Who wants eBay style auctions / trading on MMOwned?

[Beastslayer]

I could see alot of scams going on... Have you read the "How to scam an account" guides in the Scam forum? Alot of accounts would get jacked, which would lead to bad rep on the site... I wouldn't want Matt to get sued. The site would be closed down, which means no more helpful-I'm bored-come-to-the-site-for fun kinda stuff.... I voted no.

[idusy-org]

I'm sticking to a NO.... Really don't like the idea...

[Matt]

Good news, site wont get shut down. I had a couple of ideas that will launch with the program in order to prevent fraud and ultimately make the trades better than eBay. :P
(the shop system isn't gonna get more items added to it because I wouldn't want to charge people real money for site upgrades since I consider gold on this site to have a somewhat monetary value to it: http://www.mmowned.com/forums/ishop.php)

[Detzett40]

I vote yes but i don't think we should do and "auction" I think it should be more like you state what price you want and then people can buy it or trade. And I agree with a middle man this will help ensure the account and ensure no scamming although this would be run by scammers :| but I don't think it would be a problem if we get a bit of profit from it and pay the people that are running the account transfers and gold transfers.

[Kelindel]

I voted no also. A scam/hack/exploit site doing trades/auctions is a bad mix

IMO. Especially since an original owner can always get a WOW account back,

via CD keys, payment history info, personal billing history info, ect. There is

no 100% guaranteed trade/sale of a WOW account. Eventually our forums

will fill up with people complaining, accusing, flaming, starting sh*t, and

talking sh*t. Unless heavily moderated I would guess. Theres plenty of other

sites that already do this let them handle the crap Heres a few if anyone

wants to check them out.

http://www.markeedragon.com/

http://www.playerauctions.com/

http://www.realpoor.com/

[ReidE96]

I said yes, although it is true it could be abused. Trial run is good. Or make it only available to people with a certain number of posts, or contributer+ or whatever. Something to stop folk signing up just to auction.

[Matt]

I voted no also. A scam/hack/exploit site doing trades/auctions is a bad mix

IMO. Especially since an original owner can always get a WOW account back,

via CD keys, payment history info, personal billing history info, ect. There is

no 100% guaranteed trade/sale of a WOW account. Eventually our forums

will fill up with people complaining, accusing, flaming, starting sh*t, and

talking sh*t. Unless heavily moderated I would guess. Theres plenty of other

sites that already do this let them handle the crap Heres a few if anyone

wants to check them out.

http://www.markeedragon.com/

http://www.playerauctions.com/

http://www.realpoor.com/

personally i think those 3 sites have really ugly/poorly designed auction systems and the one that is going to be used on MMOwned will be a LOT better.

Check the forum homepage and scroll to the bottom to check it out. Right now, only Contributors and up can leave ratings. All threads posted in the services section will be moderated.
I'm trying to think of a way we can screen registered users so there arent fradulent posts and replies... and so far my only idea was to charge a mandatory small fee to post a thread in this section. or pay a small fee to join a special usergroup that is allowed to buy/sell/trade and leave ratings. Contributors, donators and up will be able to use all the itrader features for free.

[KuRIoS]

I vote yes but i don't think we should do and "auction" I think it should be more like you state what price you want and then people can buy it or trade. And I agree with a middle man this will help ensure the account and ensure no scamming although this would be run by scammers :| but I don't think it would be a problem if we get a bit of profit from it and pay the people that are running the account transfers and gold transfers.

what do you mean although this would be run by scammers? this would be run by the staff. I can say for my own butt that i have never scammed another person in wow or when real life money was involved.

[Victor]

Matt is the admin he knows that we're an wow exploits bots etc. site he just thought this could give more publicity to the site the man knows what he's doing,...

[Detzett40]

what do you mean although this would be run by scammers? this would be run by the staff. I can say for my own butt that i have never scammed another person in wow or when real life money was involved.

yes, but this is a bots/exploits/scam site and how many people will trust that the trades/sales will be legit

[Kelindel]

Well I suppose if this was to be done...

Originally Posted by Matt
I'm trying to think of a way we can screen registered users so there arent fradulent posts and replies

A couple of ideas could be

1. Set up your own verification service like http://www.trustwho.com/idservice.php

Sure you could just use that, but why not keep that money here for the Site

to grow.


2. Have a seperate registration for the new forums which requires alot more

indepth/verifiable personal info. And/or a fee of say $2.99/month(just an

example) and then use the paying credit card or paypal account to verify

users are who they say they are.


3. Create an additional rep system for buyers/sellers/traders allowing only the

users who have been verified by whatever methods the site goes with to

post and recive this type of feedback.


4. Add clause in user agreement or forum rules stating that all posts

regarding buying/selling/trading/and related feedback stay in the forums

dedicated to that, so that posting negative feedbacks or w/e in say a model

editing thread can be a bannable offense.

[0-0-7]

I voted yes, because I like that Idea, I mean where am I going to go after I buy my accounts to resell them?


And The whole scam thing, is their own fault because YES there is a scamming section but there are also posts on there on how NOT to get scammed.

[kelat]

i voted no, it just doesnt seem like a good idea, to me at least. you should give it a try though, and see how it goes.

[Detzett40]

I voted yes, because I like that Idea, I mean where am I going to go after I buy my accounts to resell them?


And The whole scam thing, is their own fault because YES there is a scamming section but there are also posts on there on how NOT to get scammed.

That's true... and if we create this then it would start out as the members that are here already and can be trusted.

[KuRIoS]

well look at the buttom forum on the forum page