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1. toast on August 24, 2010 10:59 pm

   most of it is safe just it is a bannable offense if you get caught and blizzard has made it so gold expires after 3 days so u better be quick about your business. i have never boughten gold but a buddy of mine has and he got his account hacked the next day lost 2 60’s so id ask around on underground wow forums

2. Kattiara on August 24, 2010 11:09 pm

   There’s no real way to be certain if it’s safe or not. Hundreds of people get away with it, and dozens of people don’t.

   A friend of mine bought gold (the site he used was http://thotbot.com — not to be confused with http://thottbot.com). He was so paranoid about it that he actually had the gold sent to a character on his second account, which he uses mainly for bank mules — then he transferred it himself to the characters on his main account. His rationale was that if a character/account would be banned, hopefully it would just be his secondary account, not he main one where all his high level characters are. He’s never gotten in trouble yet, but it makes him nervous all the same.

   Another time, on my server, an account was banned by Blizzard for supposedly buying gold. It turned out he hadn’t, but the character was acting as his guild’s bank. Because of that, he had over 15,000 gold on a single character. To my knowledge he has not yet been able to get the ban removed, even though it was not justified — he lost his account, and the guild lost all their money. :-

   So you kind of just have to be aware that there IS a risk. You probably will be fine, but there is no real way to be assured of it.

   Good luck. =)