I have worked in the RMT or Gold Farming industry for a few years and before that owned a Gaming Center. I have heard a ton of horror stories from customers over the years in reference to the dealings of sites they had been scammed by in the process of buying game currency & power leveling for online MMO games. The shady things the sites in this industry pull would fill a book so be very careful.

Here are 10 things you can do to protect yourself from being scammed:

1. Most important of all use Paypal to pay for your transaction. Why? PayPal does not honor Virtual Goods Sales which enables you to open a dispute with PayPal at anytime you feel your being scammed and get your money back 100% of the time.
2. Do not use Bizrate/Shopzilla as a method to decide if the site is safe to work with. The Chinese take advantage of the reporting methods they use and load up their ratings with fake feedback. Instead use sites like ripoffreport.com and alexa.com as these sites have not yet been exploited with fake feedback.
3. Visit the site and see if anyone is actually manning the “live chat”. If no1 is working the site probably not safe to order from it. If you do get a worker in “live chat” talk to them for a bit and determine weather it is an actual person or an auto responder that just drops “canned” messages. If you find its a real operator that is a good sign site might be ok to order from.
4. Phone Contact – If the site has a phone number listed that you can call them on or if they actually perform a “Voice Verification” phone call they are safer to go with.
5. Look for a site that is selling more then just currency and power leveling. If a site sells tangible goods too then it’s a good sign. This can also offer a way to test them out… if they sell game time cards you can buy one (you’ll eventually need it anyway) and see how the transaction goes. If all goes well then you can be pretty sure they are legit and feel safer to order with them.
6. Another way to find out if a site is safe if to ask friends and guild mates for recommendations if they have purchased mmo goods before. People you actually know are going to give the most unbiased feedback.
7. Google the sites name and do some research that way. If a load of stuff comes up when you Google the site name add some negative words to the search. There is no point in adding positive words to a site look-up because all that typically shows you is the sites fake marketing and SEO work.
8. Site Content is a sign of a legit site. If they have an “about us” page, blog or forum associated with the site then they are more likely to be legit. Most fly by night sites do not take the time to build in these social outlets.
9. If you ever share you account info with a site (should only be necessary for power leveling orders), even a trusted one, be sure to change your password when your order is completed. You don’t want to risk your account getting pillaged by an ex-employee or the site itself should it ever hit hard times.
10. If it is “to good to be true” stay away! Any site offering something for next to nothing should immediately be suspect.

Well I hope this help to insure a safer purchase of virtual goods for anyone who bothered reading all of this

I am working on a new project we will be starting one of the only American owned and operated RMT sites. We will specialize in using “Player Sellers” for stock verses going to the Chinese gold farmers.

Thanks,
Joe
Site Manager

Taken from http://www.afkloot.com/blog/

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I didn’t take it any other way, just making clear that I don’t know him

Didn’t mean to imply that you know Adam Dicker.

I meant that in general to any of the guys (gals)
that read your blog that might know him personally.

Well I have never heard of it and they have been doing drop auctions a very long time.

I see domains dropping all the time that would be picked off if in fact you were going to pick off domains.

Three letter .com drop almost every week.

I see 4 on my report for this week alone.

I also see 11 names that sold for over $5k in the past 2 weeks.

Too many good names getting released there.

In absence of any proof, like actual domains that were in pending delete and wound up being in Net Sol’s name, I would say they do not cherry pick and to my knowledge the only one who does it Tucows.

Why do you not think that Net sol does not hold back some of its domains (ie “cherry pick?”) They all cherry pick which is different of course than bidding on a domain that is in the auction.

Agreed

I have said this many times, a public company has a higher duty of ethically behavior.

Very good work.

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2008/03/28/0001047469-08-003631/Section21.asp

Beneficial Ownership of
Common Stock
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Number of
Shares Percent
Beneficially of
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner Owned Class(1)
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Diker GP, LLC 9,407,035 (2) 12.7 %
745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1409
New York, New York 10151
Mark Cuban 6,932,784 (3) 9.4 %
5424 Deloache Avenue
Dallas, TX 75220