banned for selling gold

[theoryaction]

Tried to log into my botting/gold sales account a few days ago, and it had been permabanned after only one sale to Pusada. The email sent from WoW Account Admin confirmed that it was due to 'the exchange of, in-game property (items or gold) for ""real-world"" currency'.

We used a guild bank to transfer the gold, and I thought everything had been done safely, but apparently guild bank transfers are pretty easy for Blizzard to identify. Something very strange about this is that when I contacted Pusada afterward, they claimed that their account and the gold were still intact.

Any thoughts on this, or any suggestions on how to more safely sell gold?

edit: I meant to post this in the general forum. Delete if you wish.

[Zoidberg]

IIRC loads have recently been permabanned for buying and/or selling gold.

[theoryaction]

Did I just get unlucky, or is Blizzard this good at catching gold sellers? This was my first attempt, and I did it exactly like Pusada directed.

[udbdevo]

really dpends on how much u sell...anything over 100k in one big bulk u are almost guaranteed to get banned. That is why i sell in large amounts to reduce the loss.
They almost never ban the farmer accounts and just ban the accounts that were trading.

As a vanilla cdkey is only $15 this is a small amount of Cash that i lose when selling gold.

I sold 434k today. my account was banned 1-2 hours later. But i was expecting this to happen and i had absolutely nothing worth of value on the account

[sellingysera]

I recently had my trading acct banned as well due to the same issues with this website. And have since decided to only sell by word of mouth to friends. You get more money for your work and I think it's safer. Good Luck.

[Palarogue]

Did I just get unlucky, or is Blizzard this good at catching gold sellers? This was my first attempt, and I did it exactly like Pusada directed.

Why are you surprised?