Thursday, May 8, 2008

World of Warcraft Accounts

I've only been botting in World of Warcraft for a couple years, but, I used to play manually and sell accounts on the side. It was not super easy, but it was the only thing I had to do since I was unemployed, in school full time, and didn't feel like doing much else at the time. In total, I've had 12 World of Warcraft accounts that I have created and sold.
So how easy it is to sell accounts? Blizzard makes it pretty easy. The basic formula for selling accounts, once you had a buyer, goes as follows:
  • get the money from the buyer first and there home address via PayPal. Get the payment from a verified PayPal account and send the buyer an email to the address of there PayPal account stating that what they are buying and how much. Make them respond to your email from that email address. This is important if the buyer tries to do a PayPal purchase reversal on you. If they do, you can forward a copy of the email to PayPal for proof of purchase since it will be difficult to prove the purchase was fraud if you have an email 'receipt' from the PayPal email address
  • once payment is received, email the user name, password, and Secret Question/Answer (if you have it). The buyer will then have to log into the account and submit a request to change the email address. The seller will receive the email confirming the change of email address, simply forward it to the buyer, or confirm it yourself if they haven't changed the password yet
  • once the address and password have been changed and you have the money, ship them something. I like to ship them one of the Warcraft installation CD's, but it doesn't matter. Ship them a receipt if you have to. This will also help with any PayPal reversals since you will have proof of shipping that you can submit to PayPal if you run into trouble. Remember to always cover your butt.
I forgot to mention; CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. This will remove your credit card information from the account and assure you your credit card will no longer be charged.

That's about all there is to selling your World of Warcraft account. Buying isn't much different, except you need to do the following;

  • after you purchase an account and have access to the character, your best bet would be to spend the money and buy a new account. Create the account using the name of the person of the account you bought (i.e Bob Jackson) and use your personal information for the rest of the required fields.
  • once you've created this new account, transfer the character you bought to the new account you just created (assuming the transfer is up).
This whole process will cost you an extra $50 or $60 depending on how much you buy a new blank account for. Why should you do this? In case the original owner pulls the account back (and it happens a lot) the character will be on your own account with your own login information. At that point, the only recourse the original owner would have would be to call Blizzard, but the only thing Blizzard would do is lock both accounts and require a fax proving who owns each account, and since you have all the login information for your new account you would simply have it reinstated.

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