5 times the fun, 5 times the pain.. scam warning re:Winged Guardian

[Bollwerk]

I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't see how any regular DB forum reader would think it's within the TOS/EULA to trade in-game gold for an "outside-game" code. I honestly thought people here were smarter than that. =(

[riffraff]

I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't see how any regular DB forum reader would think it's within the TOS/EULA to trade in-game gold for an "outside-game" code. I honestly thought people here were smarter than that. =(

Since this game came out you can go to ebay and buy any number of mounts or special pets outside of game. Yes these were given away in SWAG bags or whatever but it's been quite legit to buy these types of items. The fact that the battle.net site happily applies the code for this mount makes it confusing to the player that it's any different.

when something is too good to be true...

I have to agree with this.

[Apps]

eh. Tuna smells.

So, "Gold Farmer" has a credit card, with no balance or maxed out. Purchases the in game $25. Credit card fails. $35 NSF charge per use. 5 Times = $175 in fees. for 71K gold...

There is no way this is profitable. Even at a rate of $18/10K gold, its still a $50 loss.

(No, im not suggesting anyone go purchase gold, I just used google.)

Did Blizz also take away the additional mount count towards your 100 mount achievement?

[thefunk]

eh. Tuna smells.

So, "Gold Farmer" has a credit card, with no balance or maxed out. Purchases the in game $25. Credit card fails. $35 NSF charge per use. 5 Times = $175 in fees. for 71K gold...

There is no way this is profitable. Even at a rate of $18/10K gold, its still a $50 loss.

(No, im not suggesting anyone go purchase gold, I just used google.)

Did Blizz also take away the additional mount count towards your 100 mount achievement?

that's a really good call, so how do they do it?

[Alemi]

eh. Tuna smells.

So, "Gold Farmer" has a credit card, with no balance or maxed out. Purchases the in game $25. Credit card fails. $35 NSF charge per use. 5 Times = $175 in fees. for 71K gold...

There is no way this is profitable. Even at a rate of $18/10K gold, its still a $50 loss.

(No, im not suggesting anyone go purchase gold, I just used google.)

Did Blizz also take away the additional mount count towards your 100 mount achievement?

You're making one fatal assumption.

You're assuming they're using their own credit cards.

When my accounts were compromised a few years back, they were frozen/cancelled/inactive 4 months previous. The person who got my information used a stolen credit card to reactive the accounts to wipe them out and then the owner of said credit card disputed the charges.

[Bollwerk]

Since this game came out you can go to ebay and buy any number of mounts or special pets outside of game. Yes these were given away in SWAG bags or whatever but it's been quite legit to buy these types of items. The fact that the battle.net site happily applies the code for this mount makes it confusing to the player that it's any different.

Yes, but those cases you mention (ebay, etc), people are paying RL money for a RL item (such as the Blizzcon pet card with the code on it). This has always been fine.

What you and Sam did was trade IN GAME gold to a random person for the code (which is bought with RL money). The code is not an item you can put in the trade window, which is why this is a NO NO.

Again, I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but people on these forums should really know better. =)
Maybe it's confusing to all the millions of n00bs who play, but the people here are/should be smarter than the average player. =)

To sum up, you can buy RL things (Blizzcon pet cards or cards from the trading card game - BEFORE the code is revealed) with RL money, OR you can trade IN GAME gold/items for other IN GAME gold/items (i.e. anything you can put in a trade window or the auction house). The only "exception" I can think of is where you buy a pet code from the Blizzard store and give it to a friend. I think that is OK.

I'm not trying to berate you and I apologize if this comes across that way. I'm mainly trying to clear up any possible confusion for the readers of the boards here.

[MiRai]

The only "exception" I can think of is where you buy a pet code from the Blizzard store and give it to a friend. I think that is OK.

Definitely, you just click "Gift it!" after you've made the purchase and then the next screen asks for the
person's e-mail address you would like to send it to.