Buyer beware....

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Jupitus

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Hmm... so... you decide to sell your account, where do you do so? Somewhere nice and quiet where noone will know?

Don't be daft! You go to a public auction site where everyone can see!

http://linksbeenuplongenoughforgoatospotiftheyregoingtoso*snip*.com

Now then... selling and buying of accounts is against the code of conduct, and we can argue the pros and cons of this policy for weeks. That is not why I am posting. I am posting simply to warn any potential buyers that buying an account that has been so publicly sold would be at best daft, and at worst downright stupid.

If you think GOA cannot track down this account which has a level 50 sorc, a level 50 scout and a minstrel too you are blind. Furthermore if you think that they don't ban accounts where they know the account has been sold you would also be incorrect, even if they don't publicise those who are banned (I wish they would - public naming and shaming is always fun and it would be a great deterrent).

So folks... if you saw this and though 'ooo I can be an uber sorc', think again. Buy it and I reckon you'll likely be buying a closed account.... I just feel sorry for any poor sod parting with 105 quid who isn't reading this beforehand....

:rolleyes:
 
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old.Aralik

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£100 !!! sod off i sold my account for £20! lol.
 
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Sharma

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Aye, its a simple process really, just finding the account with the chars and monitoring which ip the acount is connecting from, you would show up like a sore thumb with all your chars on display then suddenly an IP change.
 
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Belsameth

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Originally posted by sharma
Aye, its a simple process really, just finding the account with the chars and monitoring which ip the acount is connecting from, you would show up like a sore thumb with all your chars on display then suddenly an IP change.
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it's not that easy tho, as someone can always move, or change ISP, and thus IP
 
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mirieth

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Originally posted by Belsameth


it's not that easy tho, as someone can always move, or change ISP, and thus IP
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Aye... if they banned by IP, we would have a lot of unfair bannings I expect?

Not that I don't don't agree that bought/sold/traded accounts should be banned, but it must be very hard to be 100% sure when doing this, for Mythic/GoA.
 
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old.Psi

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I can change my IP right now if I want to.
 
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old.Psi

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Furthermore...

/em goes off to put "Lvl 50 Minstrel 50 Wizard, Coren + Corena" on ebay...

Coren rebooted his cable modem recently, GOA bans!

Sorry Coren :p
 
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mirieth

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Originally posted by old.Psi
Furthermore...

/em goes off to put "Lvl 50 Minstrel 50 Wizard, Coren + Corena" on ebay...

Coren rebooted his cable modem recently, GOA bans!

Sorry Coren :p
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:clap:

nerf :p
 
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Jupitus

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Originally posted by old.Psi
I can change my IP right now if I want to.
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and your CD key?
and your ISP?
and your credit card details for billing?
and your guild?
and your friends list?
and your mannerisms?
and other things GOA may check for that I don't know about?

Interesting that your sorc happens to be the same RR as the one advertised... that purely coincidence ?
 
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old.Psi

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You tell me, I'm not the one who put that up...
 
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Jupitus

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Aye... true that it is circumstantial that you happen to have the BW id Old.Psi. Granted that does not make you the owner of the sorceror Psi ingame.

I stand corrected, but I still feel sorry for the poor sod buying a banned character for that amount of cash.

I wonder if the seller would refund the money of that happened... hmmmm........
 
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old.Psi

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Oh, the Psi sorcerer account is mine alright, but it's not up for sale on ebay.
 
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Jupitus

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Hmmm.... an additional wandering thought... I wonder whether the new owner, should the account not be banned, will be one of the people moaning on these boards that 'their account has been stolen' or 'hacked' or that TEH CUSHION (tm) has deleted their characters when in fact it was just a previous owner being malicious......

Contensious? Me? Never ;)
 
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Jupitus

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Originally posted by old.Psi
Oh, the Psi sorcerer account is mine alright, but it's not up for sale on ebay.
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Well I think that leaves just one character at that realm rank currently, though of course the information may be a little out of date.
 
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mirieth

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Originally posted by Jupitus
Hmmm.... an additional wandering thought... I wonder whether the new owner, should the account not be banned, will be one of the people moaning on these boards that 'their account has been stolen' or 'hacked' or that TEH CUSHION (tm) has deleted their characters when in fact it was just a previous owner being malicious......

Contensious? Me? Never ;)
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:ROFLMAO:

Well, if the person was stupid enough to buy their way in to Albion, they would surely have the same mentality as the whinners on these boards.

:great:
 
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Jupitus

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Originally posted by mirieth


:ROFLMAO:

Well, if the person was stupid enough to buy their way in to Albion, they would surely have the same mentality as the whinners on these boards.

:great:
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Hang on though! That's precisely what I did!

I bought a CD, registered the game, paid my subs and started working on it :D
 
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Apathy

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Going by the R4L6, it can only be Psi or Dagitch. Or unguilded sorc or one with /webdisplay off.

Intrigue!

I often look for accounts to buy on eBay. Not because I would ever buy one but...well, it's nice to see what people are willing to pay.

Not because I want to sell my account, of course.

The funny thing is how many L50 mana chanters on Camlann are for sale now.

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kain_pravus

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I bid £2 for a lvl 50 healer.... £3 if it has it's epics!!!
 
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Goryk

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Considering bubble recently bought a shadowblade on excal(http://forums.barrysworld.com/showthread.php?threadid=49945), and has a rr4l5 sorc according to the outdated xml, I'm guessing it's him who's selling, not dagitch. I personally don't mind the whole idea of selling accounts online from a player persepctive, but can see the hassle which it can cause if people try to take accounts back etc and understand why GoA frown upon it.
 
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Bure Ygg

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Sure it is eazy to banne an ACC,,, BUT GOA loose mony if they banne all ACC who are sold they still make mony if the ACC are holed open so they will probely not banne to many ACC just for they have been trade BUT buying a ACC on EU server is realy stupid for u cant change the Sub password so if the seler keep the Sub password u can never feel safe ,,if he want he can still use ur acc :)
 
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Garaen

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Account buying and selling goes on all the time. Best live with it. GOA cant catch everyone, well i suppose they could, but they dont. People publically admit they have bought characters. Two that i can think of are Arawn and as previously stated Bubble.

P.S thanks for the link thats a dirt cheap price :D j/k
 
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Meatballs

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Originally posted by Jupitus


and your CD key?
and your ISP?
and your credit card details for billing?
and your guild?
and your friends list?
and your mannerisms?
and other things GOA may check for that I don't know about?

Interesting that your sorc happens to be the same RR as the one advertised... that purely coincidence ?
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TBH Jup the only one of those which should be able to ban an account on is perhaps your credit card details. You dont need your cdkey entered to play the game, I use to have 5 different dialup ISPs in the days of 0845s, guild well - i know some people been in 8+ guilds, you change your friends (<cries at Wila at top of his friends list still>), and mannerisms is so circumstancial and would require some pretty indepth analysis.

Oh and for credit card details someone else paying for you isn't account sharing just using their CC, and I changed the name on my account from my parent when I hit 18 etc.

Theres some very well known traded accounts, which the whole community knows about, and GOA must know about, but they havn't taken any action at all.
 
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j000 d000d

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As far as i know GOA can't retrieve any char info if the account hasn't been paid, which is probably the case as the owner doesn't know the exact info about his/her char.

And as Meatballs said, there are well known accounts which have changed hands lots of time and nothing has ever been done.
 
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Sharma

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Originally posted by Meatballs
Theres some very well known traded accounts, which the whole community knows about, and GOA must know about, but they havn't taken any action at all.
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GOA dont want to trash their cash so they dont bother about sold accounts, only when they are disrupting the community will they take action and tbh i dont think selling account is disrupting anything
 
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SilverHood

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how many people have an account with 1 lvl 50 sorc, and 1 lvl 50 scout?

not many I bet
 
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Turamber

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I -used- to think that buying and selling accounts was awful, however I don't think that anymore. Levelling characters is utterly dull - so if people want to buy the ready made thing why the hell not?

If GOA allow Kron to continue playing this game, despite having hacked Brannor, not to mention having put a flag on Brannor's account for being hacked (!) I have no faith in their ability to do the 'right thing' about accounts being bought and sold.

Hell Mythic are cashing in on the game by providing buff bot support - why shouldn't the players cash in as well?

And Jupitus - seeing as you don't actually play anymore can't you find somewhere else to post? :eek:
 
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Jupitus

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Originally posted by Turamber
And Jupitus - seeing as you don't actually play anymore can't you find somewhere else to post? :eek:
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Jupi is taking a break - do I want to come back to a cheat-ridden realm full of players who don't know how to play their class?

No... I don't.
 
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Uncle Sick(tm)

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Turamber is such a sour, old git... bet he is an accountant or something in real life(tm). :D
 
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