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wrong, he can.
FatSmurf who was banned from SRF a while ago did it to his character, he charged back months of silk because he didn't want to sell his character (something like he didn't want other people using his name.. idk) but anyway, his character ICE_CUBE is banned and will stay like that.
Anyway, to the threadstarted, if you really want to do it, just either google how or go to the paypal help/support section - I think they have one.

edit; K, I believe that it is called fileing a Dispute. You can find out more about it in the Resolution Center of Paypal.
If that's it, you can chargeback all silk in the last 45 days, but it may take up to 20 days to receive the money as they say they want to 'investigate'. I doubt they would get a response from JM if they tried to contact them - which is why so many people CAN chargeback probably.

edit edit! Forgot one thing, if you do decide to do this, don't try charging more silk on another account because your paypal account will be blocked from joymax. (At least that's what I read.. and it makes sense)

Nothing wrong with caring "too much." It just shows your character. What does that say about a person if they are willing to make a purchase, have someone "steal" it from them, and then turn around and steal the money back from the company?

That's what this whole chargeback thing is all about. You buy silk, you give away your account info to a "friend". That "friend" turns around and "hacks" your account and you are pissed. Then you blame Joymax and take your money back?

If you bought cell phone service from Verizon and let me borrow your phone, then I used up a bunch of your minutes, would you steal money from Verizon to reimburse yourself?

I say go for it

This man speaks the truth, if you don't agree then you're fuckin sad.

yeah sure, when joymax become responsible and bans bots (dont come with they make new acc bullshit, they could ban ip and mask)

If you have a conscience DO IT.

If you have morality DON"T

What does that have to do with ANYTHING? He lost his account and wants his money back from a service he has already received. He lost his account. HE lost it..not joymax. Now had this been the portal screwup; sure, chargeback every last penny. Where the banning of bots plays a role here, I fail to see.

Some of you people amaze me..

i must be fuckin sad then, cuz what i'm seeing is prometheus comparing a sad excuse for a company like joymax to the great phone company verizon.

u really shouldn't compare the two cuz very little can come of it.

since sro is actually a free game, and you're deciding for urself to pay for the game, u have all the right to take that back. for verizon, you have to pay for their services, however, verizon gives top quality service, while joymax gives shitty service. would u initially pay for a shitty product? i think not. if sro was pay to play, and the state of the game got this bad, i don't doubt that most of you will chargeback the last six months and go on to newer games.

lol other Games have Customer Support that will fully Restore your char if your Hacked,

joymax does not respect there customers, so there customers should not respect joymax
(where cash is involved)

hes not comparing them!! no ones comparing companies, it's doesn't have anything to do with joymax or verizon , their services or, online games, cellphones or any of that. He's making an example to say that you need to have some responsibility as a customer, if you think the product/service is bad than stop buying it, don't turn around and try to take advantage of them in a dishonest way, or at least dont try to make justifications for it. Do you see anything about crappy joymax in there? It's not a silkroad issue it's a honesty/morality issue.

then we come from two schools of thought.

joymax forfeited their rights when they betrayed their customers with shitty service and had the audacity to say that they're "doing their best". they weren't exactly honest with us, why should we be honest with them? don't lose ur sleep over this, cuz joymax can stand to lose a couple hundred $.

You really dont get it do you.. If you get hacked than where does the Honesty/Morality issue come into play?

Do you remember the Portal hackings? Joymax pretty much said to there customers FCK off we dont care abt you, They denied it was there fault, they left the bug open for weeks even tho people where madly reporting it in bug abuse.

so yeah.. honesty/morality to this company?

If your account is not hacked, and you charge back just because you are bored of the game, maybe than can you discuss honesty/morality to charge backs.

U dont GET hacked tho. W/e u can commit fraud. What your doing is illegal [not that you care], and if the company cared i'd laugh when u get fined out ur ass. You lost and account so you are going to make another person lose what they EARNED? its OBVIOUS you enjoyed the game and thats y u were buying silk. no point in arguing with kids tho.

Ya i do remember those, alot of people do.. and they are still continue playing the game, continue doing business with jaymax. there are lots of convenient reasonings like that to be made, but whatever they do though is still not a reason to do something dishonest of your own, thats what everyone is saying here. you know two wrongs dont make a right beside joymax has their term of service so all can see how they will act, where is your term of service? lol

your a lost cause

If the company Cared they would have a Customer Support, which would probally eliminate any need at all for chargeback
You cannot say it is Illegal to do a Chargeback if you cannot even Contact a employee to discuss other options,
If charegeback is Illegal like you say, than proove it, where does joymax say that chargeback is illegal? chargeback is the only fckn point of defence you have against this shthole company

Your comment might have some merit if it was actually Joymax's fault that the account got "hacked". People cry "hack" all the time when they give their account info out to a "friend" and then lose their gear. That's not a hack. That is not Joymax's fault.



It doesn't matter how much of a "sad excuse for a company" Joymax is. The principles are the same. You purchase a service (whether you're required to or not). Someone "steals" some of that service from you. Then you steal the money back that you gave to the company for those services.

If I go to the county fair, buy a bunch of tickets, and get pickpocketed (not the fair's fault), should I go back and take my money out of the ticket booth's cash register? What if the ticket seller hands my tickets to the person behind me (the fair's fault)? Should I take my money out of the register? It's the same thing. It doesn't matter what my opinion of the fair itself is.

If the company screws you over, you don't return the favor. This isn't supposed to be an eye for an eye.

Yes do the charge back. Sometimes you just got to cut your losses. It is a double plus because you will be doing "damage" to the hacker on the side. Loss-Loss-Loss situation for you, the hacker and Joymax. Oh well, when some people try to make other 's life miserable, usually everyone suffers together.

i think a more plausable example would be
If i go to the country fair, buy a bunch of tickets,and get pickpocketed, but luckily there is a security camera that recorded the event so i can formally lodge a complaint. and hopefully the thief is identified and punished.

Everything that happens on the servers is logged!!
Joymax Know accounts get Hacked all the time, but they turn a blind eye to it.
Stop acting like Joymax is the innocint victim in this

He didn't got hacked, there is no hacking in sro. People create such stories, so they don't feel stupid for sharing their infos, op is a fuckin crybaby. If there would be any serious hacking going on now, why no one steals the 9d sun weapons? Wouldn't that be better? If i want to rob a bank, I would rather rob the biggest one, and not the smallest one.

there you have it.

Charging back the way he is doing it IS illegal. That sir, is called FRAUD. Don't know what fraud is?
deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
*http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fraud*
He spent his money, and now is taking it ALL BACK. Not truely GAINING a profit, but he is taking money from the company.

As others have pointed out, what you fail to realize is that 99% of the time, SRO accounts are not hacked. Hacking would be if someone performs an exploit against Joymax's servers, gains unauthorized access, finds out where your account info is, changes it or accesses it, etc... In that case, Joymax created the vulnerability (or didn't patch it) and allowed people to exploit it.

If you give me your password, I log in and steal your stuff, I didn't hack you. Joymax can see that I logged into your account, but that doesn't make it a hack. The only thing they might possibly do about that is ban you for sharing your account (if account sharing is against TOS).

Aside from account sharing rules, why should Joymax care if you allow someone else to log onto your account and steal your stuff? It's not their job to prevent your "friend" from robbing you if YOU gave him/her permission to log in. It's your fault.

you never know how this feels until happend to you. i used to have a nice wizz lvl 64 at ODIN that was hacked not even this im not able to loogin with it any more.

how this happend, a friend ask me to lvl up him and told him i cant because i have to work that i could give him my account info. he download a illegat software with keylogger on it.

I've had 3 accounts scammed... I know how it feels but you get over it... I had a 79 wizard [in odin] and 2 other accounts scammed from me. Now I have a lv 89 rogue and i'm well on my way. You get over it if you enjoy playing the game..

it's not an eye for an eye, it's and eye for a strand of hair. u really think joymax needs the couple $ u put into ur char? sure, it is a morality issue, but i choose to disregard all that because joymax could care less what their customers think. it actually does matter how bad the company is. i have this mentality of if they don't respect me, i don't respect them. the business world is built on mutual trust and understanding. we don't have that wit joymax at all. what's to stop them from stopping silkroad netime? nothing except they won't cuz they get so much profit. so if they can stop their service netime they want, why shouldn't we at netime take back our money for a shitty product?

ur county fair and verizon examples are fine, but they don't hold up to joymax one bit. u'r thinking of this in nice whole numbers, the ones and twos that make the world an easier place, but u'r forgetting the decimals and imaginary numbers. it's 1.01, 2.02. 2i etc. beneath that nice morality are more factors that you have to consider.

Joymax should ban you for sharing your account information. Sharing your account information is against the Terms of Service. If you purchased something and received it then something unfortunate happened (after you used the item) due to your own stupidity you have no right to take the money back.

@ToloseGT, funny thought: Its ok if one person charges back, correct? Now, recently I have come to the conclusion that most SRO players think like you, short-sighted and want to have fun, thats ok. I'm fine with fun but they(the players) lack the ability to see beyond the horizon. They see what is in front of them but never bother to reason further, well, before I start rambling:

If there are more people like you, which there are, imagine if they all shared their information (like the op). Say the person they shared their account with stole their items. (*Note: At this point it does not involve Joymax, clearly a case of a stupidity) Now, these people are angry. The only person to blame is themselves but humans, as short-sighted as we are, will find a scapegoat. The scapegoat had no hand in the stolen items, nonetheless, they blame Joymax. Now if a handful of people charge back it is fine. Say several thousand charge backed, what then? How about Several Hundred Thousand (Note* Over a short time span). Yes, they get their money back but their inability to think of others causes them to lose something greater: The game.

~ A Thing to keep in mind: Every action has a consequence, when said action is taken (near simultaneously) by several Users the consequence builds. In the end those Users who take part in such Actions only hasten the death of what they 'love'. Define love as you want, I have no time for semantics.

~ Silkroad Forums, is a Legit forum. For that reason I won't allow members to teach others how to commit fraud. Charge back is equivalent to CCF and therefore an Illegitimate action.

isn't it nice to think that several hundred thousand will chargeback? except it's not gonna happen. realistically, there are more people like me who will chargeback than there are people like prometheus who is much too lenient. people like me won't just chargeback for no good reason though. losing an accnt is a very good reason to chargeback, but not everyone who lose their accnt to stupidity will chargeback, and even less people lose their accnts, which brings the numbers to such a small percentage of the player population that joymax won't even feel the loss. we should feel lucky that real hackers don't waste their time on player accnts.

don't judge me too harsh though. i'm only like this to joymax because they piss me off greatly. barotix, u make a good point, but it's much too broad. i'm singling joymax out.

I'm not being harsh. You're a great member and player, its just when I read the word charge back first two things I think of are: CCF and Consequences. Most of my examples are very unrealistic.

haha, i guess we can agree to disagree. i've only chargebacked ever because of joymax, i didn't even know u could till i started playing sro. this is a singular case, and i'm certainly not an immoral person.

much love ^_^