WoW Gold Facts

Okay, back to work. I owe you kiddies a review and here it is. Reader Paul J. forwarded me this newsletter he received from iLGold.com and asked me to review that site.

Sure thing, Paul!

Handmade gold. Sounds interesting. LOL.

I’ve never heard of iLGold, to be honest. I don’t recall seeing it in the top 5 search engine result pages when I Googled "wow gold". But thanks for telling me, man. I may finally have my bronze medalist for my Top Sites Award. I’m getting pretty tired of looking at that pissed-off monkey right under the silver medal.

Now on to my review.

It’s interesting how iLGold forewarns potential customers that it could take them 48 hours to fill the order. Nice to see a site that sets realistic expectations. I’m kinda iffy about the .5 hours claim but oh well, at least they’re willing to refund if they fail to deliver within 48 hours.

I visit iLGold’s website. This knocks me backwards:

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Does Michael Phelps know that his face is on the banner of an RMT site?

"I Love Gold Medal", he says. Really, he actually said that? And only one medal? What about the other seven he won? He doesn’t love them?

I’ll contact his manager tomorrow. Right now I’m a man on a mission.

Let’s check out the rest of the site.

"The ETA is 30 mins to 48 hrs." Okay, I can live with that. But after 48 hours, I’m singing REFUND, okay?

For the benefit of my readers who are unable to see clearly the copy on the image above, here are some excerpts plus my comments:

"ILGOLD.com is one of the leaders in the virtual service Industry. Providing hand collected virtual currency, professional Power Leveling and individual rares for sale."

Hand collected virtual currency. How do you "hand-collect" something that is intangible to begin with? I know I’m splitting hairs here but this copy cracks me up. "Hand collected" is the new euphemism for "farmed". Enlightening.

"Occasionally, due to excessive demand, we may take longer than 48hrs to fulfill your order. On the rare chance that this happens we will inform via email or message in game. On the exceptional chance that we do not supply your gold within the allotted time frame we can offer you compensation (calculated on an individual basis and dependant upon ordered amount, time waited and current stock levels)."

I don’t mind slight delays. I also don’t mind getting bonus currency as compensation. But like I said, I ain’t waiting for more than 48 hours.

"For security reasons we will confirm all 1st time orders via telephone and recommend using Paypal for all orders. Please accept call verification. For additional security purposes, we do NOT arrange delivery without first contacting yourself. We will also provide screenshots of the transaction for proof of delivery."

Fine. Call me. My insomnia is kicking in and I’m wide awake even in your time zone. Bring on the 3:00 AM phone calls!

Screenshots? Will this be a face-to-face trade? No mailbox deliveries? Maybe FAQ has something to say about that.

Unfortunately, I discover that their FAQ page isn’t working. Nothing is clickable. Aaarrrghh.

Good thing there’s Live Chat support.

I know what you’re thinking: why Idi Amin?

Eh, don’t sweat over it.

Trade face to face eh? Nice. And pretty quick answer indeed. Proof that it saves everyone time when a customer types the burning question on the field before hitting Live Chat.

I wonder if they’ll take the chat if the question entered reads: "What are you wearing?" *snickers*

Sigh, I’ve developed a phobia of any delivery claim that says 60 minutes and below.

"Many gold in stock"? I’ve heard that line one too many times, it’s scary.

But let’s not prejudge anyone…

Dave is so….clinical, for lack of a better word.

Ah, finally a smile. Or maybe he just entered that smiley ’cause he’s still scrambling for the next available canned response.

"So you gonna order now". Ya bet!

So their delivery guy will whisper to my character and tell me where to meet for the trade. Very romantic. Very mobster even. I love it.

I swear to you people that it took Dave AT LEAST FIVE MINUTES to answer my question "where are you located?"

Five minutes to cough up the mother of all lame answers: "Somewhere on earth."

And after swearing I won’t tell anyone (oh, only except for Cletus and Remus and the half billion people surfing the web) if he told me, it took him another three minutes to squeak the answer "china".

However, I have to give Dave credit for doing his job. He was polite enough, knowledgeable enough, and nice enough not to merit the highest level of sarcasm from me.

Good job, kid.

Now time to purchase gold.

I’m a bit annoyed that I have to create an account just to place an order.

I become even more annoyed - and appalled - when I read this:

"If you also would like to leave your account and password, you will get 3% gold extra for free. In this way, deal can be implemented no matter you are online or not. Because we can leave the gold in your account fast and direct. Thanks for your trust."

EXCUUUUUUUSE ME?

I can’t think of any sane, half-sentient WoW player who would do that.

Nice try, iLGold.com. You suddenly just lost several brownie points in my books.

Just make sure you contact me if there will be any delays, okay? That would be your saving grace!

The page above looks eerily like Swagvault’s .

Next, click the "Confirm Order" button to pay.

EEEEEEEEK!!!

I swear it wasn’t my internet connection! iLGold’s site went out for a couple of minutes!

Good thing my payment went through, though. I know. I checked.

Whew.

Okay, time to wait for their phone call. I should get my gold within an hour or 48 hours.

I know what you’re thinking.

I am being surprisingly nice and patient.

Nice and patient for the next 48 hours.

It’s the calm before the storm, kiddies. It’s the calm before the storm.

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