Selling in-game items and services such as carries or boosting for real money is not allowed. Organizations who offer boosting, matchmaking, escrow, or other non-traditional services, including those offered for gold are prohibited, especially those who operate across multiple realms.
Which is exactly what, “Trade in raid for security,” is code for.
But wait! There’s more!
Advertising for gameplay activities should be done by a WoW player-character who intends to participate in the gameplay activities. This means there should be no cross-realm advertising, and there should be no advertising from non-participating players.
Accounts that are used for the primary purpose of advertising may be closed.
How do you trade real money to someone in a raid? ROFL
No, what that means is people that scam have you trade the gold to a level one alt standing in Org or SW. Trading gold in the raid means you can see all the raiders and/or see the cleared-to boss at the end.
Obviously not if they’re not doing anything about it. Sounds like the person advertising is one of the raiders.
Proof that you know what the account is being used for?
In short, if you aren’t on the team doing the carry on that character, you shouldn’t be spamming advertisements. No one wants to deal with channel spam from a level 1-10 throwaway alt character because most of the time, that just calls back to ye olde susanexpress gold seller bots.
I can see that. I can also see this as a reason people keep abandoning small servers.
And no, not all of them are out to get your money. There are plenty of people that want gold. Hell, even a dev has said his guild does AOTC gold carries.
You give them your details for whatever money trading service they request. PayPal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, etc.
No, that’s just their advertising bot. That one doesn’t go into the raid, because then no one would be around to advertise. And it’s not always a level 1 bot. Often, it’s level 60 stolen accounts.
The rules for advertising is that the player character advertising must also be participating in the boost. If you’re advertising but not boosting then you violated the ToS and should be banned.
Most boosting communities still use advertisers separate from boost participants. It’s why I left my most recent guild. They wanted to be a boosting community and were willing to let advertisers be separate from boosters. I’m not risking my account so I peaced out. I don’t have a personal issue with boosting, but I won’t participate.
I mean, I have a group that could do M+20 carries and funny enough, the only players from Wyrmrest that have a M Fyrakk kill on characters that are on Wyrmrest so far were bought carries, so I’m not going to say that selling carries is bad or evil or anything of the nature because it’s people’s time and gold (or money if they are getting said gold from wow tokens) and they can do as they want.
There are legit ones, just the same as there are scam ones, though the part in contention is advertisement as that has rather cut-and-dry rules on 'em.
No that’s how the scammers work and people fall for it all the time.
Ehh that looks like someone having fun.
Nope, not at all. I buy the AOTC mount every xpac and I know what to look for. Someone that says I don’t have to hand over the gold until I’m in the raid is someone I would buy from.
ROFL right, right. My 20-year old account with 380 ilevel is selling boost. Very sus
It doesn’t mean just using a trade chat that spans a few connected realms. Or just selling on the AH. That’s just the infrastructure blizz has built, so of course that’s fine. It’s talking about organised groups that operate outside of the realms, that use a multitude of accounts and characters to advertise their “services” (often just a take your gold and block you scam) in chat on basically every realm.
Just want to point this out. This is the character selling Heroic clears. The character is from Thunderhorn. I blurred the name as per forum rules: https://i.ibb.co/d28cPTN/Level10-Spam.png
