That’s right there is an entire guild of bots on Eranikus called
All level 58-70ish dk’s online 24/7 botting in different zones posting thousands of mats on the AH a day.
Please blizzard this is not a hard problem to solve. Sure when it’s one or two lone botters maybe. But when you have an entire guild botting it should be pretty sure fire. Not sure why this company is so bad at banning bots, especially considering they profit even more from banning them…
They’re not though - they just don’t ban them here and there.
Report them and move on.
Blizzard will investigate, collate lists of detected bots, work out how to break the bots, then unleash the ban wave.
If they ban here and there it just alerts the botters to detection, and they make changes to avoid further detection.
Until players stop cheating by buying illicit gold, it’ll never be able to be stopped.
Wouldn’t this be enough to convince you that, while it may not be a hard problem to solve, maybe it isn’t as easy to solve, either? That they’re willfully hemorrhaging their bottom line is the inverse of how a business is supposed to operate.
Smacking 1 or 2 bots is just as ineffective as smacking 50 or 100 if they don’t know how the bot is actually built so that they can smack the entire lot of them in one go.
The game is 18 years old. There were bots when the game started. How is this not a hard problem to solve? What would be an instant fix to botting? When Blizzard bans bots the botters don’t just give up. They modify their botting software and start up again.
The first major ban-wave of bots was over 100,000 accounts. Blizzard is not bad at banning bots. The problem is that the ones who bot make real-life money from it. Those criminal enterprises make billions from various online games. The problem is players risking their credit cards and their accounts to these criminal entities. If players stopped giving them business there wouldn’t be a reason for them to bot in WoW.
Blizzard loses momey because of those bots. They use the credit card numbers from their customers to buy time. Then the ones whose credit cards were stolen object to the fraud. Blizzard is required to give the money back, plus a service charge. If it was as simple as you seem to think it is Blizzard would already be doing it.
It’s not just one or two bot’s. It’s an ENTIRE guild of BLATANT bots. They could literally just ban the entire guild and no honest player would be affected.
It’s literally in their ToS that they can terminate at any time without reason. Sure I understand needing to find ways to break the bots, but it’s not hard to just ban hammer an entire bot community while you still seek out other solutions.
While they could do that, they’re not going to. There’s a process for them to follow and documentation that needs to happen so that if any of those accounts chooses to appeal the decision, they have the data already to back up their decision.
They could literally just ban the entire guild and no honest player would be affected.
It’d take Blizz more time to look into this, verify, document, and close the accounts involved than it would for the botters to move on to the next compromised account(s) and start fresh.
While very common, as the folks who usually exploit in this manner often have a fleet of stolen and exploitative accounts at the ready, we still very much would investigate and address these occurrences. 
Thank you, Lucyd. Please be sure to report what suspected bots you are able to. Our Hacks team uses those reports in their own ongoing investigations.