DON’T TIME TRAVEL – We will not consider returning items you report being scammed a long time ago.
 * NO EXCUSE TO SCAM – Trying to scam someone is just plain mean-spirited and damages the wonderful community we have in Animal Jam.  We do investigate players attempting to try and trick and take advantage of other players.  Don’t be one of THOSE kinds of players.  Help other players learn to trade and create a more positive community. Because we may consider returning an item once, it is no excuse to justify bad behavior and poor camaraderie.