How to find a trustable marketplace for Guild Wars 2

The gaming community has grown a lot since the past few years. Right now is one the niches that creates cash flow in a way that no other can. It's a changing environment where you as a user, player or developer have to adapt as soon as you can so you can take a look at the big picture.

If we go back to where videogames were, we can see that they were just that. Games.

Now, it's a whole different level because there's even a market for each game where people can go and buy or sell items, gold, accounts, etc, outside the actual game. All of this paid with real money. Most of this marketplaces are focused on MMORPGs like WOW, AION, Lineage II, Guild Wars 2, among others.

Even though there is an official market in the game, where you can buy and sell stuffs to NPCs and players, it's not the same because profit is king.

GW2 Market - What is it?

So now, I'd like to talk about the GW2 Market. Since this is a game that came out in 2012, it has come a long way with updates, patches and stories so that people can keep enjoying the title.

Throughout the years, it developed an extraofficial market community in a lot of sites, such as reddit and other forums where people gathered around and trade. Back then, the danger was high because there weren't any kind of securities for traders and people got scammed a lot. So a lot of users got scared of this type of transactions.

Finding a trustable source on the internet is a really hard task to do.

The internet is full of dark places that can get people scammed without a blick of an eye. You can look at reviews from good authoritative forum all you want but reality is that you can't trust them unless you actually see the website they're talking about for yourself.

How to find a proper website to trade

So, you got to follow 2 simple steps for this:

Look for recommendations in trustable monitors

Forums can't work as a reliable source of information since anyone can write a comment there. You need to focus on finding websites that dedicate time to review each opportunity that they find.

They're called monitors or rated marketplaces, as they like to call themselves now. They will help you to find good trading chances so you can be secure throughout the entire transaction.

A few of them I've found with the years are: MMOAuctions and Seller and Friends. If you check them out you can see pages like this:

If you notice, they have a rating that serves as a guideline for users to find out if that market is reliable. They also have a thumbs up rating that shows how many people have used that option to make a sell or a purchase.

Look for secure payment options

The last thing you need to do is look for safe payment options.

For example: If you look at an opportunity to buy some GW2 gold and you find a trader with the amount you're looking for, then you must ask or research if he/she accepts payment methods like Paypal.

This is a really secure way to pay digital products because you can get a refund if you don't receive the thing paid for within the next 60 days of you purchase.