About to fire up a new account tonight, any tips for round 2?

[skillywoah]

My main account was RMAH. I had a second account that would farm and trade items to main account.

However I'm gonna roll with one account for now but I have this feeling I'm on a watch list, that if I open a new account with the same name they might investigate. Of course this is all speculation but I have some questions. Any and all answers will help.

Does the first and last name of my paypal need to match the first and last name of the Battle.net account?I planned on opening a bnet under another persons name lol, to go "undercover".

I changed my primary paypal email to an email they've never seen before, so that MIGHT fool Blizzard also.

I'm going to use the same iPhone to authenticate, is there anyway they can track this specific device or should I use my iPod touch?

Should I use a different phone number to SMS verify/protect?

Should I just farm for now and link paypal when I'm ready to sell?

How big should my gold increment sales be?

Is trading items from a non-RMAH account to a RMAH account a big no-no?

Should I even open a new account or use my banned one? I have a wealthy WoW account I don't want to risk if blizz decides to close my entire account altogether because of my shady habits

 

[jayjayjay123]

Your main account that was RMAH was banned? Did you bot on it at all?


Is trading items from a non-RMAH account to a RMAH account a big no-no? -- I traded items and gold from 4 non-RMAH accounts that were botting 24/7 to an RMAH account that did not bot. All 4 non-RMAH accounts were banned, but the RMAH account is still alive

 

[skillywoah]

Your main account that was RMAH was banned? Did you bot on it at all?


Is trading items from a non-RMAH account to a RMAH account a big no-no? -- I traded items and gold from 4 non-RMAH accounts that were botting 24/7 to an RMAH account that did not bot. All 4 non-RMAH accounts were banned, but the RMAH account is still alive

Here's my timeline history:

-Opened account may 15th
-Played legit for 2 months.
-Stopped playing until November 16th
-Purchased DB on November 16th
-Botted 8+ hours a day but never more than 24h for 3 weeks.
-Saw success in botting and about $150 in profit so I opened alt account and bought another DB on December 10th.
-Botted alt account on December 11.
-Transferred gold and items to main account and sold them on December 12th.
-Got an email saying I was banned 15minutes after I got an email for a 280m successful gold sale auction.

Both accounts are now banned and I have not yet got my real money for the 280m gold sale.

Now it might look like that gold sale arose suspicion and that's why I was banned considering the 15 minute email difference but I'm not sure how late you get the email as opposed to the actual account closure. (I was away from my pc when I got banned)

I guess it was a rookie mistake to sell over 200m gold?

 

[honky]

No rookie mistake. You were botting and got banned as expected. Think of botting to avoid bans the same as you think of botting for items. Maybe you get a lucky drop, maybe you dont. Eventually you will get a good drop and eventually you will get banned.