Is buying services for Gold against TOS?

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

@Valshaw-stormrage

This is false. If you both agreed that they would do “X” in exchange for gold, but then take your gold and run, then a GM will treat it as a scam and persue them / get your gold back. It’s treated the same as if you were to buy an item for 500g but the seller takes your gold without giving you the item.

Sure, keep spreading lies and half truths.

I wasn’t talking about legit transactions. Paying someone 500g to craft you an item is a supported transaction and yes Blizzard will step in.

However, this thread isn’t about professions or supported transactions. Buying carries falls under unsupported and they are very clear on that:

Trade Scams

Got scammed out of all my gold

To be clear, that isn’t the reasoning, Mcstabbz. That was a reason that someone else may have gave you, it wasn’t from us. We don’t assist in returning scammed funds because we don’t wish to encourage people to participate in risky behavior assuming that we can simply undo it. These kinds of trades are entirely unsupported, but they aren’t against our policies. So we allow them, but they are at your own risk. We investigate and take action against those verified to have scammed because we als…