Comments on: Bad AH Tactics, What I Hate

By: Flashypants

Flashypants — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:11:38 +0000

I agree. The toons that have Bankof….. in their names are the worst. There is one on my realm who if you just say his name in trade will start an hour long cussing marathon. He regularly posts stuff 500% or more above what every one else is posting. I think that he is trying to drive the average up on auctioneer. I am almost positive that he has another AH toon tat he makes his real money on. The only problem is that he has all the stuff that every one wants. You want that shiny new epic piece of armor, he has it. You want that really hard to find recipe, he has it. I dont know how he does it. As for gold farmers and Gold spammers. I totally agree, even before I got my account hacked I reported every gold spammer in the game. My best piece of advice for that is to get the Authenticator. That and changing your password regularly. The $6.50 it costs and the 5 minutes used regularly is really cheap piece of mind.

By: Thunorian

Thunorian — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:34:04 +0000

I forgot to mention. I never buy anything from any alt that has “bank” in its name, or any alt that is unreadable (i.e the sort of names gold sellers use), several reasons for this.

Firstly it means that this person is either a gold seller, or a bank alt who has already bough up a load of this item and jacked the price up.
I don’t want to support gold sellers in any way, shape or form, so if i have to wait for an item, to avoid funding their little regime then so be it.
I also dont want to encourage the decline of the in game economy by letting people who buy items and jack up prices get away with it.

many people at this point will say “Well if you don’t do it someone else will”, but in my opinion its THAT attitude that causes the problem.
People who don’t spam report gold spammers, saying that someone else will do it.
Funnily enough its those same people who scream bloody murder when they get hacked by those same gold sellers.
I suspect that most people reading this now will be thinking “Lighten up dude its just a game”, and they would be right to an extent. But I’ve heard people try to defend gold sellers, saying “C’mon they have to make a living somehow, and their job is really hard”, which is a bunch of pink and fluffy BS. They steal other peoples accounts, sell absolutely everything that they can get hold of from the account, delete an alt so they can roll a spammer, then spam trade until they get themselves reported. The aftermath of this being that the poor soul who ad their account stolen, loses an alt, has to wait days possibly even a couple of weeks while blizz “investigate” (i.e drink lots of coffee, and eventually get round to looking at the account activity over the reported period.

By: Thunorian

Thunorian — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:15:40 +0000

I totally agree with you on this. Many a time have i logged onto the AH and found that someone has tried to corner the market by buying up all the items and then jacking up the price. The problem isnt just short term, it has a detrimental effect on the economy as well. These people usually log in and do this pretty early in the day, so when normal folk log in, they see the prices that the idiots have made, and assume thats the normal price, and so eventually, this blown up price becomes the norm.

By: Sion

Sion — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:32:14 +0000

I totally agree.

I think some of the problem these days is people not using addon’s properly (as well as greed). Take Auctioneer for example, if you scanned the auction and it stored all them prices shown in your pic, when you post your item it will list them at 1 silver less than the ridiculous price. This then becomes a never ending cycle of stupidity.