its not a "rare", but when i played on drachs....i was hidden in luna right next to one of the chests in the bank. a guy ran through and stoped, banked and i saw a bag go into one of the chests(you know how when people move things around their packs/bank, the item they are moving kinda "falls" from the sky). he runs upstairs to insta-log at the inn. i open up the chest, then the bag and saw a bunch of bank checks. welp it was around the time that the bank check bug was out(that you could make checks for 0 gold) and i just figured they were worthless.....im glad i checked them anyways, 100 mil in gold:eusa_dance:











god i miss uo

Hopefully things will settle down for you and you will be back soon Nevaeh

btw nice find!

Vepl

I know for sure I have lost more I think than anyone in UO



Try this for one: I was in pk guild on napa for over 3 years from beta then had somone send me a icq thing. It was a trojen and then he hacked me.



I lost 56 house( 7 towers and 4 castles), 3 bless item deeds, 4 tent deeds, and more than anyone could imagine.

over 300+ million and much much more.

I would say at that time castles and such going for at times over 1000$ when added this all up lost total in stuff over 85,000 in rl $.

I left a chest full of rares sitting unsecured on floor while remoldeling, you know what happened. Made me sick to my stomach when I realized what I had done.

Well, this isn't exactly a 'lost' rare, but more of a case of mistaken assumption. I attended an EM event sometime about 2 years ago and half the shard(Great Lakes) fought some kind of crazy paragon lord Bone Wyrm in Destard. Well, when it was dead, I looted a pure white bone pile that functioned as a container and was labelled 'bone wyrm bones'. Well, I thought that was cool.. My brother and I were chatting after all was said and done, and we decided to check the corpse again after it went fully public. Well, I found two more 'bone wyrm bones' containers, and my brother found two as well, all of which were never looted by anyone. We figured since we got five between us, they must have been common.
So, after the event, I was interviewed by Stratics and gave one to the interviewer. Well, ends up there were only maybe 8-10 of those dropped in total.. lol! Needless to say, I was kickin myself in the butt for giving away a rare that ended up being worth 25 mil +/- not long after that..

Welcome to UO Forums Xaphax

Vepl

tyvm Just got back in game after about two years off.. Tryin to get my bearings

Loss of a rare? Yyou're all gonna hate me, but if I get a duplicate of a rare, I toss the other one in my trash barrel, as well as other items which are pseudo-rares. Why? Because I can! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Hmmm, worst, that would be dropping a whole house of stuff on Ches. I was transferring houses between chars as I consolidated a couple of accounts. The house on Ches was full of stuff, holiday gifts, tokens, resources. I mean tons!
In any case, while transfering the accounts I forgot to go back to Ches and change the owner. Since I rarely play the shard anymore it was a while before I went back and saw....no house.
And thats the story of my first case of pixel crack withdrawal!

Don't know if you can consider this a rare, but a long time back maby 2001 or so after I bought my third house. (a sandstone with patio) I was making the big bucks. I had saved up around 6 mil and spent 4 mil on the house and decided I was going to purchase some dye tubs. I was still kind of a noob that basically played so much and sold stuff I was able to acquire a lot of gold. (took me 1 year fighting in despise as a warrior) At that time gold was a lot harder to come by. After saving for a year I bought my largest house I had ever had and bought the special, leather, furniture,black dye tubs. Well I wasnt old enough to use the leather i later found out ( doh!) but at least I had it to use when I go old enough.

So I was sitting around celebrating my 1 year anniversary of UO and decorating my house with kewl furniture I dyed with my tub. Well as it turned out I ran out of benches. My carpenter wasnt good enough and I had major rune library to finish so I hoped on a kal ort port to a local vendor mall to pick up a few. On my return a began collecting some wood to make some boxes. (I know this is a long story but this is how it will always play in my mind) I was out hacking trees when I was approuched by a guy riding on an ethy mount (they just came out i think) and offered to buy my furniture dye tub. Since I had just got it and had yet to fully enjoy it I said "no" The guy gave me a few offers which I ignored but I perked up when I heard him say "6 mil" I had to sit and think for a second. I purchased all my dye tubs at an online auction for 2mil for all 4! He was offering me 6 for one. In a panic I thought of collecting 6 mil buying the tubs again later and having an extra 2 mil to add onto what i could get for my house...dreams of a large marble flooded my head as they were around 6-8mil on greatlakes. He added me to his icq and we talked for a second. i wanted to make sure he wasnt a weirdo. Finally i wanted to make the deal. He told me on icq to meet him at the bank. I saw his character port out of my house. I quickly ran to the tub and unlocked it... ... ... ... ... and it disappeared... ... ... ... ...

I guy wearing all black appeared and walked out of the house and ported away. At that moment I noticed the guy who wanted to buy the tub went offline on icq. I called up a gm and screamed and yelled. They told me this was a "preventable theft" I had never heard of such a thing and never in my mind would I think people were this terrible in a game! I had never heard of how to prevent this or anything.

I soon learned of these "scammers" and started reguarding anyone trying to buy something in my house as a scam. This had been my first scam and wasnt my last but was the worst since dye tubs were still in there infancy and not many had them.

I later ran into the guy again and I got pretty heated pointing and calling him a theif and scammer infront of all brit. he explained he was suffering from juvenile arthritis and that he could barely move and was confined to a hospital bed so he deserved stealing from UO players and that I was quote "an A-Hole" because I was the only one to complain about it.

I never saw this guy again, but a few people told me stories that he was one of the most notorious scammers on Greal Lakes. He spent his entire time scamming new players and vets alike out of rares. From what I heard he would go around looking into houses for things he wanted. Most of the time he camped out waiting for the owner of a house to log on and unlock somthing.

Ever since then my house has been private...