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CCP policy on purchasing items fromn third party sites?

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Savage Hawk
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2016-05-10 14:46:42 UTC
Could someone point me to CCP's policy on this?
Lan Wang
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2016-05-10 15:00:14 UTC
what are you thinkin of purchasing as pretty much anything ingame for rl cash rmt, plex is slightly different

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Erin Oswell
WiNGSPAN Delivery Services
WiNGSPAN Delivery Network
#3 - 2016-05-10 15:04:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Erin Oswell
As far as I know, these sites are currently the only authorized vendors for plex etc, good for saving money on multibuys of plex;
https://secure.eveonline.com/etc.aspx

I would be extremely cautious about buying from other sites not explicitly approved by CCP, there may be others of course but going from that list is a good place to start if you want to be 100% sure it's above board.

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Savage Hawk
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2016-05-10 15:07:38 UTC
TY so far for the responses, this seems like something I would not want to risk if I can not verify via official policy or statement. I will look at the link provided above.
ISD Fractal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#5 - 2016-05-10 15:38:29 UTC
Just keep in mind that you cannot buy anything in-game for real currency with the exception of items sold by CCP (PLEX, Aurum) or their authorized partners (PLEX, game time codes). If it seems too good to be true, or if someone is trying to get you to buy in-game ISK, ships, etc for real currency then I would steer clear!

ISD Fractal

Lieutenant

Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)

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Savage Hawk
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2016-05-10 17:17:57 UTC
ISD Fractal wrote:
Just keep in mind that you cannot buy anything in-game for real currency with the exception of items sold by CCP (PLEX, Aurum) or their authorized partners (PLEX, game time codes). If it seems too good to be true, or if someone is trying to get you to buy in-game ISK, ships, etc for real currency then I would steer clear!



Thanks for the clarification. I'm happy to support the game in an official manner.
Memphis Baas
#7 - 2016-05-10 18:02:26 UTC
And since you asked, this is the official policy. Sections of note:

2. Account
3. Account / Character Transfer

6A. Restricted Conduct
6B. Selling items or objects.
ergherhdfgh
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2016-05-10 21:41:34 UTC
ISD Fractal wrote:
Just keep in mind that you cannot buy anything in-game for real currency with the exception of items sold by CCP (PLEX, Aurum) or their authorized partners (PLEX, game time codes). If it seems too good to be true, or if someone is trying to get you to buy in-game ISK, ships, etc for real currency then I would steer clear!

I think what the OP was looking for was how he could tell if a vendor is an authorized partner or not. I'm guessing that Erin's link took care of that.

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