May 22nd 2008 01:56 pm
IGE.CC: SEND IN THE CLONES Plus The Party’s Over For This Impostor
Now here’s a WoW gold-selling site review that bit the dust faster than I could shout "REFUND!"
It all started the other night when some subhuman named Tracee spammed me with what appeared to be a comment meant for one of my older posts. Spam-hating yours truly would normally just trash the spam and move on, but this one caught my eye. It was a spam for an MMORPG services company named IGE.cc.
Mother of God.
How many gold-selling companies named IGE are there in this world? To my knowledge, there is only one IGE and that’s Internet Gaming Entertainment with the site address www.ige.com. The copycats - some like IGXE who had a modicum of decency to add one more letter to their name to avoid trademark infringement - are basically just that: f*cking copycats.
I just had to call Cletus that very second.
"Lemme ask you this: just how many companies named IGE are there in this God-forsaken planet?" I said.
"Just how many Chinese people are named Chang?" He replied while chewing his dinner.
"Your point being….???"
"Well, you’re talking about IGE clones from a country that mass produces fake Louis Vuitton bags and has ten gazillion people all sharing the same last name without being accused of incest so originality and uniqueness are pretty much a rarity there."
I love it when politically-incorrect Cletus explains things to me even when his analogies are a little off.
Now lest you kiddies accuse me of playing favorites, let me just make this clear: if there’s one thing that really gets my goat, it’s one upstart gold-selling site capitalizing on an old-timer’s reputation (sullied or otherwise) and misleading gold-buying WoW players into thinking that they’re purchasing from a tried-and-tested industry leader. Talk about a sleazy midget going on a cheap ride on the shoulders of a giant!
Anyway, curiosity nearly killed this cat the second I checked out IGE.cc’s website. This is what greeted me:
(As usual, click for a larger image, dear readers.)
Internet Gaming Experience. Right. How original. Not. I like how they used that wedding-style font to announce their 10 years in service - a claim that beggars the imagination because the domain ".cc" was not in existence in 1997!
More crap:
The one below really knocked me backwards:
$99.99 to become a member? It costs less to become a member at Costco that sells real goods, you idiots! Even better, there’s this strip club that doesn’t charge membership fees but don’t tell my mom!
More crap:
I know, I know, that was really childish of me but I was already extremely irritated at that point. Besides, I have no respect for clones. Especially one that has content written in retarded English.
One more piece of crap to snicker at:
"IGE credibility and wonderful service is an eternal purpose." (I beg your pardon?)
"Remember that the best priveder for wow gold and wow accounts is IGE.cc." (WTF is a priveder?)
"We will let you feel the best services." (Can you actually top one of my ex-girlfriend’s services? Man, she was a real piece of work in the backseat of the…)
Ahem. Anyway, it’s so typical of me to try out the Live Chat Support when reviewing a gold-selling site. What’s not typical is the stupidity of the agent at the beginning, middle, and most especially the end of the chat. Check out the screenshots of our lovely conversation and tell me if my comments are justified or not.
Why should the customer’s gender matter??? Can someone explain that to me in the most politically-correct way possible, please?
On a side note: the girl in their chat window’s side bar resembles Yvonne from my high school days. Yvonne was a pretty young thing I had a violent crush on and whose sadistic English teacher assigned her to write a term paper on James Joyce’s "Ulysses". Knowing that I was nearly in love with her and that I was the sadistic English teacher’s star pupil, Yvonne manipulated lovesick (and willing) ol’ me to write her paper, with the promise of a date one Saturday night. Then 17-year old Extreme Gold Fan slaved over her paper while working on his own. PYT Yvonne got an A. I never got to date her ’cause the b*tch cancelled, claiming that her cousin was in town and she had to show him around. Turned out Dear Cousin was our high school’s star quarterback. Remus (yup, he and I - and Cletus - go a long way back!) caught them necking in the middle of watching "Legally Blonde". Remus stormed out of the theater and whipped out his cell phone to break the bad news to me…and all I could say was: "What the hell are you doing watching a chick flick?"
Hence the anger-fueled vandalism below.
The reply I got was a real winner:
MyGameSale??? What the hell???
I’ll check that out some other time.
Jeccy should have sensed at that point that I was pulling his leg but hell no…
AND…TALK ABOUT HITTING THE MOTHER LODE OF DIRTY LAUNDRY!!!!!!!
JECCY: GUY’S ACCOUNT GOT BANNED FOR SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME IN THE GAME COLLECTING GOLD, WE NEED TO COLLECT AGAIN,
JECCY OF IGE.CC, THANK YOU FOR LETTING THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW HOW STUPID AND INEPT YOU GUYS ARE! SOMEONE GIVE THIS GUY (OR GIRL) SOME CANDY QUICK!
Inspires much confidence, this one doesn’t:
And the best proof that this dude (or chick) is so underpaid, his loyalty to the company is shot……
See how I gave the wrong site name TWICE and still got thanked both times? Someone is DEFINITELY UNDERPAID.
So now we get to the point where I was ready to order but realized that I needed to reserve my money for something urgent. I called Cletus again, this time to borrow his PayPal account.
"Dude, can you just drop IGE.cc? They’re going belly-up pretty soon."
"What?!" Now that’s something new.
"Site’ll get shut down any day for trademark infringement. So if you buy now, you’re never going to get a refund."
Oh. Oh. Oh.
"Where’d you get that piece of information?" I demanded, rather upset that Cletus got first dibs on the juicy news.
"Ever heard of a marvelous invention called the Internet?" He replied pompously.
"Very funny. So funny I forgot to laugh."
"Don’t be upset, buddy boy. There are other copycat fish in the sea. Good night."
"Pleasant dreams! Say hi to Freddy Kreuger for me!"
"Don’t forget to take your Midol!"
Gee, guess this review is over…
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2 Comments »
Cathryn Wheel on 22 May 2008 at 2:06 pm #
OMG! This is the best post ever! Trust me I’m still laughing and there are no plans in the future to stop! LOL!!!!!!
jackhorner on 22 May 2008 at 2:33 pm #
was hoping to be first. second comment here: yes ige.cc is a f*cking copycat and deserves to be shut down while i dont really like the real ige cos its also a hit and miss but its better than other sites that sell gold. the real ige has nicer smarter agents. trust me! spoke to a girl named cary who was so helpful and polite