Crafting Commission Scams: What to Check Before You Hand Over Materials

It happens often: you gather expensive materials, ask someone to craft, and they take the materials and vanish. Once materials are handed over, there is almost no way to get them back.

Safest way: craft right in the trade window

The trade window has a slot where the other player uses a profession ability on your item (enchanting, for example). When you put your item in that slot, the work is done without the item changing hands. Use this method for any commission that can be done this way.

When you have to hand over materials

• Look up the crafter in the Armory and check their profession skill. Ask whether they really know the recipe, and if possible get a link to it.
• If you are ordering several items, hand over materials for one at a time and collect each one.
• Pay the crafting fee when you receive the finished item, in the same trade window.
• Write the agreement (materials, quantity, fee) in chat and take a screenshot.

Be suspicious of lines like these

• "I'm busy right now, give me the materials first and I'll mail it later."
• "You have to pay the fee first before I start."
• "The craft failed and your materials are gone." (Materials rarely disappear from a failed craft in the game.)