It’s been nearly two weeks now since the launch of our Open Beta, and so far the response from the community has really outmatched our expectations. As I write this update, there are now well over 35,000 For Sale Offers and Wanted Offers posted across over 1,100 MMO games and servers. In World of Warcraft US alone, there is now over 35,000,000 WoW gold for sale at prices that give buyers and sellers a better deal than can be found elsewhere.

PlayerGuardian has also been a phenomenal success over these past two weeks. Our whole team is very proud to announce that even with all the thousands of dollars in transactions being processed each day on PlayerAuctions, each buyer’s order was delivered or has been refunded, and not a single seller was impacted by a fraudulent payment. Never before has there been a marketplace for players across all MMO games in our region of the world to directly, and securely trade their digital assets. Together, we’re all a part of this better future.

There is also positive news to share regarding the future ability to securely buy and sell game accounts on PlayerAuctions. Given the strong progress we’ve made here over the past two weeks, it can now be announced that we will be officially launching secure account trade services during the month of June. Until this time, and for your security, please be sure not to post any account offers as this violates our Offer Policies.

We’ve also released some updates tonight to further enhance our marketplace.

• Community Contests: For a limited time only, we’ll be giving away a free 2007 BlizzCon card once each week to a very lucky PlayerAuctions member. If you’re not familiar with this incredibly rare item, they were exclusively distributed to participants in the 2007 BlizzCon. The cards provide beta access to Blizzard's next MMO as well as a World of Warcraft Murloc costume.

We didn’t stop just there either. We’ve also kicked off a weekly Screenshot & Caption Contest that should be fun and rewarding for the whole community to participate in.

• Featured For Sale Offers: We have implemented phase 1 of this feature. Currently, this section will only be available to our PowerSellers whose For Sale Offers will be randomly selected for inclusion. Rest assured we have many more plans to further enhance this high visibility area of our homepage in the future and open it up for more members to participate in.

• And more: Numerous other bug fixes and feature enhancements have also been completed.

Until next time, let us know your thoughts. As always, we will be listening.

Best regards,

Josiah

Managing Director
PlayerAuctions