¢heap Guy Gamer V.2

Rants from a cheap guy working in the MMO Virtual Sales Industry

So recently I’ve gotten re-addicted to FFXI which is apparently no longer as painful to solo as it used to be in the early days. It seems to be a combination of a def/evasion increase vs auto atk target while fighting anything that isn’t tough or above, and a floating kill task book related to Fields of Valor. For groups there is also mentoring which has been basically ripped from EQ2, but honestly every damned MMO needs to rip that off. Unfortunately, it’s still a royal pain in the ass to make money on the game and has tempted me to order FFXI Gil.

This brings me to the point of this post..

I was going to order directly from where I work but I started to get curious about competitor delivery times and costs. I used to buy EQ plat off playerauctions.com so I went there and reviewed some of their sellers.  In some cases the sellers have a website but these are many company names I’ve not seen before, and are likely all Chinese companies and freelancers. I’d pretty much assume you are purchasing from Chinese who have different degrees of English speaking skill when you go there, so don’t ever expect in depth customer support for a problem. When I asked questions to some of these sellers the answers were very very simplistic, even though spelled properly.

I finally found one company that looked reasonable and was selling the amount I wanted(500k) so I placed the order and started to wait. I also sent a message to the company with a phone number and times I could be contacted. This is the best thing to supply on order comments whenever you are ordering, especially if you can be called 24/7 on the order. Telling the company “plz deliver fast” or “i need this soon” isn’t going to do a thing; a company can only deliver as fast as it’s supply, and there is no way the company can speed up this supply just for you. To make a short story even shorter; the gil was delivered in about 17 hours from placing the order which is pretty good these days, but I plan to order more from a different company to compare further..