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February 10th 2009

QUICK INTERLUDE POST: THOSE PESKY LITTLE GOLD SELLER ADS Plus Who Can Advertise

There are a couple things that make we wince when I look at my own site:

1. Google Ad Sense with links to crummy RMT sites

2. The outdated medal roster, which should have WoW Gold Pig as the new gold medalist, followed by IGE with the silver and MySuperSales with the bronze. Those porcine folks have been relentlessly emailing me asking why I haven’t displayed their Royal Baconator’s name. Well, here’s your answer, Porkchop:

At the risk of looking inept and un-independent (is there such a word, Mom?), I rely on good ol’ Cletus to maintain anything technical and art-related as far as this blogsite is concerned. Am I blaming him? Yeah sorta. Why don’t I start learning and update everything myself, you ask? I could probably do that, but I am paying him to perform that particular task (yeah, I actually have money on occasion to pay him, believe it or not! ). And he hasn’t taught me how to do it properly (he’s been quite busy for a single guy desperate to keep up with the mortgage…and his one gazillion guilds). So to my readers, I ask you to be patient with me (and Cletus). We’ll get around to updating stuff (hopefully way before I choke and admit defeat in my latest venture ). No more excuses, I swear on Cletus’ paycheck!

Now about the ads…

I have this phobia of anything spammy and scammy. I get spammed all the time to accept advertising on my site (which is supposed to be awesome if you’re desperate to make money, right?) but I’d rather be a jellied eel than support any of the business activities of the sites who treated me (and countless other customers) like excrement. I will, though, accept big money and ads from any site that wins my top ranking! (cue Daffy Duck guffaw)

So to the Pig, IGE and MySupersales, if you guys are reading this, you know what to do. (cue cash register Ka-CHING sound effects)

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February 10th 2009

GOLDSOON.COM: TOPPING INTERNET TRAFFIC THIS SOON? Plus How Soon Can I Get My Gold? (1/5)

I know I’m deviating from my list and I know that I said that the spammy site who leaves spammy comments in my comment section will never earn a WoW Gold Facts review. But this relative newbie is just begging for attention….in a desperate and comical way.

Goldsoon Logo

Goldsoon.com.

Aaaw, check out the tacky hearts that serve as the "O’s". And the cryptic tagline "Deliver the gold to you soon beyond your imagination."

Tacky graphics and tag lines aside, what piqued my curiosity about this site is the fact that they are a relatively new site (not even a year old) and already their Alexa rank is a mind-boggling 2,672.

Now to those who don’t know what the Alexa rank is, in a nutshell the Alexa provides information on web traffic to other websites. (copied and pasted that from Wikipedia). An Alexa Rank of 1-100,000 is awesome. That means many, many, many, many people visit your website (and baby, there are bazillions of websites in this world).

But it just bugs the bejesus out of me how Goldsoon - just another gold seller in the market - can have an Alexa rank of 2,672 while Hustler is at 9,516. Someone explain that to me!!!

Histrionics aside, I’m really baffled. And what addles my pate even further is this claim:

Goldsoon Why Choose

"Goldsoon has rich experience in VCT (Virtual Currency Trading) industry." — For someone relatively new, that raises an eyebrow.

"We also set up worldwide branch offices in Europe, USA, China and Hong Kong." — Their reach is global for a newcomer. That raises a second eyebrow.

"To Make sure our customers can get WoW Gold Faster, Cheaper and more safe, we have established the long-term cooperation with 18,266 WoW Gold farming studios in China." Holy cow, 18,266? You better not have any minors working for you, Goldsoon! I’ve heard one too many horror stories about Chinese RMT sites employing little kids to farm all day and subsist on gruel and 4 hours of sleep a night. It will be a cold day in hell before I buy from anyone that exploits children!

Now who are these people??

Goldsoon Comments

Looks like three people’s Facebook photos were borrowed for this little section. LOL. I’m bad, I know.

Goldsoon Contact Us

Hmm, they have US, UK and German numbers. But not toll free. Eh, forget it.

Now on to the FAQ with text that looks like Google Translator was used to convert the original copy from Chinese? German? into English.

Goldsoon FAQ

"We are one of the soonest gold sellers in China." — THE SOONEST GOLD SELLERS?  HAHAHAHA

"We are the largest wow gold suppliers in China, owning over 2000 units of computers and 4000 Farmers" — NO SH*T. Someone help me with the math. With 18,266 WoW Gold farming studios and just 2,000 PCs, we’re talking about a lot of empty studios out there.

"Gold arrives at when you are playing! What a wonderful thing!" — No, hombre, it is NOT a wonderful thing when I am in an instance. Your timing better be perfect.

"As you known, it is the safety that is the most important point when we choose to buy the gold from website!" - Er, if you say so

And this is the clincher:

IS IT SAFE TO BUY THE GOLD IN GOLDSOON.COM?

A: I always speak to myself: If I were a wow player, I will choose Goldsoon!" — WHOA WHOA DADDY….you always speak to yourself? Are you like schizo? And what do you mean IF you were a wow player…you mean you don’t play WoW at all? What business do you have selling something for a game you don’t even play?

Okay, this is scary sh*t. I don’t know if reviewing you would be the wisest thing to do…

Let me think about it over my morning espresso.

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February 9th 2009

THE NO GOLD DIET CHALLENGE JOURNAL Part One

So I rolled a new character for the challenge I was insane enough to accept from Remus. So here is a Dwarf Rogue, who possesses about as much stealth and cunning as Homer Simpson ransacking Mr. Burns’ kitchen.

In broad daylight.

Dwarf Rogue

Quoting myself from my MySpace blog , with such an inconspicuous appearance, this toon will become the best Rogue in the history of the game.

With the most number of resurrections.

To reiterate Remus’ conditions: it will all be pure grinding, from Level 1 to 80 (so help me, God), with the goal to get the most bad-ass (read: epic) mount. WoW gaming in its unadulterated form. No divine RMT intervention for this toon.

Let the grinding begin:

I accepted my first quest: Dwarven Outfitters from Sten Stoutarm who told me to move my ass and give him 8 Tough Wolf Meats. The wolves were anything but tough. I skewered them one by one.

Quest-1

I am not happy with the gay Winter Wonderland setting. I know what you’re thinking; stop being a whiny brat and do your job. Fine!

After dealing with the wolves, I accepted a raft of other quests.

Quest Accept

When you’ve been playing Horde like I have for the longest time, you’d feel a little freaked surrounded by midgets.

So I’m politically incorrect. Shoot me.

I know, I know. Stop whining.

I delivered a stack of letters and picked on troggs and boars.

Trogg Quest

Boar Quest

I was getting so bored that I mindlessly accepted a duel from a guy who was four levels above me.

Duel

Duel-B

Easy as pie. For the other guy. Then just when I found myself again at my original starting point did this THING distract me:

Hunter hankypanky

Woohoo, a Level 5 Human Rogue was "stabbing" a Level 63 Night Elf Hunter chick repeatedly from behind while telling her again and again "Ya like don’t ya? Don’t ya?" and she was like, "Oh yeah, oh yeah".

Of course, I had to play the part of the newb and stare at them with glee. LOL.

However, I grew conscious of the othe midg- I mean other toons staring at me stare so I left.

I also realized that I was exhausted, and I was only a Level 4 when I decided to call it a night. Level 4!! Aaarrghh.

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February 6th 2009

THE NO GOLD DIET CHALLENGE: GRIND FROM 1-80!

"Is he retarded?" Remus said between mouthfuls of what is actually chicken liver and foie gras mousse on bread but looks like pureed roadkill on toast. (at $14 or so, it was almost the price of a monthly subscription to WoW, to be enjoyed for a few minutes and excreted after 24 hours, depending on Remus’ digestion rate and gut passage time)

Remus, Cletus and I were at dinner this evening in Balthazar, a restaurant we can’t afford on our own dime. But Remus’ dad was taking care of the bill, so we were three happy freeloaders at the table, only I wished most of the stuff on the menu wasn’t so hoity-toity. So I’m uncouth, shoot me. Now back to the retard and my latest issue…

The retard being the GM of one of my new guilds. The imperious dork - a rabid anti-RMT subhuman who got wind of my gold-buying tendencies (but thankfully doesn’t know I’m the genius behind WoW Gold Facts) - left me this pompous lecture in the ingame mail (IN THE INGAME MAIL!!!) about the evils of RMT. With his usual crappy spelling, he wrote that he was not going to kick me out of the guild..and that I should see the benefits of a "no gold diet".

A No Gold Diet. If there was anything gayer on this planet….

Never mind.

Anyway, GM Dork wants me to grind my lowbie toon to 80 without ever buying gold.

"Does your GM have a job?" Cletus asked while trying to enjoy his $80+plus dish of Cote De Boeuf with haricots verts (green beans to the rabble) and onion rings, meant for sharing but reserved for him alone. The guy has two stomachs.

"Don’t know. Never met in real life. He was just some random person who invited me to his lowbie guild and I accepted. I have this new toon and I got careless when I told this other guildie about the gold I got for one of my Death Knights."

"And the sniveling toad snitched on you!" laughed Remus. I caught a brief glimpse of the roadkill in his mouth. I wanted to puke.

"Grind from 1-80? You’ll be a hundred and fifty years old by the time you get to 80 unless you quit your job AND quit school. And good luck in getting the good stuff at the auction house or a killer mount with a few measly gold in your pocket." Cletus burped.

"Take on the challenge and write about it," Remus suddenly said.

"You mean stop buying gold? Are you nuts? What about my site?" I was incredulous.

‘No, no, I didn’t mean you completely stop. Just don’t buy gold for one particular toon. Try grinding from 1 to 80. Keep a journal about it. Sounds gay, I know, but it might prove to all those anti-RMT bleeding hearts what a grind the, um, grinding is to people like us." Sometimes Remus can make sense of the ridiculous. He is also the only guy I know who can say "people like us" and make us sound like a very superior species that make the WASP seem like white trash.

"Let me think about it for two seconds. Yes."

Remus grinned. Cletus was too busy attacking his (free) food to react.

"Great! So roll a new character." He leaned forward, grinning devilishly. "And make it Alliance."

"F*** you!" Several diners turned to look at us.

"DWARF. ROGUE." He added.

Oh. My. F***ING…….

"ALLIANCE. DWARF. ROGUE. 1-80. NO BUYING GOLD."

And Remus toasted me with his St. Emilion and I’m wondering if his wine was laced with a drug that causes one to lose all common sense.

Maybe mine was too.

"DEAL!"

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February 5th 2009

MMOGA.COM: 48 HOURS LATER Plus Room For Improvement (4/4)

48 hours after placing an order while big sis talked about changing my gender, I received the 1000 gold from MMOGA.com.

I should be very happy, right?

Um, not totally. MMOGA could have clinched a WoW Gold Facts medal but it took itself out of the running. How? Let me give the prequel to the delivery:

Today, way before the crack of the dawn, my insomnia decided to belly-kick me out of bed by way of a little nightmare. No, I did not sit bolt upright screaming like they do in the movies. I had the equivalent of a seizure, got up, paced and hit the PC to check on MMOGA et al. Well, whaddaya know their Live Support was online! I couldn’t believe it, I almost had a real seizure. Then I checked my email but there was no response to my online inquiry submission. And when I checked the status of my order I got this.

MMOGA Track Order

Still in progress? Argh! For how long??

That left me no choice but to dun Live Support for my gold. I promised though to myself that I would be very nice, even if I wanted to fire a gun into the air like they do in Kabul.

MMOGA Chat-1

Katja of MMOGA said "your order needs phone verification, could we call you now?".  Duh, you said that in your email and I sent you guys my number but did you call? Heck no. And now that I’m on chat, that’s when you decide to carry out that mission? Whatever happened to initiative?

BTW, for some reason I could not hear their rep on the phone. Something was indeed pretty retarded.

But hey, brownie points to them for deciding to verify what they need to verify on chat!

MMOGA Chat-2

That was it???

MMOGA Chat-3

I wanted to make things less painful for both of us but…

MMOGA Chat-4

MMOGA Chat-5

Well, miraculously, I managed to grab another 2 hours of sleep before I jerked myself awake and hauled my ass back to the PC.

Nothing in the mail. I suddenly didn’t want any breakfast.

So, kiddies, this evening when my order hit the 48th hour mark I decided to try my luck one more time with MMOGA. I logged in, selected my DK (awesome class I swear!) and even before my mount and I could gallop to a nearby mailbox, I got a whisper: "Hey you there!"

Now normally my reply to that one would be "go suck a rock, who the hell are you?" when I realized it could be MMOGA! "Yeah?" was the wittiest reply I could think of, then this dude invited me to their guild, then told me to get the money from the gbank, then authorized me to get my hands on the goodies, then had the nerve to tell me to hurry up ’cause he ain’t got all day!

So I did just that, withdrew the one and only 1000g (that’s right, kiddies, it was the only amount in their gbank, hahaha lame!).

GBank

And then I got kicked out of the guild like I got kicked out of my parents’ country club for vandalizing the tennis courts. I was 8 years old then and with a promising future.

Anyhoo, so I got my gold and that should merit MMOGA a medal right? Um, no and here’s why they didn’t even get a bronze:

1. Live support is not available 24/7. Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking: WoW Gold Pig doesn’t have Live help and yet they got the WGF medal. Well, what choice did I have? Those porkers gave me my gold within several hours of ordering. And their order process couldn’t be any simpler. But see, if a site like MMOGA is going to offer Live Chat, they better offer it 24/7 because not all customers are in the same time zone. Yes, customers should indicate what time they’re going to be online but in real life, things get in the way that force players to postpone their gaming. And they need customer service ready any time to know of their change of plans. Comprende?

2. There was no reply to my online query submission.

3. If I hadn’t visited their Live chat, my order would still be in limbo, awaiting verification. My contacting them triggered their verification department.

4. After my order was verified, they couldn’t arrange for delivery at that moment, not caring that my order was crawling fast towards the 36th hour mark. Katja was a nice girl but the empathy factor was missing. And I wonder if she really noted my mailbox request because obviously, the gold was delivered via alternative means.

Speaking of which, so is that the new delivery method? Inviting the customer to join their guild and kicking them out faster than one could say "thanks"? Interesting.

Well, it was a good try, MMOGA. But there’s room for improvement. Would I try you again? Um, sure, why not, but maybe after you’ve considered and worked on the four points I mentioned. Then I could probably hand you a medal.

Yeah, I know, my medal roster shamelessly needs updating (cough, cough, CLETUS!!! ). People on death row have brighter futures, but ya never know, stranger things have happened.

I’m off to the Auction House. Night, kiddies.

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February 3rd 2009

MMOGA.COM: NO PHONE CALL, NO GOLD Plus Where Is Everyone? (3/4)

It’s been 24 hours since my sister threatened to turn me into a eunuch and paid for my 1000 gold order at MMOGA.com. This is retarded. I haven’t received a single phone call. I checked my voice mail. I checked my email. Nothing, nada, zip.

And MMOGA’s live chat is STILL OFFLINE!!!

MMOGA Followup

Boo! What is the point of offering live chat if they’re not available when customers need them?

Always there for us, eh?

MMOGA Always NOT There

Bull droppings!

I filled out an online inquiry and submitted my order number and email address. Now if I don’t hear from MMOGA within 12 hours I will as sure as hell let fly at something!

Later, kiddies.

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February 2nd 2009

MMOGA.COM: BOUGHT GOLD! Plus Call Me, Don’t Be Afraid, You Can Call Me (2/4)

"You are to pay me in exactly 5 days. If I do not receive anything at the end of the 5th day I will make it my personal mission to turn you into this neighborhood’s first eunuch," my sis growled as she sat beside me ready (or maybe not that ready) to enter her PayPal details.

I love you, sis. I’ve always known you’d always be there for me when Remus and Cletus (those tightwads) failed. Now go easy on the Ritalin, you’re scaring me.

Finally I got around to ordering gold from MMOGA.com so I can continue this dang review. So here’s what happened during the order process:

MMOGA-1

I chose face to face delivery.

MMOGA-2

I gave them the hours I’d be online. Then it’s off to selecting the Payment Method. I see they have a lot of options for customers. Nice:

MMOGA-3

And presto…



I was led back to their website.

MMOGA-5

Did that mean there was no need to verify my order anymore?

Apparently not. Look at this. This is retarded:



"unfortunately there were some fraud cases in the form of charge back in our company lately. Because of that we ask you to send us your LANDLINE telephone number to verify your order. Please follow the link and fill the form sheet on our homepage:"

For crying out loud, MMOGA, I gave you my landline number in the order details. Why can’t you just make that dang call and get it over and done with? Don’t you want a WoW Gold Facts medal? Why are you asking for the number again? What if I hadn’t checked my email after ordering? I’d be at the phone waiting it out for your call, not realizing I am compelled to give you my number for the second time this evening.

So I followed the link, gave them my number again, and dragged myself into my own apartment to wait for their call (hopefully not at 2 AM!).

To be continued…

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February 2nd 2009

MMOGA.COM: OUR FINANCIAL PARTNER, THEY SAY Plus You Mean Like Lehman Brothers? (1/4)

2:00 AM. Can’t sleep. Can’t rest knowing I recently paid a whopping amount to pay off all my bills. I hate being in debt; hence I decided to just bite the bullet and wipe out everything in one go.

I’m now debt-free but my bank balance is lower than Jessica Alba’s IQ.

I need to do a new review ASAP. I got sidetracked by different issues and forgot that I have an obligation to my readers to review a new site.

Even when I’m broke.

Aaaarrrghhh!

Wonder if Cletus or Remus needs gold and would like to order from MMOGA.com?

(Click for a larger image)



"Your financial Partner in the World of Online Roleplay Gaming", their banner says. This cracks me up a bit. It’s trying to sound legit by taking on the tag line of a financial institution. I guess they’re trying to come across as the Lehman Brothers of virtual currency trading or something.

But we all know what happened to Lehman Brothers, right? Terrible business.

Anyhoo, let’s check out MMOGA.com a bit more and see what they’ve got.

MMOGA WoW Gold Prices

WoW US gold price (for 1000): from $14.74. Um, okay.

Wonder what the price is on one of my servers?

MMOGA WoW server price

$18.83 for 1000 gold. But I want the $14.74 price tag!!! Aaaargrhh.

And what about delivery methods?

MMOGA Delivery Method

Mailbox. Pretty standard.

Face to face. Still pretty standard. Yawns.

Official meeting points for the WoW gold committal….COMMITTAL? Woohoo, FANCY! I got a nosebleed just from reading that one. LOL. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, for Alliance, the meeting place is Goldshire and for Horde, it’s Razor Hill AKA Lowbie Land. *smug smile*

And then we have….

Comfort Trade?!

This just eats away at me:

During the payment process you have to enter your account information. As soon as the WoW gold is in stock, we log into your account, create a new character on your server and deliver the WoW gold directly. Additionally the committals happen between 1-18 o´clock Gmt+1 so that we do not disturbe you while raiding. We recommend this type of delivery, because we are able to transfer the WoW gold fast and secure to your account. Your account information is used trustworthy and will be deleted out of our system after successful transfer. Hereby we ensure maximum security and a smooth delivery.

Two comments:

1. You must think all customers would be naive enough to give you guys their account information. No decent site would resort to this practice. Well, while you’re at it, why don’t you just ask for our Social Security number and online banking PIN?

2. The copy needs proofreading and editing. Badly.

And how fast do they deliver?

12-48 hours, but they can PROBABLY fill the order within 1-12 hours after payment receipt.

Fair enough. At least they don’t claim to deliver in 5 minutes. *cough cough*

And how’s their customer support? I always love a good chat. :)

MMOGA Offline

WHAT THE —

BOO!

No 24/7 Live help? Okay, MMOGA.com, that’s many, many, many brownie points lost in my book. BOO again!

And you say you’re always there for us?

always there

Hmm, so their price is sorta okay (could be lower), their live chat is offline (shucks), their delivery methods are standard (with the third one being very fishy but I obviously won’t select that one), and they give a decent ETA…..and I need a new review so will they do?

Yeah what the heck go for it but will have to make some calls at the crack of dawn.

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February 1st 2009

DEAR ERIC OF WOWMINE….

Dear Eric (Lam?) of Wowmine with email address balabinba@qq.com (obviously as fake as your business address) and IP address 202.105.38.175 (Guangdong Province, China),

Thanks for leaving a comment which I decided to delete since it’s not worth the space it occupied for a brief moment in my comments box. However, I took a screen shot of it both for posterity and proof to my readers how retarded Wowmine’s minions are.



Since I’m bored this Sunday evening, I’ll just use this time to address your sarcastic yet pathetic attempt at taking a dig at yours truly. And since you say "There Is No Such Thing As Bad Press!", well, I’ll let you have it!

You called me an IGE blog marketer. What, just because the old dinosaur and your biggest competitor successfully filled my order (which your company failed at miserably ) and won a WoW Gold Facts medal as a result? Dude, you could have been top dog in my books had you delivered Cletus’ gold in 5 minutes, an astounding delivery time which continues to be your biggest (lie) claim in your website. Now if you had done so, you would have won the gold medal, and then everyone would call me a Wowmine blog marketer, right? *chuckles*

You’re thanking me for making Wowmine famous by creating this blog? No such thing as bad press? Eric my lady, the "no such thing as bad press" premise ain’t set in stone. I believe it didn’t work for the likes of Kenneth Lay as one bad exposé after another hit Enron shares until it fell 20,000 leagues under the sea. You mean my exposing the following….

1. Misleading discounts

2. Unauthorized use of celebrities as your newsletter models

3. Your crappy customer service

4. Your "business in a box" address 501 Silverside Road which you share with deceptive companies….and Hamas.

5. Your web of equally spammy and deceptive affiliate sites

….and a host of other lies bursting from your bag of tricks is going to do your business a favor??? No such thing as bad press, eh? Why don’t you take the time to read the comments of your unhappy customers who agree that Wowmine is INDEED A MINE OF LIES?

To paraphrase a statement made by an Enron employee to Mr. Lay, I would like to ask you, Eric (Lam) ,if you are on crack, if so that would explain your comment which reeks of the hubris of the shamed. if not, you may want to start because it’s going to be a long time before anyone trusts Wowmine again. And quit leaving such comments on my blog, okay? Your remarks are gayer than a Bangkok Medical Tourism-sponsored Happy Sex Change Patients’ Parade.

Good luck at your own sex change operation. Let me see if I could FedEx you a Wonderbra.

Sincerely,

EGF

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