The most important part to point out is that it’s 100% unsupported. I know I’ve mentioned this in other threads and I’m glad that the GM included it in their reply. If things go south, Blizz will not step in and try to recover any lost/scammed gold.
This is a very risky thing to do with strangers, so exercise caution. Lastly, the only way a GM will find any scams is if all the details of the trade happen in-game. Do not use a 3rd party (discord etc.) to make your deals.
For those who don’t want to enter it manually, here’s a copy of the image Shadow linked to:
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Cool. Now go buy multiple epic mounts and declare yourself the winner 
Or overpay for freezing bands or something.
The OP is 100% correct.
I went in-game and asked a GM myself to find out, he too said that selling a token on BFA side for Classic side gold was indeed a legal thing to do but to beware as this action is “unsupported”, meaning if the other party decides to rip me off, I can’t complain to Blizz and get my token or gold back.
To quote the GM, “I appreciate you reaching out to us about this so we could take a look at things. While this is something that you can certainly do, it’s definitely something to be cautious with as it’s entirely at your own risk. This would be an unsupported trade that, if it does go sideways for whatever reason, we would be unable to assist with recovering what was potentially lost.”
So believe the OP or not, its true, and its legal, and a nice option for people that work a lot irl and dont have the inclination or the time to earn gold in-game. I frankly am relieved this is an alternative if one can find someone to trade with, and I feel its none of your business if you don’t approve.
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Sounds like the OP might be the one looking to scam folks.
Anyone falling for this is going to be out their classic gold quite easily.
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Nah im not a scammer. Just found a method to share with all of you lol
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For what? Because you don’t like what he is saying? Get real
Tokens are soul-bound. Game tokens are not tradeable and that is why the trade has to be gold-for-gold.
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Just did it last night, I met my friend in Live, handed him the exact amount of gold for a token, he bought one. Logged out.
Then we met in Classic and he gave my toon gold in exchange.
Never been so relieved honestly, ok that’s an exaggeration but still, I work a lot and this solved so many problems.
Have to add, I think the GM’s are being bombarded with questions about this as both my friend and I separately checked if this method was accepted by Blizz before we made a move. Both of our GM’s said yes ofc.
It would make no sense if it wasn’t ok.
You would have to have both clients open and do the trade simultaneously on both accounts to minimize the risk, but even then it sounds like a good way to get scammed.
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So what you’re saying is that this is 100% unsupported and that the GMs won’t do anything for people who get scammed like this?
Sounds like lots of folks are going to have a new strat for gold/hr farming.
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This is exactly why i sent GMs ticket and shared it with everyone. I knew people didnt know this was ok so i had to share it
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Imagine being so poor IRL that you farm 200 gold in classic so you don’t have to pay 15$ every 30 days.
Ps. Not hating on those making gold off of this, I don’t care personally, I just think it’s funny that people are unemployed playing this game and can’t afford 15$.
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A couple hours of playing a game you enjoy and funding your subscription just playing the game you enjoy. Freaking crazy man. Madlads
The person with the gold on retail would have just sold a token to get the 170k gold in their account. They then give the gold to the other player who then buys a token turning it in to wow time. You wouldn’t need the gold to begin with since you can purchase gold for real money through the token system.
There was a poster that said he would be tight in real-life money for a couple of months. For him this work-around would be great because I think he had “classic” gold and wanted to continue to play.
Lmao 200g is definitely worth more than 15$
From my experience server to server gold trading has always been allowed. With the caveat of you don’t get the gold back if you get scammed, so do so at your own risk.
Those annoyed by the idiosyncrasies in the game have already gone back to retail or have unsubbed. The rest of us will unsub as soon as any aspect of retail comes into the game just like we did years ago with the crap expansions that keep diluting the game.