this thread seriously made me giggle...

I'm a member of an endgame guild - however I no longer raid. The other members, are currently on KJ, and has been farming BT for months (server firsts, all down the line from Gruul to M'uru).

We buy consumables and enchanting mats from Alliance AH on our realm, cause the prices are more favourable due to higher alliance population. And I shit you not, we transfer 100k gold+ every month, most often in the form of mats though.

Sometimes, people reroll on our server, from alliance to horde, or vice versa. They often want their accumulated wealth with them, and we setup a trade (provided we know the person). Last time, was about 42k gold, that he had on alliance, and wanted on horde. That's a good trade, seeing as we skip the 15% AH fee.

And I cannot put it simpler than this: if you did not obtain your gold through botting or goldspam/selling companies, you are free to trade, treat or destroy it any way you like.

"but this looks like a way to avoid the 15% fee, would this not piss off blizzard ?" - answer: NO, why on earth would it ? both people doing a trade like this, are putting up 42k gold to a "stranger" and one of them have to press accept first....

it's a risk, which might feel even more daunting than neutral AH sinking 15% of your fortune...

anyways, we've traded gold and stuff crossfaction since the guild was formed in december. 2005. Same officer been doing it all the time, so an estimate would be, he's traded more than a million gold.