Met this guy at a house party a few years ago. He casually mentioned he had seen a photo of his thigh on some “Fails Compilation” type of TV show. I was like “what is on your thigh exactly?” He rolled up his pants to reveal this bad boy. Still makes me laugh every time I think about it.
Posting a brief explanation of my experience with G2G here as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about using it. I decided to purchase a WoW account and ended up needing to file a dispute with my credit card company.
I purchased the account from a seller with 15+ positive feedbacks and no negative feedback. Communication was quick and purchase went smoothly at first. I followed G2G’s instructions to secure the account perfectly. The only red flag I noticed is that the (max level, raid geared) account only had about 250g on it. Obviously the seller had transferred the majority of gold off the account before selling it.
Well, big problem. One week later, the account was permanently banned for abuse of the economy. This was a ban wave on gold sellers. All I did during that week was level up Blacksmithing and do a couple of raids and some quests. Considering I was within the 2 week “warranty” period, I assumed this would be an easy conversation with G2G. Wrong.
G2G took over a week to reply to me initially. The conversation was essentially dozens of emails back and forth where G2G requested confirmation the account had been transferred that was impossible to produce.
This went on for about 2 months. I sent G2G every single email I received from blizzard, a video of myself logging into the account with their emails to me open in the background, every type of proof possible. Nothing was enough for them to even consider assisting me.
I filed a dispute with my credit card company and discovered that G2G has a whole automated system set up for disputes. Must happen to them a lot.
I knew going into this experience that a marketplace that exists solely to trade illicit products can only offer so much buyer protection, but G2G really goes out of their way to be awful.
Takeaway: it is possible to buy an account on G2G and get away with it, but it’s also possible that you get completely screwed and get no help from them. If you feel like rolling the dice, make sure you use a payment method that offers you strong recourse.
I don’t think the DMV would just hand out a plate like that to someone who isn’t the jonkler.