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6 out of 8 banned. WAMP.

kkkevin

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So I recently got one of my accounts hacked and banned for gold selling although I did nothing of the sort (from that account :P). This was about a week ago. I laid low since then, changed my IP, did some configuring, and was back at it two days ago. I botted on my 8 accounts for 10 hours each for that one day.

Yesterday, I left it alone as I was getting ready for the Harry Potter premiere (yeah I'm cool). While standing in line, I got emails on 6 out of 8 of my accounts. It was the standard abuse of the economy permab& email of doom. I'd sold gold about 20 days ago, but I'm guessing they have been tracing and investigating my entire IP and account history. I had $700 worth of gold in stock, which I should have really sold off yesterday before the ban. I lost a good $1300 worth of products, and with the amount I've been botting in recent months, I have not broken even on my gold sales.

I may have lost a good amount of money, but I learned an incredible amount about the game, programming, business, and life. My two most important lessons learned from my experiences with Honorbuddy were:

1) Only invest what you are willing to lose.

2) It's not "IF" you get banned, it's "WHEN".


Now, since it was a standard "abuse of the economy" letter, what do you all recommend that I attempt to do? I've been using Kickazz's way to sell gold, and those vanilla accounts have not been banned (seems sketchy to me). Should I attempt to recover all 6 accounts? Or should I perhaps just get the 1 that my gold is on, and sell the gold off really quick? Or maybe just cut my losses and move on?
 
Hell yeah at least try!
You already lost them, cant get any worse!

Agreed. Better to try and fail than to not try at all. Also, was your gold located in a guild bank(s) or all on one of your toons? I have always prefered using guild banks with access from different accounts so that if something gets banned I can still reach my mats and gold.
 
Similar to my story. I lost 6 accts b/c I made a guild and did a gold transfer with it...the characters that made the guild were farming accounts, the 6th was vanilla that dropped the gold, became gm and transfered to the chinese buyer in my case.

20 days is a long time for an investigation though...I still have access to my guild banks and have been trying to strip out the contents and AH the contents from the bot accounts, purchased 5 new vanilla keys and am starting fresh.

Just wish I could force an IP change...rebooting router and changing MAC isn't working out for me...

Anyway, luckily I only lost the accounts and not the guilds contents. Sorry for your luck.
 
I always kept my gold (except about 100k I had in one guild bank) accessible from only one account that was protected by an authenticator. I was too paranoid that if I kept it in the bank, one of my vanilla alts would get hacked and I'd lose my gold :b
 
Fight em all, what do you have to lose? Good luck, sorry to hear.
 
1)Were you using Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy or both on the account? Honorbuddy on all of them.

2)If so, when was the last time?: Two days ago.

3)What profile were you using?: Zuabros' Mining, Zuabros' Mining & Herb, and Zuabros' Herb.

4)What combat class were you using? if None Just put Default then the Classname: Singular Pally/DK/Druid/Mage/Warrior

5)What plugins are you using?: None

6)How many hours per day did you bot for?: 10

6.5)What honest percentage of time did you supervise your bot? 20%

7)How many auctions per day did you have?: 200+, all run from 1 account though.

8)Did you Use Any Other Bots, Hacks, or Mods? No

9)Was your account involved in gold selling? Only very occasionally.

10)EU or US realm? US
 
If you do get them back, I would probably sell them. After having one account get banned/unbanned, then do no auctions, 10 hours a day in TH for 3 days and get banned again, it's going to happen. Make some money back, then go from there with new accounts
 
If I do indeed get them back, I'll be selling the accounts and the gold on them. That way I can at least make a little bit of profit out of the entire thing.
 
I win. I win. Every single account back. I'm not sure if I am allowed to do this on this forum, but if you're interested in any 8 of these accounts, PM me and I can let you know any and all information about them.
 
the banns are not from selling gold.gz you have your accounts back,but not for long.
sell all gold as fast as you can.

i think blizz is testing something new.

i lost 2-3 weeks ago 5 accounts and today the next 6
 
Im gonna slightly agree on the Blizz is testing something new. Something is definetly up. I am a real safe botter but even I stopped completely. I read SEVERAL articles( more than 10) on how Blizz does their investigations. You can be flagged for ban MONTHS before you actually get banned. And they practice this when they are getting for a ban wave. So you can buy/sell gold in July 2011 and get BANNED in August 2012.
 
the banns are not from selling gold.gz you have your accounts back,but not for long.
sell all gold as fast as you can.

i think blizz is testing something new.

i lost 2-3 weeks ago 5 accounts and today the next 6

more like testing how far they can push their TOS
 
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