At the beginning of the gifting system ZOS was involved with the new gold to crown business by punishing scammers. As of now scammers are rampant in zone chats, and ZOS won't do anything about them, as gold to crown are not intended feature from ZOS. So with that attitude if you need gold you can just write WTS 5000 crown (place a believable rate considering
your megaserver) in zone chat, agree on half before half after, then after taking the before part, put the unlucky believer on your ignore list, and vanish with profit.
My latest ticket (200202-001462) is ignored as last time, I would require some answers from ZOS.
1 If Gifting was only intended as pure gifting between friends then, why won't ZOS put some day requirement for friends to be able to gift (how often it is that you add a new friend and want to gift them immediately if no gold involved )? with that preventing scammers to gain super quick money.
2 If crown seller scammers won't be punished (atleast I'm not informed about such cases anymore), what is the reason to not do the above written action (not counting human decency)?
3 Why ZOS don't shut down ESO gold selling sites? I see many of them are alive and online since 2016 (I started playing in 2016), I have a strong conviction that many scammers gather gold for selling it for real money. Now I can understand such behaviour - altough I would never do such things (scam, sell it for real money) -, by not showing or communicating action against crown seller scammers, and gold sellers for real money, ZOS encourage these actions.
And before obvious suggestions will be made.
I know discord servers are the safest place to do gold to crown - but not all players use or know these, and scammers actively promote themselfs in ingame zone chat.
I know low rates and low levels are redflags.
I know guild mates and long term friends are also a good alternative - but some guilds prohibit WTB including crowns, and it is not rare that none of your friends have sellable crowns.
I know crowns are there for 24/7 to purchase - but I have more gold that I need, and there are people who have more crowns that they need, also I spend more then 1% of my monthly earnings on ESO via ESO+ and some extra purchases every month, which is a lot if you think about it. And I know Crown Store items are mostly expensive cosmetics, which many of us would ignore if not for gifting, but with gifting we think that altough we would not spend 20 bucks on a mount but would spend 1-2 million gold for it.
your megaserver) in zone chat, agree on half before half after, then after taking the before part, put the unlucky believer on your ignore list, and vanish with profit.
My latest ticket (200202-001462) is ignored as last time, I would require some answers from ZOS.
1 If Gifting was only intended as pure gifting between friends then, why won't ZOS put some day requirement for friends to be able to gift (how often it is that you add a new friend and want to gift them immediately if no gold involved )? with that preventing scammers to gain super quick money.
2 If crown seller scammers won't be punished (atleast I'm not informed about such cases anymore), what is the reason to not do the above written action (not counting human decency)?
3 Why ZOS don't shut down ESO gold selling sites? I see many of them are alive and online since 2016 (I started playing in 2016), I have a strong conviction that many scammers gather gold for selling it for real money. Now I can understand such behaviour - altough I would never do such things (scam, sell it for real money) -, by not showing or communicating action against crown seller scammers, and gold sellers for real money, ZOS encourage these actions.
And before obvious suggestions will be made.
I know discord servers are the safest place to do gold to crown - but not all players use or know these, and scammers actively promote themselfs in ingame zone chat.
I know low rates and low levels are redflags.
I know guild mates and long term friends are also a good alternative - but some guilds prohibit WTB including crowns, and it is not rare that none of your friends have sellable crowns.
I know crowns are there for 24/7 to purchase - but I have more gold that I need, and there are people who have more crowns that they need, also I spend more then 1% of my monthly earnings on ESO via ESO+ and some extra purchases every month, which is a lot if you think about it. And I know Crown Store items are mostly expensive cosmetics, which many of us would ignore if not for gifting, but with gifting we think that altough we would not spend 20 bucks on a mount but would spend 1-2 million gold for it.