1/3 perma banned for economy abuse - need advice

One of my accounts got perma banned today (no warning) because I exchanged some gold and items via the black market AH with another one of my accounts. I used the BMAH because it's a high pop on Alliance and low pop on Horde server, and I needed equipment sent to my horde toon and money and mats made botting sent to my alliance toon. Blizz apparently marked this as a gold sell and baned my horde account (I got the Exploitative Activity: Abuse of economy email saying that I sold gold). The accounts are on different I*P*s running on V*M*w.a.r.e. and blizz apparently didn't pick up on this or on the fact that both accounts are botting (they only closed one of them).

My question is, should I risk an appeal? I planed to do some actual gold selling with these accounts soon and this is a total bummer... meh

 

didnt know you could do that on the black market

 

yes you can change stuff between horde and alliance on the BMAH but only between two separate accounts (not if the chars are on the same accounts). I have a feeling though that blizz monitors the BMAH very closely for "shady" dealings lol...

 

Do you mean Neutral Auction House?

 

yes, the one in booty bay

 

Im curious to know which one was banned. Was it the one getting the weapon/gear? thats my guess

 

BMAH = Black Market Auction House. The Black Market Auction House is the new AH that was added in Pandaria, where you buy rare goods/mounts/ect. from NPCs for insanely high prices. That is not the Neutral Auction house in Booty Bay.

- Hope that helps some of the confusion.

 

yes. the one getting stuff (stuff he needed and used - so it was a fair trade, but try explaining that to the blizzstapo... I bet they go home at night and accuse their mothers of gold selling)

 

sorry I always confuse those. ) I mean the neutral AH. I think i'm going to appeal the ban today... I'll let you know how it goes.

 

Just curious, was the amount over 100k gold ?
I know from gold BUYING experience there is a 100k limit where you get auto flagged and warned in mail (saying gold buying is bad lol..) but no susp/ban.
I could imagine there is a similar one for gold selling that flags you

 

just bot it up until perma bann

 

i had the same thing happen to me on a started account.

get on both accounts and put in a ticket.. saying i was sending my brother mats from a different fraction and then get on the other account and put in the same ticket.

they will know then it wasnt a gold farmer.. but yet flag both accounts as a possibly threat.. so beware.

 

I dont know why people arent just clearly telling you this ban usually gets over turned just make a ticket or call up it will be fine.