Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Even the gold farmers like RogueSpot!

Below is an email I received today... actually I received a couple of them!

Dear Sir / Madam:

After browsing so many websites, we are impressed by your site's
enhanced design and navigation.


--------- is a leading provider of virtual currency provided to the
Massively Multiplayer online community with over 1 year of experience.
Till now, we have served over 100,000 Happy game players. In the
process, we have built good cooperation and friendship with customers
while winning good reputation from the fellowtraders. Owing to the
large increase of my business, and the consequent additional strain
which this put upon me, I have deemed it advisable to have assistance
with your company. We hope very much to promorte our site by
advertising in your site.
Also,we have another good idea ,by affiliate with us,you can get up to
10% of each commission you refer to us,plz visit
--------------------- for more details.
You can reach us on any of the email addresses below. Please allow up
to 24 hours for us to respond.

[Contact Info Removed]


We look forward to receiving your favorable and prompt reply.

We hope that this letter is the first step to establishment of a long
and pleasant relationship.

Sincerely
[Name removed to Protect the stupid]


I have a couple of issues with the above email... I honestly dont know where to start... first if he has really researched RogueSpot at all he would have seen the NO GOLD logo on our site. Perhaps he didnt know exactly what that means though? Ill let it slip. Spell checker and grammar checker work great at removing broken english. Also 1 year of experience in the MMO market is not exactly anything to boast about. Additionally since your current site is so successful that is straining your infastructure you think it is wise to advertise on my site and pull in additional traffic?

Also,we have another good idea

This has to be the best line of the whole thing... just one question? Whats the first good idea? Up until now gold farmer offers have been relatively non existant at RogueSpot. I always assumed it was the no gold advertisement that kept them away! Obviously my good luck could not last forever as it was only a matter of time before a gold farmer that did not speak english happened across this site.

My official response is this:

I don't make deals with GOLD FARMERS!

If you need a voice to put to this statement use the disney movie the "Emperors New Groove" im sure you can figure out which line im refering to.

If you run a fan site and have been approached by gold farmers / sellers or are worried about paying for the hosting of your site. Please contact me or one of the Azzor Community Admins. Also check out http://nogold.org/

Respectfully,
Cerias Shadows




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5 Comments:

Anonymous Judge said...

Amen, Brotha!

7/07/2006 12:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear roguespot.com maintainers. Please fix your mail transfer agent as it seems nobody can register with your forums. There's simply no activation mail being sent once registration is complete. I don't think the problem resides between my ears - but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :-)

Oh and the reason I post this as a comment.. I simply couldn't find any e-mail address whatsoever.

7/10/2006 05:18:00 AM  
Blogger Cerias Shadows said...

It actually has more to do with who hosts your email... at least this is my primary hypothesis. Certain email hosts deny large blocks of IPs that they dont think they can trust.

Believe me my email from RogueSpot.com works as well as a number of other people. You are not alone though. I get 3-4 emails a week from people who cant get their roguespot.com Account activated.

You should be able to use the forums to look me up and send me an email. If not cerias@gmail.com always works.

7/10/2006 09:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Say NO to gold farmers!

-Layston.

7/25/2006 08:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Nick said...

I've just had this e-mail sent to my entire admin team which is annoying but I'm glad I googled to find out that other people are getting the exact same e-mail. My site is actually related to table top gaming so I think they are beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

No gold diggers here :)

Keep up the good work,
Nick

11/09/2006 06:02:00 PM  

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