So You Want To Trade Safely?

[Heaven's Husband]

Hello everyone, I am here today to tell you about everything you need to know when it comes to trading safely. I have seen many people asking questions regarding what they should do/receive during the trade and here are some simple tips to help. I have divided this post into three parts, trading items, trading accounts, and links.

Trading Rotmg Items

When it comes to trading Rotmg items, there are many ways for a scam to happen. I have a few tips on how to prevent these and have a safe and smooth trade.

1) Do some research on who you are buying/selling to. A simple search of the username or email of the user can reveal if they have been marked as a scammer or have a current scam report filed against them.
2) Check how many vouches the user has and also look for the value of the vouches. The user with vouches of a higher value shouldn't go first. Look at it this way. I am a RWT shop owner and I have a vouch for a trade of $2000. I have only one vouch but I am trading with a guy who has three vouches each having a value of $5 each. I went first in that trade, sending a whopping $2000 to some guy I have never dealt with, while this other user sends $5 each time to a reputable member, going first. From my trade value, I naturally seem more trustworthy.
3) Make sure to save any conversations between each other as evidence if a charge back is filed.
4) Do drop trades in a bazaar to avoid detection and pick a small server like EUS.
5) Always leave vouches for each other so they can gain trust and have an easier trading experience.

Trading Accounts

When it comes to trading a Rotmg account, whether it be buying or selling, there are many people who will take the chance to scam you. I have a few tips on how to prevent a scam and how to secure your account after purchase, to prevent recovery from the seller.

1) Do some research on who you are buying/selling to. A simple search of the username or email of the user can reveal if they have been marked as a scammer or have a current scam report filed against them.
2) Check how many vouches the user has and also look for the value of the vouches. The user with vouches of a higher value shouldn't go first. Look at it this way. I am a RWT shop owner and I have a vouch for a trade of $2000. I have only one vouch but I am trading with a guy who has three vouches each having a value of $5 each. I went first in that trade, sending a whopping $2000 to some guy I have never dealt with, while this other user sends $5 each time to a reputable member, going first. From my trade value, I naturally seem more trustworthy.
3) Make sure to save any conversations between each other as evidence if a charge back is filed.
4) When you first receive the login information to the account, take off any email recover/security options there is and add you own. Change the email's password as well. Then login to your realm account and change that password as well. Make sure the account works properly and has everything that was advertised in the thread that you found the account being sold in.
5) Make sure to get any recovery information for the account, security question answers and gold dates/amounts.
6) Contact Deca Support and ask to have the security question answers reset and the email changed. You will need to provide the current email linked to the account, the security question answers, and the gold dates/amounts.
7) Add at least 3 transactions to the account to have something to prove your ownership. I recommend making it different amounts.
8) Always leave vouches for each other so they can gain trust and have an easier trading experience.

There is no guarantee of actually having full access to a account even if you have the gold transactions, email, and even the security questions. The seller already knows the IGN, and can simply request from another email which is not even related to change back the password, to be sure you might actually change the IGN of the account, since they also ask about the IGN, which if the seller doesn't know, you are safe.

Links

Make sure to follow the rules put in place for the Rotmg Trading Section: Here
Make sure to check if the user you are trading with is a scammer: Here
If you need to report a scammer do it here following the format found here
Make sure that the user you are buying from has proof of ownership of the account, the required proof is found here
Contact Deca Support

Thank you for reading and hopefully you found something in this post useful. If I left anything out please let me know.

-Matthew