Comments on: Gaming Open Market suspends trading after being defrauded http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Aaron Levy http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50423 Aaron Levy Tue, 06 Jul 2004 03:22:35 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50423 Why was my cut-n-paste of the announcement that they will be going to use PayPal deleted? Why was my cut-n-paste of the announcement that they will be going to use PayPal deleted?

]]> By: Aaron Levy http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50422 Aaron Levy Tue, 06 Jul 2004 03:22:26 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50422 Why was my cut-n-paste of the announcement that they will be going to use PayPal deleted? Why was my cut-n-paste of the announcement that they will be going to use PayPal deleted?

]]> By: MattyS http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50421 MattyS Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:11:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50421 see so my point is why do u exspect them to do anything when your not surpost to be selling it in the first place? see so my point is why do u exspect them to do anything when your not surpost to be selling it in the first place?

]]> By: Storm Armone http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50420 Storm Armone Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:10:19 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50420 lol SOE cannot stop the selling of currency with sites like OGB going... lol SOE cannot stop the selling of currency with sites like OGB going…

]]> By: JC Soprano http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50419 JC Soprano Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:00:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50419 My bad, ignore the OGB comment, I misread.. Thought this was Online Gaming Bucks not Gamers Open Market. JC Soprano www.thesimmafia.com Mistakes Happen, Deal With It My bad, ignore the OGB comment, I misread.. Thought this was Online Gaming Bucks not Gamers Open Market.

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
Mistakes Happen, Deal With It

]]> By: JC Soprano http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50418 JC Soprano Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:56:30 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50418 Unlike TSO, in SOE they do not allow any player currency selling. TSO's ToS state you can sell in-game items as long as you do not advertise you are doing so in the game. SOE's ToS state that selling virtual items created in the game are means for immediate discipline. My question is then, why give SOE static about it? Nothing they can do. It's not like they are ignoring this guy going sorry ain't gonna help you, they can't. It states in there ToS you may not do these type of things. If they reported it to SOE they would end up being disciplined. It's my understanding that Lucas Arts legal is going as far to try and get E-Bay to suspend and remove any SWG auctions in the future. Personally I think SOE Customer Service rocks. Blows EA out of the water (not to hard though lol). I mean if you so much as lose $1 u just send a note to customer service and usually same day they are creditting you what you lost including objects with no questions asked. All the issues I have had with SWG from signing up to present have all been resolved in a timely fashion (except the weekends, no tech support). In fact SOE has the best customer service I have seen in a long time. As for PayPal, ya there policy is virtual items cannot get a shipping # to verify the item was shipped so they will not intervene in virtual item cases. Most they could do is call the cops, fraud is still a felony and since it's worth $3K I beleive that is Grand Theft as well. My thing is though, OGB claims to make 6 figures a year (thast per staff member according to a staff member I spoke to), if they are doing that much business truly, why the need to suspend business over $3K. Rule of thumb, get payment first and only accept certain forms of payment, like instant payment for example. Can't bounce that, comes right out of PayPal immediately. Of all the business I have done selling Simoleans and Strategy Guides for TSO, I've never been ripped or had a chargeback. Not all fraud is preventable, but most is with some common sense. JC Soprano www.thesimmafia.com *Sips His Absinth* Unlike TSO, in SOE they do not allow any player currency selling. TSO’s ToS state you can sell in-game items as long as you do not advertise you are doing so in the game. SOE’s ToS state that selling virtual items created in the game are means for immediate discipline. My question is then, why give SOE static about it? Nothing they can do. It’s not like they are ignoring this guy going sorry ain’t gonna help you, they can’t. It states in there ToS you may not do these type of things. If they reported it to SOE they would end up being disciplined. It’s my understanding that Lucas Arts legal is going as far to try and get E-Bay to suspend and remove any SWG auctions in the future.

Personally I think SOE Customer Service rocks. Blows EA out of the water (not to hard though lol). I mean if you so much as lose $1 u just send a note to customer service and usually same day they are creditting you what you lost including objects with no questions asked. All the issues I have had with SWG from signing up to present have all been resolved in a timely fashion (except the weekends, no tech support). In fact SOE has the best customer service I have seen in a long time.

As for PayPal, ya there policy is virtual items cannot get a shipping # to verify the item was shipped so they will not intervene in virtual item cases. Most they could do is call the cops, fraud is still a felony and since it’s worth $3K I beleive that is Grand Theft as well. My thing is though, OGB claims to make 6 figures a year (thast per staff member according to a staff member I spoke to), if they are doing that much business truly, why the need to suspend business over $3K. Rule of thumb, get payment first and only accept certain forms of payment, like instant payment for example. Can’t bounce that, comes right out of PayPal immediately. Of all the business I have done selling Simoleans and Strategy Guides for TSO, I’ve never been ripped or had a chargeback. Not all fraud is preventable, but most is with some common sense.

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
*Sips His Absinth*

]]> By: MattyS http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50417 MattyS Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:41:26 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50417 I'm surprised y would any game help them? I thought no game supported selling of virtual goods. I’m surprised y would any game help them? I thought no game supported selling of virtual goods.

]]> By: Mr-President http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/06/gaming_open_mar_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-50416 Mr-President Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:50:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2798#comment-50416 That's a shame.. Good thing 2L shows support. That’s a shame..

Good thing 2L shows support.

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