Hey guys, I'm interested in botting the AH with a vanillia account knowing that it is likely to get banned. However, if it gets banned can the accounts that feed it materials or get fed gold from it get banned? Also, got it cause my IP to get flagged?
As far as I know, if you are sending a lot of materials, gold and so on from one account to another, it is possible that the two accounts will be linked and squished under the same banhammer once it arrives. If you have one account you wish to stay clear, keep the connections between the accounts minimal.
If you send tons of materials between accounts without using COD, you will be flagged and autobanned in matter of hours/days! This is nothing new - it was on live since alot of years - more than 3x if Im not wrong! But if you bot AH, noone would know for sure how and when/if you would get banned, either autoban, loosing just the AH acc, or manual investigation, leading to shutting down all your IP or subnet! So simply do it wise!
I primarily make gold by flipping xmogs and tradeskilling, and I'll be 100% honest by saying I know who the bots on my server are. These are the guys who undercut every 15 minutes, log on/off all day every day, and run back/forth to the mail and AH constantly. You'll get whispers from people just saying hi or whatever, and if you don't respond you'll get reported. Also, if you don't set your AH bot up right, you'll be listing everything for dirt cheap and making people like me (who snipe) very, very happy. AH botting takes a lot of setup, but personally I've tried AH bots twice and neither of them come close to what I can do with legit addons like TSM. I ran an AH bot for two days with 1500+ auctions on the same server and ran into more problems than I'd care to talk about. After ditching the bot and going back to my very customized TSM routine, I was back to raking in gold like nuts. Best advice is if you're going to do it, don't do it as a level 1 toon and don't log in every 15 minutes to run the bot. Personally I'm pretty against AH bots primarily because constantly undercutting not only hurts your competition, but also hurts you (and throws up a TON of flags in the process).
