Source? Their stance has always been that in-game transactions for services are part of the community/economy.
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They can be done, but arenât supported.
so if you get scammed you wonât get the gold back. If you do it outside of their logs youâre deff extra crispy screwed. Regardless, the gold is pretty much always gone except on very rare occasions Iâd wager.
This. And they have given people back money for scams but the person used Discord, which they do not and can not moderate. Anything you claim was said there is hearsay.
Wuhjiko i have posted on 34 different characters, now i want you as a wow forum detective and protector of us all to find all 34 and link them to everyone.If you cannot link all 34 then you fail and i am smarter then you.Please i beg do not spend every second of youâre life worrying or thinking about which 34 characters it is.
Couldnât imagine being wrong on 34 different characters. Sheeesh my hats off to ye.
Only Magni gives me orders and I work for Azerite power.
If you can find someone to sell some azerite to ya I might do a little side gig. Maybe check discord or something.
I am smarter then you both as i still posted on 28 characters you did not discover, please again i beg you to not spend all of youâre time thinking about which ones they are.You may get people who are faking and are not me so be carefull.
Thatâs rather pathetic behavior.
You have been issued a challenge now find these characters or i win.
Iâd tell you to show your work, but I donât think we have all day. Iâll just have to take your word for it, Chief.
Having 2 monitors is great for passing the time. Games on one, comedy show on the other.
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So which one do you see this thread on, games or comedy?
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a really underwhelming comedy where the main cast member is somehow worse than Dane Cook.
Then they arenât âcondemnedâ like the person claimed.
I really donât know where people got this idea from.
Letâs suppose I go to trade chat and grab some crafter to make X item, meet up, trade them the materials, and then they log off and never make the item. Blizzard does intervene in those situations, returning any gold or materials exchanged since the service wasnât rendered, and then usually taking some sort of action on the offender (warnings to bans).
Exchanging gold for any other service, like a carry, isnât any different. They will step in and return the gold.
This is pretty much the only stipulation. You have to be able to reasonably prove that you were expecting some kind of service, or transaction, and you werenât just randomly giving a stranger 650k for the fun of it. But the fact that they were most likely responding to a trade ad already puts the scammed individuals at the advantage, since the scammer has already put it in writing that they are supposedly offering a service.
And in the case of the OP, it sounds like their particular scammer is especially stupid and admitted to their own scam by bragging. Blizzard could absolutely take action and restore OPâs gold if the entire situation is to be believed.
yes⌠that does seem to be the appropriate monitor.
I never said they were.
The idea is based on the exact scenario the op is in.
and I covered that in a previous post with one of the opâs many alts.
Even if they proved the scam, that particular gold wonât be given back as boosts and carries are unsupported actions. His case falls under the gold being removed from the game and not given to anyone, whereas the crafting example is an area they enforce due to it being a main feature in the game compared to made up services by players that arenât.
Iâd be more inclined for the op to get his gold back if I havenât seen this exact scenario play out since the dawn of warcraft online time. Every person Iâve known that has bought gold or boost services like that and got taken has never once had their money returned even if it was done via the game. Maybe a rare few might get lucky, but their policy seems to remain unchanged based on the link I posted about an hour ago up where someone is having the same issue that others had in the mid 2000âs.
Yeah the scammer was whispering me for 20 minutes or so, stating he has done this multiple times and has been doing this for half a year and quote"blizzard will not do shiiiit.Also he claimed to have made 700$ in one day of doing this.I screen shotted most of it, but there is no need really as Blizzard can just check chat history.My initial post was not to get sympathy, it is to make people aware this is happening at an alarming rate, and that any company should take actions to stop this and to protect their player base.
I have a hard time believing this is even legit and not just someone trolling on a weekend.
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What was the purpose of this thread? You are confident that Blizzard would refund so�
I might be done feeding the troll.
Never said i was confident, and i clearly stated the purpose of the post, maybe you are still distracted from the shiney little object i made you obsess over.
Plenty of people are aware of the scam and unprotected services that have been plaguing our game since 2004.
How does a company protect you from them when you willingly went where they told you and gave them what they asked for?
Iâm genuinely curious how you donât see youâre to blame for this particular part and are trying to pass it off to others who had no part in the business dealings you were apart of in a shady discord channel.
But Iâll answer your original question.
No.
You bought the token from Blizzard entertainment and once you got the token it was yours to do with as you pleased if the payment cleared. What you do after that is solely your responsibility. I assume you turned those bought wow tokens into gold via the AH so there is absolutely no fraud happening here. You gave them a fake currency that only has as much meaning as you give it. The real world agencies that handle fraud wonât care one bit about wow gold.
Them taking your gold and selling it for cheaper than what wow can to others via the token is something Blizzard themselves could go after if they could find them and prove it as it leads to loss of sales for them.
They go after private servers and everything else under the sun should it cost them revenue. Theyâve been fighting this stuff since day one and in a perfect world they would have them shut out for good as itâs good for business if they are the only ones doing the gold selling.
My empathy is running out with you bud.Please go somewhere else.