Anyone tried transferring money from Alliance -> Horde or Vice Versa on the same server?

[Khatovar]

I used the neutral AH all the time to build up a nest egg when I went back for BC. Transferring thorium from alliance to horde and solid stone of all things from horde to alliance. The problem with trading goods to sell for money is finding something that people are actually buying. Expansions and large patches usually saw a surge in something, but I didn't see very much of that with Wrath, and by now the market is probably pretty quiet. Even twink items were hard to sell on my server by the time I left.

/who is your friend. While flying my toons from each side to an AH, I just /who Gadgetzan, /who Tanaris and /who Winterspring on each side. Anyone under about 20 is most likely sitting there scanning the AH.

Set up what you're going to buy before you post it. I always put the item I'm looking to buy in the search, search for it once and then put it up on the other toon. This way I know if there's another one up so I don't accidently buy the wrong one and don't have to waste precious seconds typing it in while it's posted.

Not sure if it's still this way in the default interface, but in Auctioneer, bids don't require confirmation, buyouts do. Setting the bid and buyout the same lets you just bid to win, saving you a second or two. If it's an item I don't want to potentially lose, I tend to use a higher price. People scanning the neutral AH for profit are looking for the people posting things for less than a few gold to save on AH fees.

Transferring money directly is easy, though. No one is going to pay 2k for a stack of linen.

[Bettysue]

Iused to put common items up on the AH for ridiculous amounts of money (ie Linen for 1000G, 2000G) and every now and then I'd get a nice "check in the mail." I did this till a guy whispered me and told me I stole his money because i put the item up for sale...eventually I was messaged by a GM and they suggested I give the guy his money back. No action was taken but to avoid the harrasment I stopped doing it.

[Catamer]

someone said that selling and buying on the same account ( horde->alliance ) was illegal while selling horde->alliance on two seperate accounts was fine.
Does anyone know if this is true? if it is true we should let everyone know the proper rules.

I have sold stuff accoss accounts. It's usually something collected or made like herbs, ore or bags and I sell them cheap like 1c and buy them back on the opposite account.
I have both accounts open at the same time auction & buy in like 10 seconds. I figure if someone out buys me in that 10 seconds then they deserve to have it... it's never happened though.
I've never tried to move much in the way of gold because I usually find my mboxing teams have no problem making their own gold. I just move enough gold to seed my character ( like 100G ) which you can do with selling some linen cloth for 100G each.

[falsfire3401]

someone said that selling and buying on the same account ( horde->alliance ) was illegal while selling horde->alliance on two seperate accounts was fine.
Does anyone know if this is true? if it is true we should let everyone know the proper rules.

I have sold stuff accoss accounts. It's usually something collected or made like herbs, ore or bags and I sell them cheap like 1c and buy them back on the opposite account.
I have both accounts open at the same time auction & buy in like 10 seconds. I figure if someone out buys me in that 10 seconds then they deserve to have it... it's never happened though.
I've never tried to move much in the way of gold because I usually find my mboxing teams have no problem making their own gold. I just move enough gold to seed my character ( like 100G ) which you can do with selling some linen cloth for 100G each.

The game client will actually not allow you to sell/buy from the AH on the same account. So if you have horde and alliance toons on the same PVE realm, same account, and you post the auction then try to buy it, it will tell you "you cannot bid on your own auctions".

It's not that it's illegal, it's just plain not allowed by the game client. You have to use separate accounts to buy/sell across the neutral AH. If you're ever in a situation where on a particular server you don't have toons from separate accounts, you can either get a lowbie to booty bay pretty easy (horde: zep to grom'gol then swim, alliance, run to westfall then swim), or find a trusted friend to do the neutral AH trade with.

[Caspian]

I have also directly traded gold with people. Check your realm forums for people looking to trade or post yourself if need be. I would only do this with two accounts one logged onto horde and one logged onto alliance so that there is gold visible in all the trade windows at the same time. If the other person doesn't have two accounts have them get a friend they trust to do one side of the trade.

Even though it would seem that this would fall under the Scam policy Blizzard has said that because the trade falls outside of normal game play it is unsupported. Ahh I found it
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#6 <- blue response stating as much. Also addresses cross ream gold for gold transfers which is pretty much the same thing.

[Dorffo]

Figure its probably been answered enough Gares... but FWIW - I used to run a money-transfer service on Blackhand during 1.0 days, never had any issues. Started out going through the Neutral AH, eventually had enough gold on both sides that I could just do trades.

Pricing: I'd do 1:1 trades for people I knew, 5% charge on larger sums for people that I didn't know.

[Maxion]

If you're ever in a situation where on a particular server you don't have toons from separate accounts, you can either get a lowbie to booty bay pretty easy (horde: zep to grom'gol then swim, alliance, run to westfall then swim), or find a trusted friend to do the neutral AH trade with.

Easier for horde to run to ratchet and take the boat straight to booty bay. That way you run through lower level areas with less mobs (near where you run).
I think you can even swim/run straight from the orc/troll starting area to ratchet by going out the "secret passage" that is used for the shaman quest, and avoiding the higher lvl mobs in the water by ratchet.