WoW Gold Facts

First, a belated Merry Christmas to everyone!

Now let’s get on with part two of our advice for sonny boy Todd, who sent me an e-mail last week asking for advice on how to sell WoW Gold. He had quite a number of questions and I’ve come to answer all but one of them in my last post.

For those who are too dazed with holiday food to recall, I’ve already highlighted the golden rule of sticking to reputable stores whether you plan to buy or sell WoW Gold. Chances are that sellers who deliver WoW Gold on time and have fantastic customer support will also pay on time and will do everything they can to assist you. I also told him not to bite the hand that feeds him–no need for the royal cutsey, just average respect and keeping to your word will do.

This post, I’m going to answer his last question: What safety measures should I take up to not get hacked and caught?

OK, to make it perfectly clear to everyone who still thinks Blizzard has an evil cadre of team monitoring the logs–wake up! There’s no Skynet and certainly no WoW version of it.

What Blizzard does have is a team that acts on tips. TOS is enforced to the most conservative interpretation when a  player expresses their disapproval of said action. So if you’re selling WoW Gold and a vindictive goody-two-shoes reports you then the banhammer might come out.

According to interviews I’ve had in the past of both friends and suppliers to the sellers I’ve reviewed, safety in selling WoW Gold is proportional to your discretion. Go blabbing in trade chat, and next day your keyboard will be wet with tears as you type a sorry letter to Blizz, asking them to un-suspend your account.

But if you keep it to among your most trusted circle of friends, chances are you’ll be all right.

Also, don’t give out your account information ever. You don’t go around leaving your car keys to the gas boy while you go and smell the roadside flowers. Besides, sellers like EpicToon.com won’t need it to buy your WoW Gold and anyone who says otherwise is feeding you a big pile of bull.

Sellers will most likely send you e-mail as well to correspond and give directions on how to trade the WoW Gold. Always check the links, and install keylogger detectors and update your anti-virus software just to be on the safe side. There are free ones out there that don’t jack up your PC raid performance, but still get the job done screening out the nasty programs out there.

Lastly, don’t be so paranoid. Trusted suppliers will do their best to take care of you because you’re providing their bread and butter. Scratch their back and they’ll scratch yours. Just don’t fall asleep no matter how good the scratching becomes–and trust me, it will feel mighty fine when you start playing WoW Gold for free in exchange in exchange for some farming.

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It’s just about Christmas and I’m feeling the generous spirit of St. Nick take over me.
Part of that is indulging in all the holiday sweets and gaining a bowling ball gut, and the rest is reading this pleading e-mail from Todd who wants to know how he can have his Gold and sell it too.

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I felt it was my duty to help sonny boy here, considering his question got stuck in the spam folder. He must be cursing me now for not helping him out in his time of need and missing out on the first Gold rush when Cataclysm erupted.
So even though I want to review another hack seller and squeeze in two dozen creative invectives to describe their service, I will devote a couple of posts for you Todd. Just don’t expect candy–they’re all mine!

Do you have any sites that you’d recommend for smaller transfers?

Easy peasy, Todd. Don’t sell to someone you won’t buy from. You’ll be a fool to think that the China-based scammers I’ve mangled in this website will have stellar purchasing credentials–they won’t!

The same verb-deficient customer service personnel, the same shoddy practices, the same goal of getting as much profit at the expense of your sanity. Don’t even let them know you have Gold to sell Todd because chances are they’ll try and rip you off it!

Besides, why go halfway across the Pacific into the terrible shanties of desperation? Honorable mention MOGS.com has a very stringent seller verification process that, if you pass it, will be very profitable indeed. I just haven’t checked whether the "smaller transfers" you’re referring to means you only plan to ship Gold until it covers your monthly sub, but it wouldn’t hurt to ask them.

They’re nice guys, really, despite sounding like bank guards in the way they talk about verifying your seller status. EpicToon.com is also great if you want things quick and more laidback, but still trustworthy at the things that matter like paying you on time.

Guides on etiquette and what to expect?

Well how would you treat someone who feeds and clothes you? Play loud rock music and rebel!

Seriously, ditch any notion that you’re doing them any favors. Profuse thanks are in order once you get into the circle and remind them once in awhile that you appreciate the partnership. No need for lavish gifts–a note of thanks will do. And you’ll probably have a handler or contact acting as a go-between, whose feet you should always kiss as though it’s on holy ground glowing with druid efflorescence.

Not everyone is given the chance to become a modern-day alchemist and turn WoW Gold to cash, so always be honest and reply as fast as you can. Deliver on your promises and in time you’ll have enough brownie points to actually slack off from time to time without getting the pink slip. Remember always that there are thousands of others waiting in the wings, hoping for you to screw up, so they too can play WoW essentially for free.

Next time I talk about the basic safety measures for selling WoW Gold, and you’ll be surprised they’re not far off from what you do when buying WoW Gold. Merry Christmas and enjoy Cataclysm!

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I’m glad to report that my guild is progressing mightily up in levels, but it’s still a long climb to the coveted level 20 when all the head heirlooms will be unlocked, and makes my future Worgen or Goblin super buffed in bonus xp.

It’s easy enough for me to get the Honored reputation needed (unless you hate questing, which you shouldn’t, given how amazingly efficient and fun the new zones are) but Guild leveling is another matter, especially after that shotgun xp nerf from Guild Achievements.

Considering the extensive planning some of my more coordinated guildmates made to speed-level the guild like setting up an Achievement GANTT chart (Yes, blame those Wall Street types for desecrating WoW with their Excel), it was painful to see them throw their file plans into the Recycle Bin.

There was much moping around, but (un)fortunately the phishing scam related to compromised Gawker servers erupted like wildfire. Suddenly everyone was debating whether the e-mail they got was from Blizzard or a malevolent phisher. Turned out it really was an official warning from Blizzard to log on and change your password if you used the same one for the Battle.net ID and for Gawker sites.

The big boo-boo here is Blizzard should have taken a page out of their rock-solid advice: Never ask us to click on e-mail links! It must have slipped their mind as they needed to send out the e-mail quick but, still,

But the real culprits here are those phishers who are taking advantage of this security breach. I wouldn’t put it past them to have acquired a database of e-mails from the Gawker hackers and then proceeded to check if any of those can be used to log in and steal WoW accounts, some of which go for $200 upwards at the market.

This is yet another reminder to only use a unique password and, ideally, a unique e-mail address for your WoW account. Isolated means no money-grubbing phisher or spammer can get their hands on it and bombard you with malicious e-mails. Do it fast and try to stay away from Gawker sites for now — Kotaku was the only one worth reading anyway, and Joystiq or even Wired can fill up your craving for gamer witticisms in the meantime.

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I may as well have been bitten by the Walking Dead.

My brain’s been turned to black mush whose sole urge is to play Cataclysm. Nothing else matters–not blogging, not even eating at times. Right now, it’s way past my designated playtime and I’m here banging an entry to serve as a cover up for why it took me so late to come to bed. Indirect honesty always goes so well with women so I hope she gets to read my white lie ASAP (Hello honey!). Scratch your head, but it works.

Anyway, my willing accomplice these days is my level 80 hunter. He’s the one I use to explore all the nooks, crannies, ravines, tunnels and ancient ruins of the new expansion. It’s also a strategic choice.

My hunter is the best geared among my toons and by using him to run all the new 5-mans and raids, I have the greatest chance not to suck. And sucking is a no-no in Cataclysm. You stand in the fire 5 seconds, you die. You fail at kiting, you die. You don’t know how to position a boss, you die.

Cataclysm is reinstating the golden rule that sucking equals dying, and what’s more brutal about it is that everything I’ve said above extends to every teammate as well. The tank/healer/DPS sucks, and you die in the ensuing wipe.

Naturally, the WoW Gold repairs are mounting up fast. Remus, Cletus and I aren’t worried with our golden goose stockpile but I can imagine the less prepared to be running out of Gold now. Deepholm has abundant ore ripe for farming, but that’s gonna be nerfed so hard. So other friends have turned to buying Gold.

The problem is that the Gold rush seems to be especially brutal this year. Everyone’s taken a hit on queue times. It’s not just the scammers who now have to hack quadruple the accounts to keep up; even reputable and dependable sellers have backlogs, I’ve been hearing. It’s all perfectly normal this fresh into the expansion but newbies will be frustrated to death.

Which led me to think about the threshold for waiting on Gold. Everyone has different one. I have short fuse, for instance, unless I’ve been given a solid reason for not getting it within the hour. The more laidback even don’t follow up until after a few days, which for me is unacceptable.

So what’s your waiting policy and why do you stick to it? (I’m trying this new ask a question after the blog post thing–I’ve been told it engages readers more. Do let me know if it just appears utterly contrived.)

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This gig of mine, writing wow gold reviews and recounting my adventures as spammer buster, has gotten me all sorts of solicitations. There’s been plenty of offers to marry me (sorry taken). Offers to hire me as an internal "quality man" by Chinese spammers (I’d rather be eaten by Bubonic plague-carrying rats). Offers to write a tell-all book (it’s coming, I can feel it).

But this one straight from the heart of the Middle East, land of the glittering sands and exotic women, just cracked me up real good. Unedited comment from one of my recent posts:

Date: December 3rd  2010
Subject: Price Offer Request

Dear Sir,

I have visited your website and I really feel so interested to contact your company in order to discuss the mutual cooperation between our company and yours and to check the possibility to implement some deals and to build a strong business relationship with your company .

We are the Palestinian Businessmen Services Center PBSC and we are located in Hebron city in south of West Bank in Palestine… We are very interested to open a business relationship with your great company…

We are interested to buy 10 tons of gold for two of our client in United Arab of Emirates and its our first time to deal with gold trading and after I saw your homepage I felt very interested to contact your company in order to implement this deal in a very professional and safe condition.

Whadyamean 10 tons of Gold? Do I look like I’m running the central bank here or something? And you want to buy it from me after seeing my homepage? Jeez, these guys operate like the SSEX of WoW–indiscriminate spamming to people who don’t give a flying donkey’s ass.

But in a small way, I feel kind of bad for not being able to help these Palestinians. I mean I’ve been making sure all you kiddies get Gold that’s clean and cheap for the new Cataclysm expansion. (You’ve stocked up now rather than later like I advised , yeah? 5 days to go so get a move on!).

Maybe I should call Fort Knox and tell them these friendly guys want a piece of their real Gold reserves and they could make a deal. That could be cool, being buds with the Feds.

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