April 1st 2008 09:30 am
WOWMINE: A MINE OF LIES PLUS GAMBLING ON SOMEONE ELSE’S DIME (2/3)
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.
I made Cletus buy 100 gold for $5.83 from WoWMine.com for the first time. Tightwad is nervous that he may never get his gold or money back. We’ll see.
Now just to prove to you kiddies that I am serious about this review and that I’m not making things up just to slam for slamming’s sake, I took screenshots of the order process. Now if you look at the first image below, you’ll see that WoWMine posts stock availability on a server.
45,406 gold on Cletus’ server. On the right, we have the 5-minute delivery pitch and - whoa daddy - never out of stock . Sure.
To their credit, there’s not a lot of fields to complete in the order form, which is great for people who have the attention span of a 3-year old.
I received a "unique order ID" which I should "keep safe" and use to "track down my order status".
We were brought to the PayPal page. Cletus kissed his $5.83 goodbye.
Who’s Super Continental Ltd.????
Now if you kiddies will just please indulge me, I’d like to point your attention to the line that says "If there is no further security or fraud prevention screening, we will start gathering gold for your ingame character — XXXX — as we speak." See the image below:
Start gathering gold??? Why? I thought WoWMine had 45,406 gold on the ready. What gives, man?
Is this some April Fool’s Joke?
Oh the humanity!
Liar Liar WowMine’s on Fire!
I convinced Cletus to stay and log into his character.
"If in 5 minutes I don’t get my gold, I’m getting a refund," he growled.
We’ll see, Cletus. We’ll see. Good thing you and I suffer from insomnia. Looks like we’re in for a loooooong night.
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Olaf on 24 Aug 2008 at 11:15 pm #
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