I succumbed to “FOMO”… My competitors on the AH were bragging to me about how much they had swapped from Retail/Wrath to SoD, and the advantage it gave them early on in sniping cheap recipes/mats/ect.
But yes, I completely agree that Gold Swaps should be banned, ESPECIALLY for fresh servers, I was 100% trying to give myself an advantage. This was the first (and likely the last after this experience) time I’ve ever swapped gold between game versions, everything I had researched about it made it seem like it was a safe route, and your only risk was getting scammed out of your gold, and that Blizzard would not help you recover that gold.
I completely understand that… But what doesn’t make sense is their response. Shouldn’t the goal be to ban the person who stole the gold? If that means im SOL on the 65k and/or the 330g, so be it… In my previous example, if I bought a stolen motorcycle, the cops would take the bike I had paid for (meaning I’d lose the bike, and the money I spent buying it), return it to it’s rightful owner, and then go after the criminal who stole it and then sold it to me.