its holiday season so i just look for some crappy blue item on the AH for like 200 million and buy it. i made someones day. gold is only worth like .23 a mil, price of good karma = priceless
There are certain items that you can use your gold to buy and then sell it on RMAH, you can calculate how much you earn by doing it this way, it is quite profitable, I am able to get 50% more out of my gold in most cases
I made 2 billion this week off 5 toons. I sell leg, gems, and plans for gold, then sell the gold via RMAH. Each toon makes 11 million a day on pick ups.
When D3 first came out I bought gold off a website. When I started my bots I bought some gold off the same website to gear them (only $10 worth). I noticed the characters that gave me the gold in game was the exact same character both times (I remembered his name/class/lvl... he never went past a certain level!)
So I was thinking if that toon sells billions of gold every day privately and hasnt been banned in 6 months it was safer selling 3rd party... and that way its harder for blizzard to monitor because there is no RMAH record.
I only thought people sold through the RMAH because it was easier, definately not safer :O
Also I bought gold quite a bit when this game first came out, even publicly on the D3 forums on my main. Never got banned... but I guess that was pre-RMAH