Great news everyone! A member of my guild has been looking to buy some gold lately, but hasn’t known how to go about it. He’s been afraid to buy from just anywhere because he remembers the chinese gold farmer stings that went down after 3.1 dropped. Plus, it’s not one of those things you can ask the group about in chat. “duz neone no were i kin by gold?!!?!? Yeah, that would go over well with the GMs…. Finally, one day he emailed me wondering if I had any advice on how to go about it. He figured I was the safest to ask, since I’m not picky about that sort of thing.

As you can imagine, I had all sorts of advice for him to work with. So from there he emails me with a few sites he’s found that seem okay. I take a few minutes to look them over. I scrapped one of them because it’s based in Beijing. While I have no problem with China per se, I just don’t think that they take the same care that US based companies do. So that one was out.

From there I advised him to check the outside reviews for the two sites. He got back with me about an hour later and told me that he’d been googling the two sites and neither one was coming up with the best reviews. He just wasn’t comfortable buying from either one.

I figured I’d give him a good site so that he wouldn’t be too discouraged by the whole process. I sent him the link to Toonstorm.com and let him know that I’ve had a lot of luck with them before. He replied and thanked me for the link and said he’d get back with me once he’d finished the order.

I got another email about an hour later saying that he’d had the gold for about 30 minutes. Everything went smoothly, from the confirmation call to the actual delivery (which he told me was about 15 minutes early). He thanked me profusely and we set up a time to meet in game to make a run later. He was glad that he decided to buy gold this time around.

Awesome deal, and another great review.

Catch you all later.