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PlayerAuctions

4.5

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PlayerAuctions runs a marketplace for buying and selling characters, virtual goods and virtual currency from massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs).


playerauctions.com
Founded in 1999
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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PlayerAuctions Reviews Summary

PlayerAuctions has a rating of 4.5 stars from 3,189 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with PlayerAuctions most frequently mention good deal, fast delivery and top notch. PlayerAuctions ranks 1st among Virtual Goods sites.

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Germany
1 review
3 helpful votes
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As an EVE Online Customer, I need to say I am disappointed in the clandestine way of delivery of ISK I acquired via the site. As a customer of the rather ingeniously made site, I was expecting delivery of the seller's party on a contract based method. Ideally, even in batches of smaller sums adding up on the whole requested sum of ISK. But no, alas, the seller transferred the whole amount of ISK as a player donation, which might really arouse suspicion of the game devs and put me on the watchlist or even ban me. So, beware.

Date of experience: April 6, 2015
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great sense of reliability and security, both on the part of the site as well as its community of sellers/buyers.

Date of experience: April 6, 2015
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Good experience for my first.
April 5, 2015

Was actually really fast and went smooth. Would recommend this site.

Date of experience: April 4, 2015
Denmark
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Cheap, fast, safe and efficient
March 31, 2015

Currently completing my order as I write this. It seems to have gone beyond smooth. Both the seller and I were able to make a negotiation, which suited us both. A successful trade as well as a successful service provided by the seller and the company PlayerAuctions. I will definitely buy again - and so should anyone doubting! It is simply amazing; service and security is a top priority

Date of experience: March 31, 2015
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cheapest prices
March 31, 2015

I like that the transaction doesn't happen until you get your gold and there is a middle man so it is 100% safe.

Date of experience: March 31, 2015
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Don't do it. Find another way to mediate it on your own. The buyer took the items off of the account I sold then claimed I recovered the account in order to get his refund. Despite sending loads of evidence to Playerauctions to show that I had transferred the account and ingame mails to show that he had done in-game activities even after he claimed he had no account access, I had to wait a week per reply from Playerauctions to simply have them pester me to let them conclude the deal in his favor.

Not only didn't get the payment, but spent almost a month maintaining an account that by all rights and promises by Playerauctions should be the buyer's, and I ended up losing money due to the buyer using up items, such as my APEX.

The Live Chat CS reps are nice and respond quickly. Any email systems are dreadful, and if there's any problems with your order, that's what it turns into. They ended up contacting me from two different email addresses as well as an online ticketing system. I answered the first one, they would message me from the second saying I had not answered them. I answered the second, they did the same from the third.

Date of experience: March 28, 2015
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They have never let me down.
March 28, 2015

I have been busy and it had been a while since i had played EQ. I found my account had been hacked and wasted so i had to start anew. Not really having time to raise plat i went to PlayerAuctions, like i often used to, and made a purchase and they didn't let me down. Often businesses get worse over time but the experience was has good has it ever has been, at no point in time did i feel uncertain that i was going to lose my money, in fact, it was done before i could finish a cup of coffee. Thanks much for helping get back on my game feet quickly!

Date of experience: March 28, 2015
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Archeage
March 28, 2015

Buying from player auctions let me get right back into archeage! Made the process of catching back up painless.

Date of experience: March 27, 2015
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Reliable
March 27, 2015

Fast easy and real
No scams or anything
They have good customer service and keep u updated:-) thanks

Date of experience: March 27, 2015
Wyoming
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I purchased 15mil gold on old school runescape, and was scammed by the seller. It took playerauctions over two weeks to respond, and they didn't respond until I opened a dispute with paypal. They then refused to give me any refund. Playerauctions is a fraudulent site, DO NOT USE IT!

Date of experience: March 27, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Best Thing Ever
March 21, 2015

Fast & Easy. Seller responded to my e-mail within 2 minutes, had the credits within 5 minutes. Awesome awesome awesome!

Date of experience: March 21, 2015
Denmark
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The site is good.
March 21, 2015

Well in general. The site is easy to use, and easy to navigate. Everything is easy, when it comes to placing orders and finding things.

I have no real complaints, overall they are very good at what they do. The only reason why i wouldn't give them 5 stars, is because of 1 thing.

1. Registration, would at times reset or bug slightly out, and would give me random errors, when verifying.

Date of experience: March 21, 2015
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Very Easy Transaction
March 21, 2015

My experience was very good. It was easy to do and easy to make payment. Very good place to deal with.

Date of experience: March 20, 2015
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SLOW AN UNHELPFUL
March 20, 2015

If you buy an account on this site you better pray they dont hack it back, as this happened to me weeks into having the account i filed account reclamation so i can get my refund from the insurance i bought with the acc. Its been three weeks now an I still dont have my refund, my seller got my cash an his account back and everytime I talk to live chat customer support which is 100 times now they say the same god damn "I understand... Im sorry for the inconveniance" wait for our mediation team to get back to you regarding your case". Goodluck with that they take WEEKS for a reply and when they do it goes to waste with them saying "update regarding your case weve contacted the seller and waiting for a reply". WHY WOULD THEY REPLY TO YOU IF THEY WERE THE ONES THAT HACKED IT? Horrible experience goodbye 160$

Date of experience: March 19, 2015
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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If ordering for the first time plan on taking time to do so. If your in a hurry, wait till you have time before starting out.
First they want to verify your account by sending you a PIN via phone. Tried to have them text to my cell 2 times, received nothing, then I had them try calling my cell with an automatic message of my PIN, received nothing. Started up a live chat, the cust service person was clueless and actually 3 sentences in asked if there was anything else they could help me with... when they still had not fixed my original problem! Finally they had someone physically call me and give me my PIN (they were nice and courteous).
When using a CC for the first time with them you will have to verify a pre-authorization charge, it will be less than $1. Once you input that amount you then have to redo your CC information one more time... then your good to go.
The extra security step are nice to have in my opinion.

Date of experience: March 19, 2015
Bahamas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Playauction review
March 14, 2015

It took a bit to process entirly but it worked out fine, plus if there was something that went wrong i would be garuented my money back on this purchace,

Date of experience: March 14, 2015
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Around 6 Months ago I bought a crazy good account, Probably 2x as good as what I paid for. Worth possibly $500+, But the bad thing is It got recovered by the owner unfortunately. Which made me sad, Nonetheless playerauctions solved this issue by crediting me my ORIGINAL payment in no time! Something no other website would PROBABLY do!

Date of experience: March 13, 2015
Idaho
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Attention: First Time Buyers
March 12, 2015

The verification/validation process is long and slow. It is not the Seller's fault but just another "secure processing" that is being promoted. So if you are in a rush to buy and must leave, etc. I'd suggest that you make the order when you have some free time in hand.

Date of experience: March 12, 2015
Spain
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fraud
March 9, 2015

I bought a lol account on november. On january, the original owner recovered the account, i sent an email to them, after 2 months they havent answered me. 0 protection to the seller. If you want to sell something here, better do it yourself but you can still use this web, but if you are going to buy DON'T DO IT ON THIS WEB. 300$ lost.

P. D: You can see on the attached photos the last and only answer i got from them to my problem, and the poor arguments the seller had to convince me he was the original owner.

Date of experience: March 9, 2015
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent Service All Around
March 9, 2015

Quick & easy
Great prices compared to competitors
You are updated along the whole process
Most importantly great verification system & payment processing.

Date of experience: March 8, 2015