Quote Originally Posted by 'Catamer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=203943#post 203943
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.