Here’s another heartwarming story of some good people in WoW. A player got two Bind on Equip items worth a lot of gold but didn’t quite catch where they came from. Despite needing the gold quite a bit, they are trying to find out where the items came from and return them if they weren’t earned! Not only that, but the items actually caused a bit of an argument over where exactly they could have come from at all!
A Good Azerothian
SanguinPanguin got a very unexpected surprise in the mail one day, receiving not one but two very valuable epic BoE items in their mail. After grabbing their mail and not focusing on the items too much, SanguinPanguin realized what they had received, but by then, the actual mail that brought them was gone! After checking the local Auction House, it turned out the items were worth around a million gold. But instead of just counting their lucky stars and selling them, especially since they describe themselves as always being “gold poor”, SanguinPanguin went to Reddit to try and find a way of returning the items… if they were sent by a player.
The Heated Debate
This is where the argument part comes in. Because of course, there legally can’t be a Reddit thread without someone telling someone else they’re wrong, actually. The most likely thing we’d all think of when this happens is the Postmaster. We often get sent things we didn’t loot in the mail. And when it comes to BoEs, the most logical source would be the Liberation of Undermine raid. SanguinPanguin did raid before the mail arrived, but this is where things got debate-y.
Many players claim you do not get BoE loot sent to your mail if you don’t loot it. They even have an official Blizzard support post confirming it!
The Postmaster will not send the following loot to your in-game mail:
- Quest items
- Items left on corpses in the outside world
- Bind on Equip items
- Items gained from Fishing, Herbalism, or Mining
- Currencies
However, just as many players swear that they did, in fact, receive BoEs from the raid in their mail. This includes one player getting it during a raid and grabbing it off a nearby brutosaur mailbox in between pulls! There isn’t any explicit evidence for this, but it seems unlikely that so many players just misremembered or are wrong. It’s possible both things are correct. The Postmaster may not be supposed to send BoEs to your mail, but it still might occasionally happen sometimes, because bugs.
The Conclusion
Whatever the Postmaster’s mail policy regarding BoEs is, SanguinPanguin still got the items! And since there isn’t really a way to find out who sent them, they’ll also keep them. Shockingly, no one in the thread courageously said it was them who sent the items and want them back! And so SanguinPanguin will get their 1 million gold after all, also at least trying to do a good deed along the way. The moral of the story? Maybe if you’re nice, you’ll get 1 million gold randomly mailed to you?
Did you ever have a similar random benefactor send you something? What did/would you do?
