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Hello,

I am thinking about making an online shopping website, at the moment, specifically for selling WoW game cards. The World of Warcraft Game 60 Day Card.

However, I will later on, probably start adding other products as well.

Before I even start thinking further, I would like to know if I would attempt to create such a website, would there be a high demand? I want to see what my client tel would look like, so please, give your opinion, would you be interested in doing business with a local online store for your game cards? :cool:

Thanks!
 
Oh, and I forgot to say, that this also includes a section/category where users can sell their accounts.

Selling accounts, and Game Cards will be our opening 'start off' items.

I saw on the forum, that both of these are quite popular, and that a lot of users on the board are having problems with untrusted sources, and never getting their keys and stuff like that!
 
You must keep in mind that selling accounts is against the Blizzard EULA, and I'm sure they will have a legal person on you within a couple months if you advertise this.

I'm not sure if there really would be a profitable market for people to resell gamecards. BTgames.co.za sells the 60 day cards for R265.

The monthly subscription cost from wow-europe.com in Pounds is

1 Month - 8.99 = R 142
3 Months - 25.17 = R 397
6 Months - 46.14 = R 727

Also if you going to startup a website , the idea behind it is to make money and make a profit. How much could you really make selling gamecards in a market with very few local subscribers and many outlets selling the product already ?

Cheers
 
Cube3 said:
You must keep in mind that selling accounts is against the Blizzard EULA, and I'm sure they will have a legal person on you within a couple months if you advertise this.

I'm not sure if there really would be a profitable market for people to resell gamecards. BTgames.co.za sells the 60 day cards for R265.

The monthly subscription cost from wow-europe.com in Pounds is

1 Month - 8.99 = R 142
3 Months - 25.17 = R 397
6 Months - 46.14 = R 727

Also if you going to startup a website , the idea behind it is to make money and make a profit. How much could you really make selling gamecards in a market with very few local subscribers and many outlets selling the product already ?

Cheers
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He could word it as "Trading Accounts". Trading accounts is perfectly legal as far as I know, and if his users choose to trade their accounts for money, how is he able to stop them? :)

But agreed, if he can get an awesome price on the game cards he'd make a killing. If he's R15 cheaper than BT Games everyone would buy from him.

Personally, if you're looking at an online shop, also try and import game gear (like tshirts and toys and cards etc) and perhaps the new authentication key releasing in Europe where you have a USB key acting as your authentication for your account?
 
On ebay people started selling their "time" that they used to level up the character and not the character itself.. that was just a bonus.... there are tons of metaphors and words you can use, but at the end of the day you are still selling your account, which is against the EULA.

Its like holding up a shop and stealing from the cash register. You could argue you are aquiring funds for your childs college education, or robbing the rich to feed the poor.... police will still lock you up.

I agree on the gadgets though.... there are lots of cool shops on the web like thinkgeek.com and various others that sell game merchandise. Tokyotoys.com is fun.
 
Hmm, doesn't seem like I would be doing this online shop thing for WoW anymore :P haha

Thanks for the response though, all for market research ;)
 
Don't trust forums. There are a lot of players out there who've never even heard of this or any other SA WoW forums.

A lot of kids dont have credit cards and rely on gamecards. Most of them use gamersloot.net, or their local Incredible Connection or whatever.I myself have had to buy cards online recently because Blizzard stopped accepting my credit card for some reason i cannot fathom.

If you can provide local and prompt and reliable and trsutworthy service & supply at a respectable rate, I'm sure you would have a market. The main probalem would be getting the word out, and being able to accept payment via alternative means to credit cards.
 
Word of Mouth wins.

Most of the WoW players know each other.

Give good service and they'll tell their friends.
Unfortunately the same is true for bad service.
 
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