I doubt that it is a “fine line.” As long as real money isn’t involved, Blizzard should be okay with it. Again, ask in the customer support forum for definite answers.
Oh, you may well be right. I just want to steer very clear from endorsing something like this, as it effectively is a work-around for adding WoW Tokens to Classic.
He is though 
This!!! , i used all of 3 milion gold on Tokens before Classic launch so i can play it for free lol
Old blizzard would give this concept a resounding NO.
Idk about new blizzard but i’m not gonna take that risk.
I don’t care one way or the other but it would be ideal if blizzard made it against the ToS just to prevent honest players like the OP from trying it because they werent sure.
As for the conversion rate. maybe 1g = 1,000g
Kind of crazy to think about how that 1g grey drop in classic is worth 1,000g in retail, and how 50g an hour is 50,000g an hour in retail which is like transmog streamer tier gold per hour.
You’re probably better off asking this in the CS forums. You may actually get a blue response.
This is why people hate lawyers. This right here. You knew what he meant.
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Then you should have told him that you had a long term strategy. Perhaps he could figure out what that meant on his own. He’s a smart boy, right?
If this is indeed why anyone hates lawyers, then that’s an unfortunate reason for them (the people hating lawyers for being accurate with messaging). AFAIK, the majority of hate towards lawyers stems from a belief (perhaps well-founded, I do not claim any special insight) that lawyers only care about making a profit, and not about truth, justice, or actually helping their customers.
You may ask people who are paying lawyers by the hour how they feel when their lawyer asks them a question like, “How are you today?”
Yes, and I included not only the accurate wording, and representation of that, but also a link. If you have issues or hatred for accuracy, then that is on you.
No. This is not even possible to do.
WoW Tokens do not function like Daybreak’s Krono. When you buy a token, it stays on your account until you use it, or you sell it in the AH.
When you sell it in the AH. the price is set by the server. In fact the server buys it after a set amount of time. And you get the gold you listed it for.
When you buy a token, you buy it directly from the server for the price listed.
The only coorelation between people buying and selling tokens is the price the server will buy or sell the tokens for goes up when tokens are bought, and down when tokens are sold.
That’s it.
The delay in selling a token is an Illusion of waiting for someone to ‘buy’ the token.
So OP, what you could do. Is offer to give someone gold in classic, for someone to give you gold in retail to purchase a token. That’s well within the rules. However… if you get scammed, you’re out the gold. Blizzard will likely not reimburse you if you get scammed.
No. 50g in Classic may be equivalent to $20 dollars USD depending on server, but $20 dollars won’t buy 175K gold on a retail server unless it’s through Blizzard.
If you could sell 50g for $20 dollars, and then bought a token with that $20 dollars, that would be a correct way to calculate the cost.
But, as has already been established, it’s not acceptable to trade gold for cash and vice versa. That means a potential token buyer has to compare the relative dollar cost of the in-game currency: ie, 175K retail gold costs $30 USD. Hence, someone looking to do this trade needing to convert classic gold into retail gold needs to use the gold > USD > gold pricing, which is 175K retail gold is $30 dollars and $30 dollars is about 120-150 Classic gold.
Caveats:
If you were going to buy a token for $20 dollars, then you could simply sell the 50g on the open market. You’d be in violation of the rules, though.
That’s why it needs to be gold to gold, with a common conversion factor ($30 dollars).
If you were going to do what I suggested above, however, you’d still be in violation when you did the transfer of 120g to $30 and then bought 175K gold with that same $30.
That means you have to find someone willing to do the exchange purely within a gold to gold framework, which increases the cost of doing business.
If you’re able to find someone willing to do the trade without going outside the rules, there is going to be a cost associated with that convenience. I don’t know what it is for someone else and I’m not even sure what I’d charge if I wanted to do it and that’s the great unknown assuming you are comfortable even doing such an unprotected and risky trade.