Chars Transferred Off... Incoming ban?

[Delirious]

Good Day,

Almost 10 months ago now I bought an account consisting of a level 70 Druid and Warlock from a gentleman here. I paid, he got his money, I got the username and password - all was fine. From that date until today he did not contact me in any way, shape or form despite the fact he could of reached me if he had any questions etc.

Yesterday at around 19:00 I noticed the this account - which was linked to my battle.net login - had disappeared from the account selection screen. This set off alarm bells of course but I checked and none of my chars were missing as they'd been moved to another account so I thought... weird - but he can have that account back... but of course I expected chars to leave...

3 or 4 hours later I login and yep - you guessed it - my lock and druid had gone from my account. Now, the druid I didn't care about - didn't play him much - the lock I was a bit more pissed about - as well as being kind of my main, he had 3 stacks of ebonweave, 2 stacks of moonshroud and 3 stacks of spellweave I'd been selling on the AH....

Now, the questions:

1) This happened 9 to 10 months ago. I have the gentleman's telephone #, his mother's telephone # etc - should I make a nuisance of myself and pursue him a bit? It's been a long time, but as far as I'm concerned he should still give me my money back.

2) Has it ever happened to anyone else where chars have been split off your account - yet you've not been hit with the banhammer? - I've been expecting a ban - it's not come.... Do you think it still will or will Blizzard likely guess that the guy sold this account and not penalise me for it?

Any suggestions to avoid this sort of thing? I guess once you buy you're always at the mercy of the seller?

Mr. Paul D - if you read this, I hope you're happy with yourself for this - karma will come around.

Cheers for any advice,
Delirious

 

[TJP]

1) Don't harass him; but speaking personally, I wouldn't let anyone take advantage of me. I would pursue him and speak to his parents if he is uncooperative. Give him a call and see what's up on his side.

2) I have had this EXACT situation happen to me, minus the fact that it was only a few hours between the reverse transfer and the account disappearing - that took about a week or two for me. My account was NOT banned. Do I know if it was flagged? No. Aside from transferring that one traded character to my personal account and having it removed, no action was taken against the rest of my personal account. I can't speak on behalf of Blizzard, but I don't believe you will get hit with anything.

Unfortunately, you're always at the mercy of anyone who knows the information. Everyone of my WoW transactions have gone wrong in the long-run. Most people have the same issue, but a lot of them just cut their losses and don't bother to report or mention it.

Anyhow, as I said earlier, give him a call.

 

[TJP]

1) Don't harass him; but speaking personally, I wouldn't let anyone take advantage of me. I would pursue him and speak to his parents if he is uncooperative. Give him a call and see what's up on his side.

2) I have had this EXACT situation happen to me, minus the fact that it was only a few hours between the reverse transfer and the account disappearing - that took about a week or two for me. My account was NOT banned. Do I know if it was flagged? No. Aside from transferring that one traded character to my personal account and having it removed, no action was taken against the rest of my personal account. I can't speak on behalf of Blizzard, but I don't believe you will get hit with anything.

Unfortunately, you're always at the mercy of anyone who knows the information. Everyone of my WoW transactions have gone wrong in the long-run. Most people have the same issue, but a lot of them just cut their losses and don't bother to report or mention it.

Anyhow, as I said earlier, give him a call.