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Aldiss

03-17-2007, 08:18

Danariuz

03-19-2007, 02:32

TheB

03-19-2007, 03:00

Well I can say IMHO I think they are a 50/50 bunch. I have had good business with them in the past but when it came to the leveling of a toon it was very bad and after that experience I will not do business with them or their associates.

I ordered the PL service on a new wow w/bc account and let them run with it, after 3 weeks I got an email from them letting me know the account had been banned, about 10 minutes later I got the offical email from Blizz that it had been banned. I contacted wowmine and they gave me the steps to try and retrieve the account. I followed the steps and didnt get it back, I then started calling WOW support repeatedly and emailing them and I finally got a response and after agreeing to not do it again they informed me the account would be watched and would be deleted if it happened again.

After thinking about the investment so far with the game + bc I decided it wasnt worth getting that deleted.
The toon was at lvl39 with like 100 gold on it and crap 30 gear so, none of the skills were completed or even close.
I asked for maybe some ingame gold since it was suppose to have a mount and some extra change on it and the skills were not done.
I understand things happen, after like 6 emails to various people at wowmine I still have never gotten a reponse. If I go to their "live" chat which seems to be a scripted response setup all I get is the steps to retrieve my account.

So, to sum it up.
If you think that say 280.00 dollars is worth the risk then they have a website (which anyone with 9.95 a month can have) where you can give it to them.
They do not seem to use good business practice and do not seem to be concerned with customers.

I would say stay away and to not support bad business.

Danariuz

03-19-2007, 06:37

yea TheB i understand the hostilities towards them i guess it just goes along with I like this store but you don't b/c the did something but never have done it to me. I for one will watch them closely and will inform the forum emmbers if they have done anything i deem fishy and/or scam related. Appreciate the response and the heads-up. Happy gameing.

Regards,
Danariuz

lisa

03-19-2007, 10:40

Wow mine is the biggest scam site of them all......
I have got gold from them before without any troubles.
So I asked them to level my guy from 30-40 for me. The best thing with wow mine is that they update all your info, ie gold, current level, gear etc etc.
At level 39 I had 101 gold in my bags.
When i logged back on after completion, i only had 31. At level 30 i had 27G.

I asked them and they admitted that they took the gold and said they would send it back to me in the mail. ( I have the conversation if anybody wants it)
Today i logged on and my account has been banned.

I warn everyone never to use wow mine for anything, simply they are thieves.
Please tell everyone to boycott wowmine.com

Level 39 http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i351171_atlevel39.gif
Level 40 http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i351180_banned.gif

I have made it my sole mission in life to warn everyone about wowmine. - sad hey :mad:

This guy has copy/pasted this post to every single forum, message board, blog, etc. related to World of Warcraft that he can find. If his account was banned, then I can see the reasoning behind his anger but everyone has to understand that there is ALWAYS some level of risk involved when you use a powerleveling service, no matter how small and no matter how legitimate the company.

Don't judge WoWmine solely on the opinion of this one person who has made it his personal vendetta to tell all of the internet world of his bad experience. He says himself "I have got gold from them before without any troubles" so therefore, they are not a scam site. If you pay for something and they give you what you seek, that is not a scam.

The incident with them taking his gold from the char they were powerleveling is quite common for a powerleveling company. All of them do this to some degree. Your gold is returned when your powerleveling is complete. The part about him getting banned is very unfortunate but again, a risk that anyone takes if they use a PL service.

The question is:

1. What reason did Blizz give for banning you?
2. Did Blizz specifically say they banned you for using a PL?
3. Did the Wowmine worker do anything illegal (such as using bots) to get you banned?
4. Did Wowmine offer you a resolution to your problem (ie. refund, etc)?

Everyone needs to remember that Blizzard does NOT support account sharing. This means if you hire a PL service, you run the risk of being banned as you also do if you let your cousin, brother, best friend, etc play on your account.

Again, I am sorry that this guy's account was banned but he put it at risk himself and if his "sole mission in life" is now to tell everyone to boycott WoWmine, maybe he should take on a hobby or something...

Sorry, just my 2cents cuz I keep seeing this guy on every forum and it's getting old.

Aldiss

03-20-2007, 02:06

This guy has copy/pasted this post to every single forum, message board, blog, etc. related to World of Warcraft that he can find. If his account was banned, then I can see the reasoning behind his anger but everyone has to understand that there is ALWAYS some level of risk involved when you use a powerleveling service, no matter how small and no matter how legitimate the company.

Don't judge WoWmine solely on the opinion of this one person who has made it his personal vendetta to tell all of the internet world of his bad experience. He says himself "I have got gold from them before without any troubles" so therefore, they are not a scam site. If you pay for something and they give you what you seek, that is not a scam.

The incident with them taking his gold from the char they were powerleveling is quite common for a powerleveling company. All of them do this to some degree. Your gold is returned when your powerleveling is complete. The part about him getting banned is very unfortunate but again, a risk that anyone takes if they use a PL service.

The question is:

1. What reason did Blizz give for banning you?
2. Did Blizz specifically say they banned you for using a PL?
3. Did the Wowmine worker do anything illegal (such as using bots) to get you banned?
4. Did Wowmine offer you a resolution to your problem (ie. refund, etc)?

Everyone needs to remember that Blizzard does NOT support account sharing. This means if you hire a PL service, you run the risk of being banned as you also do if you let your cousin, brother, best friend, etc play on your account.

Again, I am sorry that this guy's account was banned but he put it at risk himself and if his "sole mission in life" is now to tell everyone to boycott WoWmine, maybe he should take on a hobby or something...

Sorry, just my 2cents cuz I keep seeing this guy on every forum and it's getting old.

Dude I know there is a risk in PL, but I believe that wowmine un-necessarily
elevated that risk by moving gold around.
To answer you questions.

1."exploiting the wow economy"
2. no...
3. "exploiting the wow economy"
4. no

FYI I had a hobby but it involved using my wow account. You would have also read, i am not the only person affected by wowmine.com, by posting my bad experience, I was hoping to save somebody else account from being banned. Sorry you had to read it three times ******

Edited By Danariuz
Please refrain from insulting other board members with language or derogatory terms.
Thank You,
Danariuz

Aldiss

03-20-2007, 02:11

Well i have a couple of questions before everyone goes "boycotting" wowmine.com
1. Did you log into your account during the leveling at all?
2.Have you ever sold gold to a gold farming s ite?
3.Have you bought gold from them on this account prior to the leveling?

Answer these questions and maybe we can shed some light onto what happened.

Regards,
Danariuz

1 no
2 no
3 yes, 3 month prior to leveling

Danariuz

03-20-2007, 07:04

Hello Aldiss,
Please refrain from insulting your fellow board members and please do not spam forums as this is against the rules on these forums. Thanks for your understanding and again i am sorry for the inconvenience the ban may have caused you. If you are still interested in wow maybe our guides to leveling would help you accomplish your goal without the use of an outside party i can personally tell you that joana's horde leveling guide which can be found at http://www.mmomaven.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=1626 in out forums and brian's guide which can be found on other resouces on the web and i myself have it an can give u a copy if you pm me.

Regards,
Danariuz

LordTicut

03-23-2007, 04:32

About what Lisa said:
"Everyone needs to remember that Blizzard does NOT support account sharing. This means if you hire a PL service, you run the risk of being banned as you also do if you let your cousin, brother, best friend, etc play on your account. "

This is not true! Blizz says (even at the load screen) that: Sharing an account can compromise it's security !! They dont care if ur brother plays, or whoever.. if u pay for that account, THAT account can b played.. I can play with my chars on a server, when im at work my brother plays with his chars on same acc on other server (or even same sever-- but that would feck up my space for mules.. etc). Blizz dont care.. as long as u play legitimate!

So, if u "share" ur acc with a PL service.. u dotn get ur acc banned, because u shared it.. u get it banned cos PL is illegal, (because it involves REAL MONEY), but if i get my littlebrother to PL my new draenei, it's totally ok..! All comes down to REAL money! - Nobody is intitled to EARN any money for DOING services in WOW. (here is the execption of selling strategies, which is ok.. cos they dont do anything on ur acc.. they just tell u how to do it urself).

Davesmegrd

03-24-2007, 06:14

Theres risks involved, it says this. Blizz are cracking down on it big time now.

If you order gold, sell gold, order a power levelling service you are taking the risk and accepting that risk. Theres can't really be any excuse, at some point on the account you've bought gold and used a power levelling service.

If you use those services you run the risk of your account being banned, theres not buts about it. You are equally responisble for having your account banned i'm sorry.

mysticfire

04-03-2007, 11:52

I believe once Blizzard detects a mainland China IP accessing a US/EU server, the account is automatically flagged and watched.

A GM will than approach and pretend to 'chat' with your toon with probes like "excuse me, but I am a new rogue/mage/etc, could I ask you a question?'

These questions do not alllow for simple kk/lol/kewl responses. It takes all of 30 secs to confirm whether a chinese power leveler is behind the screen.

Also, Blizzard monitors in-game chats so its again easy to tell if some toon does not understand English to save their lives.

The worst part is this, often Blizzard doesn't have to do anything really, in-game players like to report any "suspect" toons that (1) either seem too rich for normal reason (2) speak little/no English or (3) level too fast. And once a report is made, Blizzard will check all the tell-tale trails for the account which with today's system, takes only a blink of an eye.

So yes, it is VERY RISKY nowadays to do anything with the game except play it yourself. The good news, gold is extremely easy to get now :) a normal 70 toon can make 100g/hr easy just by flying around and picking up the tons of ore lying around all over the place.

Faimotura

04-09-2007, 11:07

I can see his point, but caution to those who use 3rd party things like that if caught you will be banned for how long i dont know. So just becareful on what you do.

whoareyou006

05-24-2007, 03:44

I do not have the same problem with WoWmine but a different one. I ordered a simple 1-18 Powerlevel (becuase this lvls are boring) and they 20 hours to lvl so was like ok sru 1 night well i sleep and nxt day well i am at school so i go on right before i order check some stuff etc. then log off and go to bed i check in the moring to see if they did anything...nothing so im like eh they got 8 hours well im at school to do it so at end of school day i go back to check still nothing has been done so i message a person up say whats going on ...it is 7:00 here and its been 20 hours since i ordered the Pl and still not 1 lvl done so they did not lvl my guy and i logged on once when i got on in the moring to check to see if hes been moved(which he wasnt) so then right now i message again saying that i just logged on and they spamed with some if you log on you cause ur Pl to go back 2-6 hours so i was like Wtf ...i wasnt on from 7 am-4 pm and you dint do anything and then they guy was like we will get it done in time so im giving them 2-6 more hours to finsh or i am going to ethier ask for money back or sue

Aremis

05-28-2007, 09:17

i am going to ethier ask for money back or sue

I dont blame you for being Pod on this matter, for sure. But realize, you wont be sueing anyone lol.

But I do understand. I have dealt now with more than 6 of these companies. so far, 5 have had to refund me (And did), for both Gold and PL.
Wowmine is my latest attempt. I purchased gold, based on their printed "Guarantee" of 24 hours on ANY server.
And how long did it take?
Nearly 72 hours. But i got it, so no harm no foul.
I also ordered a small PL, from 25-35, just to save me a little time. What the hey!
Wowmine allows you to choose when they will actually start. I chose 5am today, since I wouldnt have been up yet, and have a few days to spare without playing thanks to the Stanley Cup finals starting tonight.
Now - If I hire someone to work for me - And I tell him he has to start by a certain time, and have the job completed within a set amount of time (In this case, a confirmation of 37 hours) and they dont do it? Theyre fired.

Well, Wowmine has yet to start PL my character.
But I will give them the benefit of the doubt first before freaking on them.

Kitty

06-08-2007, 07:00

I would like to warn you guys about wowmine as well, but not due to the actual powerleveling issue, but rather their mails when they send you gold, it is clearly automated via scripts which is very bad in itself but they also write certain info the ingame mails which a GM easily spots. (I assume GM's can read mails you send).

Don't buy there, keep a low profile.

AVOID

07-20-2007, 06:13

might have lost my account to wowmine. they got me suspended for 72 hours. hope it comes through, it's been 5 days and still nothing.

wowmine, however, will not let me speak to a manager.

if you are okay with using wowmine, try asking to speak to a manager or what happens if your account is suspended or banned as a result from using them...

...see what they have to say and decide.

walshy

07-22-2007, 03:45

What all of you need to understand is that Blizzard can ban you for anything! anything they want to, at any time, without warning.

If you say "Hello every one" in general chat, like it or not, they can ban you. This is how its going to be unless you can RESEARCH and find a LEGAL reason as to why they cant ban you, for any reason.

Unless you can now reply to me with a legal reason for Blizzard not being able to ban you for ANYTHING they want.. Then.. I guess you should just enjoy your ban. :)

I'm not saying in anyway that this means www.wowmine.co.uk is a good or a bad service and if they got you banned then ofcorse, they should be punnished (Loss of custumers, via posts like this) but its not entirely there fault.

Just so everyone knows www.mmoinn.com is linked with www.wowmine.com, i know this beacuse whilst speaking to a Wowmine support person, they gave me a mmoinn link and said "opps, thats not for you, sorry." he then posted a wowmine one with the same words somthing like "mmoinn/wowmine_pl"

::walshy

l2andom

07-25-2007, 01:39

roni999

07-25-2007, 01:43

I too would not use wowmine again. I had one good gold buying exchange with them pre patch and one very bad gold buying exchange post patch. Also, when they say they will give you a refund, it is complete BS.

xersia

07-25-2007, 02:47

NOTICE

Today I put in an order for 50 Gold. This was my first time using this particular website. They guarantee 5 minute delivery and all that and I understand with the changes via this patch that isn't possible. They do however give you a number to enter when they call you when your transaction has been completed. My paypal transaction has been pending with them for over an hour. I attempted to enter the chat with them and over an hour never moved up to position 1. I called their number to which I was forwarded to their voicemail because no one was available to which I was told, "Sorry, mailbox is full."

So where have they gone...?

Mind you it was 7 dollars, not a huge deal but yes I do expect it back because I have a feeling since no one at WoWmine is reachable I won't be getting the gold. Does a paypal transaction expire after a period of time if the money is not excepted?

I'm just a bit annoyed because of a previous powerleveling mishap gone bad.
Looked like a company I used 2 years ago who were amazingly great people had been bought out with a bunch of dishonest twerps.

laxxx

07-30-2007, 10:44

I've bought from them 5-6 times and no problems. The last time - no gold. I asked for face2face xfer - like Linage2. Cant do it they say. Oh yeah - I went online chat 14 hours before I finally got someone - just left it running and was lucky enough to see when I was 5 in queue - took another hour from there. Bad customer service? Definitely understaffed. I am due a refund...we see if they ;process it