I recently started a thread on d2jsp and battlenet forums (barbarian section) after noticing something really unusual about how an item's auction ended.
A fellow barb I played with literally said to me before the auction ends, to not lose it to dupers and make sure I win it, lol. This mace I'm not sure will be duped yet and might've gone to someone who really wanted it but nonetheless I started looking into the matter and the results were really disturbing.
I don't have 10 posts so I'm not able to link urls on here
but there is a thread I started in both the d2jsp forusm (under diablo 3 > general discussions) and in the battlenet forums (under barbarian forums).
Both threads were made by me with same ID (Mannercookie), they are not hard to find if someone wants to look and post those threads on here in hopes that diablofans mods might take a notice and possibly investigate further and release what they find onto the main page.
This is a huge issue and if it's not stopped soon, the USA-AH servers are gonna turn into what the ASIA-AH servers have become.
your theory does not make much sense. if someone wanted it for duping but there was another item up that was better for cheaper they could have just bought that one and duped it making increased profits.
although i do realize duping is a huge problem. whoever started duping first i wonder how much money they have made. maybe 20 thousand + dollars i would not be surprised
it is rampant everywhere bro and still blizz has done nothing about it ... i for myself am rly pissed coz my gear cost up to 400 mil gold pre dupe season now it barely cost 150 mil gold : /
There is no duping going on with items. If someone would know how to dupe items there would be many good items out in the market but there really arent so there definitely ain't any duping going on. It's just a myth.
there are many good items out on the market. have you even seen asian servers? there are some items that are owned by 40+ people im talking near top world weapons and set items. prices of gems has been as low as 100k for max lvl gems over there.
the only reason its not every single item is duped hundreds or thousands of times is because the method is not released to the general public for every single noob to do it 24/7
If duping was "rampant", we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
There is plenty of evidence of duping that we posted up, the whole mace issue just led to me investigating the matter and finding disgusting results.
There is a scrshots of 4x IDENTICAL Lacuni Prawlers being up on the GAH, RMAH at the EXACT same time.
I won't post everything from the other threads (especially jsp thread, which is filled with 13 year olds who sit around troll all day) but here are the scrshots that were taken after everything.
(Can't post scrshots since I don't have 10 posts, if someone wants to look through battle.net or JSP threads and post the scrshots here would appreciate it)
The battle.net thread is much less clutter and has better information.
If duping was "rampant", we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
There is plenty of evidence of duping that we posted up, the whole mace issue just led to me investigating the matter and finding disgusting results.
There is a scrshots of 4x IDENTICAL Lacuni Prawlers being up on the GAH, RMAH at the EXACT same time.
I won't post everything from the other threads (especially jsp thread, which is filled with 13 year olds who sit around troll all day) but here are the scrshots that were taken after everything.
(Can't post scrshots since I don't have 10 posts, if someone wants to look through battle.net or JSP threads and post the scrshots here would appreciate it)
The battle.net thread is much less clutter and has better information.
Yet you still don't seem to understand.
There are many millions of players. If duping was anywhere close to the dictionary definition of "rampant"......there would be no discussion as to whether there is a serious problem.
We would be seeing countless thousands of duplicate items.
HUNDRED or THOUSANDS........not 15....or 2....or 6....or 20.....HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS
These are rollbacks. It starts by getting two of one item via roll back. Slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 4......slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 8.
Double drop is one thing, but 15 drop? 15 rollbacks?
Wow...15. That's almost 16.
It's not an issue of my.....*uhum... naivety. I am just being reasonable while some others are being....let's call them 'less than reasonable'.
See my above post. This issue isn't "rampant". There is no method for duplicating an item purposely aside from these bottom-feeding scum whom take advantage of a well meaning customer service avenue to profit.
If duping was "rampant", we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
There is plenty of evidence of duping that we posted up, the whole mace issue just led to me investigating the matter and finding disgusting results.
There is a scrshots of 4x IDENTICAL Lacuni Prawlers being up on the GAH, RMAH at the EXACT same time.
I won't post everything from the other threads (especially jsp thread, which is filled with 13 year olds who sit around troll all day) but here are the scrshots that were taken after everything.
(Can't post scrshots since I don't have 10 posts, if someone wants to look through battle.net or JSP threads and post the scrshots here would appreciate it)
The battle.net thread is much less clutter and has better information.
Yet you still don't seem to understand.
There are many millions of players. If duping was anywhere close to the dictionary definition of "rampant"......there would be no discussion as to whether there is a serious problem.
We would be seeing countless thousands of duplicate items.
HUNDRED or THOUSANDS........not 15....or 2....or 6....or 20.....HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS
These are rollbacks. It starts by getting two of one item via roll back. Slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 4......slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 8.
Eventually you run out of friends and it stops.
First off I noticed duped items a month ago and so did many other players, I assumed what you did someone just rolledback duped whatever, then I didn't really notice for a while since wasn't shopping much gear.
Recently when I finallly started upgrading with the gold I had farmed, I end up picking up two duped items without knowing they were duped since the method in which they were sold was a bit more sophisticated(5 of the same items weren't listed together at different prices) + I was probably one of the first buyers.
If nothing is done about this soon, it will become RAMPANT and out of control, I should've posted something like this a month ago but now I'm really sure the dupers from Asia servers have migrated to the USA servers.
Also I was told blizzard is very strict about rollbacks, I'm quite sure they will not roll back a group of friends with similar items over and over again, but I truly hope that blizzard made a simple error as this and that duping is actually not going on.
SOMEONE with 10 posts post my scrshots from last night?
(Edit: on third page of jsp thread, first+2nd page of battle.net thread)
Duping can be and is a problem but let's not make a mountain out of a mole hill here. There may seem to be a small amount of it on the auctions but it does not look to be a huge issue. Sadly, with the issue being so slight there will be little notice taken by Blizzard but at the moment we can at least be thankful for a small amount of this.
My question to the OP is, have you contacted Blizzard? And if so, what was their reply. If you did in the other forums I apologize, I can't view them on the computer I am on at the moment.
Man... If rolling back wasn't such a pain in the ass I would be doing it non stop... So, if there is a simpler way to duplicate items, I think we would see like ruksak said, hundreds or thousands of one item. Fifteen people with the same item, that doesn't seem hard to believe. Seeing four of the exact same item on the AH one day, rollback probably. Until I see pages and pages of the exact same godlike item, duping is not rampant.
SOMEONE with 10 posts post my scrshots from last night?
(Edit: on third page of jsp thread, first+2nd page of battle.net thread)
I don't JSP. I cannot find your post @Bnet because you weren't specific as to what forum you posted in.
It really wouldn't matter because we've seen these screen-shots before. Small amounts of isolated cases involving a few to as many as 20-ish duplicate items. This falls well in line with what one would expect from roll-back scamming using a handful of IRL friends.
If duping was "rampant", we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
Are we arguing semantics? I think not. If this subject is taboo and too much for your feeling just don't come and read it jeez.
There is nothing semantic about pointing out the use of alarming rhetoric like "RAMPANT" when clearly the issue is quite isolated and occurring in a fashion consistent with roll-back scams.
The issue is clearly not "rampant". As I indicated above; If it were, we'd be seeing irrefutable evidence that people are mass-duping items ala Diablo 2.
If duping was "rampant", we wouldn't be arguing about it, would we?
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
Are we arguing semantics? I think not. If this subject is taboo and too much for your feeling just don't come and read it jeez.
There is nothing semantic about pointing out the use of alarming rhetoric like "RAMPANT" when clearly the issue is quite isolated and occurring in a fashion consistent with roll-back scams.
The issue is clearly not "rampant". As I indicated above; If it were, we'd be seeing irrefutable evidence that people are mass-duping items ala Diablo 2.
I decided to make these threads because I feel in a matter of weeks or even less we will start seeing the same problems that you currently see on the Asia-AH.
Would you honestly prefer that 20-30x identical multiple items start popping up on the AH before blizzard does something about it?
Like I said before, this seems to happen very frequently for top-tiered barb items (which are the most expensive items in the game generally at the higher tiers), I would be very happy if this was just rollback dupes since that means it won't turn into what I suspect of happening in the upcoming weeks.
edit: PLENTY of evidence of mass-duping going on in Asia-AH, you can't ignore that. I don't see how it's not possible the same methods/dupers have migrated to USA servers and are now effectively selling things on RMAH and AH since Asia-AH doesn't offer RMAH.
Also I would like to add, I feel I have provided enough "evidence" that it at the minimum deserves a blue response to why there are duplicates of this item in the first place.
If I had the time to spend countless more hours digging around looking for more dupes I would, but I was hoping this thread brings out more people who have realized they bought duped items.
FWIW, the current lacunis seem to being sold primarily on the RMAH and people are buying it @ $250 looking to use or to re-sell on the GAH.
The dupers are selling the lacunis on RMAH though, not hard for blizzard to look into this matter and explain the situation.
I decided to make these threads because I feel in a matter of weeks or even less we will start seeing the same problems that you currently see on the Asia-AH.
Would you honestly prefer that 20-30x identical multiple items start popping up on the AH before blizzard does something about it?
Like I said before, if this was some isolated bug that seems to happen very frequently for top-tiered barb items (which are the most expensive items in the game generally at the higher tiers), I would be very happy since it won't turn into what I suspect of happening in the upcoming weeks.
edit: PLENTY of evidence of mass-duping going on in Asia-AH, you can't ignore that. I don't see how it's not possible the same methods/dupers have migrated to USA servers and are now effectively selling things on RMAH and AH since Asia-AH doesn't offer RMAH.
Let's obtain some clarity for the purpose of this discussion.
First, I'll address the Asia issue. Though often refuted as racism, it is pretty common knowledge that Asian countries are the worst offenders within the realm of PC gaming exploitation.
Asian countries went so far as to raid the Blizzard Corporate Headquarters in South Korea (I think it was SK?) over some server instability issues at launch, citing some bizarre federal trade statute. When in reality, they had assumed there was some form of discrimination going on against Asian people.
It is for this reason that I've heard roll-backs are very easy to get in Asian countries, as Blizzard doesn't want them kicking the door in again, nor do they wish to be subject to any litigation under the oversight of foreign trade commissions.
Now let's discuss what you're inferring here, in this thread. I take it you're suggesting that, in fact, there is a viable in-game method of duplicating items using some technique gleamed from the game client? i.e. someone/some people have figuered out how to duplicate items while in-game.
To give you an example of why this is unlikely;
Let's say out of all the players on the American realms, out of the hundreds of thousands/millions of active players......3 people have learned this exploit. Lets call them Steve, Rick and Bill.
Steve, Rick and Bill have each learned to duplicate items at will. They can take the most godly IK Chest and produce copies of them at their leisure.
Now, Steve, Rick and Bill each go to their local food-mart and purchase a 6-pack of Monster energy drink and spend all night duplicating items and redistributing them via the GAH and the RMAH.
Just these three players, good 'ol Steve Rick and Bill, just these 3 players could produce hundreds upon thousands of duplicates in a given weekend, saturating the market with an avalanche of duplicate items.
3 people and 2 days, that is all it would take for a true duping method to reach 'rampant' status.
Also I would like to add, I feel I have provided enough "evidence" that it at the minimum deserves a blue response to why there are duplicates of this item in the first place.
........and explain the situation.
That's not very wise, is it? For them to communicate so openly about such a sensitive issue?
Remember the gem prices being so low? They never came out and directly addressed the issue, as was being demanded by countless people.
Yet the issue was resolved, quietly, under the table. As should all sensitive issues like this.
Why is it that some of you people demand full disclosure when doing so would not only serve no benefit to stopping the practice, but would actually harm there efforts?
Some of you people sound like a killer asking questions of the police regarding a crime they had committed, hoping to gain some insight to use to their advantage.
"We want answers. Tell us what you're doing." *so we can figure out how to keep getting away with it
I decided to make these threads because I feel in a matter of weeks or even less we will start seeing the same problems that you currently see on the Asia-AH.
Would you honestly prefer that 20-30x identical multiple items start popping up on the AH before blizzard does something about it?
Like I said before, if this was some isolated bug that seems to happen very frequently for top-tiered barb items (which are the most expensive items in the game generally at the higher tiers), I would be very happy since it won't turn into what I suspect of happening in the upcoming weeks.
edit: PLENTY of evidence of mass-duping going on in Asia-AH, you can't ignore that. I don't see how it's not possible the same methods/dupers have migrated to USA servers and are now effectively selling things on RMAH and AH since Asia-AH doesn't offer RMAH.
Let's obtain some clarity for the purpose of this discussion.
First, I'll address the Asia issue. Though often refuted as racism, it is pretty common knowledge that Asian countries are the worst offenders within the realm of PC gaming exploitation.
Asian countries went so far as to raid the Blizzard Corporate Headquarters in South Korea (I think it was SK?) over some server instability issues at launch, citing some bizarre federal trade statute. When in reality, they had assumed there was some form of discrimination going on against Asian people.
It is for this reason that I've heard roll-backs are very easy to get in Asian countries, as Blizzard doesn't want them kicking the door in again, nor do they wish to be subject to any litigation under the oversight of foreign trade commissions.
Now let's discuss what you're inferring here, in this thread. I take it you're suggesting that, in fact, there is a viable in-game method of duplicating items using some technique gleamed from the game client? i.e. someone/some people have figuered out how to duplicate items while in-game.
To give you an example of why this is unlikely;
Let's say out of all the players on the American realms, out of the hundreds of thousands/millions of active players......3 people have learned this exploit. Lets call them Steve, Rick and Bill.
Steve, Rick and Bill have each learned to duplicate items at will. They can take the most godly IK Chest and produce copies of them at their leisure.
Now, Steve, Rick and Bill each go to their local food-mart and purchase a 6-pack of Monster energy drink and spend all night duplicating items and redistributing them via the GAH and the RMAH.
Just these three players, good 'ol Steve Rick and Bill, just these 3 players could produce hundreds upon thousands of duplicates in a given weekend, saturating the market with an avalanche of duplicate items.
3 people and 2 days, that is all it would take for a true duping method to reach 'rampant' status.
Okay first off you need to understand a few things.
There aren't many groups of players who have the gold and are in search of 1billion-2billion tier barb gear, there are surely a fair amount of players who have the gold to buy these type of items but not groups of them that play together.
I play with several other barbs who purchase the top-tier barb gears that are in that price range and we discuss, talk, shop items together on a daily basis since we don't want to be both bidding on the same item we see freshly posted to avoid driving up the price for each other. We all met through d2jsp.com, which is why such a group of barbarians playing together could take place.
Now I've waited over a month and half to come public across forums about this issue because I did not want to raise alarms over something that could be simple just rollback dupes being exploited by a few people who will likely be banned anyway.
This is much more than that, the rate at which top-tier barb items, I'm talking 1b+++ items are popping up and being duped is increasing at an alarming rate.
Whether it is just a few people or not, they obviously have more resources than they did before and are starting to expand their operations because more and more items high-end tier barb items are starting to get duped.
The bottom line is, whether you are correct or not about it being very isolated. Blizzard really needs to clarify the situation.
I recently started a thread on d2jsp and battlenet forums (barbarian section) after noticing something really unusual about how an item's auction ended.
A fellow barb I played with literally said to me before the auction ends, to not lose it to dupers and make sure I win it, lol. This mace I'm not sure will be duped yet and might've gone to someone who really wanted it but nonetheless I started looking into the matter and the results were really disturbing.
I don't have 10 posts so I'm not able to link urls on here
but there is a thread I started in both the d2jsp forusm (under diablo 3 > general discussions) and in the battlenet forums (under barbarian forums).
Both threads were made by me with same ID (Mannercookie), they are not hard to find if someone wants to look and post those threads on here in hopes that diablofans mods might take a notice and possibly investigate further and release what they find onto the main page.
This is a huge issue and if it's not stopped soon, the USA-AH servers are gonna turn into what the ASIA-AH servers have become.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
it is, you should link the battle.net thread as well, less trolls there.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
although i do realize duping is a huge problem. whoever started duping first i wonder how much money they have made. maybe 20 thousand + dollars i would not be surprised
the only reason its not every single item is duped hundreds or thousands of times is because the method is not released to the general public for every single noob to do it 24/7
It is a very isolated issue, typically only occurring due to the roll-back scam or the double drop bug.
I really wish these alarmists would bring more evidence to the table before crying wolf.
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There is plenty of evidence of duping that we posted up, the whole mace issue just led to me investigating the matter and finding disgusting results.
There is a scrshots of 4x IDENTICAL Lacuni Prawlers being up on the GAH, RMAH at the EXACT same time.
I won't post everything from the other threads (especially jsp thread, which is filled with 13 year olds who sit around troll all day) but here are the scrshots that were taken after everything.
(Can't post scrshots since I don't have 10 posts, if someone wants to look through battle.net or JSP threads and post the scrshots here would appreciate it)
The battle.net thread is much less clutter and has better information.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
http://www.diabloprogress.com/item/13699325
http://www.diabloprogress.com/item/12972269
Double drop is one thing, but 15 drop? 15 rollbacks?
Yet you still don't seem to understand.
There are many millions of players. If duping was anywhere close to the dictionary definition of "rampant"......there would be no discussion as to whether there is a serious problem.
We would be seeing countless thousands of duplicate items.
HUNDRED or THOUSANDS........not 15....or 2....or 6....or 20.....HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS
These are rollbacks. It starts by getting two of one item via roll back. Slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 4......slide it to a friend....rollback....now there's 8.
Eventually you run out of friends and it stops.
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Wow...15. That's almost 16.
It's not an issue of my.....*uhum... naivety. I am just being reasonable while some others are being....let's call them 'less than reasonable'.
See my above post. This issue isn't "rampant". There is no method for duplicating an item purposely aside from these bottom-feeding scum whom take advantage of a well meaning customer service avenue to profit.
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First off I noticed duped items a month ago and so did many other players, I assumed what you did someone just rolledback duped whatever, then I didn't really notice for a while since wasn't shopping much gear.
Recently when I finallly started upgrading with the gold I had farmed, I end up picking up two duped items without knowing they were duped since the method in which they were sold was a bit more sophisticated(5 of the same items weren't listed together at different prices) + I was probably one of the first buyers.
If nothing is done about this soon, it will become RAMPANT and out of control, I should've posted something like this a month ago but now I'm really sure the dupers from Asia servers have migrated to the USA servers.
Also I was told blizzard is very strict about rollbacks, I'm quite sure they will not roll back a group of friends with similar items over and over again, but I truly hope that blizzard made a simple error as this and that duping is actually not going on.
SOMEONE with 10 posts post my scrshots from last night?
(Edit: on third page of jsp thread, first+2nd page of battle.net thread)
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
My question to the OP is, have you contacted Blizzard? And if so, what was their reply. If you did in the other forums I apologize, I can't view them on the computer I am on at the moment.
I don't JSP. I cannot find your post @Bnet because you weren't specific as to what forum you posted in.
It really wouldn't matter because we've seen these screen-shots before. Small amounts of isolated cases involving a few to as many as 20-ish duplicate items. This falls well in line with what one would expect from roll-back scamming using a handful of IRL friends.
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There is nothing semantic about pointing out the use of alarming rhetoric like "RAMPANT" when clearly the issue is quite isolated and occurring in a fashion consistent with roll-back scams.
The issue is clearly not "rampant". As I indicated above; If it were, we'd be seeing irrefutable evidence that people are mass-duping items ala Diablo 2.
BurningRope#1322 (US~HC) Request an invite to the official (NA) <dfans> Clan
I decided to make these threads because I feel in a matter of weeks or even less we will start seeing the same problems that you currently see on the Asia-AH.
Would you honestly prefer that 20-30x identical multiple items start popping up on the AH before blizzard does something about it?
Like I said before, this seems to happen very frequently for top-tiered barb items (which are the most expensive items in the game generally at the higher tiers), I would be very happy if this was just rollback dupes since that means it won't turn into what I suspect of happening in the upcoming weeks.
edit: PLENTY of evidence of mass-duping going on in Asia-AH, you can't ignore that. I don't see how it's not possible the same methods/dupers have migrated to USA servers and are now effectively selling things on RMAH and AH since Asia-AH doesn't offer RMAH.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
If I had the time to spend countless more hours digging around looking for more dupes I would, but I was hoping this thread brings out more people who have realized they bought duped items.
FWIW, the current lacunis seem to being sold primarily on the RMAH and people are buying it @ $250 looking to use or to re-sell on the GAH.
The dupers are selling the lacunis on RMAH though, not hard for blizzard to look into this matter and explain the situation.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie
Let's obtain some clarity for the purpose of this discussion.
First, I'll address the Asia issue. Though often refuted as racism, it is pretty common knowledge that Asian countries are the worst offenders within the realm of PC gaming exploitation.
Asian countries went so far as to raid the Blizzard Corporate Headquarters in South Korea (I think it was SK?) over some server instability issues at launch, citing some bizarre federal trade statute. When in reality, they had assumed there was some form of discrimination going on against Asian people.
It is for this reason that I've heard roll-backs are very easy to get in Asian countries, as Blizzard doesn't want them kicking the door in again, nor do they wish to be subject to any litigation under the oversight of foreign trade commissions.
Now let's discuss what you're inferring here, in this thread. I take it you're suggesting that, in fact, there is a viable in-game method of duplicating items using some technique gleamed from the game client? i.e. someone/some people have figuered out how to duplicate items while in-game.
To give you an example of why this is unlikely;
Let's say out of all the players on the American realms, out of the hundreds of thousands/millions of active players......3 people have learned this exploit. Lets call them Steve, Rick and Bill.
Steve, Rick and Bill have each learned to duplicate items at will. They can take the most godly IK Chest and produce copies of them at their leisure.
Now, Steve, Rick and Bill each go to their local food-mart and purchase a 6-pack of Monster energy drink and spend all night duplicating items and redistributing them via the GAH and the RMAH.
Just these three players, good 'ol Steve Rick and Bill, just these 3 players could produce hundreds upon thousands of duplicates in a given weekend, saturating the market with an avalanche of duplicate items.
3 people and 2 days, that is all it would take for a true duping method to reach 'rampant' status.
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That's not very wise, is it? For them to communicate so openly about such a sensitive issue?
Remember the gem prices being so low? They never came out and directly addressed the issue, as was being demanded by countless people.
Yet the issue was resolved, quietly, under the table. As should all sensitive issues like this.
Why is it that some of you people demand full disclosure when doing so would not only serve no benefit to stopping the practice, but would actually harm there efforts?
Some of you people sound like a killer asking questions of the police regarding a crime they had committed, hoping to gain some insight to use to their advantage.
"We want answers. Tell us what you're doing." *so we can figure out how to keep getting away with it
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Okay first off you need to understand a few things.
There aren't many groups of players who have the gold and are in search of 1billion-2billion tier barb gear, there are surely a fair amount of players who have the gold to buy these type of items but not groups of them that play together.
I play with several other barbs who purchase the top-tier barb gears that are in that price range and we discuss, talk, shop items together on a daily basis since we don't want to be both bidding on the same item we see freshly posted to avoid driving up the price for each other. We all met through d2jsp.com, which is why such a group of barbarians playing together could take place.
Now I've waited over a month and half to come public across forums about this issue because I did not want to raise alarms over something that could be simple just rollback dupes being exploited by a few people who will likely be banned anyway.
This is much more than that, the rate at which top-tier barb items, I'm talking 1b+++ items are popping up and being duped is increasing at an alarming rate.
Whether it is just a few people or not, they obviously have more resources than they did before and are starting to expand their operations because more and more items high-end tier barb items are starting to get duped.
The bottom line is, whether you are correct or not about it being very isolated. Blizzard really needs to clarify the situation.
http://www.youtube.com/mannercookie
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie