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Gold buying and what you think
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Post by
taurenmoo812
Today, one of my guild mates was talking about how he might consider buying some gold from a gold seller. Well myself I've never thought about using a gold buying service, given all things said about it, he was convinced that if you were to use a legit service, then it wouldn't have any problems.
I'm now of two minds of this. Well on the one hand it wouldn't bother me if I could spend some money on some virtual gold to buy some things for my alts, namely epic flying for some not yet with it, on the other hand I have this image of gold buyers being part of third party systems of account hackers, and in buying from them just making this problem worse, like a friend of mine from another guild whos guild mate was hacked and all the items from the guild vault stolen.
Is there such a thing as a legitimate gold buying service then, or is it really just what they say on trade?
Post by
sutasafaia
Gold selling is bad, no ifs ands or buts. End of story.
Post by
Monday
None are legitimate as they are against the ToS, making them illegal.
Otherwise they are often connected to account hackers. So my overall view is negative.
Post by
138638
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Post by
seebs
I don't think I buy the notion of a "legit" gold-selling service.
Look at it this way: You propose to enter into a contractual relationship with them, yes? You agree to pay them money, they agree to give you gold. So. Do you trust them to keep their promises?
Hint: If they're actually going to do that, they are in the habit of agreeing to contractual relationships and then not doing what they promised to do.
By definition
, they are liars and/or cheats.
I don't actually believe that there are any which are not connected to hacks and account theft. It makes no sense. Once they've decided they don't care about following rules, why wouldn't they break a couple more rules?
Post by
Monday
I don't think I buy the notion of a "legit" gold-selling service.
Look at it this way: You propose to enter into a contractual relationship with them, yes? You agree to pay them money, they agree to give you gold. So. Do you trust them to keep their promises?
Hint: If they're actually going to do that, they are in the habit of agreeing to contractual relationships and then not doing what they promised to do.
By definition
, they are liars and/or cheats.
I don't actually believe that there are any which are not connected to hacks and account theft. It makes no sense. Once they've decided they don't care about following rules,
why wouldn't they break a couple more rules?
Because those rules send you to jail.
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523934
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Post by
TheReal
If you buy gold, you're giving some low-life scumbag piece of @#$% a reason to hack another account. Maybe the next account is your friend's. Don't do it.
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164232
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Post by
taurenmoo812
Well mine was based on what my guild mate was saying. I've never once used such services, and I avoid dodgy downloads and addons too so haven't gotten hacked in the 4 years I've been playing. But I wouldn't want to see my friend make that mistake either.
As you say Funden the thought that these are third party systems of account hackers would make using them a moral sinkhole.
I think I'll talk to my friend and convince him otherwise.
Post by
cellski
Buying gold is the wrng way to go about it. U will never know how to make it. On my 56pally Ive made 21k total gold so far so making gold isn't that hard you just have to figure out your server econmy. And if u buy gold what r u going to do when u run out? Buy some more? Not worth it in my eyes
Post by
Monday
Buying gold is the wrng way to go about it. U will never know how to make it. On my 56pally Ive made 21k total gold so far so making gold isn't that hard you just have to figure out your server econmy. And if u buy gold what r u going to do when u run out? Buy some more? Not worth it in my eyes
... 21,000 gold on a level 56? How?
Post by
Denkou
Buying gold is the wrng way to go about it. U will never know how to make it. On my 56pally Ive made 21k total gold so far so making gold isn't that hard you just have to figure out your server econmy. And if u buy gold what r u going to do when u run out? Buy some more? Not worth it in my eyes
... 21,000 gold on a level 56? How?
Probably lots of farming or playing the AH. It'll take awhile, but it's doable.
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529024
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Post by
Badguy
If gold sellers weren't notorious for hacking accounts, I don't think anyone would care.
Post by
Monday
If you can't make the gold you have to cheat and buy it? I know some people just don't have the time to invest in farming for playing the AH games. But really, if you can't manage to save for epic flying within a week... you're pretty fail anyway.
What? I do all my dailies every day, and do about 5 random heroics and I don't have enough money.
I guess that I'm "fail"...
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367590
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Post by
Monday
If you can't make the gold you have to cheat and buy it? I know some people just don't have the time to invest in farming for playing the AH games. But really, if you can't manage to save for epic flying within a week... you're pretty fail anyway.
What? I do all my dailies every day, and do about 5 random heroics and I don't have enough money.
I guess that I'm "fail"...
how can you possibly not have enough --what do you spend it on --doing 25 dailies nets 300+g a day
Yesterday i made 4.1k on the AH simply by trading in 200 emblems and 30k honor for 23 epic gems and buying 500g worth of saronite , prospecting it and selling the uncut gems -ten minutes work
Ah. I don't buy epic gems, I gear my offspec with T9. And I;m saving up for mainspec t10. I do mainly Skybreaker and AT dailies. I haven't started Hodir ones so...
Post by
Erethzium
My thoughts on Gold Buying
I also tend to laugh at and/or troll people who say they buy gold, as they're only fueling the annoying gold spammers.
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