Just thought I was banned but I'm not, hip hip hoorah

[Alienenduro]

The payment of your WoW bounced

It doesnt say that anywhere, it doesnt actually say what the problem is at all. He/She needs to call billing and find out.

jacket882?

Are your characters draenei or Bloodelf?

[Alienenduro]

If your characters are one of these races you wont be able to play them until you upgrade to TBC. for example... You have started a trial and are playing TBC races. since you upgraded your account it is no longer trial so those BC races are not available until you upgrade.

Best way to figure this out is by going to account management and selecting TBC 10 day trial, that way they will be available again.

[TheBigBB]

Problem is stated so clearly in the e-mail and noone here seems to even see it.

The payment of your WoW bounced (you didn't have enough funds available on the CC or so) and thats why u now have a locked account, till u pay up its locked.

huh? where are u seeing that? I have enough funds in that account, and just 5mins ago I bought something with the same card

No its not that.

I also read this as being a likely problem with your billing, but not due to funds. It could be an accidental wrong address or something else causing the card to not have passed verification. However, it's not clear in the mail. It very well could be a server problem on their end.

[Hat]

Just buy WoW from the store. You'll save money if you get both xpac and original at once. They didn't charge you for the account. They are just paranoid about using your credit card, regardless of you having enough funds in your account. Its quite common actually.

[Catamer]

When I tried to electronic update to a RAF account they put a 3 day hold on the account being updated. In this hold period you can't trade, email, create dranai, etc )
Then my bank called me to ask if I was really charging stuff on the internet.

Your are better off going to the store and buying the battle chest.
if you buy the battle chest at the store you get an immediate upgrade ( no 3 day hold while your credit card is processed ) and it costs the same.

make sure you are not logged onto wow while doing the upgrades on the website.

[Drizzit]

If you try to transfer to another account, the names have to match...

Only the last name has to match.

True, but like 1 out of every 100 get a full check... just like the air port they don't check everyone, just like every 20th person.

[puppychow]

Sadly a lot of fraudulent transactions involves WoW - foreign crime syndicates creating WoW accounts using stolen credit cards and reselling these accounts to Chinese farming companies, etc. So thats why many banks and credit cards are very quick to stop any transactions, especially if you haven't done any before - most credit card companies nowadays "track" customer behaviour, so for example if every day you buy a starbucks coffee in Portland, but suddenly one day you buy $200 worth of books at a New York City bookstore it'll get flagged.

So yeah, your bank/cc decided something must be suspicious and didn't let the charge go through, could be something as simple as the address/phone/zip not matching or just routine bank flagging. Its better as someone said to buy retail WoW boxes at stores, its cheaper ($25-39 for the entire battlechest) and you have 0 delays when upgrading.

[Prepared]

There is always more to the story. Was it the same name on both accounts?

You're right, there is ALWAYS more to the story about why the account was banned. However, the names on the accounts does not matter at all for being banned. The names on the accounts you use for multi-boxing do not have to be the same. That in itself will not even get you a warning. If you want to test to see if it does, report me on Aegwynn. All of my accounts are under different names and I guarantee you, I've been reported many times with 36 characters running around together. I've never received anything from a GM. Why did I create my accounts under different names? So that I won't get any warnings if I accidentally forget to use PAUSE while typing in a chat channel. You are safe if your accounts are under different names. However, other activities that Blizzard doesn't like are subject to warnings or bans. Think about it, why would Blizzard who is receiving money from subscribers ban accounts simply because they are under different names coming from the same IP address? They won't ban them for that. It's not against the Terms of Service or the End User License Agreement to use different names on multiple accounts. Having said this, someone will invariably post that when you create an account, it does say that your name must be yours on the web site as you create the account. Yes it does say that, but that's still not a reason your account will be banned. The reason that is there on the web site as you create your account is if your account becomes compromized and to verify that you are the account holder. Using different names is risky but that alone does not make your account subject to any kind of warning. There has to be something else that happens in order for your account to be banned. And 9 times out of 10, those that post here about their account being banned, don't give the full story.

What does matter are things that Blizzard doesn't like you doing, such as swearing or spamming in chat channels, using automation software that allows your character to do things while you're not at your keyboard, logging in at the same time from different IP addresses that are clearly a distance away. Those types of things will get your account banned or at least some kind of warning. That is why you NEVER EVER give your password to anyone. No friends, no family, NO ONE PERIOD. If you do and they log in from another place while you're playing, you can be banned or get a warning. That is usually why accounts are banned because they gave their password to someone else and that someone else logged in while you were logged in so you got kicked off and then you tried to log in again and Blizzard tracks the IP addresses used during login along with the times of those logins.

[Coltimar]

There is always more to the story. Was it the same name on both accounts?

the names on the accounts does not matter at all for being banned. The names on the accounts you use for multi-boxing do not have to be the same.

This post is about to get good.

[evaqwesta]

"You're right, there is ALWAYS more to the story about why the account was banned. However, the names on the accounts does not matter at all for being banned. The names on the accounts you use for multi-boxing do not have to be the same. That in itself will not even get you a warning. If you want to test to see if it does, report me on Aegwynn. All of my accounts are under different names and I guarantee you, I've been reported many times with 36 characters running around together. I've never received anything from a GM. Why did I create my accounts under different names? So that I won't get any warnings if I accidentally forget to use PAUSE while typing in a chat channel. You are safe if your accounts are under different names. However, other activities that Blizzard doesn't like are subject to warnings or bans. Think about it, why would Blizzard who is receiving money from subscribers ban accounts simply because they are under different names coming from the same IP address? They won't ban them for that. It's not against the Terms of Service or the End User License Agreement to use different names on multiple accounts. Having said this, someone will invariably post that when you create an account, it does say that your name must be yours on the web site as you create the account. Yes it does say that, but that's still not a reason your account will be banned. The reason that is there on the web site as you create your account is if your account becomes compromized and to verify that you are the account holder. Using different names is risky but that alone does not make your account subject to any kind of warning. There has to be something else that happens in order for your account to be banned. And 9 times out of 10, those that post here about their account being banned, don't give the full story.

What does matter are things that Blizzard doesn't like you doing, such as swearing or spamming in chat channels, using automation software that allows your character to do things while you're not at your keyboard, logging in at the same time from different IP addresses that are clearly a distance away. Those types of things will get your account banned or at least some kind of warning. That is why you NEVER EVER give your password to anyone. No friends, no family, NO ONE PERIOD. If you do and they log in from another place while you're playing, you can be banned or get a warning. That is usually why accounts are banned because they gave their password to someone else and that someone else logged in while you were logged in so you got kicked off and then you tried to log in again and Blizzard tracks the IP addresses used during login along with the times of those logins."

If your avatar is you, then you are hot, but you are not so wise about the ways of blizzard.

If you have several accounts under the same credit card or all using game cards changing play times continuously then you look exactly like the asian gaming farms and the ban wave is coming. The ban hammer sucks even more than getting grappled with a hook