Rules To Live By When Buying Diablo 3 Accounts

Hey there again folks. Hope everybody out there is doing well and keeping warm.

Today I wanted to share some little tips and tricks that have helped me avoid some of the dangers of buying Diablo 3 characters. While most of us are honest, law-abiding citizens (EUA’s not withstanding), there are more than a few people out there willing to bleed us dry with scams. This post is geared towards helping you avoid some of those places.

The first thing that I look for when I’m going to buy Diablo 3 account is whether or not they have a money-back guarantee. People take these things for granted because every infomercial out there has one and they don’t use it. The thing is, in this arena it can protect you from all sorts of trouble. Places like Toonstorm who have one stand to lose the transaction if they do something stupid like bring a GM down on you, so they take extra precautions to keep that from happening.

Another thing I look at is outside reviews. It’s easy for a site to flood their own message boards with positive comments from fake people. The best thing to do is type the URL into Google and start scanning through the different posts that come up. Along with this, the best legit sites have a Bizrate rating. Toonstorm and a few others are known there with excellent ratings. It’s really good to get that third party info.

Avoid places that won’t take credit cards or paypal. While they claim it’s for your protection, it’s really an easy way to scam you. Once payments made via western union or money order are cashed, they have no incentive to live up to their end of the bargain. They’ll just get enough of them, close the site, and move on to another place to do it again.

Above all, when you find a really good place out there, don’t make a big deal out of it. So is bragging to everyone in game about the buy. GMs and uptight players are always happy to pay you a visit about that buy. At the least your character will disappear and you’ll get a warning. But they might just decide to ban you altogether, so keep it all under your hat.