Banned players through powerlvl.com? LOL

the_wicked · Post by **the_wicked** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:03 am

I started sro and the notice board said users buying items from sites like powerlvl.com got banned

or am i misinterpreting this?

cuz it sounds strange to me...

(edited teh title to make more sense)

tedtwilliger · Post by **tedtwilliger** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:07 am

Sucked in, thats exactly what they deserve.

the_wicked · Post by **the_wicked** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:08 am

^^

well, i do admit however, the JM team needs to learn more english....cuz their descriptions are impossible to interpret.

tedtwilliger · Post by **tedtwilliger** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:09 am

At times i truly think they translate with babelfish..

PiiNoY · Post by **PiiNoY** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:44 am

Hello. This is Silkroad Online.

Recently, Some of our users who have purchased items through powerlevel.com has been blocked permanently due to chargeback.

To prevent the loss of accounts, we strongly recommend that you do not purchase Silk through the use of accounts or credit cards in other sites that you DO NOT OWN.

In addition, please do not have someone else purchase Silk in your place, and NEVER reveal your account login information to anyone else.

[Payment By Deputy?]
To define payment by deputy, puchases items through the use of accounts or credit cards in other sites that you do not own.
As a result, users are blocked permanently due to chargeback from other sites.

the_wicked · Post by **the_wicked** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:49 am

im still confused as to what that means lol

o_rly · Post by **o_rly** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:53 am

edit: nevermind >_>

egyptology · Post by **egyptology** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:58 am

I'm not 100% sure about this, however, I believe it's sites like those offer items/gold/silk for very cheap if you sign up. Whatever the level of your account, then they use it to charge silk, giving the user some and using some themselves. The user gets some silk, and is happy since he paid half price. Then the powerlevel charges back and gets the half silk money they made.

So, people lost their account...

It makes me lol...

the_wicked · Post by **the_wicked** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:59 am

egyptology wrote:I'm not 100% sure about this, however, I believe it's sites like those offer items/gold/silk for very cheap if you sign up. Whatever the level of your account, then they use it to charge silk, giving the user some and using some themselves. The user gets some silk, and is happy since he paid half price. Then the powerlevel charges back and gets the half silk money they made.

So, people lost their account...

It makes me lol...

thanks for clearing it up xD

nimezhenhao · Post by **nimezhenhao** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:00 am

o_rly wrote:Why would joymax ban people for chargeback on 3rd party sites? that really sounds fishy :/

You misunderstood it. People bought SILK with Money via thepowerlevel, and the goldcompany powerlevel did CHARGEBACK. So many users that bought silk via them, got banned. And Joymax is only WARNING people again, to NOT purchase silk via thepowerlevel.

@egyptology

It's not cheaper, it's more expensive. $12 for 100 silk, you pay to thepowerlevel. People that do not own a cc or paypal use it. And thepowerlevel fcked them, and did chargeback on them.

o_rly · Post by **o_rly** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:03 am

nimezhenhao wrote:
o_rly wrote:Why would joymax ban people for chargeback on 3rd party sites? that really sounds fishy :/

You misunderstood it. People bought SILK with Money via thepowerlevel, and the goldcompany powerlevel did CHARGEBACK. So many users that bought silk via them, got banned. And Joymax is only WARNING people again, to NOT purchase silk via thepowerlevel.

Ohh, now I get it <.< thanks

borat2 · Post by **borat2** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:23 am

Funniest part of this whole story is that Joymax is fast as long as its about them losing money :roll:

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:52 am

borat2 wrote:Funniest part of this whole story is that Joymax is fast as long as its about them losing money

Touche.

I find it kinda funny how they wrote "powerlev**.com" on the notice as if like it's some kind of foul language. People know what site it is, right? I mean all those spammers in town everyday... damn! I dont know if joymax is dumb or just plain stupid.

xSiLeNcEx · Post by **xSiLeNcEx** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:16 am

If Joymax does not want people to use these sites then they should prevent them from advertising on their game. Until these sites are stopped from advertising on the game Joymax should not care about the users using them and focus more on preventing the advertisement if they actually cared about them doing so.

shoto · Post by **shoto** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:16 am

really that is just classic.

i mean it sucks that if you don't have access to paypal, you have to resort to shady sites. Obviously its a risk when you don't buy straight from joymax

oh well :twisted:

Silver0 · Post by **Silver0** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:20 am

borat2 wrote:Funniest part of this whole story is that Joymax is fast as long as its about them losing money

well yeah since your the living jesus and hand ur money out 2 homeless i understand why u never think this world doesnt revolve around money
since joymax ends with a company logo and they never care about making money just like in america a great world america is yet this corrupt korean company is hell :roll:

and as stated above powerlvl doing chargeback made me lol

borat2 · Post by **borat2** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:15 am

Silver0 wrote:
borat2 wrote:Funniest part of this whole story is that Joymax is fast as long as its about them losing money

well yeah since your the living jesus and hand ur money out 2 homeless i understand why u never think this world doesnt revolve around money
since joymax ends with a company logo and they never care about making money just like in america a great world america is yet this corrupt korean company is hell
and as stated above powerlvl doing chargeback made me lol

You completelly missed my point, might be a problem on my side i have no idea how else i could have explained it to you.

Joymax tells us they are providing us service, what service? i buy silk i demand that i can at least grind without 20 misters and misses dwfda and his family killstealing me, but when another money making company decides to simply scam their clients Joymax is there to respond, we are getting scammed on daily basis by Joymax and nothing we can do besides quit.
They can be fast on banning bots no doubt Joymax should simply stop being a pussy and tell its client they dont give a **** about bots as long as you buy silk you are welcome in their game, its time for them to show some balls and tell their clients the truth :roll:

ping_lo · Post by **ping_lo** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:50 am

Man what a scam that is! 5 dollars worth of silk for the low low price of 6 dollars and all the info they need to either steal the acct or use it for CCF. I'm sorry anyone that falls for that deserves what they get. Saddest part is that joymax does nothing to really stop these guys or inform their customers. They have spammers in all parts of town and even in the dark cave now. And joymax does not ban them at all or at least in a timely manner.

Dian Jie · Post by **Dian Jie** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:59 am

123noob · Post by **123noob** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:18 am

Too lazy to read all posts. But from what I know is that plvl.com offers buying silk through their site... so there are ppl who actuallly do that isntead of buying silk from JM's site (some idiot they must've been)... and the cost is more too I think. So generally JM is losing money while they losing silk.

Nyte · Post by **Nyte** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:22 am

I honestly think that JM cannot or DONT even want to enter its own game. They do whatever possible to do deal with external issues, that includes silk, but neglect any sort of ingame activity. Conclusion .. they dont give a shit what happens ingame as long as the out-game issues are maintained =p This new chargeback thing just proved it.

hits98 · Post by **hits98** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:35 am

Dian Jie wrote:GOOD

+1

AXII · Post by **AXII** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:38 am

Finally

Nameless players appear in HT with sun weapons.I never heard of their names before.7/24 bottin +buying sun set from plvl.com.Damm it was really annoying.

Tigerlein · Post by **Tigerlein** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:39 am

Wuuut?U can buy silks on other sites then sro main?LOL

Airbeat · Post by **Airbeat** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:47 am

Is there any list of the people that got banned?

jabbers · Post by **jabbers** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:51 am

SRO= may the biggest asshole win

AXII · Post by **AXII** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:11 am

Banned players plz listen this song and drink a glass of water for money u spend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw

Vandango · Post by **Vandango** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:25 am

can someone explain this in laymans terms i read the topic but cant read it in depth casue im in class with my teacher professor giggles for webdev lol

MrBow · Post by **MrBow** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:38 am

pwned

glavie · Post by **glavie** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:48 pm

Airbeat wrote:Is there any list of the people that got banned?

Yep who got banned? Joymax talks a lot.

Besides they don't even permanently ban for chargeback, sounds like more joymax BS.