I didn’t KNOW you couldn’t buy gold from people offering it to you online. I KNEW you could not let them level you UP, and as soon as I found out it was illegal, I “turned myself in” to the Game Masters and pleaded for forgiveness.
I can’t buy anything with it but Gryphon rides anyway, so I was just gonna give it away.
Whatcha’ll think?
Sorry, I guess I just KEEP messing up, don’t I?
Q
Oh, dear.
Quasi, the people who sell WoW gold on-line are not nice people. Depending on how it was delivered your account may be compromised. Change your password immediately.
I home the GM’s have mercy upon you. Go forth and sin no more.
But how did you not know gold buying was illegal? It is mentioned as a no-no in many places.
Broomie
I didn’t know it was until the guy who was selling it to me asked me to meet him in Alextrazia and go with him to the bank and a GM stopped us and said our “group has been disbanded” and the trade would not go through!
I immediately contacted WARCRAFT and told them about it and they said pretty much the same thing you did: “Looks like you’re rich!”
But he also said that the fact I brought it to his attention meant a lot and he would not hold it against me.
So now I think I’m gonna be the philanthropist of my realm and give my gold away. I didn’t WANT it that way, but I REALLY didn’t know what it MEANT!
Everyone keeps complaining about my armor and my weapons and they say I look like shit, so I thought that if I paid I could look better.
So if you kids need some gold, come and see me. I’m Wolkenlaufre in Alextraza and I’ll just give it to you.
Sorry!
Quests fill you up pretty quick. but if you can’t wait, buy.
Making enough money to get some basic plate should be pretty easy if you know how to play the auction house.
If you don’t want to use the money for yourself, giving it away isn’t the right thing to do. What you need to do is get it out of the economy. Transfer it to an alt and then delete that alt.
Oh, if only you were on Cairne. I would take it. I have no qualms about buying WoW gold. After all, “Time is money, friend!”
Or take it to a tavern and see how much Dwarven Stout you can put away 
I finally got ItemRack working. Or rather, it seems to have gotten itself working. One day its icon just appeared there next to the minimap… So I carry around a set of “city clothes”, and have IR set to automatically switch out of my armor and into those when I enter a city, and then switch back as soon as I leave. Pretty cool 
Shattrath City and The Tauren Chieftains: What, do they only play for 5 minutes at a time? I saw the /yell’ed announcement that they’d be playing at the World’s End Tavern at the top of the hour. So I spent a not inconsiderable amount of time simply locating the tavern, so the TCs were already playing when I arrived. But … I couldn’t hear them. I could hear the normal background music, but not the band. Some twiddling with my sound settings corrected that; now I could hear the band and the normal background music. That sucked, so I did a bit more twiddling, and the background music went away and stopped competing with the TCs. Rock on dudes! Then there was a momentary “freeze” at about 5 past the hour, and the whole band, equipment and all, vanished into thin air, despite the fact that the song wasn’t finished. The song actually kept going despite the band’s sudden absence, leading me to the unfortunate conclusion that the TCs are actually lip-synching posers. It was obvious by the way their surreptitious, pre-recorded soundtrack kept playing even after the band was magically whisked from the stage.
Haris Pilton: Does anybody actually buy anything other than the “Gigantique” sack from her? Who would pay 3000g for a ring that is mere decoration (and actually not even visible on your toon)?
ETA: Also: Yay! Tailoring 315! Netherweave Bags!
Something like that. If you have a mole machine from the last brewfest, you can watch them rehearse at the direbrew tavern.
Don’t buy gold. A lot of people have gotten hacked and cleaned out that way. Even if it were allowed, it just isn’t worth the risk. The GM’s are the least of your problems.
You’ll get my purples when you pry …
and all that.
Gold is not hard to get. You can quest, use a gathering profession, sell trade goods or enchants, farm cloth, there are a lot of things you can do that won’t put your account at risk. You can do that, you can borrow from friends and guild members, or you can just relax. take your time, and stop buying things until you can afford faster mounts. I don’t have any epic mounts, just regular flying and cold weather. Sure it takes a little longer to get anywhere, but I don’t have to worry about hackers and GMs.
How can you get hacked by buying gold? I’ve bought gold in the past and it always went down the same way: One of the gold seller’s mules contacted me in game, we met, they handed over the gold. They never got my account name or password or anything like that. I’m not saying it’s not risky, Blizz can and will ban you or cancel your account, but the gold sellers never have access to your account. If you pay someone to powerlevel a toon for you, then yes, they can delete your toons, etc, but why would they do that when they are only trying to drum up more business? Think about it.
I don’t know if you can get hacked, but I’m certainly not going to be giving my credit card number to one of them. By definition, what they do is illegal. I’m not basing my credit security on the morals of someone whose very business model involves defrauding the very company their business model depends on.
I paid by PayPal. :rolleyes:
Did you actually buy gold, or are you being snarky?
Umm, both? Yes, I’ve bought gold four or five times before. And yes I’m being snarky because you people with all your grave, unfounded warnings are making me twitch.
How much gold are we talking about here? 1,000? 10,000? 100,000?
ONE MILLION GOLD!
/pinkie on cheek
When I bought gold it was a few years ago, pre-BC when gold was hard and tedious to come by. I had my original main toons that I was raiding MC with and, as I started getting alts up to 60, paying for mounts and professions was going to take more time than it was worth to me. There had been a huge gold boom around that time so prices dropped dramatically and I bought 1,000 gold a few times over the course of a year or so. Now I can make 1,000 gold in a couple days of questing and farming, so I don’t have a need to do it(although it’s tempting to get epic flyers on all my toons).
Ah, reminiscing. I also remember that gold farmers were ubiquitous in PUGs, dense node areas and farming areas but now they’ve become invisible. They must have found a much more efficient way of farming. Maybe they’re working the auction houses now or something.
This, plus the fact that Auctioneer is so easy to use these days. The amount of gold I can make per day working the AH is not so good anymore. The market is too efficient; people actually stay fairly close to market price. My main now has more earning power than my AH trader, which was definitely not true before the WotLK expansion.
One easy way to make some gold is to pick up things that are only available from remote vendors and pop 'em on the auction house. For example, there are manuals for learning various bandages, cooking recipes, and so forth that are sold quite a ways from the nearest flight path.
When I was gold-hunting, I took a couple of hours and traveled to a bunch of these spots and auctioned them off over the next week for 2-5 times the vendor price.
Then there have been times when I needed some particular manual or something and didn’t want to waste 20 minutes of travel time. It was worth it to me to pay a premium and buy it on the AH.
Well, not technically illegal. It violates the terms of service of the game, and Blizzard can boot you and shut down your account, but there’s no law against it. You can’t be prosecuted in court, fined, or sent to jail.
That said, I’ve never gone out and bought gold because it just felt like cheating to me. Unless you count that time my buddy loaned me some gold to buy an epic and just told me I could buy him a couple rounds at the bar instead of paying it back in game gold.
Have some more reasons on the house:
Many places that sell gold will also do their best to infect your computer with viruses or gain your account information.
Once a gold-farming operation gains access to an account, they will hijack that account, create characters on many realms, use stolen credit cards and/or stolen PayPal accounts to transfer characters to other realms, strip you of everything useful, and sell your gold to someone else. Back to you, maybe, since they know you have money and oh damn, all your stuff is gone…
Does it happen to everyone? No, just to a small fraction of the playerbase. Is it necessarily the act of purchasing gold that gets you? No, it’s usually the custom UIs and add-ons that everybody and their cousin gets.
Can it happen to someone with a Mac? GOD YES.
But I have an active virus scanner! And they’re making new viruses incredibly often and did you actually pay for Norton 360? And keep it upgraded? And have you checked for a rootkit?
If every scammer suddenly disappeared, Blizzard’s entire customer service department – techs, billing reps, GMs, item restoration specialists, account administrators, you name it – would have to cut employee numbers dramatically or end up paying for a lot of very bored people. It’s not that everyone gets scammed, it’s that a jacked account takes an inordinate amount of effort to get even mostly back-to-normal.