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skel1977

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Connecticut

I realized that the sale of World of WArcraft account information is against the terms of service of the company. Im not interested in getting back my account from Blizzard. With that being said.

I use to play World of Warcraft. I no longer play it. I still had an active account. I posted it on ebay for sale. Someone emailed me saying they would send me the money via paypal for it. I got on AIM and chatted with the person for about 20 minutes about the transaction. He sent the money paypal and I verirfied by checking this of course. As soon as the money was sent, I sent him the account information and pulled the listing off ebay. I transferred the money in papyal to my checking account almost immediately.

The other party took the WOW account over and put it under his name. 2 days later I get an email from paypal saying the transfer was unauthorized and to log in and give information about the transaction. Their only options were to 1) refund the money to the party or 2)give proof the item was shipped with a tracking number. I called papyal and a representative told me to use the tracking number option but just leave under comments that it was a virtual item and leave as much info as possible which I did. I even specified that I had the email between me and the other party as well as the Instant messages. Paypal never contacted me after that to get the information. They sent an email about 7 days later saying I owed them the money back and my account is now listed as negative x dollars.

I have already got the money in my bank account. Is there anything they can do to physically take the money back and is there anything I can do to avoid this? Its quite a bit of money and Im not sure what to do from this poitn on or if Im basicaly screwed because its a virtual item and I have no real proof that I sold the person this item other than the email and Instant mesages we sent back and forth. Also the name of the paypal owner is different from the person's email who i was chatting with. I figured it was the child of the person using the paypal account so this really wasnt something I was thinking of at the time.

any help appreciated.
 


racer72

Senior Member
Paypal will sue if you don't pay back the money. Contact Blizzard and report your previous account as an illegally tranferred acount, they will shut it down. Then wait for the buyer to get ahold of you because their illgotten gain no longer works.
 

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