Selling Gold without AH

what mayfly said.
although I haven't managed to strike a deal when I tried buying gold... all I got was a noob scammer that wanted me to mail him 170m while he 'mailed' the chipsb:laugh

assistantscott wrote: »

But they're not talking about items. They're saying "Want to buy gold for ____ price without AH fee" and one person just posed "Selling blah blah item for ___ gold each." Nobody is mentioning coins or items. .-.

I thought they just didn't know you couldn't sell gold that way but a lot of people keep posting it and nobody is smarting them off calling them noobs or correcting them or getting annoyed that people keep asking to do stuff you can't even do, etc.

because since everyone knows that you can't trade gold in any other way besides items+AH, it's automatically assumed that an item trade is what's going to happen. In case of the sellers, it's impractical to list all boutique items

assistantscott wrote: »

But they're not talking about items. They're saying "Want to buy gold for ____ price without AH fee" and one person just posed "Selling blah blah item for ___ gold each." Nobody is mentioning coins or items. .-.

I thought they just didn't know you couldn't sell gold that way but a lot of people keep posting it and nobody is smarting them off calling them noobs or correcting them or getting annoyed that people keep asking to do stuff you can't even do, etc.

It's like mayfly said in the 1st post. The cash shopper buys items for the costumer, and then the costumer pays according the rate they agreed upon. The reason they don't say anything about items is because this part is implicit. A costumer expects someone to pm him/her something like: "how much gold do you want to buy?" The costumer says then how much gold s/he wants to buy, and after that the cash shopper asks what item s/he wants.

In other games forum moderators or a GM would be the middle man between those types of transactions. CS would buy the item and give to the Mod, other person would give Mod the coins. Then Mod would give the coins to the CS'er and the item or items to the other. A lot safer and generally the Mod would save screens of the transaction encase there was any issue that arises later on. The only real issue with this was from people using cracked accounts to sell off items or gold(boutique items) off the account.

This was pretty much the standard on the last game I played. The top end items had more value that you could hold in your bank so multiple transactions would happen. There was an item similar to big notes here, but for some odd reason they (the developers) decided those would be bound and never changed their minds even with all the uproar about it. So you had to sell those give coins to middle man then sell more till you were done.

This would be good to do here, but with the low amount of mods it is not really feasible and near zero interactive of GM's (which is really not their fault). The idea of Game Advisers would work with this from another thread though.

Salari - Raging Tide wrote: »

In other games forum moderators or a GM would be the middle man between those types of transactions. CS would buy the item and give to the Mod, other person would give Mod the coins. Then Mod would give the coins to the CS'er and the item or items to the other. A lot safer and generally the Mod would save screens of the transaction encase there was any issue that arises later on. The only real issue with this was from people using cracked accounts to sell off items or gold(boutique items) off the account.

don't really see the point of doing all that.
if it was "person A gives mod the coins, person B buys the item and gives it to the mod" it makes sense since person B is secured against person A "changing" his mind; then, B is stuck with an item that might not be able to be sold fast/for the original value (e.g. fashion)