Traffic Stats
- Keywords: gaming, game, wow, worldofwarcraft, virtualgoods
PR: 0
Adult Site: no
IP: 109.75.110.146
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TechCrunch
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No Griefing: Virtual Currency Market Sparter Shuts Down
Looks like you?re going to have to earn your phat lootz the hard way. Sparter, an online marketplace for virtual game currencies that launched last year, has effectively shut d...Read more... -
AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network
The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL ...Read more... -
Sparter Launches, Go Buy Some World of Warcraft Gold
Sparter, a stealth startup founded by Bessemer Venture Partners, launched this evening. They are jumping into the middle of the estimated $1 billion market for buying and selli...Read more...
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Company
Summary

- Company Name: Sparter
- Homepage: http://sparter.com
- Blog: http://sparter.com/c/category/commentary/
- Category: games_video
- Founded: 1-Jun-2007
- Tags: gaming, game, wow, worldofwarcraft, virtualgoods
- Overview:
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A company put together by Bessemer Venture Partners, Sparter was a virtual goods exchange for buying and selling virtual currencies in games like World of Warcraft (WOW), EverQuest, Eve and others. Users would sign up and either buy or sell virtual currencies at market prices.
Unlike other services, Sparter allowed users to both buy and sell cirtual currency. In late 2007 the average price for 100 gold in WOW was anywhere between $15 and $20. Prices were proportional to delivery time (in world) and sellers average rating.
As of May 15th the company removed the ability to place all new orders.
People
| Name | Title |
| Clive Beavis | VP of Engineering |
| Rob Veres | VP of Marketplace |
| Name | Title |
| Boris Putanec | Co-founder and CTO |
| Dan Kelly | Co-founder and CEO |
| Yoshi Maruyama | Board |







