Hello fellow Classicers,
Sunday Evening I was scammed by someone who claimed they could do Lionheart Helm craft for me. In the end they took my items, ninja logged and I never got the craft or my materials back. I opened a ticket to Blizzard and in their response they banned him, They also said they deleted the items from this person and I will not refund my items. I find this highly unacceptable. I have all screenshots from time stamps, to every trade window, to trade accepted, to chat log in the agreement in the exchange of service.
What is the point in deleting the items from this person if you banned them? This is 900g worth of materials that didn’t just come to me in an hour. This is 900g that I have saved up since the beginning of classic, gone. Having a Gm give a response like this and having support like this makes me no longer want to play this game. This isn’t blizzard entertainment anymore. In the end I’m being punished, and that’s not right.
Removing the items from the scammer takes the same amount of time/effort as it does to restore them to the original owner with absolutely zero impact to the economy of the server at all. There’s no reason to simply just remove scammed items.
Over the years of Warcraft from vanilla to retail, I’ve been hacked, cheated, and scammed before, and never once was told they would delete the items from the person, but not return them to me? They always have been recovered. This is also why I screenshot every trade or craft I am part of in this game, to protect myself.
I am unable to link to imgur the screenshots I had, but I would also like to keep that information between me and a GM since it does include character names.
Here is the GM Response: > Greetings Randy!
Game Master {Removed} here and I will be helping you out today! First off, thank you for your patience while we got to your ticket
After reading over your ticket, I understand there was a Mage who agreed to craft an item for you in Classic but ended up taking the mats and logging. I am sorry if this has caused any trouble but don’t worry! I can get things situated.
Being such a large game there will always be bad eggs. We will do our best to discipline them when they are found and the best way to get that done is to report them in game. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but since this is Classic, we won’t be restoring any items or gold. I will go through and investigate this player for scamming and delete any items and penalize the account depending on what we find. Due to privacy reasons we will not be able to contact you with the results of the investigation. I do apologize for the inconvenience as I know 12 Arcanite Bars and all the other mats take a long time to get together. When it comes to Classic the ideal situation is to have guildies, friends, players you trust and know handle any of the expensive trade transactions to lower that risk of a scam.
Thanks again for taking your time and getting in touch with us about this. Have a great rest of your day.
We’re talking about a craft that very few people have, a craft that will last till or through Naxx if I’m not wrong. How am I supposed to know who has the craft, who doesn’t, who to trust and who not to? After the incident, I learned about the person’s history. I shouldn’t have to suffer and lose everything I did, i’m not a magical gold farmer who had thousands of gold like its nothing.
– Also I want to point out, before anyone says “LoL a MaGe wITh BlAcKsMiThInG” one of the very first people to get lionheart craft world wide in classic, was a mage.
I would like to communicate with a GM, not open my email to a response, an actual conversation with a game master.