August 13th 2009 04:41 am
INSOMNIA POST: THSALE AND BIZRATE RATINGS AND THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM
3:00 am. My insomnia decided it wants my ass at this ungodly hour. I’d play now if only someone from my guild was around but no such luck. And if my gf was awake playing WoW at this hour, I’d be hard-pressed to play Alliance. Her main toon is a MALE gnome , which disturbs me to this day. She asked me to roll a new toon on her PvP (!) server so we can play together — with me playing the FEMALE gnome , a proposal that made my stomach turn. I didn’t have the heart to tell her — God I love her too much — what I really thought of the Alliance, which is best expressed by this guy on YouTube .
Anyhoo, here’s another email from a WoW Gold Facts reader:
Hi EGF, I’m a former victim of THSale just want to show you their fake Bizrate rating, actually there’s no rating. LOL click on outstanding customer service on main page then you’l (sic) see — Venessa
Okay, so I went to THSale’s site and I zeroed in on the Bizrate banner.
Hang on, before we check out their Bizrate ratings, let’s pause for a second and have a look at their graph and somewhat defensive "No Financial Turmoil" exclamation.What exactly are they trying to say?
Ah heck, that data could have been plucked out of anywhere for the sake of coming up with a graph to prettify their main page (I’m guessing okay? And it’s 3am, not exactly my heavy thinking hour so cut me some slack). THSale could have impressed me more if they just slapped this on their landing page:
Yeah that makes more (bleep)ing sense to me, babe!
Now on to the Bizrate ratings. Let’s click the outstanding customer service link.
Voila!
Okay, now this doesn’t make any sense to me. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that "not yet rated" message means no one has rated them in the past three months or so, which means they haven’t gotten much business in a while — or they had customers but the customers were too P.O.’d to take the time to rate them. Either way, it’s not the sign of a consistent performer. Personally, I’d stay away from THSale or any gold seller that fudges their Bizrate banner. That little stunt alone says a LOT about a company’s integrity.
Don’t take fancy claims and fancy banners at face value, kiddies. Let’s be more scrutinizing when we shop around for gold sellers. Just as we don’t judge a book by its cover, we shouldn’t be swayed by a smiley face beaming at us and announcing "outstanding customer service"!
‘Cause chances are that smiley face has something sinister in the back of his mind.
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2 Comments »
Lestat de Lioncourt on 13 Aug 2009 at 7:22 pm #
What a bunch of liars! Good thing someone noticed it.
Trev on 13 Aug 2009 at 9:11 pm #
Is their data for real? That pacman pie chart has more cred to it!