Hi there, I don’t know if Anet can help me here, but I was just inquiring about a refund of gathering tools I had purchased in the past.
You see, I deleted quite a few infinite gathering tools from some of my previous alts simply because I wanted to re-roll my characters, and I knew that since the gathering tools (at the time) were soulbound, there wasn’t any point putting them in the bank because I’d have to keep my alts to exchange them for account bound ones if there were any changes in the future (and with limited character slots, why would I keep those alts? Knowing account bound gathering tools may have never come).
In hindsight if I knew the gathering tools were going to be account bound, I would have just waited :-( I spent at least $100 real life cash on getting enough gems for those gathering tools for my alts too (I kitted them out pretty well). I was gutted when deleting them, but knew that the day they’d become account bound would most likely never come – how wrong was I?
Needless to say it was a huge 4,800+ gem mistake (yes I know you get 8,000 gems with $100, I bought other things too y’know ;-P), and a lot of real life money down the drain.
I don’t know if it’s refundable because I deleted my alts, but surely it would show in my transaction history anyway? I have 100+ emails and delete all my irrelevant old transactions so I won’t have any record of it, but Anet would probably have a list of what I have bought in the past hopefully, and see how many gathering tools I actually have on me in-game.
I’m not talking about the infinite tools on my elementalist (Audacious Ignatius) or the recent account bound bone pick I just bought for my necro (Avakos Spinechill), I’m talking about some of the consortium harvesting sickles I bought for my alts a while back, and possibly 1 or 2 alliance mining picks I may have bought? Though not completely sure on the lost pickaxes. Anet might know. What I 100% do remember buying though was at least 2 harvesting sickles for my alts though (Devon Thackeray – a ranger I once had which had a consortium harvesting sickle, since deleted, and Atreyu Dreammaker, a Mesmer I once had which had the other sickle on him, since deleted)
But yeah, just wondering if it was possible to get a refund for those deleted permanent gathering tools, or whether it’s just a case of ‘should have held on to the alts incase of this account bound gathering tool update/change’.
I thought I would post this anyway, because it’s better to ask and know where you stand, than to let something go and forever ask ‘what if’.
Thx for reading
