Do boxers sell their accounts?

[F9thRet]

Also another thing you hear quite often is: But isn't it expensive?
This is a very strange question, because all hobbies usually cost money and this is my hobby.

It's all about what you prioritize. Some people use up way more money than a month fees of five accounts just by e.g. going out one night. Or buys cloths more often due to fashion, or going to the cinema paying same amount as a month fee just to be entertained for 2 hours...

Good lord this is the truth. I used to have a Boat!

I'm saving money playing wow in my old age.

anyways, as to the topic, I wouldn't sell my toons , as I put way too much time in to them. In fact, the only reason I could even think of such a thing, is if like, I had to buy a kidney for my wife or something, and even then, taking a step away from my honesty would bug me for the rest of my gaming life.

That being said, It's not really my business to say what is right or wrong for someone else, so as I can understand those leaving and selling their accounts, at the end of the day, it's really none of my business.

Stephen

[Lpwned]

People on my server are too ‘We Todd It’ to realize I can level 4 accounts as fast as I can level 1 (Maybe faster with RAF). So they think I solo leveled all 4 of them. This is always made apparent by the “No life” “Loser” comments.

I have only had one intelligent individual realize I can level 4X as fast, and ask if I was selling them. Accounts go for $400 or more per account on ebay (about 2K for 5 accounts); it is very understandable why people ask.

I wouldn’t sell my accounts because I’m sure I’ll have an e-cocaine relapse soon.

[Fat Tire]

People on my server are too ‘We Todd It’ to realize I can level 4 accounts as fast as I can level 1 (Maybe faster with RAF). So they think I solo leveled all 4 of them. This is always made apparent by the “No life” “Loser” comments.

I have only had one intelligent individual realize I can level 4X as fast, and ask if I was selling them. Accounts go for $400 or more per account on ebay (about 2K for 5 accounts); it is very understandable why people ask.
I wouldn’t sell my accounts because I’m sure I’ll have an e-cocaine relapse soon.

Umm....no

What people list them for and what they actually sell for are two different things. Besides blizzard blasted EBay back when it was the best place to sell your account. Now if you list its only a matter of time before it gets removed. If it happens to get a buyer before that time, well whos to say. I looked over what accounts sold for in the past 2 months and you are way off.

[stoat]

I probably would have sold my accounts when I quit if I wasn't so lazy.

When I was playing people used to message me all the time asking if they could buy one (and they only had trivial, but time consuming badge gear).

[Dasana]

I would be money ahead to go into work and work overtime than the time it takes to level a team up. So the answer is no, they're not for sale.

[Lpwned]

Umm....no

What people list them for and what they actually sell for are two different things. Besides blizzard blasted EBay back when it was the best place to sell your account. Now if you list its only a matter of time before it gets removed. If it happens to get a buyer before that time, well whos to say. I looked over what accounts sold for in the past 2 months and you are way off.

I am basing my data on what I know as fact from about 8 months ago. That wasn’t guess work.

[Ualaa]

If you really want to, you can search eBay for finished auctions.
There's a history of what things actually sold for, or were not sold for.

If any listings actually sold, rather than got removed.
The data would be there in the Finished Auctions.

[Lpwned]

I heard ebay shut down account sales. So I would guess there aren’t many. A quick Google search shows that ebay isn’t where the accounts are being sold though…

[Khatovar]

20 seconds in google will show accounts @ ~ 200-300ea. As Ualaa pointed out, you're paying ~$120 for the game alone. You might get $50-150 for all the time it takes to level from 1-85. And, of course, you have to consider the subscription costs for while you are leveling if it exceeds the free game time that comes with the box purchases.

[Vociferate]

tl;dr I bought a warlock for $250 and sold my warrior for $1275. Warlock got scammed off me, and I lost alll I had done with it. was devestated. Life sucked. Then I moved on, and then patch 3.0 happened. My guild fell apart, and I quit the game and sold my warrior.



I wasn't planning on posting in this thread because I have been on both sides of the fence. And been there and back on more than one occasion. But, fuck it... I don't have anything to worry about.

During TBC, was when I was playing this game way too much. If I was awake and not at work/sleep. I was playing (Addicted much?).

I was in a guild that was amongst the top 25 globally as one of the Officers and Raid Leaders. We had to be reachable 24/7 and we raided more than a full time job. (During the SSC/TK races for Vashj & Kael world firsts.

During this time I was one of the Main Tanks, and I had gear coming out my ears. But, we had a bit of a fallout with our casters and lost a warlock and a mage. So, I told the guild I would have a Warlock to level 70 with Tier 4 in 2 weeks. Began levelling a warlock, and got it to about 60 when I heard about buying accounts. At this point time, it never occurred to me as a good thing to do. We had far too many people that could tank. But not enough caster DPS.

It was at this time I thought it was a good idea to buy an account. I had a job and some extra money, so I spent $250.00 on a decently geared warlock. (I still remember the gear that was being advertised. Full Frozen Shadoweave with 2pc Tier 4. And the dagger off the last boss in Kara.

Ok. Cool, buy that and I'll fill in a dedicated raider's spot with for my guild and we can continue plugging away at Vashj.

Right around the time Black Temple release, we were now there in the race for world firsts and tragedy was brewing. While working on Reliquary I began having disconnect after disconnect. Was thinking it was an internet problem.

Reboot the computer, and the router. And hop back into WoW. Only to find out that my password has been changed. No big deal, probably a hacker. Had been to a few not-so-safe websites.

I then found out from a guildy that my warlock had left the raid, the guild and logged off. So I go through the process of changing the password and such, only to find out the account is now not longer mine.

The original owner had come back, and reclaimed the account. Despite me paying for the character, a new copy of WoW and TBC, transferred the toon to the new account. He had reclaimed that account and the alts I had begun levelling on the account.

So, I proceed to login with my Warrior, and saw a popup that occurred when logging in. Along the lines of, "backround check and processes" or something to that effect.

Before getting in game, I am immediately disconnected.

Go to log back in, and find out my warrior has been banned.

So that night I not only lost my fully geared Warlock, but I also lost my Warrior.

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tl;dr I bought a geared Warlock, 11 months later, the original owner came back and owned me. I lost the warlock and my main account.
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Now, the other half... (I know, I am soooo bad).

Got back into the game, leveled another Warrior as fast as I could, got him to 70 and began getting gear through my old guild. And was getting things rolling again. (This was about 3 weeks into Sunwell being released).

Began running Sunwell like every other hardcore raiding guild, and we were still doing well as a guild. (I believe around this time we were 37th-36th in the world). And we were working on M'uru.

Kept getting wiped at Phase 1, just barely making it to Phase 2. Beating our heads against the wall, we barely manager to M'uru down, and began the fun-ness that was Kil'Jaeden. We had fallen considerably with the global ranking, and began losing a member or two a week to other guilds poaching, with promise of killing KJ before us.

Insert patch 3.0, we lost it all. We couldn't get KJ down in time. Devestated, I didn't know what to do. We went in the day of the patch, with broken addons and insane latency... We one shot him. I was infuriated, I quit out right. I stopped logging in.

By this time, I had my warrior with full Tier 6 Prot & DPS sets. I had the MH Glaive, and pretty much BiS gear.

I went back to the website where I bought the warlock. And listed my Warrior for sale. I was done playing WoW.

Ended up getting paid well over $1,000 for it. (6/9 Tier 3, Full Tier 2, Full T4,T5,T6 with both specs and a ton of mounts and pets.) It was a damn good vanity account.

Didn't play WoW for months, and had started playing on and off again when the Ulduar patch was on the PTR.

And I wanted more than one toon, so I began MB'ing a fair bit to level some toons. And now here I am.