this is the one of the first non-bullshit posts to this thread. rock on, brother!!
and yeah i used a SoR account, but most all of my accounts were from the last $5 sale blizz had. just waiting for the next one. so i can run 1000 bots and get me a Beemer like that one guy!! then get banned and lose it all but the bills.
when my bot farm was going good, lets say about a 2 months ago, yeah, i was bringing in 50k a day, pretty easy with two 3 session keys. i got tired of busting my own ore and milling my own herbs and it was when i started selling tons of mats cod that i got sloppy and banned. most of my accounts i can pretty much find 'the mistake' i made. its the ones they banned where i made no apparent mistakes that bother me. and the ones i had a single account on a battlenet, get permabanned for 'the severity and frequency of the violations' wtf are they talking about there. thats what i want to know. so yeah, i let people know that the demon is out there, he will get you if you dont watch what you are doing and chances are, get you no matter how careful you are.
so in response to all you who want to step up your game to 10 bots. think of the server load. think of IP linking. remember blizz can tell how many clients you are running off you ip. if you look suspicious [running 10 bots] then you're going to have a bad time. spending all that money is great, but think how much it sucks leveling new farmers all the time. from lvl 1 to 90, 10 days, no income from that account, and yeah, it cost money. lets say you pay the minimum of $35 an account [what they sold for a couple months ago] and you get 1 month free, you spend 1/3 of that with no income, you have 20 days of farming to make 70k to pay off that bot. not counting keys, hope you already have those. now think about doing that x5. now think about blizz killing 2, just 2 of your accounts. now its january and you cant find $35 accounts. income is gone from those bots. maybe you lost an important farmer on a server you liked. so you go level another dk on that server. and you banned again, because you went back and sold cod to the same person who you sold to before. you get banned again because that asshat told a guildie about you and they reported you, every day, just to be a dick.
stories go on and on. you're going to get banned if you get greedy. thats all there is to it.