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Gold sellers have been bothering the World of Warcraft since the beginning. Now their methods are becoming too annoying, and we just wish they could just leave us alone and stfu.  Most of them are big gold-selling companies spamming in the trade channel or yelling advertisements in Orgrimmar/Stormwind. But recently, there are individuals who try and sell gold themselves using very ingenious ways.

Gold seller companies way to spam:

1. The classic trade channel advertisement. “We love you long time. Visit blablablab.com and use coupon WOW1. $8=1000g, $79=10,000g…”

2. Yelling in cities the same advertisement they have on the trade channel.

3. Spelling out their gold-selling website using dead level 1 bodies in front of the AH.

Individual seller’s way to spam:

Now these sellers are not so obvious at first. They try their best in social engineering to get you to talk to them. I guess their best isn’t good enough because they’re just a pain in the ass. I wonder how hold they are?

1. Spamming in trade channel “I’M QUITTING WOW GIVING AWAY GOLD PST” and when you pm them, they’ll reply with “Do you want to buy away my gold cheaper than buying it from websites?”
2. Whispering you while you play with “Hey, are you busy?”. And of course you think he’s just an honest man on the other side of the computer with honest questions to ask. And when you say “Not really. What’s up?” they reply with “Do you want to buy gold fast? We have 5kg left.” ….

3. Inviting you in a party/raid and spamming their gold advertisements there.

I’m pretty sure there are other ingenious ways of torturing us gamers with these gold-selling advertisements. Therefore, I searched for some anti-gold seller addons to finally shut them up:

1. Badboy – this one will auto-report and block gold selling advertisements. It also blocks spam messages in the trade channel. This is very useful if your server likes spamming “lfg” or “lol”.
2. Badboy Levels – a plugin for Badboy which blocks whispers from people not in your friend list or in your guild. I think it’s a good idea to have this while leveling, so you don’t get bothered a lot by strangers. Otherwise, this could be a hindrance if you’re doing PUGs.
3. Bugmenot – this addon can be configured to autoreject party/raid/guild/duel invites if they’re not your friends/guildmates.  As the name of the addon says, this keeps buggers from destroying your precious playtime.

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