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Conduct
December 21st, 2012 1:37:29pm
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I think it would be good If players could sell their unused accounts in something similar to the upgrade auction page ? I have a load of unused old account that were once premi that people may be interested in compared to the high numbered accounts now. What do people think ?


 


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Zoiink
December 22nd, 2012 10:26:06pm
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I agree! :D


 

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LLUVIA - it's corona time
December 23rd, 2012 5:28:12am
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Oh, doing account auctions like upgrade auctions would be kind of cool o.o



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December 23rd, 2012 3:31:48pm
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Accounts are technically property of HP (just like any game item is) and so players making real money off of them isn't really an option because that would mean that we are basically passing over the ownership of them to the player to sell.Also, what about players who would buy accounts with huge warn logs? Those don't go away when someone new takes over an account.All in all, it's too risky.


 

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LLUVIA - it's corona time
December 24th, 2012 8:53:41am
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Sam - they were talking about selling them for HPD, not RLD. :P Just like the upgrade auctions, minus the actual USD transfer.And perhaps the # of warns could be publicly displayed next to the account so that the bidders would know?



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a z a l i e - 🌵 2024 APHA World,Reserve and Bronze Champion-blitzy still watching-
December 24th, 2012 2:39:53pm
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I think its an ok deal...or maybe the admins can buy them back for HP money and sell them for RLD or HPD? Like theyre doing now for the Christmas auctions?


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Conduct
December 24th, 2012 4:45:07pm
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Yeah I meant sell them for HPD. Would be possible for accounts which have been sold over the auctions to have warnings reset to the new owner or something ?


 

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Arosa |Talented Tekes|| Busy -_-
December 25th, 2012 9:11:16pm
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Why is an older account more important then a newer one? All in all they are the same thing :P. I don't support.


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Lynelle! ♔ Back to Black
December 27th, 2012 9:40:41pm
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I think LLUVIA and azalie have good points. However, I think azalie's plan might work the best. Because, that way - players aren't getting jipped and the account owners are getting money. Wasted space is gone, and no blank accounts..


 

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a z a l i e - 🌵 2024 APHA World,Reserve and Bronze Champion-blitzy still watching-
December 29th, 2012 7:22:01pm
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Arosa- some people.have low.numbered basic accounts that arent being used...like me...so its just a way to get a bit.of extra money and later on hp can sell them so they in turn get used....


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Shade
February 26th, 2019 7:43:19pm
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Did anything ever become of this? I noticed the account number I hope to have (which isn't even low haha) isn't actually a thing aka no results pop up. :) I assume it was deactivated. 




 

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mero;: } bye felicia 👋
February 26th, 2019 8:48:50pm
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Shade, I think Sam will sell low account #s for an IRL price, depending on how low the number is.




 

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siib 🦈 [ Gone ]
February 26th, 2019 9:14:06pm
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You can buy unused accounts already. Shade check here for information: https://horsephenomena.com/viewpost.php?id=101875

I'm against players selling accounts. As Sam said, the  mod  logs  do not wipe  clean even  if  an account  is  given away  so there's no way for a person  to know what sort of mod  box they're getting. Just  because we, as  staff, might know that you were  given  that  account doesn't necessarily change the accounts history. As  an aside, just make new accounts. Older  accounts  that  are inactive  are  cleaned  out.

If  your problem is  that you're not using the account, I  occassionally let people  borrow my accounts  for  the  upgrade time so t hat they can work  on lines meanwhile  I get shows,  tickets,  etc. It is what it is, but there's  not really a huge reason for  people  to  sell their spares  since anyone  can make  new accounts as l long as they stay within the HP legal  limit  for basics.




 

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Shade
February 27th, 2019 4:16:00pm
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Oh thank you for that link! 

Yeah the account I'd like is actually a 5 digit haha. Currently deactivated/no results in a search. But I think for $20 USD I'd be better off just upgrading. :) 




 

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siib 🦈 [ Gone ]
February 28th, 2019 3:38:07pm
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I like having certain account numbers and find that it's worth the price to own them, but I only do it when I really have the excess money hanging out. :)




 

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