Hey guys,

 

We all know that gold is a vital component of WoW and is needed for pretty much every aspect of the game. From leveling your character’s skillset and professions to buying mounts, gear and consumables. Every WoW player is always looking for more gold. Unfortunately farming for gold tends to be unbearingly boring and time consuming. Furthermore a lot of WoW players only have a limited time they can dedicate to playing and would like to spend that time doing the fun things in the game like raiding and pvping. For this reason a lot of players opt to buy gold online.

 

Now please don’t get me wrong here. I am not saying that players should go out and buy gold online as there are risks involved such as getting your account permanently banned if you are caught by Blizzard and also the chance of being scammed by dodgy gold sellers. All I am saying is that the option is out there for players who have limited time to play to remain competitive in the game through means such as gold buying. I myself have never bought gold before but I was interested to do some research on who the big players were in terms of gold sellers, who was most reliable and honest, and who was the best value for money.

 

Below I have gathered some figures on gold prices from 12 of the most popular gold seller sites I could find. Attached to these is a link user comments relating to that particular gold seller site.

 

Please note: These figures where gathered on 15th of February 2010 so there might be a slight change to gold prices if you look at them today due to market fluctuations. Figures are based on gold prices available to the Blackrock Horde US server and are in US dollars.

 

15th Feb 2010	SwagVault	IGE	Guy4Game	BankofWOW
Blackrock-Horde US
1,000g	8.92	-	-	7.80
2,000g	-	17.99	16.58	15.57
5,000g	41.94	44.49	40.58	38.76
10,000g	83.27	79.99	78.58	77.21
15,000g	124.60	126.99	118.58	116.75
Review	Click here	Click here	Click here	Click here

 

15th Feb 2010	helpwow	vivogame	Fast_wowgold	susanexpress
Blackrock-Horde US
1,000g	6.18	6.45	-	7.88
2,000g	12.14	12.65	13.76	15.68
5,000g	28.95	30.66	34.40	39.38
10,000g	56.21	60.67	68.80	78.18
15,000g	83.90	91.01	-	116.68
Review	Click here	Click here	Click here	Click here

 

15th Feb 2010	offgamers	wowgoldpig	goldsoon	mmogcart
Blackrock-Horde US
1,000g	-	6.49	7.28	8.18
2,000g	13.20	12.98	14.19	16.10
5,000g	33.01	32.45	34.56	38.96
10,000g	-	64.90	69.11	75.97
15,000g	118.96	97.35	103.67	112.50
Review	Click here	Click here	Click here	Click here

 

Based on my research and the user commentsI have read, I personally believe that the 3 gold sellers that stand out in regards to honesty, efficiency and security seem to be:

• Guy4Game, Susanexpress, Wowgoldpig.

They may not necessarily be the cheapest but I would prefer to pay a little extra knowing that I am getting professional service. If I ever do purchase gold online I will be using one of these sellers.

 

My research also leads me to believe that you should stay away from the following gold sellers as they are scammers or very unreliable.

• VgoldSeller, wowmine, dgamesky.

 

If you have any comments or like to share your experience with a gold seller please do so below.

Tags: gold, review

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