Looks like I bought that gold just in time. Not sure how I missed the announcement that it was coming today, but I did. Oh, wait. I missed it because my parents decided my house is the best one to have Thanksgiving at my house instead of theirs this year and my little pigsty is hardly fit for entertaining. I hate spending precious gaming time cleaning up. Thankfully, I logged in today and started the download early on so that I should be able to get a couple of hours in tonight, provided the kitchen doesn’t look like an abatoire.

I’m just really glad I had the sense to buy WoW gold before now. Prices are about to spike like mad, and I’d hate to have been one of the suckers who procrastinated about it and now have to pay that much more. Of course, there is the chance that someone will offer a special deal at some point coming up, but I wouldn’t count on it. Supply is going to be really low before long and they’ll want to raise prices a bit so that they don’t run out completely. Only thing worse than having really high prices is having no stock availabe at all. Kills business more thoroughly than anything else.

Anyway, just remember to be careful out there. The scammers will be out in force right now. They really love to capitalize on hype and releases, and I can’t think of a more lucrative time than this for them. I mean, think about it: Major patch just launched and will be followed in a mere two weeks by a major expansion. This means that there will be two weeks of frenzied buying where everyone and their dog is trying to get enough gold scraped up to make a difference in the new Azeroth. There can be no doubt that these will be dangerous times.

Best idea right now is to stick with well established sites that you know and trust. That’s why I bought from Toonstorm last time. I’ve known them for a long time and have never had a problem. Yes, their prices can sometimes go up during a crunch like this, but everyone’s do, so it’s hardly a major factor for me. What’s more important is just how safe it is for me to buy from them as opposed to just how much I drop.