At least the first article references Canadas market immediately after prohibition ended when as I said, you will usually see a spike. If you look at todays prices on the same site the article references, prices are pretty dramatically down across the board since that article.
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It would be but linking on these forums is looked down on. It works exactly like I just said but you can literally google âWow tokens for dummiesâ for a source if you really really need one
Before Classic I played retail⌠and I canât tell you how long it has been since Iâve gotten a whisper or in game mail advertising gold selling services. While Iâm sure there are still some, I question whether or not they can beat the token prices.
If you go to wowtoken.info youâll see that current $20 bucks cash will net you 148,344g or almost 7500g per dollar.
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Fair enough. I was able to verify that as well. It doesnât give clear historical data to show how that relates the prices prior to legalization, nor how it relates to quantities.
Who looks down on linking on these forums?
Hereâs a link:
Eh, maybe itâs just hard to do legitimately on mobile. But either way, looks like you found your source!
WoW! Micro transactions in a subscription based game! Does this turd get served on a silver platter too?
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It really isnât that difficult, even if you donât have trust level 3. Simply place the symbol ` before and after your link.
Blizzard.com
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No it isnât⌠You have to earn the ability by having trust level 3⌠Which you shouldnât take for granted because Blizzard takes it away very easily if you post something they donât like.
Certainly. Iâm not going to link to third party gold selling sites as an argument against this, though it is rather trivial to find counter examples.
However, what is the topic and point being made? That tokens have reduced problems in-game? Is that the point?
So it seems there would be two sides:
Pro tokens, who claim that problems (such as unwanted whispers, phishing, and account hacking) are reduced with Tokens.
Anti tokens, who claim that cheating (buying gold) is acceptable behavior with the introduction of Tokens.
Ah yea. I definitely dont have trust level 3 then. 
To be fair, there is one comment that I find suspicious in the FAQ:
Q: Is there a deposit? Does the Auction House take a cut of the Token sellerâs gold?
A: Thereâs no deposit, and the Auction House does not take a cut of the gold for WoW Token sales. The standard deposit is designed to dissuade players from spamming the auction house with items that arenât selling, and the standard cut is designed to dissuade players from buying and reselling items for minuscule markups. These issues donât apply to the WoW Token, so thereâs no need for a deposit or cut.
If you agree with Websters that Cheating is defined as âto violate (the) rules dishonestly,â and Blizzard states that buying gold is permitted within the rules, then it is by definition not âcheating.â
In what way do you find that suspicious? Seems pretty straightforward to me
Q: How much gold will I receive when I sell a WoW Token?
A: The gold value of a Token will be determined dynamically based on supply and demand. When you put a Token up for sale, youâll be quoted the amount of gold youâll receive upon a successful sale. If you then decide to place the Token up for sale, that amount is locked in, and the gold will be sent to your mailbox after another player purchases your Token.
so prices can fluctuate to meet demand. Once you put your token in its that price you are getting. So wether it goes up or down you get that amount of gold. This doesnt create or destroy gold in the transaction.
Right.
If tokens didnât exist at all, then it would be cheating. If tokens do exist, then it is no longer cheating.
Just like, if Blizzard introduced a Trinket-of-Botting, that would not be cheating.
Itâs precisely this type of change to the rules that I believe people are against being introduced to Classic.
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Yeah, I suppose youâre right. You cannot resell or trade a token after having purchased it through the AH, so I suppose that is a reason that tokens are different from other items.
Youâre not following.
âPerson Aâ Lists a token for 100g. Regardless of what the price is when the token is bought, âPerson Aâ will always receive 100g at that time.
âPerson Bâ sees âPerson Aâsâ token. The price has risen to 150 at this point. Person B sends 150g to the AH for said token.
However, even though Person B âinjectedâ 150g, only 100g was paid to person A. Thus in the process 50g was âdestroyedâ or removed from the economy.
Follow now?
Or someone else lists a token for 150 the price has dropped to 100 and the 50 gold you thought was destroyed really went to this transaction Im sure it all balances back out. Supply and demand.
You forgot the part âit doesnt create or destroyâ
Your token is in line behind many others or very few. The pricing is dynamic to how often they are purchased or sold.
If people are buying at a steady rate, the price will be consistent. Its only during times of content droughts or new patches/xpacs the prices move a bit.
Yes true, but in most economies inflation is unavoidable, and thatâs even more true of Wowâs economy, which makes the âgold destroyingâ instance slightly more likely to occur over time