• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Man, looked at my bank statement many years ago and noticed several little charges. A few cents here and a few cents there. The biggest one was maybe .80 cents.

      My son had fallen for some scam ran by a YouTuber and was buying and trading skins.

      I will say though, now that time has passed, some of those skins are worth insane amounts of money. I’d sell them if I wasn’t so stupid sentimental.

      My son got in trouble for doing that, but it still takes me back to a pleasant time when I look at the inventory.

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        13 hours ago

        That’s partly because the kids that entered after yours lost a lot of money, and partly because some people gambled a lot, got addicted, and lost a ton of cash.

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          13 hours ago

          Oh it wasn’t a small amount by the end of it. He’s a smart boy and he learned right then what that was all about. He won’t even buy a lottery ticket as an adult.

          As far as the skins becoming valuable, that is because they are all stat track guns and something changed. I don’t remember what.

          When he done that they were worthless.

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            13 hours ago

            Nice then, I was just worried about some hijacking of the subject by you saying « yes, but we made money! » :)

            Good thing you can get something (more) out of it now then! Yea it’s difficult to sell those, I can relate