Self-Style Hair kit... gone :S

#1 - Feb. 27, 2013, 12:09 p.m.
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Recently I purchased two Self-Style Hair kits from the cash shop, (when they were on sale), and this is indicated on my purchase history in game. I used one on one of my Charr characters and I should still have one left.

With yesterdays patch I noticed that the kits also have some new hair colours, so I wanted to check them out (particularly as I’d really like actual, real blue hair on my Asura, who has blue skin), but when I went to my bank, the hair kit is gone. And as I said, I only used one.

I have carefully examined the bags of each of my characters and my entire bank. But I cannot find them. My guess is that when the tool-tip on the item was updated to reference the exclusive hair colours, this caused a bug that removed my kit… but that’s just a guess.

I contacted customer support, and cannot fault them for their reply time which was within the hour, however they tell me there is no way to track items, or use of items or anything of that kind, so in short; there is nothing they can do.

So, I have given Anet money for something, they have ‘lost’ that something, and there is nothing they can do, so they get to keep the money. This seems very wrong to me. We are in 2013, systems should be in place to track and monitor these things, especially when real money is involved… heck Blizzard can tell me how many times my character has sneezed, but ya’ll can’t return my hair-style kit that you removed :S

#2 - Feb. 27, 2013, 12:34 p.m.
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This item was not updated at all. That is, it was updated to include more colors, but it was not changed in the main coding, so I can’t see of any reason how this would have been misplaced or taken out of the inventory with the build.

I’m happy to take a look at the ticket, though. Can you please give me the number?

#5 - March 13, 2013, 11:54 a.m.
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The team responded on 26 February. As they told you, “We have no way of tracking exactly what was done with the item nor are we able to see when it was used or deleted. I’m sorry that there’s not more that we can do in this case. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.”

The team did what they could, but they are unable to verify that the item disappeared, and there have been no additional tickets about this situation, nor is QA able to replicate any issue with the kit. I know this is not the answer you were hoping for, but it’s given after careful review and is the most accurate and appropriate response available for your request.