How would he get his old items, White ring and SMPC's, onto the ladder realm - not possible without some hacking. So unless he hacked the white ring in and was incredibly lucky and found 10 X100smpc's - he is full of shit.

I would really like him to tell me how you xfer items from the "normal" realms into the ladder realm.

I think maybe he just doesn't understand the difference between the ladder chars and the "normal" chars.