Archive for November, 2009

November 30th 2009

SO EVERYONE’S A “BLIZZARD LUCKY PLAYERS”, EH? LOL

Thanks to my guild head honcho Alvin for sending me this screenshot. Poor dude and our fellow Hordies had a helluva time in AV (Horde won though), then on top of that nearly everyone got the same whisper about the "mysterious gift" which they all, er, mysteriously won.

Fake WoW Armory Blizzard site

You just gotta hand it to the thieving pricks for coming up with every possible permutation of the Blizzard and World of Warcraft names for their dubious fly-by-night websites. Now this time they’ve added the WoW Armory for good measure.

Incorrigible bastards just won’t stop.

And I bet they’ll become even more aggressive as Christmas nears. They’ve got to fill their holiday orders fast — and one way to do that is to steal other players’ gold to meet the demand.

Brace yourself for a spam-filled holiday season, kids.

Be safe y’all.

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November 26th 2009

DON’T MISS THIS!

Look at what came in the mail that sent my jaw crashing to the floor, I need a forklift to pick it up:

WoW Gold Pig Black Friday Promo

“Black Pig Friday…$4.95 per 1,000 gold.”

$4.95???!!!

“Sale starts at 12:01 AM, Friday, November 27th and ends at midnight.” – Er, this is EST, right?

Just when I’m sitting here wondering how I’m going to make it up to my GF for causing a scene outside Stormwind when we were playing our Alliance toons (yeah, she’s an Ally girl at heart and I was forced to roll a FEMALE gnome to act as her MALE gnome’s S.O….long story), here comes the answer to my dilemma.

I know she’s desperate for those gems for sale at the AH. +30 stam here, +30 attack power there. And I know she wants more enchants to get her ready for 3.3.

My huntard could use them too!

And for prices from a trusted site like this one, heck I’m going to be first in line!

Scoot over, folks, unless you want my mammoth to crush you.

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November 25th 2009

WARNING: FAKE BLIZZARD CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

GUYS, WATCH OUT FOR THIS WHISPER! SCAM ALERT SCAM ALERT SCAM ALERT!!!

WoW Whisper Scam

[Blizzsk] whispers:  Hello, Christmas is approaching, Blizzard released Christmas gifts players can receive free of charge Please log in: www.Blizzard-Christmas.net

DO. NOT. GO. TO. THAT. WEBSITE.

The crooks behind that scam are going to steal your WoW accounts!

WARN YOUR FRIENDS! NOW!

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November 24th 2009

WHAT PEOPLE DO WHEN THEIR SERVER GOES KAPUT

So nearly 40 servers went down. Awesome.

So what do you do when your server is offline?

You roll a new toon on a different server on a different battlegroup:



Glad to see all my stuff still intact.

BRB with a new post soon.

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November 23rd 2009

EPICTOON.COM THE EPILOGUE: WELCOME TO THE LEAGUE OF RELIABLE SELLERS (4/4)

Impeccable customer service that can deal with (my) idiotic questions. Considerate delivery people (Inside an instance? We won’t bother you then!) . No spam.  Delivery could have been faster but still fell within the ETA — enough to squeeze past the long-time bronze medalist.

Yeah, in other words, Epic Toon (or ET), you get the bronze.

(cue applause)

I just have one comment:

You mailed the gold to me because you didn’t want to disturb my dungeon run. That’s really considerate of you. But I had such a HUGE order that dumping all of it in the mail was kinda risky — the gold could have been deleted. I can’t speak for all customers out there - maybe some of them wouldn’t have minded leaving the instance to pick up their order face-to-face, others might get pissed if they get a whisper in the middle of downing the boss - but maybe you could take the risk of whispering first to ask how soon they can meet your courier? And if they really can’t abandon their party, then well, ask the customer when he’ll be available next. You don’t have to resort to mailing it right away (unless of course the customer said, just mail it to me).

Yeah I know it’s kinda hard contacting the customer not really knowing if it’s a good time or not to send a tell his way…

But I guess gold buyers themselves should expect — and NOT get pissed when they receive — a whisper any time in the game, regardless of the situation they are in. You order gold, getting a whisper comes with the turf. So sometimes the whisper comes at a bad time, like when you’re handling many whelps or something. Don’t freak out. Delivery guy’s just doing his job.

Okay this is becoming a long sermon you don’t need.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, we have a new bronze medalist. Gratz, Epic Toon. Good job.

Give my warm regards to Jacqueline.

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November 20th 2009

EPICTOON.COM: MAYBE NOT THAT EPIC BUT HECK YOU DELIVERED…AND WITH CONSIDERATION (3/4)

10 hours. 11 hours. 12 hours. 13 hours.Three dungeon runs. A nap. Two phone calls. GF suddenly had a hankering for roast beef sandwich with all the sinful drippings. Ran to the nearest deli. Mistakenly bought something else. Got chewed out for it. Women…

Fell asleep again. Must be switching from insomnia to narcolepsy. Why can’t I ever strike a balance, for f*ck’s sake?

Still no gold. I’m not panicking because I didn’t pay for this order. Though I AM starting to wonder what’s taking them so long.

Time to track my order:

Epic Toon Status Waiting

Status: Waiting

Um, so what does that mean? You guys waiting for me to log in or you mean the customer is still waiting for his order (duh)?

Maybe they’re waiting for me.

I relogged. Toon in DaLAGran. Need to get away from that place. Ran through the Orgrimmar portal. In lag-less Org, I waited for a whisper.

Met up with Cletus. Joined a PUG. Some kids needed help with Drak’Tharon Keep.

While in DTK (a rather long-ass run since one of the kids kept dying), I got a whisper I wasn’t exactly waiting for:

DTK Spam Scam

Die thieves die! Damn it, why don’t you people just DIE????

Done with DTK, I noticed that I had new mail from someone I didn’t recognize.

What the…

It was the gold I ordered.

Given the one-hour delay in sending mail from one account to another, why didn’t they just whisper and give it to me face to face?

Back to Live Help.

Epic Toon Post Sales Chat

Well, that was…nice.

:)

Verdict to follow soon.

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November 18th 2009

EPICTOON.COM: PICKING ON LIVE CHAT Plus Because It’s Tradition (2/4)

So as tradition dictates, here’s my epic chat with Epic Toon’s Jacqueline:

Epic Toon Chat-1

I can’t believe she let slide that line about the Circle of the Happy Tree Friends. Anyone would have spotted that BS right away. Or maybe Jacqueline was just being polite.

Epic Toon Chat-2

Now I really don’t play HKO and you guys know that. But I wonder if it DOES have PvP. That’d be one helluva catfight.

Epic Toon Chat-3

Damn, I forgot to ask if they’re a member of D.E.H.T.A.! Maybe next time.

So okay, Jacqueline did a good job in indulging me. She must get impertinent questions a lot.

Time to order. Thanks, Cletus, for offering to pay for this one. Heaven knows I’m broke.

Epic Toon Shopping Cart

It’s good to know they can deliver to your alts, but personally I’d rather not give my alts’ names to gold sellers, as I want to keep the rest of them private. It’s bad enough that several of my toons already suffer from spam whispers — i.e. "Hi you remember me? I deliver your gold a week ago. You need gold again? Have 100 billion in stock"

Aaaarrrggh!!

Anyway…

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Epic Toon TY For Your Order

All right. You know the drill from here. The waiting game starts.

To be continued.

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November 17th 2009

EPICTOON.COM: YA GOT SOMETHING EPIC FOR MY TOON? (1/4)

You kids remember that anti-spam newsletter that came out sometime in August? The one called Cleaning Up The Industry ? That newsletter spawned copycats left, right, front, back and center — all coming from the circle of  notorious gold sellers who they themselves are the Grand Master Spammers in the game and definitely NOT in the list of trusted gold-selling sites in the original newsletter.

Speaking about said list, the latest gold seller under the microscope is Epictoon.com. Most of the sites in the list like Mogs.com , IGE.com , and Gamemasta.com "went through the WGF wringer" (as Remus calls it) and did pretty well. I figured it’s time to check out this site and see if they can cut the mustard.

First, their claim to be anti-spam….

I’m on several realms and so far I haven’t seen a single message on Trade chat or received a single whisper from Epictoon. None of my friends have received spam in any form from them either, so I guess they pass that first scrutiny.

Now on to the home page…

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Ain’t that a neat mascot? But what the hell is he supposed to be?

I like how you can just order right off the bat on the home page and go to Checkout. It’s like what I always say: I don’t like too many bells and whistles on a site and I just want a quick, painless buying process without having to go through several pages.

They’ve hopped on the social networking bandwagon too…

And lemme guess: EpicToon is run by a bunch of hippies:

EpicToon Going Green

Serious question coming up: are your computers solar powered? Another serious question: do you exclusively use night elf druids to farm gold? One last serious question (I swear this is serious!): are you a member of D.E.H.T.A ?

Let’s try to get those answers from Live Chat! But first the prices. I picked one of my servers.

Epic Toon Prices

Smallest block is at 1500 gold.

Guess $11.49 for 1500 gold is a fair enough price.

Let’s find out more about them before I bug their Live Chat…

Epictoon About Us-1

Many gamers enjoy the benefits of Real Money Trading (RMT) and are frustrated with the bad service, terrible English and spam-and-scam business strategies of the Chinese gold sellers. — Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. The things I do to review everyone in this Godforsaken industry!

Epic Toon About Us -2

Epic Guarantee: We proudly offer a no-questions-asked money back guarantee. If, at any time prior to delivery, you want your money back for any reason, we will refund it. We are proud to note that fewer than one percent of customers have felt the need to request a refund. - Wow, that’s sweet. I’ve had enough of epic tussles of Biblical proportions with customer support just to get my money back. Nice to know I can get my money back sans drama and threats. And fewer than 1% you say? Interesting. Got a pie chart for that? ("I like pie", says Cletus)

I have a ton of (annoying) questions to ask Live Chat but it’s time to get ready for work.

To be continued.

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November 13th 2009

A NON-WOW POST: SO I PLAYED AION ONLINE AND…

Thanks again, Cletus my man, for giving me an Aion account. Just don’t know if I can afford to maintain this one, given how yours truly is already paying for 4 WoW subs.

Anyhoo, so check out the game I did. I rolled a pretty little Scout…pretty in an anime sort of way. I make her kill a few funny-looking creatures terrorizing some farm. They looked like pissed-off stunted armadillos. I’m distracted by my toon’s skirt that lifts at the hem when she jumps. Feminists would have a fit. A vicious killing machine in a Lolita-type skirt smacks of the sexist era of James Bond (and if Bond was a pedophile, that is). Hot-blooded men would appreciate the eye candy that this game is but I’m suddenly yearning for the hot, dusty and barbaric ambiance of the Valley of Trials.

So I’m biased. Shoot me.

My Scout ends up in some little town where she chats up some NPCs, then suddenly…

Aion InGame Spam

In-game spam. F*cking classic!

First 30 minutes of the game and I’m already irritated.

Cletus laughed. ‘Dude, it gets worse the longer you play."

"Does anyone fall for this crap?" I said.

"You mean the spam? I dunno. Hope not. You wanna start an Aion Kinah Facts review site?" He snickered.

Not funny. No time. No way. Not enough money.

But hey, if you kids play Aion and you wanna do an EGF, go put up your review site and help your fellow Aion players. The more we expose those spammy SOBs, the more players you protect!

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November 12th 2009

THIS JUST HIT ME LIKE A BOLT OF LIGHTNING…

Hang on, just a thought:

Regarding 17mins dot com’s guild banks getting raided by Blizz…

What indiscretion did 17mins commit that alerted Blizzard to their activities???

So much for their being "one of the three largest secure network of buying and selling sites for massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) virtual currency and assets on the Internet" .  (I got that from their About Us page)

Oh BTW, my friends and I checked out random gold sellers and THEY DENIED any raiding done by Blizz on their own guild banks. In fact, one of them accused Remus of starting a bad rumor to scare all buyers. (How do you say, "industry-wide raid, my ass!" in Chinese?)

Man, they would have made a nice new review but…

How can I review someone who probably doesn’t have any more gold to sell?

Ah well, I’ll find someone else to review.

Later all. Be safe and happy.

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November 10th 2009

ANOTHER REASON NOT TO JOIN A SELLER’S GUILD…

Thank you, reader M. Smith who emailed me the transcript of his/her chat with gold seller 17mins dot com.

Read it and weep, kids. This should knock some sense into those who blindly agree to temporarily join a gold seller’s guild so they themselves can withdraw the money from the guild bank instead of transacting in the traditional face-to-face manner. Those gold sellers’ guilds/banks are in serious trouble these days and you wouldn’t want Blizz to see YOUR TOON’S NAME on the seller’s guild roster!

P.S.  How the hell does 17mins know that Blizzard doesn’t ban on weekends? LOL

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Live Chat
Welcome to our online customer service! We provide virtual currency and power leveling service on the Internet. May I help you?

Customer
My name is XXXXXX and I received a newsletter with coupon code VALUE from your company.

Live Chat
yes

Live Chat
ur server plz

Live Chat
i willcheck the stock

Customer
Please check two servers for me. XXXXX Alliance and XXXXXX Horde

Live Chat
kk

Live Chat
could u plz check the stock here later?

Live Chat
i am sorry that Blizzard is checking the sellers’ guilds now

Live Chat
and we can not deliver the gold even we have gold

Customer
Im sorry what do you mean Blizzard is checking the sellers’ guilds

Live Chat
Blizzard do not allow the gold sell and they will banned the guilds of sellers at this time

Live Chat
will need 1 or 2 hours

Live Chat
just like the deliver account will nbe banned

Customer
so blizzard is now checking your company’s guild banks?

Live Chat
not only company’s

Live Chat
they are checking all of the sellers

Customer
How do you know all this

Live Chat
from the time they banned one of our guild

Customer
Oh mywhen did this happen?

Live Chat
about a few days before

Customer
sorry to hear that.

Live Chat
but no check in the weekend

Customer
They don’t check on weekends?

Live Chat
yes

Live Chat
no baning in weekends

Customer
guess today is not a good time to buy?

Live
plz check it later ok?

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November 9th 2009

MRWOWGOLD.COM THE EPILOGUE: SIR, YOU ARE NO GENTLEMAN (4/4)

Three emails sent and still no reply. I changed my PayPal password. I checked the balance. Like every 5 effing minutes to see if anything had been siphoned without my knowledge. Tlktck’s warning about Spyware in MrWoWGold’s website still has me on edge. He’s pretty confident about his claim. I’m not so confident anymore about the security of my PayPal account.

One more email. Maybe they’ll start feeling sorry for me and send a reply.

So I sent them another email, then tried my luck with the Live Chat banner, and lo and behold I got hold of an agent. And it’s Carol again! It’s my lucky night!

NOT!!!

MrWowGold Alliance has gold

"Would you pls login the game now" — All right! Finally I’m getting my gold after waiting for more than 3 days!

But…

"sry friend, it seems that we made the mistake, what we have is on alliance side" — Great. Allies have Wintergrasp AND they have the gold, while I - a Hordie - got raped by thumb-sized midgets and couldn’t even enjoy the small consolation of adequate gold supply for my faction.

Awesome.

Refund!  MrWoWGold and its spyware-riddled website can go to hell.

Review over.

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November 6th 2009

MRWOWGOLD.COM: MAN ON THE RUN Plus Spyware Alert (3/?)

Reader tlktck’s comment did a good job in scaring the bejesus out of me.

"Damn. I feel sorry for you. According to Webroot their site (MrWoWGold.com) contains spyware. Take all information off your paypal account NOW, and be more careful in the future."

Oh heck no….

I still  haven’t received the gold. I rushed to their website to try Live Chat again.

Miracle of miracles it worked! I got some agent named Carol (real name probably has a Zhang or a Wa or a Li).

But…

MrWoWGold Chat-1

"sry for the trouble. as it is a bit harder to collect the gold these days" — Whatever happened to the thousand and thousands of gold you claimed were in stock???

Time to be a jackass and pick on their idiocy.

MrWoWGold Chat-2

"if you are loyal fans of wow , you will know that most ppls in game farm and buy or even sell the items or gold , of cause sometime blizzard is sensitive , he do not allowed some trade in game" — Brilliant answer, b*tch!

And thank you very much for leaving the chat.

This post isn’t even the final installment to the review and yet I can confidently say that MrWoWGold.com SUCKS!!!

Now about my (possibly) compromised PayPal account…

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November 5th 2009

INTERLUDE POST: LOOK WHO’S BACK FROM THE DEAD

Reader Diana who’s on the Illidan server sent me this screenshot:

Susan Express Spam Illidan server

Not all that glitters is gold, so make sure you have extra change in your pocket . — Huh?

In gratitude to our customers old & new… — You spammers actually have customers???

..we continue to provide the lowest price (1kg, $6.98) — and in exchange we will try to steal your account

…wihtin 30 mins to a few hrs — if you still have your account that is. Suckers!

Kids, I know I said this 1,385 times but please DO NOT BUY FROM SUSAN EXPRESS. NEVER TRUST A SPAMMER.

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November 4th 2009

MRWOWGOLD.COM: BUYING FROM DA MAN Plus Live Support, Where Are You? (2/?)

Those nifty little bonuses were enough to send me clicking the PayPal button in no time.

Even if MrWoWGold says buying gold is illegal . *chortle chortle*

MrWoWGold available stock

Awesome. They have 38533 available gold on my server. Should get it before the night is over.

MrWoWGold click to pay

MrWoWGold PayPal

I clicked the Live Chat banner on the home page to tell customer support to work on my order ASAP but…

MrWoWGold Live Chat

Damn it, nothing’s popping up.

So I emailed them to let them know I’ll be in the game in half an hour.

I declined all PUG invites lest I get a whisper in the middle of ToC.

I waited. I checked for new emails. Nothing from them. Live Chat still not working.

This is NOT a good sign.

To be continued.

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