The Watchful Wardstone has recently been an issue item in League of Legends since the developers have had to scmble to fix multiple exploits with it over the last few months. But now, a new glitch is hitting summoners that is yoinking their gold and control wards and only giving them a headache in return.
In the Patch 13.10 bug thread on the League subreddit, multiple players have reported that they’ve been scammed by the shopkeeper when trying to buy the Watchful Wardstone in the later game stages when multiple items have been bought.