Transfering gold from Alliance to Horde char -- is this allowed?

[JPaterson]

I play on a PvE server, so I can have a Horde and Alliance character on the realm. What I want to do is transfer money from my main to my new Horde, and I thought of a way that I can. However, I want to ask before I do.

Say my Horde character has 10 linen cloth. I go to a neutral auction house (like Tanaris), and put those 10 linen cloth on for a buyout of 100g. Then, I use my Alliance character to purchase that linen, and voila, my Horde has 100g.

Is this allowed, or would it be considered a form of bypass to Blizzard?

[Dark Matter]

You cannot do it that way.

The game won't allow the same account holder to sell from one side to another using diff characters from the same account. In the same way as it won't let you create a Horde and Alliance character on the same PvP server (but you can on PvE)

You'll need to get a friend to help you. There is a 15% tax on Neutral faction auction houses to take into account too.


http://forums.worldofwar.net/showpost.php?p=3867983&postcount=12

[Kanjin]

That's actually a common way for people to transfer stuff from different faction alts. Like say you have a 60 alliance and you farm traveler's backpacks, then give them over to your lowbie horde to sell. I've seen it done, haven't heard of any bannings for it.

[Dark Matter]

Kanjin,

If you have a horde character - Jack - and an Alliance character - Jill - on the same server, the game will not allow Jack to buy anything that Jill puts on the neutral AH and vice versa.

You need another player (or another account) to effect the sale.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Dark Matter is most definitely correct on this.

[Puffen]

Well, it didn't really answer the thread though. So, Is it against the policy/EULA?

[JediMaster]

I don't think it is against EULA as you are not buying or selling Gold, all you are doing is transferring it between your characters, so you have actually worked for the gold. In fact Blizzard actually benefit from this as you lose 15% of your asking price due to the auction house cut.

I am pretty sure there are loads of players that have done this, as I have seen some ridiculous prices on Booty Bay's auction house, 150G for 2 chunks of boar meat.

[myusernameistaken]

I am pretty sure there are loads of players that have done this, as I have seen some ridiculous prices on Booty Bay's auction house, 150G for 2 chunks of boar meat.

I always wonder if that's there to mess Auctioneer up... :mad:

[unbdm]

After reading about a bans for things such as climbing on roofs to avoid guards, kiting kaz into stormwind, I tend to think Blizz can and will ban anytime they want to, and thier "want" may be random. However, i would do it, it's not causing distress to other players, and I can't imagine that being an offense to get banned for.

[Underling]

not a straight answer but..

If you put a high price for an item hoping to receive that gold on another faction's char, you'll lose a lot of gold in AH interest cut. That really hurts if you deal with a large amount.

Back in the day before BC, I'd buy something that sells well for either faction and for about the same price, then put it up on a neutral AH for, say, 10s, and then buy it out REAL QUICK. Then I'd sell it on my faction's AH for the normal amount. This way you don't lose as much gold on the transfer and even maybe make some profit, for example when you do this thing with arcanite crystal bars. You could buy it for 25g on Alliance AH, and sell for 30g on Horde AH.

The trick was to be really quick while buying out your own auction, lest you get some stranger hospitalised with a heart attack after he's just bought a arcanite bar for 10s somewhere in Gadgetzan.

Ofc nowadays with crazy BC prices, this might be tricky. Altho I am thinking that fel/adamantite bars, aldor/scryer marks, maybe the 18-slot bags could still work

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Well, it didn't really answer the thread though. So, Is it against the policy/EULA?

No, it is not a violation of the EULA to do this. Transferring goods from one character to another, or one account to another is all that is happening. There is no sale for real-world money involved. The neutral auction house was implemented so that there could be a controlled method of one faction being able to sell things to the other faction -- if Blizzard did not want this to happen, they'd never have put the neutral auction houses in in the first place. They honestly don't care *who* on the other faction gets the said item (as long as your own characters don't get it from the auction house -- which is put in place more as a rule to make things more difficult, but not impossible), and especially don't care what is done with said item, including giving it to someone else.

Now, for transferring money -- I've always found that it is 100% easier and more cost effective to coordinate with someone else on this. If, let's say, you have 100 gold on your Alliance character you want to give to your Horde character, and you know someone (trustworthy, like a friend or guildmate) who has 100 gold on a Horde character and wants to give it to his or her Alliance character, simply arrange it so that you transfer your 100 Alliance gold to that individual's Alliance character, and that person transfers his or her 100 Horde gold to your Horde character. That way, there isn't the 15% loss of funds from doing this.

And you'd need to have some trustworthy individual to help you in using the neutral auction house anyway....