Anyway to transfer gold from alliance to horde? (30k)

[NoobShammy]

The only thing to watch for are AH bots that sometimes snatch these things up. I've seen numerous CS forum postings about this when someone gets their loot bought up for cheap by someone else or an AH bot. There's nothing they can do if this happens.

Just for my own clarification, how can an AH bot buy my stack of silk (listed at the VERY reasonable price of 5,000 gold pieces), and me not be happy. Granted, my fairly affluent toon on the other faction didn't get the chance to buy the stack of silk, but I happen to have 3 lucky pieces of mageweave going for 3,000 gold each... only moderately higher than the current going price.

If I missed that "AH bot" alert on Auctioneer telling me to set the price at the last 3 day AH Bot buyout number, then I am definitely not using Auctioneer to it's fullest capability.
I am only slightly tongue in cheek on this. Where does this go wrong?

Thank you in advance for the education!

Dopledin

Both of you 2 are talking about different things

A) talking about item transfer - ie sell a very expensive item for 1cp
B) talking about gold transfer - ie selling a cheap item for very expensive.

Transfering gold is a nonissue for these bots. Transfering an item is a different story.

[Wide]

Howdy again,

Spoke to a Gamemaster today regarding this issue and it's 100% legal - aslong you own both accounts.

[HPB]

Quotes from this quest thread:

1) If Blizzard didn't want you to be able to buy your own items they could easily apply a filter to the AH so you could not see any of your own things based on the original account.

2) Spoke to a Gamemaster today regarding this issue and it's 100% legal - aslong you own both accounts.

The game is already set up so that you can't bid on your own items in the auction house. The game engine just doesn't account for multi-boxers. I would think that since they don't want a single-boxer bidding on their own items, they might have an issue with a multi-boxer doing that? Then again, they are separate accounts that you're paying for. I can't believe a GM stated it was fine BECAUSE you're on the same account when the game engine prevents self-bidding for single-boxers. Oh well. I wouldn't do it myself without confirming on my own server.

[Simulacra]

Ive used the neutral AH so many times to transfer gold I can't remember how many times. The things to buy are enchanting mats like large prismatic shards and greater planars, whatever. The nice thing about these is you don't pay an auction listing fee. I then sell them in the winterspring ah for a a few silver with both faction toons standing side by side with the ah screen up. I also make sure noone is around. It's a great way to get some nice gear too, sometimes the opposite faction ah will have something you've been after for ages but your faction ah doesn't have it, things like the Crystalforged sword for pallies. Then sell the enchanting mats on your ah or in trade.

[Bovidae]

Blizzard regularly hands out bans under the heading of Economy Manipulations when one person controls both sides of a neutral auctionhouse. Pre-TBC, a number of my guildies were banned for doing this with items they planned on selling on the main AHs. They weren't even deliberately trading gold...

Buying a stack of silk cloth of 10,000g is an easily identifiable transaction. I would recommend against it.

[Otlecs]

Since it's already BEEN CONFIRMED that trading your own gold across factions, using accounts that you personally own, is perfectly ok, I would very much like to see people stop posting mis-leading information in this thread.

I'm not surprised people get confused when searching sometimes.

It is perfectly ok to use a single over-valued grey item on the auction house to transfer funds, and there's no reason at all to avoid doing so. Even if it raises a flag somewhere (and, yes, it probably should), it will be adundantly clear that it's a cross-faction, not a cross-account trade.

And that's all we're talking about here - how to transfer gold from one faction to another, where both accounts are owned by the same person.

Here's the text of the Blue Post:

To reiterate - cross-faction trading like this is not considered to be exploitation, and players are free to do so if they do not mind incurring the costs associated.

And another one:

There seems to be a lot of players asking this lately.

What you speak of is perfectly legal Seijin, and we already have a development solution in place to discourage this kind of cross-faction trade, in that the cut for using the neutral AHs is quite a bit more than the regular ones.

If you are happy incurring such costs while transferring your gold over, then you are of course free to do so.

That's quite clear and unambiguous to me.

edit: me inglish not gud

[Aethon]

Cross faction is fine. I used to neutral AH snipe auctions and get a lot of harassment because people are dumb and expect their epic gem they put for 2s up to still be there when their other toon goes to buy it. Anyway, I contacted a GM about it (the sniping, not the faction transfers) he said there's nothing wrong with either, as it takes 2 accounts to make it work. If you own both, then there's not issues. He also said there's nothing wrong with the sniping, either, as someone who puts an item in the AH SHOULD expect it to sell if it's a great deal.

Putting a grey in for a lot of money isn't a worry, it's the blues and purples for 2 silver that you gotta watch out for.

I'm not the only one that trolls the AH's either, so keep that in mind all you out there for next time. ;-P

[Oswyn]

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