I got my gems in just a little over 48 hours.
“Those who go mad are merely thoughtful souls who failed to reach any conclusions.”
Things like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t bought the ultimate edition so am not affected, but there should never be an excuse for making loyal innocent players have to pay the price for criminals. Not cool Anet, not cool.
You could have at least let those who don’t yet have their gems reserve sale items for, say, I dunno, how about 72 hours?
Mhmmm…it’s not like Anet cannot take back the items if the sale was counterfeit. Furthermore, if the sale was counterfeit they are going to remove HoT from my account and ban me! So, what’s the difference in letting me have my gems to purchase the items. Makes no logical sense at all.
Of course it makes sense. Imagine you’re a fraudster. You “buy” the Ultimate Edition using a stolen CC. You get the gems, buy items, sell them to innocent players to “wash” the gold, use the gold to acquire other items at which time the stolen CC is identified and the account is banned. You don’t care, because you’ve lost nothing and in fact have profited from the illicent activities. We can’t simply “take back” the gems because they’ve been used to acquire items that then go to innocent players. And those people are unwittingly impacted by scurulous behavior on the part of the fraudsters.
I got hit with this, sold a skin to someone who apparently used gold farmers, his account was banned and the gold he had sent me for the skin was stripped from me. Bye bye 200g.
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
Things like this leave a bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t bought the ultimate edition so am not affected, but there should never be an excuse for making loyal innocent players have to pay the price for criminals. Not cool Anet, not cool.
You could have at least let those who don’t yet have their gems reserve sale items for, say, I dunno, how about 72 hours?
Mhmmm…it’s not like Anet cannot take back the items if the sale was counterfeit. Furthermore, if the sale was counterfeit they are going to remove HoT from my account and ban me! So, what’s the difference in letting me have my gems to purchase the items. Makes no logical sense at all.
Of course it makes sense. Imagine you’re a fraudster. You “buy” the Ultimate Edition using a stolen CC. You get the gems, buy items, sell them to innocent players to “wash” the gold, use the gold to acquire other items at which time the stolen CC is identified and the account is banned. You don’t care, because you’ve lost nothing and in fact have profited from the illicent activities. We can’t simply “take back” the gems because they’ve been used to acquire items that then go to innocent players. And those people are unwittingly impacted by scurulous behavior on the part of the fraudsters.
I got hit with this, sold a skin to someone who apparently used gold farmers, his account was banned and the gold he had sent me for the skin was stripped from me. Bye bye 200g.
If you use TP as it mean to be and not player to player sell which arena net do not support you would not have that problem. This is reason for TP safe trading. I guess you learn lesson hard way.
For sure! Haven’t trusted any guildies or people in game since then lol
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
Just buy the cheapest version of HoT and all problems will fade.
“Blackadder: If you want something done properly, kill Baldrick before you start.”
More than 3 days no gems. It is just silly at this point. I guess scammers screwed them so well that they have to do this to their customers. At the very least if you are going to say 3 days max make sure it is 3 days max.
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reserve an item to be purchased within 7 days. If it is not bought then the item disappears from the reserved ‘lay away’ tab
