Need help transferring gold to a different server and faction

[Blakeosaurus]

Hey,

I was wondering if anyone had an ally character on Lightning's Blade and a horde character on Darrowmere that would be willing to hep me exchange some gold. I have an ally character on Lightning's Blade that I don't use anymore and he has some extra gold, so if I could give your ally character on LB the gold, and you could give me the same amount on my Darrowmere horde character, that would be awesome. Please let me know if you are able and willing to do this.

Thanks!

[Your Average WoW Player]

There is no legitmate way to move gold from one server to another.

Faction to faction on the same servers works, but not from server to server.

[Blakeosaurus]

ok thank you

[Khab]

While I can understand the desire to do this, you're setting yourself up for problems. What's to keep someone from taking your gold and not giving you any?

You're better off transferring your character to the other server for the $25 fee. That is if you're going from PVP->PVP or PVP->PVE or PVE->PVE. Then just use the neutral auction house to transfer the gold.

[elsegundo]

its the risk he is willing to take.

sorry i dont play on those servers.

[zodiac66]

While I can understand the desire to do this, you're setting yourself up for problems. What's to keep someone from taking your gold and not giving you any?

You're better off transferring your character to the other server for the $25 fee. That is if you're going from PVP->PVP or PVP->PVE or PVE->PVE. Then just use the neutral auction house to transfer the gold.

Just remember the high fees using the neutral AH. I did that for my alli and took a pretty big hit. And iirc, you still need to have someone else bid and win on your item so the issue of trust still plays a part.

[PlayThemAll]

You can do it easily with two accounts and the willingness to pay for a character transfer. Unless you have a really large sum of gold, and they limit you by characters level, it's not worth it.

I don't have characters on either of those realms.


And yes, the neutral AH takes a very large chunk out of the sale.

[Khab]

Yeah, I do hate that about the neutral AH.

Why can't his own character buy out something on the neutral AH? He puts a cheap item up for 5000G, then logs in with another toon and does a buyout. I'm pretty sure that's how people do it.

[PlayThemAll]

Yeah, I do hate that about the neutral AH.

Why can't his own character buy out something on the neutral AH? He puts a cheap item up for 5000G, then logs in with another toon and does a buyout. I'm pretty sure that's how people do it.

You can't buy out your own auctions. (based on account, not character) You need to have a friend do it or have multiple accounts.

[Khab]

Ah, I had no idea. I could have sworn I read something about people doing that to transfer money without involving someone else. Oh, well. So much for that idea.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

There is no legitmate way to move gold from one server to another.

Faction to faction on the same servers works, but not from server to server.

Actually, the trick I think the OP wanted is possible, just it has certain risks involved.

Between my roommate and myself, we'll exchange gold, and it is completely legitimate too. We tend to play on the same server, but it easily can be done across different servers as well.

As an example, I have a high-level Horde character with a lot of money, he has a high-level Alliance character with a lot of money. If he wants to transfer his Horde character some money.. all he does is he gives my Alliance character some money with his Alliance character (who has money), and then my Horde character (who has money) gives his Horde character the same amount of money he gave my Alliance character. And presto, it effectively becomes equivalent to him transferring gold from Alliance to Horde.

This same technique could be used for characters on two different servers, which I'm assuming is what the OP was asking about.

The inherent risk is, of course, that you are putting trust in whoever is volunteering to help out, to actually follow through with the trade. If you give the person's character some gold, you then are trusting that the person in question will give your character on the other server the same amount of gold. If you expect him or her to give your other character the gold first, then he/she is putting trust in you that you will follow-through with the transfer on the original server.

Either way, there is a lot of trust involved. Trust that might be easily misplaced with a stranger. My roommate and I can do this kind of transfer from one of us to the other, because we're long-time friends and have that kind of trust. I'd be very careful about trusting anyone you do not know personally, I'd even say personally in real life rather than just in the game, especially when you are talking about cross-server gold transfers. You could quite easily end up losing the gold you thought you'd transfer, and not necessarily have any way to recover it. After all, reporting to Blizzard... they'd most likely just see it as you willingly gave the other person your gold.

[Kodonn]

Actually, the trick I think the OP wanted is possible, just it has certain risks involved.
.......Either way, there is a lot of trust involved. Trust that might be easily misplaced with a stranger..... You could quite easily end up losing the gold you thought you'd transfer, and not necessarily have any way to recover it. After all, reporting to Blizzard... they'd most likely just see it as you willingly gave the other person your gold.

There is a way to minimize the risk, using XD's example and assuming the 2 individuals have acheived stage 1 (i.e. agreeing to the exchange)

One way, is to start exchanging small amounts of gold between the respective characters. For example, if the agreed upon amount was to trade 1000g, just start out in 100g increments. That way if either party "pulls something", then the loss is minimized. This might take a bit longer (having to log back and forth between servers), but it allows you to build trust and be safer.

[Marlous]

If you want to transfer gold through the neutral AH with minimum gold loss, then just buy something that roughly has the same value on both factions. Say, for instance, that Adamantite Ore sells for about the same a stack.. then just buy a truckload of stacks, transfer those for 1c each, and resell them on the other faction. The neutral AH can't take a share (since there isn't really a percentage to take of 1c), and you still get your gold.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

If you want to transfer gold through the neutral AH with minimum gold loss, then just buy something that roughly has the same value on both factions. Say, for instance, that Adamantite Ore sells for about the same a stack.. then just buy a truckload of stacks, transfer those for 1c each, and resell them on the other faction. The neutral AH can't take a share (since there isn't really a percentage to take of 1c), and you still get your gold.

Smallest you can put something up on the neutral AH is 1s. You can try 1c, but it ends up being 1s.

This can work, with the caveat that once again, no character from one account can buy anything from the Auction House put up by another character from the same account.

[theshard]

Also keep in mind the one hour delay on auctions. This is in place so Blizzard can keep an eye on gold buyers. If they see multiple transactions of worthless items being sold for 100g, they could get suspious very quickly. And we all know the ban stick at Blizzard is well worn.

[Kodonn]

If you want to transfer gold through the neutral AH with minimum gold loss, then just buy something that roughly has the same value on both factions. Say, for instance, that Adamantite Ore sells for about the same a stack.. then just buy a truckload of stacks, transfer those for 1c each, and resell them on the other faction. The neutral AH can't take a share (since there isn't really a percentage to take of 1c), and you still get your gold.

The neutrel auction houses do not work BETWEEN servers, which is where the OP was asking about trading.

For those who didn't go back and actually read the 1st post:

2 players....A and B
2 servers....Sun and Moon
player A has a rich lvl on Sun, and a poor-bie on Moon
player B has a rich lvl on Moon and a poor-bie on Sun

The OP (player A) was asking for a player B to trade "some" gold from B's rich lvl on Moon to A's poor-bie on Moon, in exchange for the OP giving B's poor-bie on Sun an equal amount of gold from his rich lvl on Sun.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Also keep in mind the one hour delay on auctions. This is in place so Blizzard can keep an eye on gold buyers. If they see multiple transactions of worthless items being sold for 100g, they could get suspious very quickly. And we all know the ban stick at Blizzard is well worn.

That's not really suspicious though. I wish people would chill on the FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) on this. There is more than something as basic as that which would raise red flags. Blizz' system is pretty complex as to what it is monitoring to determine what could potentially be gold-selling. Transferring items at inflated value across factions between two characters of accounts where there appears to be a connection between them (like guildmates)... that most likely won't even raise any suspicious on Blizz' part.

[Marlous]

Kodonn, I wasn't responding to the OP - PlayThemAll made a comment about how the neutral AH takes a large cut, and that's what I responded to. No need for condescending tones - not every single post has to be a response to the OP.