Seriously tired of these people skating away with a two week vacation. That isn’t deterring anyone. Nobody is going to want to lose hundreds of hours of grinding, while simultaneously having to start a brand new account.
Start sending these people a real message, because two weeks is a joke.
i bet you’re one of those people that thinks someone who steals from a store should be locked up for life to
And i bet youre one of those gold buyers.
Edit: OP i couldnt agree more
And blizzard should also be policing botting in the first place.
But both those things would cut into the profits.
Sure… followed by all accounts owned by known streamers and then we go after anyone with pro numbers we don’t believe grinded for their loot… See we could just keep going and make the game empty.
At least chop off a finger or two…
Nah i think a better solution is the gold gets taken and the character gets immediately deleted. People then have to start over, they lost their money and blizzard keeps their sub money from the gold buyer.
How many characters would get deleted? All the ones they sent gold to?
They should also mark their chars with a Mark of Shame for everybody to see. It’d disappear after a certain amount of time has passed.
A debuff would be funny. They should also add the emotes to city guards that death knights get when visiting the city for the first time. Name and shame.
In this scenario blizzard would have to be diligent and the character deletion would happen immediately upon receiving the gold from a gold buyer. Theyd have to track accounts that they know are bots and gold sellers and as soon as the seller trades to the buyer the character just dematerializes immediately. The buyer has to sit on the screen and watch their vanished character for 6 minutes with a message on the screen that says “Wow youre an absolute dweeb” Then they get put back in character creation and when they log in to their new character they have a debuff until they hit level cap that allows other players and npcs to automatically throw projectile garbage at the new gold buyers account. Upon being hit they experience the “knock down” cc effect. This would make traveling to major cities a huge pain to get quests or turn in quests so theyd have to stay out in the open world alone grinding mobs till 60 and getting quests from smaller camps that have more manageable amounts of guards throwing garbage at them
ive never heard of anyone getting suspended or banned for buying gold. Like ever. Usually people lie about getting suspended for other stuff and say it was gold.
And not a single bot account was banned.
I have only ever seen people banned 
for being AFK in AV.
My priest account is on a 2 week break right now but honestly won’t change my behavior. I’m not about to run around healing idiots, rather sit in ghost form for 12min and collect free honor.
I bet you’re a gold buyer.
“Perma banning 50% of the population is good for the game!”
To play devil’s advocate, perma bans would make buying 2-500 gold in someone elses name the ultimate grief.
What good does that do? They buy more gold, buy more boosts (or directly from Blizz once TBC launches), and rinse and repeat.
They have no connection to their character because they actively pay to not play the game. That’s the Classic playerbase. At least of Anniversary. This is what happens when Blizz spends all these years diluting the significance of the journey and the experience and makes it all about the rewards and min/maxing and efficiency. This is the playerbase they created.
Wait till you find out that Blizzard sells gold, in a classic version of wow, right now. 
Wait till they find out buying a token in one version and trading it for gold on anniversary is 100% allowed
Allowed but not supported by blizzard if you get scammed.