Buying Gold - F2F or Guild Bank?

[iwabo]

Hello!

I'm sorry if this has already been answered but:

I'm wondering if Face2Face(F2F) or the Guild Bank method is the safest way?
Most gold sellers don't do the guild bank thing.


Thanks in advance!

[Augury13]

Guild bank is definitely the safest. make sure that the guild has 25+ members in it, or it is usually flagged and watched when a lot is gold is transferred between. Keep that in mind.

[Sekan]

Short answer: neither

Longer answer:

I once sold gold, by guild bank deposit, following the instructions of the other party, and the account plus another linked to it were promptly banned afterwards.

It really isn't hard for Blizzard to run an automated screener flagging when tens of thousands of gold is transferred to someone who temporarily joined a guild a moment ago, in exchange for nothing in return, an utterly obvious gold sale. The same applies to such transfer by face to face trade and by mail. It'd also apply to AH transfer (at least unless done in a more intelligent than usual manner like not tens of thousands of gold for a grey item).

As I was noting in another thread ( http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...ld-safely.html (Trading gold safely) ), a safer method would probably be such as transfer of items, or transfer of a gold-loaded account, or anything other than the usual vast-gold-for-nothing-in-return ways.

However, even if you got a gold seller to sell to you by a safer than usual method, the average gold seller would sell to others before and afterwards using about the most blatant methods possible, likely triggering a manual glance at all transactions on that account which only existed briefly before being banned and did next to nothing except gold transfers, so even an ordinarily safe method could be ruined.

With that said, gold buyers may get just temporarily suspended in contrast to gold sellers getting banned. (Although using dumb blatant methods, gold seller companies handle the banning by just treating each transfer account and some near by them as disposable and frequently replaced; that's why even the largest companies advertise inventories like a few hundred thousand gold on a realm rather than many millions of gold in hand at a time, from constantly getting accounts banned).