Diablo 3 Gold Buying Web Sites are scam?

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What do you think about them? I have googled and seen a few one but I am not sure concerning whether they are scam or not.
 
Buying from them is one of the easiest ways to get hacked/keylogged/phished/etc...
 
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They're just as legitimate as the ones for buying WoW gold if that helps to explain how shady they are. In other words, don't do it.
 
99% of the stuff is stolen by hacking accounts. 1% is farmed by bots. Chances are high the sites will try to install a keylogger upon visit, and 100% chance your money is going to thieves & scammers if you pay them for their illicit "services". EDIT (to clarify): Some of them will indeed deliver gold... but you just were told how it got there to sell now.

In other words... "Don't even think about it, mister!" :p.
 
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There's quite a few legit ones, I'm sure. Some have been in business for years. They charge a little more, but you know what you're getting at least.


Edit: so much FUD in this thread. There are plenty of gold selling sites with good reputations from their customers.
 
Buying gold from one of these sites is usually a good way to get yourself banned.
 
fattypants said:
Edit: so much FUD in this thread. There are plenty of gold selling sites with good reputations from their customers.
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I agree. These claims are totally unverified. Nobody has evaluated what Warden does in Diablo 3 like in WoW. Nobody has been banned for buying gold and I doubt that is Blizzards priority right now anyway. And if you use any kind of adblock plugin you should not have to worry about getting hit with a drive by "keylogger upon visit".
 
I would avoid them all like the plague. If it's not run by Blizzard, I wouldn't touch it.
 
fattypants said:
There's quite a few legit ones, I'm sure. Some have been in business for years. They charge a little more, but you know what you're getting at least.


Edit: so much FUD in this thread. There are plenty of gold selling sites with good reputations from their customers.
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Oh, I wasn't saying some wouldn't deliver the gold. I was talking about how they obtained it, and whatnot ;).

Goran said:
I agree. These claims are totally unverified. Nobody has evaluated what Warden does in Diablo 3 like in WoW. Nobody has been banned for buying gold and I doubt that is Blizzards priority right now anyway. And if you use any kind of adblock plugin you should not have to worry about getting hit with a drive by "keylogger upon visit".
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I wasn't talking about just the sites.... let alone it being from an ad ;). I was primarily referring to how they get the gold in the first place. Reading is your friend!
 
tickle_me_emo said:
Buying from them is one of the easiest ways to get hacked/keylogged/phished/etc...
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x 1 billion.

Seriously , DO NOT BUY GOLD or CURRENCY of any kind for any game. Its the easier way to get mixed into a possible pool for hackers to go for. These businesses are really cheap employment farms in China and other Asian countries and your basically supporting that by buying virtual currency.

Just save up and do it the right way , unless you don't mind the possibility of getting hacked and losing it all. Even having virtual currency transferred to your character is grounds for a full ban according to Blizzard's EULA.

So even if you disagree with me , Blizzard hates the practice and can and will ban you for life if they catch you doing so. I've actually known people (2 accounts) that got banned for life in WoW for doing this. Blizzard will not give your account back either , no matter how much you beg and plead. Blizzard comes down hard on anyone that sells/buys in game currency.
 
Godmachine said:
x 1 billion.

Seriously , DO NOT BUY GOLD or CURRENCY of any kind for any game. Its the easier way to get mixed into a possible pool for hackers to go for. These businesses are really cheap employment farms in China and other Asian countries and your basically supporting that by buying virtual currency.

Just save up and do it the right way , unless you don't mind the possibility of getting hacked and losing it all.
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Not to mention, as I said, supporting them hacking others' accounts to get gold to keep selling, and supporting their (essentially) sweatshops overseas of sheisters.
 
Make sure to use your battle.net account email and password when you register for those sites.
 
FWIW, I bought many items from a particular site back in D2, and never had any issues with them. Great customer service, and the items were always delivered in timely fashion. They have recently started offering gold for monies for D3 at somewhat reasonable rate. Now, if I wasn't making enough gold from AH already, I probably would've picked up some gold from them already, but as it stands, I have no real need for more gold.
Oomps said:
Make sure to use your battle.net account email and password when you register for those sites.
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Yeah, that's not how that works. :rolleyes:
 
I use to buy WoW gold all the time. I have a good job and actually figured the math out. I forget it how much it was way back then but I figured that if I paid x amount for the gold vs farming for Y amount of hours how much was tha gold worth time vs money. It turned out to more cost effective to just dump a bill every now and then.
 
I sold my original wow plus bc account back in the day for like three hundred and fifty bucks to a paypal account and never had any issues with it. I think marquet dragon forums had reviews on sites keep in mind this was four plus years ago.
 
I'm so glad I didn't get hung up in this d3 pay to win nonsense, lol pitiful.
 
Can't wait for the Real money Auction house to come up! Tired of farming for stuff for hours that i will probably get for 5$!
 
MisterSkills said:
Can't wait for the Real money Auction house to come up! Tired of farming for stuff for hours that i will probably get for 5$!
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Same as I can not play the game for three more months the only way I will catch up is the RMAH. That is if people still play it :p
 
I would bet that most of the gold sold by these sites were stolen from the hacking cases that are going on. The prices quickly took a dive within few days of release. I don't believe anyone can farm the gold that fast no matter how many farmers they have.

Buying gold from these sites will only encourage such illegal activities. And there's no telling what Blizzard might do should they decide to clamp down on these gold sellers. Who knows if they decides to track down all the illegal gold and ban anyone who owns them?

Remember that once the RMAH is up, people can sell gold over there, and I'm pretty sure Blizzard will want to protect this rather than letting those gold sellers circumvent RMAH.
 
When the RMAH opens and these same guys are selling gold on there what's the difference if you buy it there or off their website? I know some of them are trying to steal your password and stuff, but the big name ones that are legit are just trying to sell you services. Normally I'd be 100% against such activities in the game but with Blizzard encouraging cash exchanges I don't care in this case. No worse if I were playing with someone random and they said I'll give you 100k for a new bow that dropped. 100k or $5; all the same when it's encouraged.

And as far as the gold coming from hacks; wait until the RMAH opens. It's going to be selling the same "dirty money" as the websites. Posting it on Blizzard's interface doesn't make it better.

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this thread is hilarious.
reminds of the old ad "Virus can your computer into a bomb!"
 
I've bought coin in UO, EQ, EQ2, & WoW ... never had my account hacked cuz of it, never had a "keylogger" installed on my system from it. Yeah some do steal coin and use hacked accounts to spam, but if you play the games your buying coin for you know who those are ahead of time because they do spam!

I play the games to have fun, not farm day and night so I don't mind dropping a bill here or there so I don't need to farm.
 
Hornet said:
I would bet that most of the gold sold by these sites were stolen from the hacking cases that are going on. The prices quickly took a dive within few days of release. I don't believe anyone can farm the gold that fast no matter how many farmers they have.

Buying gold from these sites will only encourage such illegal activities. And there's no telling what Blizzard might do should they decide to clamp down on these gold sellers. Who knows if they decides to track down all the illegal gold and ban anyone who owns them?

Remember that once the RMAH is up, people can sell gold over there, and I'm pretty sure Blizzard will want to protect this rather than letting those gold sellers circumvent RMAH.
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I bet the reverse, gold is mighty plentiful if you want to farm it and these companies will think nothing of putting 10-20 people on farming duty. They will also buy gold from players for pennies on the dollar like the used game market does. Some might be doing it illegal, but not all, the trouble is finding the reputable and honest ones.
 
I used to buy d2 items all the time, and had zero problems with any of the transactions. I probably spent over 100 dollars over the years buying for my friends and I. Most of the sites (for d2, at least) were only interested in making sure you bought from.them and spread the word to your friends how smoothly and quickly the transaction took place. Most would throw in freebies too. You can't build a customer base and word of mouth by ripping people off.

That being said, d3 gold sellers seem to be a bit different. Their prices are lins of high right now, and its really too early to figure out who has the best prices. But even then I feel more secure buying from one of the online shops than I do trusting blizzard with my paypal acct info.
 
I never get the point of things like this...Do you want to play the game or not?

Why cheat?
 
Anjinsan said:
I never get the point of things like this...Do you want to play the game or not?

Why cheat?
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First world people come home from work with piles of money to waste but not much time to play games, and thus they pay to stay current or ahead of the pack.
 
I've been buying gold from playerauctions dot com for years. Since at least 2002 I think. I've spent over time maybe around $600 dollars and have never ever been ripped off.

Yes, generally, 95% of the gold selling sites out there do appear shady. While I've never been ripped off, I still have bought from about 3 or 4 sites. At worse, they lie about stock and make you wait several hours which I hate.

Knowledge is king. It's what you don't know that worries you and gives you pause. Totally understandable. There are some very legit sites out there. You just have to know what you are doing.
 
KayossZero said:
First world people come home from work with piles of money to waste but not much time to play games, and thus they pay to stay current or ahead of the pack.
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This...why is it considered "cheating" to buy gold? If some kid doesn't have a job can spend 10 hours grinding for gold while I'm spending the same 10 hours earning real money...why can't I use my "time" which I converted to money to then go and get gold? Most games that have 3rd party sites selling currency don't let you pay2win anyway; it's just improvement on the margins. For example, I mainly bought WOW gold to help level up my crafting more quickly, rather than spend a godawful amount of hours grinding it.
 
In games where it is considered cheating to buy gold/items like wow, it sure as hell is cheating. In games like D3 with a real money auction house it is not cheating, unless you use a 3rd party website to buy money for hardcore in which case, yes it is cheating.

If a multiplayer game wants the achievements of the players in their game world to be solely based off of the player's actions in the game world, then I'd say it is quite obvious that using your real world disposable income advantage is very much cheating. Games like this intentionally create a separation between your in game time and the rest of your time, so your argument that you should be able to use your time is invalid.

I'm sorry if it upsets you that some kids with nothing to do will have an advantage over you in that game world but that's the way it is if the game's rules make it that way. If you don't like it, take the risk of cheating and admit that you're cheating, or just don't play those games.
 
You all are acting as if the auction house in Diablo 3 is open right now for gold sales .. you do all realize that the auction house in D3 for real money is delayed , like indefinitely?

In the meantime gold farming sites will continue to flourish until Blizzard begins to put its stranglehold on the market when the full fledged AH launches sometimes later on.

And this whole "first world" bullshit is really just a weak argument. Its not about advantage , you could at ANY point in time in WoW farm massive amounts of gold if you did the following :

1. A little research : Forums , guides and even advice from other players. If you bothered to even look into gold farming you could have farmed your own fortune without wasting tons of time doing so. All MMO's have ways of farming gold quickly. You don't have to spend weeks or even days doing it. I use to farm for gold/supplies for raids on a Saturday for about 2 and half hours , after I was done I would gain around 5000-10,000 gold (and this was in 2009) from doing tradeskill farming and AH sales. I have a full time job , a girlfriend and a noisy as shit family and could still maintain.

2. This is more a WoW relevant tip but its something many players in WoW do relentlessly. Stop wasting your time doing daily bullshit. If you think daily's generate a lot of gold then you don't understand farming. Daily's take tons of time and require lots of traveling and individual questing. Daily's are a stop gap solution for people who raid and want repair money or people who want rep rewards or achievements. Pick a tradeskill that requires farming and use it by ...ACTUALLY FARMING.


I followed those two rules and I never went without money. I'm sure D3 has plenty of ways to farm gold , the game has only been out for about 15 days and as time goes on it will only get easier , just like WoW has.
 
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just wait to the gold auctions (real money auction house) to go up and you will be able to buy it through the game its self. My guess is going rate will be about one usd per 1000000 gold
 
TwistedAegis said:
Will the RMAH allow for pure gold auctions? I didn't think that was the case.
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The gold-based auction house uses in-game gold for purchases and sales. With the real-money auction house, players will be able to conduct these transactions using actual currency from an authorized payment method or using their Battle.net Balance.
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I made a typo in my post. I meant the RMAH.
 
They said it would. If they changed their minds it would be pretty easy to buy an item for $ then sell it for gold on the other auction house.
 
I used gold selling sites in the past, but that was to sell gold way back when. They paid up just like they said they would ;)
 
How much gold you want? I have about 100k on my character id sell. Gols is easy to get.
 
Roliath said:
this thread is hilarious.
reminds of the old ad "Virus can your computer into a bomb!"
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Seriously. Some ideas take so long to die out.

I could understand worrying about getting scammed (by a brand new site, perhaps), but thinking they can hack all your internets just by trading with you? Come on now.
 
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