One of the strangest emails I've recieved

[Boredflak]

As the administrator of this site, I get quite a few strange emails. This is one of the strangest...

Hi I did visit on your website, I found so many rings, these all rings are really work for spell casting and other type of casting or invocation?

i need a ring of mind reading or geini kind of or x-ray.

so what will be price in usd and how can i buy it from you and from where you people are?

waiting for an urgent answer.

Bye

[fatchuck]

As the administrator of this site, I get quite a few strange emails. This is one of the strangest...

That was a non-native English speaker trying to ask for help about rings that will allow his PC to read minds (e.g., a Ring of Spider Mind) or see in X-ray vision (isn't there already an item that does that?).

Oh, hold on, I missed this part:

"so what will be price in usd"

Nevermind. They're either batshit insane or reeeeeeaaaaaaaaally stupid.

[jwolfe]

According to the rules, each gold piece weighs 1/50 of a pound. A little conversion, and we have a weight of 0.291667 troy ounces. Therefore, at Friday's close of $689.70 per troy ounce, a gold piece is worth about US$201.16.

A Ring of Djinni Calling has a market value of 125,000gp. Using the above values, we come up with an equivalent price of US$25,145,312.50.

So all you have to do is give him the above price as a ballpark, and tell him that the final price would depend on the current value of gold. Also tell him that supplies are extremely limited. If he does place an order, tell him you are currently out of stock, with no estimate on a restock date.

[Boredflak]

According to the rules, each gold piece weighs 1/50 of a pound. A little conversion, and we have a weight of 0.291667 troy ounces. Therefore, at Friday's close of $689.70 per troy ounce, a gold piece is worth about US$201.16.

A Ring of Djinni Calling has a market value of 125,000gp. Using the above values, we come up with an equivalent price of US$25,145,312.50.

So all you have to do is give him the above price as a ballpark, and tell him that the final price would depend on the current value of gold. Also tell him that supplies are extremely limited. If he does place an order, tell him you are currently out of stock, with no estimate on a restock date.

Brilliant!

[Jaxal]

A troy ounce is slightly greater than a standard ounce. So more like $180/gold piece.

[Jayef]

No, he used the correct conversion of 1/50 avoirdupois pound to ~0.29167 (I got 0.291665...) troy ounces.

Yes, some of us read Irregular Webcomic too.

[jwolfe]

No, he used the correct conversion of 1/50 avoirdupois pound to ~0.29167 (I got 0.291665...) troy ounces.

You must have introduced a rounding error.

1 lb avdp = 7000 grains
1/50 lb avdp = 140 grains
1 oz troy = 480 grains
1/50 lb avdp = 140/480 oz troy = 7/24 oz troy = 0.291666... oz troy

[Jayef]

Yep, I converted everything to grammes and then back, probably truncating some digits in the process.

[chaosbrand]

So all you have to do is give him the above price as a ballpark, and tell him that the final price would depend on the current value of gold. Also tell him that supplies are extremely limited. If he does place an order, tell him you are currently out of stock, with no estimate on a restock date.

Well, if he places an order for a $25,145,312.50 product that doesn't even exist, I'd think he really is insane and you can probably ignore him.

[Boredflak]

Well, if he places an order for a $25,145,312.50 product that doesn't even exist, I'd think he really is insane and you can probably ignore him.

I don't know about that. Insane people with tens of millions of dollars to burn frighten me!

[BardMorgan]

As the administrator of this site, I get quite a few strange emails. This is one of the strangest...

Hi I did visit on your website, I found so many rings, these all rings are really work for spell casting and other type of casting or invocation?

i need a ring of mind reading or geini kind of or x-ray.

so what will be price in usd and how can i buy it from you and from where you people are?

waiting for an urgent answer.

Bye

So I have to ask... Did you respond, and if so, how?

Morgan

[Boredflak]

Did you respond?

Hell no!

[DeMyztikX]

but he needed an urgent answer!

[Melblen_Cairn]

I have to wonder if the guy is still waiting for a response or if he tried ordering his rings through another website.....

[Melblen_Cairn]

Yes, some of us read Irregular Webcomic too.

It is definately hobbit faux-ming