Selling: WoW Account

On February 16 2008 11:34 Snet wrote:
Goodluck, although I doubt a hardcore BW community will give you any customers.

I think accounts are alot harder to sell with the arena system, compared to before. Basically only an epic mount will give you a slight edge over the hundreds of other accounts for sale.

If you sell your account for enough money to break even with your past subscription fees you will have done well.

On February 16 2008 12:21 jimminy_kriket wrote:
$1200-1600 for a wow account? You have to be kidding me.

On February 16 2008 12:37 So no fek wrote:
Man, the gear is solid, it's a class I want to play, and it's on a server that I have friends on. >_<

If I had more money, I'd definitely make a serious offer, but at the moment, I can't offer much at all.

On February 16 2008 12:55 Jibba wrote:

I've sold several characters for over $1k (1,800 being the highest), but it was a character with perfect PvP gear and nearly perfect PvE gear (before most people had it), along with a ton of gold and all the trimmings. PvP characters usually don't get very much though. The titles/mounts are easy to get and anyone can get a full set, so you really need great PvE gear to get a good average offer (it's always possible to find an idiot who will overpay.)

mmobay is what I used.

As for "making money" selling WoW characters, you might have only paid $300-400 in subscription fees, but when you check your /played, you'll find you're making like 50 cents per hour. Selling accounts is like a tax refund check, after you've wasted way too much time/effort playing the awful game.

On February 16 2008 12:37 So no fek wrote:
Man, the gear is solid, it's a class I want to play, and it's on a server that I have friends on. >_<

If I had more money, I'd definitely make a serious offer, but at the moment, I can't offer much at all.

On February 16 2008 13:02 Drowsy wrote:
Sorry to hijack your thread, I used to play on tichondrius too, never raided in BC, only back in original wow. I've got a 70 warlock with a normal flying mount and a 65 rogue, both very poorly geared cause I haven't played in about a year. How much do you think I could fetch for it? Where are the best spots to advertise? Will just grinding my rogue out to 70 increase the value pretty dramatically?

On February 16 2008 13:03 NotSorry wrote:

Grind it to 70, get a 2nd account move it. Sell it as 2 accounts instead of one you'll get more for it.

On February 16 2008 13:02 NotSorry wrote:

Oh yea for sure, you're making barely .50/hr at best, but for the time I would rather play wow 12hours a day than work 6-8 at a job.

On February 16 2008 13:05 Jibba wrote:
Depends on the job, but WoW is more of an opiate than an actual game. Most of the time is spent bored out of your mind jumping on the bank and shit.

And that gear was cheating. Bullshit tailoring at the start of TBC.

On February 16 2008 13:14 So no fek wrote:
Honestly, the most I would be able to seriously consider offering, for any account, at the moment is like $100. And you could probably sell your account for more than that, even to IGE, or something. :p

On February 16 2008 13:05 Jibba wrote:
Depends on the job, but WoW is more of an opiate than an actual game. Most of the time is spent bored out of your mind jumping on the bank and shit.

And that gear was cheating. Bullshit tailoring at the start of TBC.

On February 16 2008 11:03 NotSorry wrote:
The transaction will be a completely legal transfer of ownership as stated in the Blizzard EULA.

On February 16 2008 13:31 Energies wrote:


If you think about it, you're paying for a copy of world of warcraft and the burning crusade, you're also paying for all the gold he has, and for his time.

I just checked IGE for his faction and server.

2,500.00 gold sells for about $175.00 (192 AUD) Not to mention how much gold he has spent on his talents and mounts. Lets just say $300 (AUD) worth, just as a start
Just checked EBGames, to buy wow and tbc would cost $70.00 (AUD)
$15 for first months subscription.

You're looking at $277.00 (Aud) just to get started, and then it takes anywhere between 190 to 300 hours to level that thing to 70 depending on the class/server/faction.

Even if you were getting paid $1/hour to level, it still makes it very expensive.

I'm against buying toons if you play wow, half the fun of the game is leveling, but I'm just saying, if you are thinking of buying, its crazy and I'd never do it, but the price is justified.

On February 16 2008 13:54 Puosu wrote:

hm?
there is no legal way to trade a WoW account..

On February 16 2008 14:17 NotSorry wrote:

You have to give over complete owner ship. In reality you are selling the CD/Booklet and CDkey that the account is on, not the account itself. The transfer of ownership is legal. Selling a random item/gold or character is illegal.

On February 16 2008 13:02 NotSorry wrote:
At the time of quitting this was the best geared pve mage on the server.

On February 16 2008 18:28 Macavenger wrote:


Sorry, but there's no way a 3/3 Spellfire and 2/2 Spellstrike was the best PvE gear on Tich last July. I played on Hyjal, which was also a day 1 server, and one with crap progression for a day 1 PvE server at that, and I could probably name a dozen Mage friends who had better gear than that in July. I'm assuming you probably just didn't ever raid past Magtheridon (I see you have his wand). Until about there the crafted stuff is ok, but as you get into SSC/TK you'd realize the lack of stamina causes it to massively blow. :p T4 is easily better in most if not all slots. As a Mage crafted gear will get you killed horribly on Hydross or Tidewalker, and is extremely risky on Leotheras and Karathress.

On February 16 2008 17:22 jonhan wrote:

Just thought I'd point out that it is infact illegal under the EULA.

8. Ownership/Selling of the Account or Virtual Items.
Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of Accounts. You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void. Blizzard owns, has licensed, or otherwise has rights to all of the content that appears in the Program. You agree that you have no right or title in or to any such content, including the virtual goods or currency appearing or originating in the Game, or any other attributes associated with the Account or stored on the Service. Blizzard does not recognize any virtual property transfers executed outside of the Game or the purported sale, gift or trade in the "real world" of anything related to the Game. Accordingly, you may not sell items for "real" money or otherwise exchange items for value outside of the Game.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html

On February 16 2008 18:28 Macavenger wrote:


Sorry, but there's no way a 3/3 Spellfire and 2/2 Spellstrike was the best PvE gear on Tich last July. I played on Hyjal, which was also a day 1 server, and one with crap progression for a day 1 PvE server at that, and I could probably name a dozen Mage friends who had better gear than that in July. I'm assuming you probably just didn't ever raid past Magtheridon (I see you have his wand). Until about there the crafted stuff is ok, but as you get into SSC/TK you'd realize the lack of stamina causes it to massively blow. :p T4 is easily better in most if not all slots. As a Mage crafted gear will get you killed horribly on Hydross or Tidewalker, and is extremely risky on Leotheras and Karathress.

On February 16 2008 21:10 NotSorry wrote:
Notice there the talked about is "virtual items" never once says anything about game transfer. Keep reading the EULA. It's true selling items/accounts is not allowed. However there is absolutely nothing wrong with selling my copy of the game with the cdkey attached to it, which happens to have said accounts on it. It's the same way people have gotten passed Ebay for so many years.

On February 16 2008 12:55 Jibba wrote:

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As for "making money" selling WoW characters, you might have only paid $300-400 in subscription fees, but when you check your /played, you'll find you're making like 50 cents per hour. Selling accounts is like a tax refund check, after you've wasted way too much time/effort playing the awful game.

On February 17 2008 14:05 Hypnosis wrote:


the thing is thats teh same bullshit thoery of "if you saved all your money you would be super rich". No shit, but getting a few hundred dollars for something that was entertainment for a long time is worth it right?