Was wondering if using the AH (say in Gadget) to list something and have a friend buy item with gold I traded to them is against ToS. All the gold was accumulated by AH sells, vendering, quest rewards. I’m just mainly playing on other faction now.
Is this on retail or Classic?
AFAIK, the main auction houses are combined alliance/horde now (in retail)
But - there is an easier way.
You can mail gold to an alt on the opposite faction (in retail), you’d be able to trade with them directly then.
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I don’t think the game lets you bid on your own auctions (at least it didn’t previously, unsure if changed).
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Wait - you can? :scurries off to check: Okay… that’s new(ish).
If I remember correctly, before the AHs were combined, moving gold via the AH was unsupported - if something goes awry, you’re out of luck. So, if your friend kept the gold, you’d be out of luck.
Yep, it was unsupported and rather risky.
The ability to mail things to cross faction alts was added around the end of the last expansion I think. I am quite happy about it seeing as I have one lone higher level Horde alt and the rest are all Alliance.
We can invite ourselves to guilds now too. Set up an invite thing in the guild finder, apply on the alt, approve on your main. Remove the guild finder advert when done.
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It doesn’t let you bid on your own license’s auctions, but if you have a second license on the same battle net account, that should work (unless something has changed recently.) Only needed for Classic, of course, Retail has been covered.
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Back in the day you would get a good guild friend to post something on the neutral ah and then you would buy it. Then your guild mate would give you the gold they got. Only risk was would they give it to you but never had that problem.
Now if you tried to move expensive stuff across that could be risky if you put it up for cheap.
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I definitely remember seeing people complaining (here and elsewhere) about losing a valuable item because they tried moving it through the Neutral AH.
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I had an item I was terrified I’d lose but did successfully get it after my friend posted it for me. Can’t even remember what it was now. Maybe a Dalaran Wizard’s Robe? (Which isn’t that valuable, but it was to me when I was still a baby player.)
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This is not in retail, SoD actually, not being able to bid on my own listing is why I am asking about trading my gold to (friend of many years) in faction that has gold. I would list item for them to buy with said gold, that way if someone decides to buy the item other then my friend I actually don’t lose anything since it was my listing. I just don’t want to breach ToS in this process.
What you describe is not a violation of the ToS. As long as the gold is legit that is.
To move the gold best thing is to use vender trash, No one else will buy it.
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Yes, it’s gold from selling various items on AH, such as DE mats, ore, leather, world drops, and gold acquired across several toons questing running dungeons and other normal game play activities.
Cleaning up old posts! 
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as long as your using someone who really trust or better yet have a extra account so you can do this all on your own.
Only issue would be if someone else helped you and they had gold that is not legit it could get you into trouble. But moving gold from horde to alliance or the other way through the AH will not.
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During Wrath, one of my guildies would do this since she had two accounts.
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I do have 2 account but attached to same Battlenet tag, could I just do this on my own this way? I thought with same battlenet account it wouldn’t let me.
Yes, that shouldn’t be an issue. From my experience, you are only restricted by license, not Battle Net account.
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