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April 26th 2008
Kiddies, I’m going on a one-week vacation to recuperate from the stress of working, studying, AND dealing with four gold-selling sites that all proved to be major disappointments (and that’s putting it mildly).
I’ll be back with a new review before you know it!
Regards,
Extreme Gold Fan
P.S. As of this writing, Remus is still waiting to get his money back from IGXE . Tsk tsk.
April 26th 2008
From: IGXE
To: Remus
Subject: Confirm Your Order
Dear Remus,
Thank you for shopping at IGXE for all your gaming needs.
In order to better serve the Internet community and reduce the harm associated with online fraud and identity theft, IGXE has developed a comprehensive fraud prevention policy. We apologize for any delay, while your order was checked by our automated fraud prevention system. Unfortunately something about your order had been flagged by that automated fraud prevention system. This is most commonly caused by some sort of mismatch between the address provided with your order, and what the credit card has reported back.
In order to authenticate, we will ask that you provide us with a copy of your government issued photo ID or passport.
Thank you for your cooperation and your business.
Fax : +1 (650) 240-3909
E-mail: fastsupport@igxe.com
For any enquiries or assistance, you may use our Online Live Support service or e-mail your enquiries to fastsupport@igxe.com.
Please remember to include your Order ID when contacting us to expedite the process.
Thanks again for shopping at IGXE.
Regards,
IGXE Team
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April 24th 2008
It was supposed to be another ordinary gold-buying experience but something knocked me and Remus sideways. How on earth could I have missed THIS when I first visited IGXE’s site???
"YOU ARE BUYING WOW GOLD FROM THE GAME DEVELOPERS DIRECTLY , not from the resellers, no hacking, no cheating, guarantee work!"
EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEEE???
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April 23rd 2008
Before I start my next gold-selling site review caper, er, assignment, allow me to thank first the readers who took the time to send me private messages expressing their support for my blog. I’m amazed how readership has grown since I started WoWGoldFacts . From my first withering review on WoWMine to the total holocaust that was THSale to the slaughtering of SwagVault , the number of people tuning in to my personal saga is steadily increasing. So from the bottom of my heart, I thank you and I love you all!
Anyway…
For my next fact-checking venture, my good friend and easy-to-loan-money-from confidant Remus suggested that I do IGXE.
Now this is a name that cracks me up. In my humble opinion, it is such a flippin’ rip-off/knock-off of IGE , long considered to be the juggernaut of the gold-selling industry but had been going through some rough patches. Remus says it all started when ownership of the company changed hands and people got turned off. I didn’t quite get the rationale behind that one because personally, I don’t give a rat’s a** who runs which gold-selling site. Same thing with that Michael Ovitz brouhaha when he was head honcho at Disney. Insiders trash-talked him to the press but that didn’t stop me and millions of others from watching Disney flicks and patronizing The Happiest Place On Earth, post-spinning teacup ride barfing notwithstanding.
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April 21st 2008
Should have posted this final draft the other day but something came up.
Anywaaaaay…
SwagVault is the mother of all greedy scamming RMT companies. It’s been 12 hours and counting since I asked for a refund . It didn’t take those losers THSale and WoWMine this long to give me back my money. There’s no glitch on PayPal’s end. What should take only a few minutes is taking SwagVault more than half a day…and counting.
Why do you think this is, kiddies?
Is it:
a) SwagVault doesn’t want to refund me
b) The SwagVault rep lied to me about having processed my refund
c) SwagVault is a pathological scammer
d) SwagVault wants me to suffer
e) All of the above
Their audacity shocks me.
Shame on you, SwagVault.
At least 12 hours to process a refund, your rep said. Phtooey!
If I were obscenely wealthy I’d just let you keep the money and not waste precious time dealing with your pathetic customer "support". But since I’m no Warren Buffett and my bank balance is 20,000 leagues under the sea, I need my money back. And badly!
May my Swagvault Review reach at least a million gold-buying gamers and warn them of the perils of buying from this company.
Spread the word, kiddies. Time to sink this company 20,000 leagues under the sea where it belongs.
April 17th 2008
No amount of deep-breathing-Ashtanga-yoga-girlie-crap my sister insists I practice nor the gross-looking spinach-and-psyllium husk shake she downs every morning to cleanse her colon of impurities will ever cure me of the SwagVault cancer that is eating away at my inner chakra . At the rate things are going with my SwagVault order, I bet my colon now resembles a generous helping of cottage cheese mixed with cigar ash.
The evening started on a colon-withering note when I logged into my SwagVault account to track my order and saw this (click on the image below to see the horror in screen capture, and imagine that shower music from "Psycho" playing in the background):
My order is NOT in the system. Mother of God. So what was that phone verificaton for in the first place? The fact that SwagVault called me past 2:00 AM must mean that they’d started processing my order. What gives?
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April 16th 2008
My phone rings a little past 2:00 AM. Someone better be dead.
"Herlo, ees Mr. ______ thar?" says the unearthly chirpy male voice.
"Yeah, this is he," I mumble.
"Oh, herlo Mr. He, good evening. May I speak weeth Mr. ______?"
WTF???
"This IS Mr. ______!!!" I roar, now fully awake and itching to get my hands on an assault rifle. Charlton Heston and the NRA folks had the right idea. If I had one right now, BANG!
Next thing I know I am being interrogated by a SwagVault order verification officer in a manner that is just a notch milder than what they do at Guantanamo. He asks for:
1. My age
2. How many characters I play
3. How long I’ve been playing World of WarCraft
4. The last four digits of my credit card number
5. What kind of card I have (Visa? Mastercard? Cheetah’s Strip Club VIP Card?)
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April 15th 2008
I had a good enough weekend to help me recover from my harrowing experience with THSale.com . Nothin’ a little roast chicken and lasagna can’t fix. Thanks grandma!
Now I’m back and "full a piss an’ vinegar" and ready to review the next WoW gold-selling company. Making like Ted Bundy selecting a random victim, I close my eyes and run a finger down the list of gold-selling companies I had written on a notepad.
Helloooo, Swagvault.com!
Now this is another company that’s been getting mixed reviews, mostly bad ones. The last bad review I read was a few weeks ago and maybe - just maybe - by some miracle their customer service and delivery times have improved. Plus you know how I love to find out things for myself.
On to Swagvault’s site, where I am greeted by this:
It’s a special on WoW US Gold, encouraging WoW nuts like me to buy the cheapest WoW gold on the planet "before the stocks got emptied". Uh huh.
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April 14th 2008
Just a little intermission before I resume my fact-checking duties:
I received not a few emails from WoW-playing and WoWGoldFacts.com-reading kiddies asking me if I actually have a set of criteria that a WoW gold-selling site must meet so as not to incur my wrath.
Yes, my pretties, I do. All WoW gold sellers– big and small, old and new, legitimate and dubious — have to meet the following criteria to earn a favorable review from yours truly:
EASY-TO-USE SITE. I hate sites that require you to fill out fifty forms and jump through hoops like a circus tiger just to get to the damn checkout page. It took Houdini less than 10 minutes to wiggle out of his chains and handcuffs underwater. Navigating a website shouldn’t be that complicated and death-defying, so it should take me faster than Houdini to look for my server, select the amount of currency I need and pay for it.
I also hate cluttered landing pages that look like they were designed by a madman whose idea of 21st-century torture is information overload, complete with seizure-inducing flash banners. I don’t know about you kiddies, but I don’t care for fancy-schmancy sites with too many bells and whistles. I’m there to buy gold and get it over and done with, not watch some tacky Moulin Rouge show.
PRICE. Well, not exactly an ironclad criterion. I may be a cheapskate but when I’m desperate I’m willing to fork over extra moolah ($5 dollars max!). The site that has stock and can deliver my gold faster than everyone else is the site I’m willing to pay that extra 5 dollars. With WoW gold prices fluctuating everyday, the major players are always coming up with these special deals and you don’t know which one is the real McCoy. With that in mind, the next requirement I have is….
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April 11th 2008
I should have listened to Remus. Heck, come to think of it, at least Remus got his THSale WoW gold order, albeit after 4 days, 16 hours and 22 minutes.
My order of 1000 gold has yet to show up, even after all that retarded phone verification crap (4 AM!!!) and the promise that they will call me so I can log into my game and pick up my gold. Yesterday I was too wasted from working and studying that THSale just had to take a backseat. They never called anyway.
5 days of waiting is beyond my personal threshold. 5 days is jaw-droppingly unacceptable in my book. More hopeless cases of Biblical proportions managed to get resolved in less than 5 days. Saddam Hussein got a lawyer in less than a day (Muammar Qaddafi’s daughter, no less, and pro bono). I’m not evil like Saddam was, so why am I being punished?
Why, THSale, whhhhhhyyyyyy?
Time to ask for a refund.
Alisa of THSale doesn’t give the opening spiel right away. She says it’s because she’s "a little busy at the moment. I tell her that’s pretty crappy customer service.
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April 8th 2008
4:00 AM. Ring, ring, ring. THSale calls to authenticate my order.
4:01 AM. My fogged-out brain manages to recall that THSale’s website says: "The payments in exceed of $50 made via Paypal must be verified via telephone, due to the recent increase in onlinepayment fraud."
4:02 AM. It registers into my not-so-fogged-out brain that my order was a mere $29.99; hence, should not even require verification in the first place!
4:03 AM. I yell at the THSale guy that in my part of the world, it’s not even dawn yet.
4:04 AM. I slam down the phone after answering a few retarded questions and log into my character to accept the gold trade as instructed.
Prior to my precious slumber, I had placed an order and waited for the requisite 30 minutes to 5 hours as advised by THSale’s Supah Agent Amy. Unfortunately, I fell asleep on the 04:03:22 count. I can’t believe I waited in game for nothing, and a few hours later I get woken by a call from someone who can’t speak good English ’cause they "need to verify my order."
And again, nothing. No trade takes place. I wait and wait. I doze off. Again.
Is this some sort of patented THSale stunt?
AAAArrrrghhhhh!!!!!
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April 7th 2008
I’m on another one of my fact-checking kicks. I’m also quite happy this evening because Cletus and I are friends again and I don’t need to pay him the $5.83 he spent on that 100 gold order from WoWMine (check out my last three posts and you’ll know what I’m talking about).
For my next fact-checking project, I’m gonna bite the bullet and pay out of my own pocket. And if I don’t get my gold, they’re gonna be sorry.
When I say "they", I’m referring to THSale.com, which I randomly picked from a Google search for wow gold and whose name showed up on the first result page.
I’ve heard mixed reviews about this company but Remus, my other close buddy and fellow WoW afficionado, has absolutely nothing nice to say about them:
"Last December, THSale duped me to the tune of $75 and the promise of delivering my gold in less than an hour. I waited 4 days, 16 hours and 22 minutes before I got my gold. That’s 4 days, 16 hours and 22 minutes of begging, kicking, screaming and threatening. Thanks to THSale, I now suffer from aneurysm, melancholy and post-WarCraft syndrome."
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April 3rd 2008
So much for burning the midnight oil with Cletus to wait for his precious 100 gold from WoWMine. My insomnia left me and in turn I left Cletus to his gaming and whining to go to Dreamland.
I woke up the next morning, er, afternoon actually, to find a lovely little note from him taped to the refrigerator door:
"YOU OWE ME $5.83."
What?? He didn’t get his gold???
Later in the day I got an email from good ol’ Cletus. Oh boy, someone got a little overzealous with the italics and the Caps Lock key.
"Hell I got my gold after 15 hours. THAT’S FIFTEEN HOURS! WHY I EVEN ALLOWED MYSELF TO BE YOUR LITTLE GUINEA PIG FOR YOUR STUPID WOWMINE PROJECT IS BEYOND ME. That’s the last time I’m doing you a favor and the FIRST and LAST TIME I’m ordering from WOWMINE. OH BTW, I ALSO HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO CHAT WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND! HERE HAVE A LOOK!"
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April 1st 2008
This is a sequel to my previous post. As promised, I placed an order on WoWMine.com to test their "5-minute delivery" and everything else I can possibly nitpick about them. However, I’m not even gonna bother contesting their $5-per-1000-gold ad any further. It would be like banging my head against a brick wall. Arguing with someone like Supah Agent Balinda (see last post’s screen captures of our scintillating little chat ) whose command of English is limited to copy-and-paste canned responses and the occasional Babel Fish translation is not exactly my idea of an evening well spent.
Also, reporting WoWMine to the Better Business Bureau is a quest I’ll leave to the poor souls who lost so much more than the $5.83 my friend Cletus had to fork over for this order of 100 WoW gold.
What, you think I’m nuts to spend my own money on a test order? I work hard for my money — it took me three hours of telling sob stories to my grandmother for her to finally give me my birthday money as an advance — and I don’t plan to waste a single cent of it. I love my Grandma too.
Anyhoo, good thing Cletus dropped by this evening at my place to reclaim his DVD copy of "This Is Spinal Tap" which had been with me for almost nine months (I keep "forgetting" to return it). Fellow WoW nut Cletus also happens to have a PayPal account. Cletus has never bought gold from WoWMine.
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