Can't trade for 24 hours - Guild Wars Forums

Fitz Chivalry · Feb 15, 2012, 03:28 PM // 15:28

Does anyone know for new accounts, is this rule for 24 hours since account creation or 24 hours from some magical time set clock Guild Wars has?

I bought my gf an account and it's been more then 24 hours and we still can't trade so I was just wondering if it's a time set by Anet or if it's 24 hours FROM creation.

Gill Halendt · Feb 15, 2012, 04:12 PM // 16:12

Noticed it on my second account as well.

I was on when the 24th hour passed, so I had to log off and back to enable trades.

TheGizzy · Feb 15, 2012, 04:25 PM // 16:25

I believe it is 24 hours from first character creation, not from account creation. We ran into this with my husband's account way-back-when. Got his account set up on NCSoft with his game key, but he didn't get around to actually creating his first toon & logging in with it until a few days later. Couldn't trade with him until his first toon was at least 24 hours old.

Fitz Chivalry · Feb 15, 2012, 05:10 PM // 17:10

Ah okay, that explains it, thank you

Gabs88 · Feb 15, 2012, 05:33 PM // 17:33

Yeah, this is an old thing. It's in place to prevent gold sellers from using expired credit card info to create intermediary accounts and doing quick trades. It often takes a few hours before it is discovered that this is indeed invalid credit card info.

Feb 15, 2012, 03:28 PM // 15:28	#1
Fitz Chivalry Banned Join Date: Feb 2012 Profession: A/	Can't trade for 24 hours Does anyone know for new accounts, is this rule for 24 hours since account creation or 24 hours from some magical time set clock Guild Wars has? I bought my gf an account and it's been more then 24 hours and we still can't trade so I was just wondering if it's a time set by Anet or if it's 24 hours FROM creation.

Feb 15, 2012, 04:12 PM // 16:12	#2
Gill Halendt Desert Nomad Join Date: Mar 2008	Noticed it on my second account as well. I was on when the 24th hour passed, so I had to log off and back to enable trades.

Feb 15, 2012, 04:25 PM // 16:25	#3
TheGizzy Krytan Explorer Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: A giant mitten Guild: TeAe Profession: E/R	I believe it is 24 hours from first character creation, not from account creation. We ran into this with my husband's account way-back-when. Got his account set up on NCSoft with his game key, but he didn't get around to actually creating his first toon & logging in with it until a few days later. Couldn't trade with him until his first toon was at least 24 hours old.

Feb 15, 2012, 05:10 PM // 17:10	#4
Fitz Chivalry Banned Join Date: Feb 2012 Profession: A/	Ah okay, that explains it, thank you

Feb 15, 2012, 05:33 PM // 17:33	#5
Gabs88 Desert Nomad Join Date: Jan 2011	Yeah, this is an old thing. It's in place to prevent gold sellers from using expired credit card info to create intermediary accounts and doing quick trades. It often takes a few hours before it is discovered that this is indeed invalid credit card info.