Question cencering buying an account and CD apart - Guild Wars Forums

Pandroid · Apr 26, 2009, 07:43 AM // 07:43

Hey there

I've got great problem, I bought Guild Wars on auction (all 4 parts) and I've just got them home. But there is problem, there is not any cd-keys inside, this guys is not answering my calls, and I can't simply play the game. He just cheated me.

Does ArenaNet Inc. allows to sell CDs without accounts? What can I do now? He sold it very cheap so going to police doesn't make seanse...

Can I report it somehow to game producer and retrice account? Send pictures of all 4 boxes to them would help me out?

Please advise.

Best regards

Elephantaliste · Apr 26, 2009, 08:00 AM // 08:00

All you can do is to ask for a refund from your auction website depending of its anti-scamming policy.

Reasons below.
Concerning accounts, selling them is against EULA and offer garantee of getting banned for new owner. (or account theft back..) Moreover accounts are getting less and less transferable, getting linked to a master account refering to you IRL identity.
Concerning CD keys, they can only be used once, and since u don't have them NCSoft has no way to identy your products.

Commander Ryker · Apr 26, 2009, 12:41 PM // 12:41

If it seems "too good to be true" then it usually is.

Hollygen · Apr 26, 2009, 03:56 PM // 15:56

If I remember the EULA, games are non-transferable, so if someone's selling their copy of the game on, then it's technically against ArenaNet's rules. You don't, therefore, have much of a basis for support if such a transaction goes wrong, as it has in this case.

There'd be a problem tracing the original game back based on the box, since it's the account codes that Support for tracing accounts, most likelty because you don't need anything else but an account code.

Basically your only recourse is to see if the seller has breached the Auction site terms. If they've been careful in their wording when posting the listing, however (ie talking about selling the boxes, not mentioning the account cards, not referring to this being a playable or seled version) then you're loikely going to fall short there also

Apr 26, 2009, 07:43 AM // 07:43	#1
Pandroid Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Apr 2009	Question cencering buying an account and CD apart Hey there I've got great problem, I bought Guild Wars on auction (all 4 parts) and I've just got them home. But there is problem, there is not any cd-keys inside, this guys is not answering my calls, and I can't simply play the game. He just cheated me. Does ArenaNet Inc. allows to sell CDs without accounts? What can I do now? He sold it very cheap so going to police doesn't make seanse... Can I report it somehow to game producer and retrice account? Send pictures of all 4 boxes to them would help me out? Please advise. Best regards

Apr 26, 2009, 08:00 AM // 08:00	#2
Elephantaliste Krytan Explorer Join Date: Nov 2008 Guild: adblockplus.or	All you can do is to ask for a refund from your auction website depending of its anti-scamming policy. Reasons below. Concerning accounts, selling them is against EULA and offer garantee of getting banned for new owner. (or account theft back..) Moreover accounts are getting less and less transferable, getting linked to a master account refering to you IRL identity. Concerning CD keys, they can only be used once, and since u don't have them NCSoft has no way to identy your products.

Apr 26, 2009, 12:41 PM // 12:41	#3
Commander Ryker Site Contributor Join Date: Jun 2005 Profession: R/	If it seems "too good to be true" then it usually is.

Apr 26, 2009, 03:56 PM // 15:56	#4
Hollygen Core Guru Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Guild: Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa] Profession: R/	If I remember the EULA, games are non-transferable, so if someone's selling their copy of the game on, then it's technically against ArenaNet's rules. You don't, therefore, have much of a basis for support if such a transaction goes wrong, as it has in this case. There'd be a problem tracing the original game back based on the box, since it's the account codes that Support for tracing accounts, most likelty because you don't need anything else but an account code. Basically your only recourse is to see if the seller has breached the Auction site terms. If they've been careful in their wording when posting the listing, however (ie talking about selling the boxes, not mentioning the account cards, not referring to this being a playable or seled version) then you're loikely going to fall short there also