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SATURDAY APRIL 14 2007 10:00 AM

World of Warcraft's Real Epic Mount

Submitted by seanbonner

Edited by Posh

Tags: World of Warcraft, Craigslist

A few days ago a story started making the rounds about a lady who placed a craigslist ad offering to trade sex for a flying epic mount or at least the 5000 gold required to buy one. While buying gold is clearly a violation of the TOS, this situation isn't specifically called out in the rules. Her toon is Horde on Uther which puts 5000 Gold at a street value of about $639.45. As you can imagine this story made it to just about every WoW related forum on the web with people taking special note of the photo the poster included, especially her bangs. We all pointed, laughed, and assumed that was the end of it.

We were wrong.Very, very wrong.

Apparently some strapping young nerd took her up on the offer, threw down the loot, and got a mount of his very own. We know this because she posted a new listing on craigslist bragging about it and showing pics of her newly purchased flying epic mount. Of course it was filled with a lot of rubbing-it-in-your-face-shit and ended with these words for all her critics:

So talk all the trash you want, I got MY flying epic mount AND I got laid which is more than most of you failures can ever hope for.

I wonder what I could get for some pre-BC BOE purples I've got collecting dust in the bank?

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Comments

HarManic

Urbana, IL

March 2005

APR 14, 2007 08:36 PM

I want to make fun of this, but then I remember how long it's been since I've gotten laid.

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC

January 2006

APR 14, 2007 08:56 PM

World Of Warcraft = Social Suicide.

Nothing new.

I don't play WoW for the same reasons I don't try heroin.

That's all there is to it.

punk

Phoenix, AZ

January 2004

APR 14, 2007 09:51 PM

Roethke said:

punk said:

fountainofdreams said:

punk said:
I wonder if there will be any real life legal ramifications for her actions.

i doubt it, despite people selling gold, such actions are technically against the contract of the game. There really can't be a market value decided on sex. As far as the government is concerned, she had sex with a guy and the guy gave her ingame money.

Since WoW gold has a real-life exchange rate (in this case 5K amounts to $639.45), I bet you could argue it in court. Plus, there have been rumblings from the IRS about taxing virtual property/assets - pretty lame in my opinion, but that's the IRS for you.

Pretty sure you couldn't. Despite the "exchange rate," it's still a matter of virtual, not real, money, and is thus unrecognized as property of any value.

I summon Subrosa, Sacred Law Genius!

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

APR 14, 2007 10:10 PM

punk said:

Roethke said:

punk said:

fountainofdreams said:

punk said:
I wonder if there will be any real life legal ramifications for her actions.

Pretty sure you couldn't. Despite the "exchange rate," it's still a matter of virtual, not real, money, and is thus unrecognized as property of any value.

I summon Subrosa, Sacred Law Genius!

I think there's a light you are supposed to flash in the sky or a chant to say about " billable hours" or something.