solidstate77ub17_ESO wrote: »Got crown scammed for 900k back in March. Sent screenshots of scammer's username and character name in a ticket. I thought that was the worst of it. I thought Zos had my back. To this day absolutely zero gold has been returned to me by customer support. Well, I refuse to play a game, much less give them my hard-earned money, when they don't even care enough to see to it that you are made whole after an incident like this. They don't even give you closure. They say, "We'll recover your stolen items if we can"(but we won't tell you when we decide not to). And by the way, we won't be communicating with you about our actions against the offender.
solidstate77ub17_ESO wrote: »Got crown scammed for 900k back in March. Sent screenshots of scammer's username and character name in a ticket. I thought that was the worst of it. I thought Zos had my back. To this day absolutely zero gold has been returned to me by customer support. Well, I refuse to play a game, much less give them my hard-earned money, when they don't even care enough to see to it that you are made whole after an incident like this. They don't even give you closure. They say, "We'll recover your stolen items if we can"(but we won't tell you when we decide not to). And by the way, we won't be communicating with you about our actions against the offender.
According to your previous topic you were scammed for the first time on 23rd July.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/538677/got-scammed-crowns-today-for-the-first-time#latest
I'm not sure we have the full story here.
crowns first, gold second
never agree for something else
Also I see lots of people in chat wanting to buy gold or crowns and think maybe they haven't ever read these stories on the forum or been warned not to do it by friends.
Have you bought many times with this practice? Because i would never agree to that as a seller, since crowns equal real money, while gold is "just" an ingame currency.
And to the OP and others: there is an official statement from ZOS that selling crowns for gold is a buyers aware market, and they do not intent do step in if someone gets scammed.
crowns first, gold second
never agree for something else
Have you bought many times with this practice? Because i would never agree to that as a seller, since crowns equal real money, while gold is "just" an ingame currency.
And to the OP and others: there is an official statement from ZOS that selling crowns for gold is a buyers aware market, and they do not intent do step in if someone gets scammed. Im sad to hear that you lost ingame gold, but as many said: there are some efficient ways to almost guarantee that you wont get scammed during the process.
LightYagami wrote: »
Absolutely. Crowns are much more valuable than in-game gold because people are buying crowns with real money.
Players should never send crowns before receiving gold.
One way to mitigate potential lost of both parties is to trade by smaller amounts instead of a large lump sum. In this way even you got scammed, your lost will be controlled.
HellaAverage wrote: »Or they should just sell gold lol. Wow basically just sells gold. Idk what image they're trying to maintain. It's a victimless crime that isn't a crime.