A Question About Account Trading..

Is it illegal to sell/buy Guild Wars accounts over the game?I always see people buying accounts for crazy prices and I have a spare account that I never use a friend gave me, so I was wondering if it was or not.


Thanks In Advice,
Tommy.

Yes, its against the EULA. People advertising to buy are 99% certain to be scammers who once they have the account information, you wont see again or see the gold they offer.

Simple point.. if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Ah, Okay.Thank you very much .I saw a guy today who was a lvl3 buying them for like 400k a piece and I asked him to show the cash and he ran off lol xD.

^^ scammer 12 chars

lol. scammers or not, it is illegal. dun think too much. :P

Cant trust anyone. Kinda makes me hesitant to buy gw2.

Besides that it is strictly against the EULA and just asking to get banned, it would be totally foolhardy to even try.

If you are selling an account, nobody will give you money before they have gotten a working e-mail/password combination (since nothing prevents people from giving false information), and once they have gotten your account they don't have to pay for it. So, you got scammed.

If you are buying an account, you don't know what has been done with it before (there may be a forthcoming permaban already). Also see the point above. If the seller demands payment first and you comply, you got scammed. Or if you actually somehow manage to complete the transaction, the seller may drop a support ticket claiming that his account was hacked, and produce genuine documents to prove that the account is his. Guess what, you got scammed again.

Never, ever, interact with account traders. There's nothing but trouble in order.

Just report them and be done with.

Wth the amount this and some other questions come up I think there should be another sticky. Shifty people in an illegal act that you shouldn't be doing any ways is what you're going by on whether to buy a whole new game or not? Mkay.

So they are selling GW2 accounts ingame already?

Give me 2000 ectos and I'll sell you mine.

ALERT! ALERT! THE ABOVE IS SATIRE! (Some people need explanations. Covering the bases.)

When i see an account trader in Spamadan, and want to report him i type /report
Which option must i choose then?

Don't do it. A-net could ban you and you are probably being scammed.

There really isn't an option in the simple /report.

Though you get MUCH more satisfaction when you report them through the support page and get an email that says "We have verified a violation and have banned the account".

You put it under 'Spam'.
Support does not tell you whether they have banned someone you've reported or not. They just tell you that they've reviewed the incident that they can't tell you what happened to the other person.

Report it as spam, that'll make them look at what was said and hopefully a permaban will follow. It's interesting to note that some of the accounts they're using to try to buy other accounts were probably scammed off someone else and stripped of everything. Also don't go for the crap where they try to trade other game stuff for gw stuff, mostly runescape but I've also seen everquest, lin2, and others.

I beg to differ.

My last account seller report.

Their auto-response.

Their 1st response (canned)

Their 2nd response.