World of Warcraft Accounts For Sale of Ebay
“World of Warcraft Account for sale. This is an active account in good standing. Every character has a good reputation on their respective realms. The winner will receive all information needed to log on to the account as well as change the password for their own usage. The account includes: -Level 60 Troll Rogue -21 epic items including many Tier 1, Tier 2 Helm, All Zandalar madcap pieces, Zandalarian Hero Charm, Perdition’s Blade, Brutality Blade…“
This was was a recent Ebay listing – one of two I was able to locate after reading a recent entry on Joystiq about World of Warcraft accounts being sold on the Internet’s largest marketplace. The author of this particular entry mentioned there were “thousands of WoW accounts for sale online,” and having done a bit of business there, I thought I’d check it our for myself.
There were indeed well over 6,000 WoW-related items listed, but the vast majority of this consisted of the game currency, sold by people outside North America. At this point, you could get “200-1500 Gold Money” for as little as two cents – but none of these hundreds of listings seemed to have any takers.
As far as actual accounts for sale, I ran across two – one priced at $600, the other (quoted above) at $200 – but again, neither had any bidders. The blogger on Joystiq whose entry piqued by interest also said that once he’d figured out how much time he’d spent leveling all his characters, “along with various alts and several thousand in gold,” his account would be worth between $700 and $900. On a per hour basis, his conclusion was that “new guy working at McDonald’s makes a lot more per hour.”
However, if an examination of actual Ebay listings are any indications, it’s not even worth that, since anything is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it – and they’re not exactly lining up over there to bid.
Considering that there are 6000+ Ebay listings and (as far as I could tell) virtually no bidders on any of it, perhaps the lesson is that for most gamers, it really is how you play the game.
Via WOW Insider
“World of Warcraft Account for sale. This is an active account in good standing. Every character has a good reputation on their respective realms. The winner will receive all information needed to log on to the account as well as change the password for their own usage. The account includes: -Level 60 Troll Rogue -21 epic items including many Tier 1, Tier 2 Helm, All Zandalar madcap pieces, Zandalarian Hero Charm, Perdition’s Blade, Brutality Blade…“
This was was a recent Ebay listing – one of two I was able to locate after reading a recent entry on Joystiq about World of Warcraft accounts being sold on the Internet’s largest marketplace. The author of this particular entry mentioned there were “thousands of WoW accounts for sale online,” and having done a bit of business there, I thought I’d check it our for myself.
There were indeed well over 6,000 WoW-related items listed, but the vast majority of this consisted of the game currency, sold by people outside North America. At this point, you could get “200-1500 Gold Money” for as little as two cents – but none of these hundreds of listings seemed to have any takers.
As far as actual accounts for sale, I ran across two – one priced at $600, the other (quoted above) at $200 – but again, neither had any bidders. The blogger on Joystiq whose entry piqued by interest also said that once he’d figured out how much time he’d spent leveling all his characters, “along with various alts and several thousand in gold,” his account would be worth between $700 and $900. On a per hour basis, his conclusion was that “new guy working at McDonald’s makes a lot more per hour.”
However, if an examination of actual Ebay listings are any indications, it’s not even worth that, since anything is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it – and they’re not exactly lining up over there to bid.
Considering that there are 6000+ Ebay listings and (as far as I could tell) virtually no bidders on any of it, perhaps the lesson is that for most gamers, it really is how you play the game.
Via WOW Insider
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