Why is vial of the sands so cheap??

[Endus]

If they did this, there would be so MUCH rage, especially if gold was not returned. If gold was returned i could understand but people who bought from AH, and random players didn't know it was duped could be ignorant. Im sure Blizzard will fix the dupe and punish those responsible but anger a large amount of players and get flooded with tickets which cost them money to keep staff working on. I mean the ticket surge would be nuts and the ratings for their responce would be low and make the staff upset. I just don't see them taking it without refund.

As I said earlier, there's two kinds of things going on. The issue isn't so much the duping itself, it's that people should know better than to buy stupidly cheap items in oddly large amounts from suspicious characters in Trade chat. It's like a guy in an alley offering to sell you an HD TV for $50. You don't KNOW they got it illegally, but the circumstances of the sale and the price mean any reasonable person is assumed to be aware the deal is shady and the item is likely illegitimate. You can't claim ignorance in the real world on charges of receiving stolen goods under those circumstances.

Now, if a pawn shop buys it off the guy, and the pawn broker sells it to you, that seems legitimate; the pawn broker buying a TV isn't unusual, nor is you buying it from the broker. You'll still lose the item because it's stolen, but you won't be charged. In-game, this is basically represented by purchasing from the AH; this protects you, since you have no reason to think an AH sale is illegitimate.


I'd rather see them handle it the way the guys at Valve handled AFKing for free hats/items. They figured out how to identify who was doing it, tracked it for a few weeks or a month, and then gave everyone who DIDN'T abuse it a free hat. Yes, there was a lot of QQ, but those to blame had no real recourse. Nor did they announce it beforehand, it was just a "Surprise! If you haven't been cheating, you get a free hat! If you have been, no hat!"

In this case, maybe an updated Deathcharger that can fly, for legitimate earners/purchasers alone. Those complaining that their duped copy can't fly will fall on deaf ears, because they should've known better, but they don't lose their mount. Those who earned it through raiding or gold legitimately get an even better version. Win/win.

[ddk]

Is this still happening?

I FINALLY got Vial of the Sands and I'm trying to figure out how much to charge but it seems people are still selling them for less than the cost of the mats. Until I found this thread I had thought the charges were for BYO mats!

This really sucks

[DZalvi85]

You know there's characters called "bank alt" for a reason

yeah and thanks to account wide achievements they can link you their achievement for SM as it appears as that "bank alt" completed it. I can link my pally mount FoS on my warrior and it says that my warrior completed it FYI

[macdisciple]

There are legit seller that are also fire selling for cheap. When someone with a ton of gold, like gold cap, wants to transfer to a new server its hard to get their gold over too. Sometimes these legit people will make a ton of Vials so they can bring them and most of the value with them. They know they are going to take a bath compared to mat costs, but they still were able to bring 700K'ish of gold cap with them and did not have to do the 'pay for guild xfer' way around the 50k gold transfer limits for 85s. Most cheap ones I agree are dupes, but some are real. Just know the seller and your find. Don't buy from shady lvl 1's selling them.

I did this. Transfered with 6 VoS.