How to see through Azrael's BS in 10 easy steps

[Thepen]

I claimed selling my WoW Beta account too. Sold that shit on Ebay. Good ol' days when gaming companies didn't care.

[Farzo]

Originally Posted by Thepen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I claimed selling my WoW Beta account too. Sold that shit on Ebay. Good ol' days when gaming companies didn't care.

When WoW first hit the shores of Aus and RMT was rampant and allowed... you could go down to a local internet cafe and buy a level 60 off some 13-17 year old who was flagging school to max level for 100-200aud; they got that money and rebought the client etc and restarted for their own reasons.

I used to get them and then post those accounts on ebay.com ( the american version, not .au using my brother-in-laws ebay account who lives in Hawaii) and sell them for 300-400usd ( at the time the aussie dollar was .70cents to 1 usd too )

The best one were the guys that had 2x level 60's where you would split them off on to a 2nd account ( before they made it harder to do this ) and at the time it only cost 59.95(client)+xfer fee but from a 100-200aud buy and then 100aud in fees you'd sell both accounts for 300-400 usd each.

It was wicked money man, I used to pick up atleast 2-3 accounts per week.

Blizzard then banned it all and said no more RMT! Which is fair enough. Ahwell all good things come to an end I guess.

[Stasis01]

Originally Posted by Farzo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When WoW first hit the shores of Aus and RMT was rampant and allowed... you could go down to a local internet cafe and buy a level 60 off some 13-17 year old who was flagging school to max level for 100-200aud; they got that money and rebought the client etc and restarted for their own reasons.

I used to get them and then post those accounts on ebay.com ( the american version, not .au using my brother-in-laws ebay account who lives in Hawaii) and sell them for 300-400usd ( at the time the aussie dollar was .70cents to 1 usd too )

The best one were the guys that had 2x level 60's where you would split them off on to a 2nd account ( before they made it harder to do this ) and at the time it only cost 59.95(client)+xfer fee but from a 100-200aud buy and then 100aud in fees you'd sell both accounts for 300-400 usd each.

It was wicked money man, I used to pick up atleast 2-3 accounts per week.

Blizzard then banned it all and said no more RMT! Which is fair enough. Ahwell all good things come to an end I guess.

Really weird story.

[heartbrand]

Did you report it on your schedule c and pay self employment tax on it or did you report it in your schedule d as a capital asset?

[Thepen]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did you report it on your schedule c and pay self employment tax on it or did you report it in your schedule d as a capital asset?

It was very simple. What I did was pay an accountant to do it for me. How's business HB? Probably pretty amazing right now. I'm selling accounting software like it's crack.

[heartbrand]

Going to be better than ever with the obamacare tax. Lots of people who used to do their returns on their own are now turning to professionals this year for their tax prep.

[Stasis01]

Like picturing in my head you physically going to an internet cafe and pitching this to random little kids.

[Farzo]

wow was released 10-11 years ago pal, I was 17-18 at the time myself [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

and no they had a thread on the internet cafe's website for trading games and you messaged them, then went to the internet cafe to strike the deal.

ur just making it weird lol
stop picturing weird things.

[vouss]

Lol I had Stasis's picture in my head to. I picture farzo being old and balding due to his inability to play this game and awful sense of humor.

[Farzo]

actually beastagor I was 17-18 and probably making more money per week doing that then you do as a 30nothing year old.