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In August 2017 I posted a similar review about ***. Upon posting my review their management team reached out to me and started working together with us to make a safer buying/selling experience on their site. We were able to reach an agreement and continued to sell on their site without any issues up until the last couple months. I will not be removing this review under any circumstances as ***'s actions have crossed from borderline negligence to straight up fraud.
Over the past 9 months we have sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of accounts on ***. Their site policy is very similar to Playerauctions where they promise 100% protection from fraudulent buyers etc. Their policy copy/pasted from their website:
In the past month, *** has started disputing deliveries, sometimes as far back as 4 or 5 months ago claiming the buyer never received login information. In most cases, we were able to log into the emails that were linked to the account and saw that the buyers had changed the information on the day they purchased, then either disputed or chargebacked ***. Despite presenting evidence that the account was delivered and the customer had accessed it, *** started putting holds and refusing to pay us for accounts. As of today, *** has an unpaid balance of just under $4000 USD with our company.
Three weeks ago I performed a full audit for unpaid sales and presented it to ***'s operating manager "Ken". Rather than resolve the issue we received the generic "please wait a few days" message a couple times and then full silence after that. To this day, we have not received any communication from them other than having our legendary seller status revoked even though we took down all our listings two weeks prior. At this point, it's obvious that we won't be receiving any support or payment from ***.
***'s actions are almost identical to those of Playerauctions in the past. They promise buyer/seller protection but their business model is simply not profitable enough to actually warranty their service. I have been in this online gaming industry for over 10 years now and I think any professional seller will vouch for me in saying that it is simply not profitable to take full liability in a transaction for only 5-10% margins. Unfortunately there is too much fraud from both buyers and sellers for *** to make any sort of profit without committing some sort of fraud and passing on their losses to their sellers. I firmly believe that is the case with *** but it should not be our responsibility to make up for the flaws in their business model.
Do I think *** is 100% fraudulent? No I do not. If you're looking for a one time sale of an account, they do provide a great platform if you don't mind your listing being buried on page 50+ behind all of the professional sellers. Their "fraud rate" is much lower than the rate you will experience on the open market, but it is not as safe as they claim to be. Should a buyer dispute your delivery, I wish you the best of luck convincing *** that you delivered the account, because email/account logs will not get you far with them. As it stands, *** owes us just under $4000 so we will not be making the same mistake again of trusting one of these auction sites. We were fooled once but won't be fooled twice.
Over the past 9 months we have sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of accounts on ***. Their site policy is very similar to Playerauctions where they promise 100% protection from fraudulent buyers etc. Their policy copy/pasted from their website:
In the past month, *** has started disputing deliveries, sometimes as far back as 4 or 5 months ago claiming the buyer never received login information. In most cases, we were able to log into the emails that were linked to the account and saw that the buyers had changed the information on the day they purchased, then either disputed or chargebacked ***. Despite presenting evidence that the account was delivered and the customer had accessed it, *** started putting holds and refusing to pay us for accounts. As of today, *** has an unpaid balance of just under $4000 USD with our company.
Three weeks ago I performed a full audit for unpaid sales and presented it to ***'s operating manager "Ken". Rather than resolve the issue we received the generic "please wait a few days" message a couple times and then full silence after that. To this day, we have not received any communication from them other than having our legendary seller status revoked even though we took down all our listings two weeks prior. At this point, it's obvious that we won't be receiving any support or payment from ***.
***'s actions are almost identical to those of Playerauctions in the past. They promise buyer/seller protection but their business model is simply not profitable enough to actually warranty their service. I have been in this online gaming industry for over 10 years now and I think any professional seller will vouch for me in saying that it is simply not profitable to take full liability in a transaction for only 5-10% margins. Unfortunately there is too much fraud from both buyers and sellers for *** to make any sort of profit without committing some sort of fraud and passing on their losses to their sellers. I firmly believe that is the case with *** but it should not be our responsibility to make up for the flaws in their business model.
Do I think *** is 100% fraudulent? No I do not. If you're looking for a one time sale of an account, they do provide a great platform if you don't mind your listing being buried on page 50+ behind all of the professional sellers. Their "fraud rate" is much lower than the rate you will experience on the open market, but it is not as safe as they claim to be. Should a buyer dispute your delivery, I wish you the best of luck convincing *** that you delivered the account, because email/account logs will not get you far with them. As it stands, *** owes us just under $4000 so we will not be making the same mistake again of trusting one of these auction sites. We were fooled once but won't be fooled twice.
Any link to *** shall be banned to.
