Buying World of Warcraft accounts carries one of the highest risks in the game. I would suggest you purchase some gold and get the gears you need and level the account yourself. But if you should decide to buy a used wow account, here are some pros and cons that you may want to consider before acting.

Not many stores sells WoW accounts because of the high liabilities that involves with this trade. The player who has sold the account to the store may have the ability to steal the account back with their legal ownership information listed with Blizzard. What's even worst is if you've just purchased the account and the previous owner decided to take their account back. Before purchasing the account, make sure you understand the terms & agreement of the store that is selling you the account to see if they offer any type of liability programs on the account. Don't be scared to contact their support and ask for information. If they are unable to provide you with that information, that just shows how well their site operates.

Buying an account may be a bit expensive considering the fact that the store owners will need to charge a big amount to carry out their liablities, subscriber fee and along with inflation value of the items on the account. Since you know that accounts do not get sold like how gold does, a business who normally need to hold that account active for at least 1 extra month. 1 month's fee is $15 as we all know. You will be automatically be paying that additional amount plus more if the account hasn't been sold for a while. An account normally carries many different types of items, some may have great value while others may only be worth a copper. As we all know, prices flucates very often and over time it would eventually drop, the longer the store holds the account the less the account will be valued thus they will have to charge extra on current selling accounts to carry over that liability.

Another thing to ponder of is why did the previous player want to sell that account? Well, there is an infinite # of reasons to be honest. But some reasons may have a negative impact on you as you may be the future holder of that account. The previous player may have done many unethical gaming practices such as harrassing other players, player killing (pk), or even stealing items from other players with slimy tricks in the game. If you should play with someone elses character, others may harrass you because they disliked the previous owner while thinking you are still that person. The character you're playing on may even have a poor reputation, as in character was known to be a newb or does stupid things and etc. Along with that, the stats may not be 100% of your satisfaction or the way the character looks. Worst of all you cannot choose your own name for that character as it has been set down from another player.

So with all these negative reasons on why should I buy an account why would anyone want to or why does the stores still sell them? Of course there are pros to buying a used account otherwise the store wouldn't carry them in stock now would they. Let us see what kind of adventure we may encounter from purchasing a used account.

Well, buying account is better than power leveling in one way. You do not need to wait out the time it'll take for the store to level your character. Once you purchase the account you can almost instantly start playing and having fun. On top of that, you will already have gears readied for you. You wouldn't be playing empty handed beating down mobs with your fist.

Not all accounts are sold with a bad reputation or have practiced unethical gaming. Some of the characters may even be really high levels with great equipment, fame, reputation, and even popular along their realms. Players do eventually quit the game and are required to leave behind all their glory.

Sometimes you may want to play a different class or realm. You may already be an expert at the game and I'm sure not everyone wants to go through the whole leveling process as you've probably completed them a numerous amount of times. Easiest solution is to just purchase a new character/account. Why repeat doing what you already know? The game is about having fun, not boring yourself out with the same old process.

One of the funnest parts of purchasing an account is that sometimes the previously player may not have told all their friends or gamemates that they've sold their again thus you can now roleplay as them. Of course, not that I'm gonna encourage you to do so but... It is quite fun I would say.

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