Chapter 34: Betting Everything
Chapter 34: Betting Everything
Felix walked rapidly through the crowd while changing his disguise, which he used to scam the frauds, into a new one.
Since the moment Felix stepped inside the UVR, he was using a disguise to keep his utmost security while shopping or even offending someone. He didn't want to get discovered and hunted in real life.
If it was not for this feature, most commoners wouldn't dare enter the UVR, where they could get bullied constantly by people with a higher background than them.
The only ones who ignore this feature and walk proudly in the UVR were those who trust their strength to protect themselves or members of strong families and Bloodline Clans.
This was why the majority of public markets in the UVR had at least 90% scammers trying to swindle the shoppers' coins in one way or another.
However, just because those swindlers had a disguise on their faces, it didn't mean that the authorities couldn't locate their real living address. After all, the products they used for their scam needed to be delivered to the buyer no matter what.
If so, it would be quite easy for those backgrounds to fish them out of their holes, if they followed such a lead.
Even so, the scammers were still running a rampage within the UVR. After all, they could just bully the commoners who had no one to rely on, earning their coins.
This blatant disregard to The SGA authority finally pushed the alliance into taking things into their own hands. They created SGA markets, both in public and online.
Those markets promised absolute trust in the truthfulness of their products. Anything bought inside their markets gets verified and authorized by professionals before the seller even advertises it.
So one could have peace of mind while shopping without the constant pressure that what he bought was fake.
But how could those capitalists in the alliance miss such heaven-sent opportunity to earn coins from the commoners effortlessly?
Thus, they announced a statement that every product purchased in their markets had a 20% increase on its original price, to pay for the experts' assistance during the verification process.
Just this rule alone single-handedly turned off the majority of commoners' expectations towards the promised SGA Market.
Because scammers in public markets only increase the original price by 10% to 20%. It was up to the buyer to figure it out and negotiate the price down.
As for cases like the scam that the gang did? They were rare and few within the UVR. Since not everyone had the smarts and the balls to pull it off on an heir of an influential family.
Meanwhile, The SGA Market might have promised them authentic items, but a 20% increase in price was still a scam, just more in the open and upfront.
So most commoners and bloodliners preferred to rather take risks while shopping in the public markets than to give the SGAlliance, the satisfaction of obtaining their hard-earned money that easily.
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In the Gambling Den, Felix pressed the bet button on Solid Wall and laid back on the chair in a relaxed manner.
He never expected to meet the Five S Gang, who scammed him out of his hard-earned 650,000 SC in his previous life.
He always kept this bitter memory close to his heart because of the large setback it had inflected him.