August 24th 2009 05:31 am
THE WOW GOLD FACTS WAILING WALL: Not All Quiet On The Western Front
Okay, so I was on this mini-vacation again where the fam and I celebrated my sister’s engagement. And I came home several hours ago to a flood of emails from pissed-off WoW Gold Facts readers all telling me how they’ve been spammed, duped and hassled to Kingdom come by Chinese RMT sites. Now I normally get feedback and such via the comments section but this time I got everything in the mail, complete with screenshots as evidence.
A few stood out and I am sharing them to the rest of the readers-slash-gold buyers to serve as a warning. One particular email, which arrived literally minutes ago, will have its own separate post, as I see it as a continuation of this other (dumb) saga that I’d been keeping tabs on.
For this post, I present the following readers’ tales of their maddening experience with people from a faraway land. Dirk Struan probably dealt with a lot less idiots in his fictional life.
Exhibit A:
"DEEP AND CUT THROAT DISCOUNT" (How very apt in this cut-throat business!)
Submitted by Bo N.
Bo says "it’s looking very cheap and I can’t find anything bad about it other than it looks like the link is a spam verifier."
I can see what else is wrong with Gamemensa’s email, Bo.
For a gold seller that has the balls to think of a site name that brings to mind geniuses, it shoots itself in the foot with its own dumb English.
Exhibit B:
"FATAL ATTRACTION: THSALE’S CREEPY CUSTOMER SERVICE"
Submitted by "Andrea"
If you thought Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction was scary and Jim Carrey in Cable Guy was godawful irritating, poor Andrea here got a fatal mix of both in the person of THSale’s Brad. Below are excerpts from her email:
"Hi EGF, I wish my husband and I saw your website before we bought anything from THSale. I bought a lot of gold from them and it was Brad (their rep) who contacted me to go online to receive my order. It was an okay buying experience but I noticed that after that one order Brad would keep whispering to my toon to ask if I needed any gold. I told him maybe later, I’m busy I’m in an instance, can’t talk now. Well after an hour I was still in Gundrak and Brad whispered again to me asking me if I knew other people who’d like to buy from them. I found it really rude and distasteful of him to market his company in the game and while I am trying NOT TO GET KILLED!"
"What’s also annoying is how he’s trying to get me to add him to my YM contact list. This keeps showing whenever I open my email:"
"Anyway a few days later I told hubby I needed more gold for my alts and he said, don’t go to thsale anymore, let’s go to this other site instead. Doesn’t matter if they’re expensive, as long as they don’t bug you. So we bought from a site called wowgoldbank.com where the gold was indeed pricier. Guess what? I got a phone call from BRAD OF THSALE TELLING ME TO LOG IN AND GET MY GOLD! And while waiting for their character to give me my gold he was saying stuff like he was reprimanding me: ‘why didn’t you order from thsale? why did you go to our other site where gold is more expensive? didn’t you remember the discount code I gave you? Next time order from thsale"
"I was really shocked to find out they owned wowgoldbank and hubby is surprised that they would even admit that! What made it worse was how pissed off Brad sounded on the phone. Imagine a customer service agent telling off a customer!
"EGF, please tell your readers not to buy from ThSale (Gee, I thought I already did - EGF) or its twin wowgoldbank.com unless they want someone stalking them everywhere they go!’
"This comes from my husband and trust me he’s usually a gentleman: F*** THSALE AND F*** BRAD!!"
Andrea, sorry can’t do the last part. Brad ain’t my type for sure.
But seriously, I’m sorry you were hassled. Just put Brad on ignore. If he rolls new toons so he can whisper freely to you again, take screenshots and send them over to me so I can publish them and shame THSale into the ground.
AND FINALLY ON A RELATED NOTE, ALBEIT A MORE TRAGIC ONE……. (AND I HAVE NO OTHER WORDS TO EXPRESS MY RAGE APART FROM THE TITLE)
Exhibit C:
"ACCOUNT ACTION: CLOSURE" Plus Someone Kill The SOB Responsible For This
Submitted by Will F.
Hey EGF,
I have been a reader of your blogs after I first got scammed by a company and would like to warn you about them so your readers do not do business with them. But before that I would like to share a few things with you.
I recently have gotten banned from World of Warcraft and don’t expect to come back to the game because of these gold framing power leveling exploiters.
Here is a copy of the hilariously but still depressing email i received from Blizzard. To avoid wall of text syndrome I have highlighted the different emails from the companies. Blizzard and TPMT Game Service INC
****Notice of Account Closure****
Account Name: ************
Account Action: Closure
Reason for Action: Terms of Use Violation - Economy Exploitation
After a thorough investigation, we have found that a player of the account listed above participated in activities designed to gain an unfair advantage in the World of Warcraft economy.
These activities violate the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask that you take a moment to review these terms at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html.
You may not perform any acts that we consider to be damaging to World of Warcraft. A stable economy is essential for any realm to be successful. Any attempts to manipulate the economy in exploitive ways can have a large negative impact on many players.
This World of Warcraft account has been closed by the Account Administration staff based on a review of the account and all related policy violations.
This action has been taken in accordance with the Terms of Use and our In-Game Policies (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/20309). Any recurring subscriptions on this account have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges.
Only the Account Administration department can address disputes or questions you may have about this account action. To learn more about how we are able to assist you, please visit us at http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/21505.
Regards,
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment
www.worldofwarcraft.com
Well now to the juicy stuff. The reason my account was banned was because I was naive and ill informed about these power leveling gold selling teams. Here is the first transcript of my conversation with Apple from www.wowpower-leveling.com
info: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
info: All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
info: All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
info: All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
info: All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
info: All operators are currently assisting others. Thanks for your patience. An operator will be with you shortly.
info: You are now chatting with ‘Apple’
*******: Hey I recently made an order for your powerleveling service and over 10k gold is now missing. order PL2009XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
*******: i do expect this back on my character in the next hour
Apple: Hello.Welcome to Customer Support Center!.How may I help you?
*******: as i will transfer it all out to an alternate character
*******: Hey I recently made an order for your powerleveling service and over 10k gold is now missing. order PL2009XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Apple: wait sec plz
*******: I did not give any permission for gold to be taken out or used improperly
Apple: your code for gold yes
*******: This does not reflect any good confidence I had with your company
*******: no code for gold
*******: i did not order gold
*******: i ordered the leveling service
*******: and now my gold is gone from my character
*******: your team stole gold from me
Apple: your code for gold yes
*******: Apple read!
*******: YOU STOLE MY GOLD!
*******: PL2009XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Apple: sorry to hear that
*******: dont be sorry
*******: get my gold back
Apple: ok i will check it for you now
*******: 10k is missing
*******: 10k better be reimbursed asap
Apple: ok im checking for you now
Apple: plz give me sec to ask the guy who level for you ok
Apple: 
*******: yea, please find my 10k that is missing
*******: this order has been placed earlier and its already starting very bad Apple
Apple: i will try my best
*******: please do your best to get my gold back
*******: i will give you one hour and contact you again
info: Your chat transcript will be sent to *********@gmail.com at the end of your chat.
Apple: im try now
Apple: our guys said they will leveling the gold for you later so you will get back your gold [A little iffy to say] "you will get back your gold" then after say "they didnt stole your gold"
Apple: our guys said they didnt stole your gold
Apple: can you check it by yourself maybe there something wrong
Apple: Thank you for chatting with us.It seems your problem has been settled.We haven’t heard from you in a while.If you do not respond in the next 5 minutes this chat window will be automatically closed -terminating our chat.Please feel free to contact us once again if there’s anything we can do for you.Thanks for visiting!
Also received multiple emails from their 24/7 email service.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM, serveforu123 <serveforu123@gmail.com> wrote:
really sorry for that problem,just no worry about that,i can promise you we will give back your gold and leave you more gold for you,sorry for that!
In the end I have lost my account and some money. More bummed about the account rather than the money. Its just a days worth of work for cash but I had well over 300 hours logged into the account =\. W/e though Aion comes out next month and hopefully you guys don’t run into this website. Their parent company is TPMT Game Service inc. Good luck with all your hard work EGF. You are a great service to the rest of the WoW comunity and I wish I had found you sooner than later. Hope this information helps you out in your persuit of WoW gold. Below are also other complaints I found regarding the company after I was ripped off.
Sincerely,
Dunks Fanatic
http://www.ripoffreport.com/TPMT-Game-Service-Inc/Advertising-Deceptiv/TPMT-Game-Service-Inc-Never-e-WWF95.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/TPMT-Game-Service-Inc-Wowpower-leveling/On-Line-Stores/TPMT-Power-Leveling-Wowpower-l-7BP62.htm
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/tpmt-game-service-inc-c179884.html
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/tpmt-game-service-inc-c108114.html
AUTHOR’S DISCOVERY: TMPT Game Service Inc., the mother company of wowpower-leveling.com that got Will’s account banned and stole his gold, is also the mother company of wowgoldbank.com, sister site of THSale.com. As proof, here is a screenshot of a test order made today at wowgoldbank.com:
(Click for a larger image)
Oh you dirty sons of bitches….
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5 Comments »
lazymangaka on 24 Aug 2009 at 3:34 pm #
Dude…harsh. Very harsh.
Littlebark on 24 Aug 2009 at 6:34 pm #
Oh my gosh… Poor Will. I’d die if that happened to me…
Although, I do feel Andrea’s pain. Whenever I log onto Littleprick, I get spammed to hell and back every 5 minutes by different gold sellers, all from different companies. THCheap.com being one of them. Never bought from THanything to begin with.
I’m assuming it’s from the ONE TIME I bought gold from the now non-existent wowgoldxp.com. Probably shared my info with their sister sites, the jerks.
I hate spammers. May the all burn in a firey pit forever.
nethack on 25 Aug 2009 at 5:40 am #
After trying out a couple of different countries in google I’ve found several links where gamemensa shows up with the link: http://www.gamemensa.com/wowmine star away from these
nethack on 25 Aug 2009 at 5:41 am #
After trying out a couple of different countries in google I’ve found several links where gamemensa shows up with the link: http://www.gamemensa.com/wowmine stay far away from these wankers
Lestat de Lioncourt on 26 Aug 2009 at 6:09 pm #
Tsk tsk. I feel sorry for the one who got banned because of this powerleveling service. Now, people should learn NOT TO TRUST THESE SCAMMERS! It’s a waste of money and effort.
As for Brad, you should /ignore the guy so that he will not disturb you again. If he uses another character, /ignore him. Remove the pressure he is doing against you guys. He won’t stop doing this so YOU should put a stop on him.
WOWMINE = SCAMMERS! Remember that!