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nibbles
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United Kingdom179 Posts
April 28 2010 20:19 GMT
#1
So I have a region locked beta key for the US SC2 beta but my cousin's on the EU server, so I was wondering if anyone had an EU key who doesn't care if they're on the US servers and were willing to trade.
I'm wondering if a mod or admin could act as a middle man to make sure that neither of us is getting scammed.

meh
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24805 Posts
April 28 2010 20:22 GMT
#2
I'm curious how you think the middle man will help. How are they going to test to make sure the keys are valid before they distribute them?
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
April 28 2010 20:22 GMT
#3
I don't have an EU key but I'm fairly certain you can email blizzard support and have them switch it for you.
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Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
April 28 2010 20:23 GMT
#4
good luck with the trade

if only swapping places to live were as easy...

"hi i'd like to live in EU for the next couple of weeks, anybody want US?"
"shure glhf"
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nibbles
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United Kingdom179 Posts
April 28 2010 20:26 GMT
#5
ugh if only humans could not lie this would be so much simpler
meh
FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
April 28 2010 20:28 GMT
#6
On April 29 2010 05:22 micronesia wrote:
I'm curious how you think the middle man will help. How are they going to test to make sure the keys are valid before they distribute them?


The middleman could set up 2 new gmail accounts and attempt to activate the 2 keys on the 2 accounts (1 each). If they are both valid, the middleman can then give out the email accounts/passwords to the respective parties, and then each party can change the email address/password of the b.net account.

Basically, since you can edit the e-mail addresses on the b.net accounts, having an unregistered beta key is equivalent to having some buffer e-mail address.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24805 Posts
April 28 2010 20:30 GMT
#7
Ah interesting I guess that can work but it's wayyy too much work to expect some random tl admin/mod to do when there are tens of thousands of keys floating around in every which direction now lol
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
April 28 2010 20:31 GMT
#8
On April 29 2010 05:23 Navi wrote:
good luck with the trade

if only swapping places to live were as easy...

"hi i'd like to live in EU for the next couple of weeks, anybody want US?"
"shure glhf"


People do this pretty often, google house swapping. If you want to go on holidays for a few weeks, just swap with someone
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
April 28 2010 20:32 GMT
#9
I'm not a mod or admin but I am not new to the site, and would be willing to middleman if you want. I also have my own beta key anyways, so even less motive to double scam you guys! (proof: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=119672 )
Ian Ian Ian
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
915 Posts
April 28 2010 20:37 GMT
#10
I have a EU beta key, but when I tried to rdeem it gave me an error, so.. :s
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
April 28 2010 20:42 GMT
#11
You do know this is against Blizzards terms of service, therefore TL doesn't support these threads, right?
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
April 28 2010 20:53 GMT
#12
On April 29 2010 05:28 FiBsTeR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2010 05:22 micronesia wrote:
I'm curious how you think the middle man will help. How are they going to test to make sure the keys are valid before they distribute them?


The middleman could set up 2 new gmail accounts and attempt to activate the 2 keys on the 2 accounts (1 each). If they are both valid, the middleman can then give out the email accounts/passwords to the respective parties, and then each party can change the email address/password of the b.net account.

Basically, since you can edit the e-mail addresses on the b.net accounts, having an unregistered beta key is equivalent to having some buffer e-mail address.


No? Just give the admin the name and pw of the account you have and he'll logon and check...
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FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-28 21:15:22
April 28 2010 21:05 GMT
#13
On April 29 2010 05:53 Pokebunny wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2010 05:28 FiBsTeR wrote:
On April 29 2010 05:22 micronesia wrote:
I'm curious how you think the middle man will help. How are they going to test to make sure the keys are valid before they distribute them?


The middleman could set up 2 new gmail accounts and attempt to activate the 2 keys on the 2 accounts (1 each). If they are both valid, the middleman can then give out the email accounts/passwords to the respective parties, and then each party can change the email address/password of the b.net account.

Basically, since you can edit the e-mail addresses on the b.net accounts, having an unregistered beta key is equivalent to having some buffer e-mail address.


No? Just give the admin the name and pw of the account you have and he'll logon and check...


I don't understand... if A has a US key and B has an EU key and they want to trade, they haven't activated the keys yet. That is, the keys aren't tied to any account. If they activate the keys with their own accounts, then the admin would have access not only to the keys but to A's and B's b.net accounts, which is more information than is trying to be exchanged (not to mention that the keys have now already been activated and now cannot be traded without trading both b.net accounts...).

EDIT: Can you explain what you mean a little more?
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
April 28 2010 21:23 GMT
#14
On April 29 2010 05:42 Grobyc wrote:
You do know this is against Blizzards terms of service, therefore TL doesn't support these threads, right?


Isn't only trading accounts against ToS, and not the key itself? Kind of if say, I bought a copy of WoW and gave the key to you before activating an account with the key, and similarly you gave me yours.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
April 28 2010 21:59 GMT
#15
... key can only be used once to upgrade a Battle.net account to participate in the beta test, and while we encourage you to share this key with someone you know, it must not be traded or sold.

...

From Blizzard
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24805 Posts
April 28 2010 22:37 GMT
#16
On April 29 2010 06:59 Grobyc wrote:
Show nested quote +
... key can only be used once to upgrade a Battle.net account to participate in the beta test, and while we encourage you to share this key with someone you know, it must not be traded or sold.

...

From Blizzard

I think that means traded for something of value... not a key from another realm lol
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