WoW Gold Facts

Hey kids, I know I was supposed to start a new review but my computer crashed and Cletus is doing his darnest best to resurrect it along with my precious screenshots and notes on my latest victim subject. I’m on edge, to put it mildly. My entire blogging life is in that computer.

Not to mention hundreds of photos of me and my special girl, taken during our weekend getaways. ("Yeah, yeah, hun, I promise to upload them on our Flickr account. Yeah, yeah, I swear I will work on our album tonight/tomorrow/on Sunday/after the raid.")

She is ready to kill me. She’s actually not speaking to me. But I know she’s homicidal, stewing in her room and not answering my calls or text messages. Her best friend has been acting as our messenger of sorts. Last message I got was: "She said: go drown yourself."

This is probably the most monumental f*ck-up since Battlefield Earth .

And it’s going to cost me.

Big time!

In the meantime, enjoy your Halloween weekend. I’ll see you all next week. Things should be better by then.

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Woohooooooo, the Fake Blizz Phishing Email Brigade has stooped so low as to use Blizzard prez Mike Morhaime’s name!!!



Damn, someone tell Mr. Morhaime that those thieving bastards are using his good name in their dirty emails!!!

Remember, kids, all genuine emails from the publisher end with either blizzard.com or battle.net!

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Hey kids, I’m still alive. Just so busy grinding for money in real life. I have a new review for you all tomorrow, I just need to attend to real life first.

Oh, has anyone read the Oct. 21 WoW.com post about Blizzard warning people against buying gold ? Interesting stuff. Same old song but still interesting. Check it out. Tell me what you think. I’ll tell you what I think about it tomorrow (though I bet you already know what my sentiments are, LOL).

Be safe.

Later.

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I don’t play Aion. I’m curious about it but I just do NOT have the time to check it out.

I don’t even have enough time to level my one billion WoW alts that are currently languishing somewhere between the 40’s and the 60’s.

Hell, I don’t even have time to do the daily heroics on my main.

So yeah, playing Aion is out of the question and I envy those who have the time to indulge in it…like Cletus who just started and is having the time of his life tinkering with the chest size of his character. ("Dude, I just gave my chick toon double D’s!")

So why the hell am I getting Aion-related spam in the mail?

Get this: even my mother who doesn’t play games receives up to 11 spam in one morning, all telling her to claim her free Aion CD, get free cheats, etc….one of them from a site called aionbuddy dot com (DON’T EVEN THINK OF VISITING THAT SITE, KIDS!). "All that massive energy spent on trying to steal — what — game accounts?" she asked, incredulous that something she deems a waste of time is actually worth something.

WoW player and WGF reader Jessie, who is also a new Aion player, shared that she’s thinking of quitting the game because the spam in Aion is "worse than the spam in WoW! It’s enough to drive you insane!" She said she can’t enjoy the exchanges in chat because she sees more spam than regular convos. "I would rather see a million Chuck Norris and Xbox jokes than a hundred Chinese spam!"

(Um, you sure about that?) Jessie, don’t quit. Just fight back. Report them. Ignore them. Remind fellow players not to do business with them. Then maybe one day, they’ll choke on their own spam and lose money from having to constantly buy new CD keys for their spam-a-lot team.

Hmm, I know something else that can drive anyone insane…

ViVoGame.com , AKA the we-got-banned-brigade, finally delivered the missing 700g a week after I last pestered them. I had given up on getting a refund equal to the 700g and finding a competent manager to handle my complaint. Then lo and behold, I got a whisper earlier telling me to get my gold, and after the trade was done, I got this piece of sh*t in the mail:

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Thank you for your purchase and the effort you have made throughout this order. — You bet I put a lot of effort into chasing my gold, you morons.

We will notify you if we have any future Preferential Activities. — No thanks.

As you know, striving towards providing the cheapest and fastest gold is our aim. — Fastest? Are you on drugs?

It is wonderful doing business with you and we look forward to continuing to serve you in the future! — I’d rather undergo periodontal surgery than do business with you again. It’s cheaper and less painful. Now beat it. Scram. I have 700 gold to give away. I don’t need it.

Too many bad memories.

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The Chinese ended their holiday two weeks ago and yet the supply and delivery situation hasn’t improved for a number of RMT sites.

Some of them are crying backlog dating back to the October 1-10 festivities. Others are saying it’s really "hard to collect on your server."

I couldn’t stand it. I just had to place test orders on two different sites — both orders to be delivered to the same toon. I wanted to see how fast two separate companies could deliver on my realm. I also wanted to see what BS excuse they’d give should they go past the ETA.

The first one, Gamerking (an old review subject), huffed and puffed till the 22nd-hour mark, dumping my gold in the mail. The second one, a funny site called WowGoldLiver (I sh*t you not, they exist!), took almost 30 hours and delivered in two increments. I asked them why they split my order when it wasn’t even that big (it was 1500). They said one customer had been waiting too long to get his remaining 300g so they sliced off a portion of my order to shut up the guy!

Did you get that? They took out gold from MY order so they could get rid of a customer who’d been badgering them about his missing 300g.

And it turns out it’s becoming sort of a trend, at least among the smaller players. Reader Bryce shares, "I ordered from WowGoldBank and they called me to go to Stormwind to get my gold but I was doing ToC. I told them to give me another hour. They said sure but guess what they gave my gold to a different customer who they said was waiting for more than 3 days."

Well, brownie points to them for being so….refreshingly honest.

But shaving off gold from someone else’s order to avoid another customer filing a chargeback is so wrong.

I’ve always thought that any company would logically follow the first-in, first-out policy, just ’cause it’s fair and makes damn sense. If Peter ordered and paid ahead of Paul, then Peter should have first dibs on the supply. Paul would have to wait till Peter’s order has been completed, right?

But then…

A little birdie told me that in the RMT industry, the first-in, first-out policy can be skewed depending on how large the order is. So if Peter ordered 500 gold and Paul ordered 3000 gold a few minutes later, a supplier from China would rather fill Paul’s order first because he gets paid more from completing the bigger order.

Oh really? Hmm…

Now picture thousands of customers in a queue and all of them getting bumped up and down the delivery heirarchy, depending on how much gold they bought and how desperate a supplier is for his commission. There’s no more order in the f*cking house, folks, just chaos!

If my source was indeed telling the truth, then I’m not happy. I’ve always subscribed to the first-in, first out method. Unless an RMT site has a VIP program of sorts for long-time customers, I think they should treat all their customers fairly. Go pick a number, dude, and good luck!

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*Cue Twilight Zone theme*



Okaaaaaaaay…

So what the hell was that September newsletter from Gaming4Less all about???

Well, they certainly resurrected faster than David Hasselhoff’s singing career! (Raise your hand if you have David’s CD Looking for Freedom )

And look, they are "waiting to entertain" us! Woot! What fabulous show have they prepared for us? Is it:

a) a leather and lace striptease act

b) a Chinese version of American Idol

c) gnome mud wrestling

d) all of the above

"I don’t want letter A if Oofay’s chicks are all flat-chested," declared Cletus. "I like my women with healthy scoops of flesh."

Um right.

Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I dialed Oofay’s number to get to the bottom of the mystery. I got some chick with a Chinese accent who merely said "hello".

I said, "Hey, is this Oofay.com?"

She said, "Oh yes yes yes." (My, my, I had quite an effect on her!)

I chuckled. "Okay, I just have one question: why did a supposedly defunct company send me a newsletter offering 10% discount?"

Silence. Guess she didn’t understand the word "defunct".

"I mean I thought you guys closed. Some Gaming4Less dude named Ian Chambers sent a newsletter last month saying that Oofay was officially closed."

Chinese chick found her voice and said, "Oh no I am open, no, we are open." (She is open, my my!)

"Do you know the site Gaming4Less.com??" I pressed.

"No."

That’s odd.

"Do you know a guy named Ian Chambers?"

"No, we are Oofay."

DUH!

"Are you ordering for what game?" she asked.

"Not ordering, I just want answers. So you’re saying you never closed, you’re not a part of Gaming4Less and that Ian Chambers is a bad-ass liar who blows monkey balls."

"Uh yes, yes."

Paging Ian Chambers. Care to refute that?

"So you want gold?" she asked sweetly.

Talking to her and trying to get decent answers was like shoving my head in an industrial ice crusher. I hung up.

The mystery deepens.

But I’m sure about one thing:

Never order from Oofay. You just can’t trust ‘em.

*shudders*

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Read. Learn. Don’t like what I wrote? Tough.

1. Don’t give us that "one bazillion gold in stock" BS. It’s getting old. Instead, just tell us how hard or easy it is to farm on our server. That should give us an idea how long we have to wait for our order.

2. Quit promising 5-minute deliveries to hook us into buying only to make us wait 5 days (or more).

3. Don’t call us during ungodly hours or when we’re in school or at work. WoW players need to sleep and study/earn a living too, ya know. Please be mindful of the different time zones.

4. If we happen to be in a raid, please don’t insist that we leave the raid to meet your delivery guy. Respect our gaming.

5. Please don’t spam us in the game. We hate spam. Just how many more "f*ck off’s" do you need to read in order to understand that?

6. If we need more gold in the future, don’t call or whisper us. We’ll call you. Nothing is more irritating than getting a whisper from someone saying " Hi, this is XXXX, remember me? I delivered your gold last week. Do you need more? I can give you a discount on your next order".

7. It’s okay if your English is not so good. What’s not okay is when you keep throwing mindless, non-sequitur canned responses our way. We would rather talk with a sincere agent writing broken English than a bot-like peon spamming us stupid macros.

8. If you can’t provide 24/7 live support, then remove the damn 24/7 support copy from your site.

9. If you can’t provide 24/7 live support, then at the very least answer our goddamn emails.

10. If we ask for a refund because we’ve waited too long, please don’t bother stalling. Stalling will make us hate you more.

11. Please write your own copy. It’s hard for us to trust a plagiarizer.

12. Tell your agents to cut back on the smileys ESPECIALLY when we’re telling them to give us a damn refund (like what’s so funny about losing our business?). Besides, too many smileys make you look like you’re on drugs.

13. When we demand to speak to a manager, there better be a manager on duty!

14. When our chat or call gets passed to a manager, we expect to speak to an entirely different person and NOT YOU pretending to be said manager.

15. If you haven’t improved your service, then it means you don’t value your customers. You might as well get the hell out of the RMT industry. No one will miss you anyway.

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Possibly the quickest WoW Gold Facts review in history, folks.

I was all set to check out the next gold seller - Webshopvip.com (a random site plucked from a Google search for ‘wow gold’) and I even told my guildie Liv that I was going to give her WoW gold as a birthday present. Naturally, the kid was thrilled. I knew without her telling me that her toon needed serious gems for her new gear and the gold I planned to order for the review would cover her expenses nicely.

So off I went to check the site…

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They sell money for a truckload of other games but as we all know, WoW is still the (only?) big deal there is….

How are their prices and order process?



Uh, okay this is messed up. Why on earth are the realms not in alphabetical order? This alone is enough to drive any buyer nuts. They sure lost brownie points even before they earned it! Tsk tsk.



Guess the United States is not considered a significant country in their parts but the likes of Ukraine and Swiss (???) are. LOL!! And oh yeah, Italian is a country as far as they’re concerned. :p

Their blocks go as low as 800 gold, and the prices run from $6.64, which ain’t so bad. If I’m giving Liv 2500 gold, I could expect to shell out at least $20.00, which is great for my budget. Heck, could even afford to buy up to 3000, to cover JC tips and mats and plus some.



Man, the English just kills me but what the hell…

Time to make my presales inquiry. I got an agent named Stephy and disconnected (wonder what happened there?). Had to get back and reconnect.





I go back to the main page, scroll down and try to click on the McAfee SECURE banner…



NOT CLICKABLE, KIDDIES!

Something ain’t right.

I place a mock order, already quite hesitant to purchase for real as something was starting to gnaw at me…

BUT! the checkout button won’t take me to the PayPal page.

So I contact customer support to ask what the hell was wrong.



Oh my god…



Sisters and good friends?? Why can’t you just friggin’ admit that you’re all descended from the same pile of dung?

I could have been ruder but it’s not the agent’s fault their company is f*cked up.



Ah, look at how she realized her fatal mistake in revealing such sensitive info. Poor girl.

And complete the damn exit survey? So that you’ll know what I think of your site’s mother company? Here, read this post, Shyla. And while you’re at it….

Tell your bosses at THSale to go suck a rock.

No way am I reviewing and giving my money to a site that has hoodwinked so many people NOT TO MENTION grabbed an image of my WoW Gold Facts medal and slapped it on one of their minions’ home page !

My verdict: DO NOT BUY FROM WEBSHOPVIP.COM UNLESS YOU’RE INTO FUNDING A BUNCH OF SCAM ARTISTS.

End of review. /spit

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Hey kids, I didn’t post yesterday because I was (and still am) as sick as a dog. Bad cold. Bad migraine. I did try to work on this site — was even ready to shell out money for a new review but HO HO HO, the gold seller in question proved to me that incest is alive and well in this industry. You just gotta love ‘em honest Chinese customer support reps.

While I really don’t mind if a gold seller is the spawn of another seller, what I DO mind is when the spawn belongs to a notorious spammer and scammer.

I took screenshots of my lovely convo with the rep. I’ll post about it on Monday.

Ugh, I need more meds. Later y’all.

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It’s too early in the morning to flip a lid but I just needed one more piece of proof showing why you shouldn’t buy from ViVogame.com:



Okay, so first they told me too many people bought gold on my server, hence the difficulty in getting supply. Now they’re saying their accounts got banned.

Their. Accounts. Got. Banned.

Well, that says a lot about the security of their transactions. (Appreciate the honesty though, so partial brownie points for them, but still…)

If ViVoGame.com can’t even protect their own blasted accounts, what makes you think they can protect yours?

Ya know, the review had started nicely when you made a quick partial delivery; afterwards things went downhill. Sad.

Tough luck, ViVo peeps.

This review is over.

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So last night I chatted with ViVoGame.com’s super agent Arthas who told me to log in and wait for my 700g.

"You should receive it in one hour."

"Awesome," I said. Well, not exactly awesome, considering they’re behind by 4 days in filling this order. Come on, it’s only 700g, how hard is that to collect???

Plus visiting, revisiting and visiting for the umpteenth time their Live Help is, to put it mildly, exasperating. Customers shouldn’t have to go through such hassle. Hey, we paid you good money to delivery the goods within the promised timeframe. I didn’t pony up x amount of dollars to fraternize with your robotic reps who have the spontaneity and sincerity of a paper cup!

Anyway I parked my toon in Orgrimmar, ready to meet the delivery guy in the bank or fly to Ratchet. I amused myself by reading the irritating exchanges in Trade chat — proof that the world needs a Draconian birth control program.



See what I mean?

One retort led to another and pretty soon everybody was fighting in Trade and calling each other four-letter words, the misogynistic C-word being the most popular. And I thought I was potty-mouthed.

Before I knew it, almost an hour had passed!

Still no whisper or 700g.

Goddammit it….

Back to Live Help. I got some dude named Gino.



"We are so sorry for this delay, just because these days so many customers bought gold of your server, so there have a shortage, please understand." — Gee, whatever happened to reserving whatever you had collected for someone who paid ahead of others? And why the hell did Arthas say I was going to get it in one hour? Does your co-agent enjoy sending customers on a wild goose chase? Like Queen Victoria, I ain’t amused, buddy boy. A mere 700g — doesn’t your site say you have the "largest wow gold studio in China" with 2000 computers and 4000 farmers? 2000 computers and 4000 farmers! How many more farmers do you need to come up with my 700g???

I’m writing my epilogue shortly. I bet you kids know how this review is going to end.

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Sunday rolled by. I was still missing 700g. It’s been 48 hours.

I visited Live Chat in the morning only to see that no one was available



24/7 service, phooey.

Post-lunch follow-up:



So I logged into my character as instructed and did the same mind-numbing dailies while waiting for the magic whisper. One hour he says.

Still nothing.

"Dude, you can’t wait forever you know. You wanna do Ulduar?" Remus said.

"But the delivery guy might show up just when we’re inside," I said.

"Screw ViVoGame, you can’t be (bleep)ing beholden to their retarded system. You’ve waited for more than an hour. Come on, we need DPS."

So Ulduar it was.

"You have been disconnected from the server. [Okay]"

Awesome.

And still no @#$%ing whisper.

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ViVoGame.com . Pay in 1 minute. Wonder for the next several hours.

I was confident that I could get my order in 24 hours , what with the Chinese holiday over, and I was even willing to wait for 36 hours to give way to potential hiccups (see, I’m nicer now!).

So last Friday I went ahead and placed an order.

And, ho hum, RINGS A (BLEEP)ING BELL, KIDDIES???

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Hello, Goldsoon.com ! Nice bumpin’ into ya, again. (I think).

Sigh.

The things I do (and the money I spend!) to find out who is what and what belongs to who in this Godforsaken industry!

Okay, calm down, EGF. Maybe this little site of theirs could do a better job than the bigger sibling, though how that could be possible is the next big question, since technically they should be working with the same group of farmers/suppliers.

I checked the status of my order:



Processing. I should get it soon. (I hope)

I logged into the game and did my usual dailies, waiting for the whisper that would signal the trade as I fetched crap for that Alchemist Finklestein whose serum recipe changes more often than Paris Hilton shops for shoes. But as I reached my fifth attempt (I know, I suck) there was still no whisper so I gave up and switched to another toon to meet my GF in the game so I can help her level (she’s an Ally girl at heart but I convinced her to roll a few Hordies. We’re currently working on her Belf pally).

Four levels later, she cried ‘uncle’ and begged to rest. I told her to get ready for a late dinner at our favorite trattoria. Anyhooooooo….

While taking a shower the phone rang (why does it almost always happen when I’m in the bathroom???).

"Hello?!" I yelled.

"Hallo, this is Veevooghem dat com pleez cum in game wee rhedy to deliveah yoh ohdah."

(Subtitle: Hello, this is ViVogame.com please come in game we ready to deliver your order.)

(Note: the "please come in game" part cracked me up)

"You mean now?"

"Uh huh uh huh see you."

Awesome! Looks like someone is redeeming himself! Good job.

"Okay that’s great! Please make it quick, I’m going out for dinner and I don’t want to be late." I said.

Whaddaya know, the agent just hung up on me. Not even a goodbye. Sweet.

I rinsed, dressed hurriedly and logged into my toon. 10 minutes of waiting I started feeling anxious then the whisper came.

Meet in Org bank? Sure!

Opened trade.

Then…

"Hey, this is 700g short!" I protested.

"Sorry so hard to collect on this server. We will call you again later. Bye." And just like that, the delivery guy logged out.

Um, okay. Giving me part of the order within a span of several hours is great, but I’m not going to rejoice (and award you cool points) until I get the rest of the gold, bud.

To be continued.

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No, I do NOT want a surprise gift. No, I do NOT want a "new mounts". No, I don’t want to visit your dubious website where I have to enter my email add and password so you can steal my WoW account.

No, no, no.

Why can’t you people just disappear?

Earlier in Ulduar (before I got disconnected AGAIN), I got three whispers from "Blizzard" offering me a "nice surprise".

They’re back, people.

Now as for the gold supply situation…

I visited five random sites asking them if they have X amount of gold on such-and-such server. I gave them several random servers. Guess what?

Standard reply: we’re busy collecting. Many orders not yet filled.

Second standard reply: you might have to wait more than one day.

Well, I certainly appreciated their honesty!

Guess I’ll have to wait till next week.

I have major site upgrade issues to deal with today and tomorrow. Catch ya kiddies later.

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Look what popped up when I was flying in Icecrown a couple of hours ago.



This sort of spam is getting (bleeping) old. But I wonder if there are people who have actually fallen for this trickery.

I checked the site given by the spammer. Kids, don’t go there, please. It’s a deceiving replica of the official WoW login page. Go spot the difference.

This is the real thing:



And this is the impostor:



The bastids just won’t quit! Just when things got quiet for a week in the game, here they are back again offering their "surprise gifts" to players.

"They’re after our gold and gear and (bleep)," said Cletus. "I bet those (bleep)ers are doing that ’cause they don’t have enough gold to sell."

I suddenly dread to think that in the past I may have purchased from a site that gets its gold from stolen WoW accounts. Oh the humanity! Just thinking I may have funded a bunch of crooks is enough to make me pull the trigger.

"Isn’t it such a coincidence that right after the holiday of a certain nation, we’re suddenly getting all these whispers about a free surprise in the game?" laughed Remus, who was half-drunk trying to get over a nasty break-up. (Three days into the relationship and the chick realizes she’s bisexual and wants to "explore other options". That ain’t gonna sit well with Remus’ ultra-conservative Catholic parents.)

"Hmm, well that’s food for thought," I said.

"Any suspects?" said Cletus.

My lips are sealed. Lawsuits are not in my wish list.

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