Actually, now that I read into it again, you can be suspended/banned for selling bulk gems during the whole fiasco.
Multiple people on my friends list were temporarily suspended. Because at the time of gold duping, if you sold mass gems for 10x the regular price of gems, you were actively taking part in manipulating the market. It's part of their whole investigation.
I spent all my RMAH balance buying gems to flip for gold and got banned for it. Didn't even know about the dupe until afterwards. Plus it's pretty obvious nobody would spend $180+ on gems to sell for gold if they knew they can just dupe gold, LOL ... So I guess Blizzard's investigation kind of failed. Doubt I'm the only one that got screwed in this mess.
So now I'm down $182.30 from buying gems, with my accounts banned with like $600-700 of items on it, and unable to even get a ticket response to answer what they think I did wrong that deserves a ban.
Figured they'ed ban dupers, but banned for selling gems is pretty ridiculous.
Why did you suddenly decide to buy gems?
I've bought gems and sold them on RMAH somewhat regularly over the past 3 or so months. However, it was generally more like $20 of gems at a time to reduce RMAH balance and get gold. This time I spent ALL my RMAH balance simply because I thought the change in floor price of legit gold caused gems to temporarily change in price right after the patch was released. Gems were going for around 80-100m when I sold the, they weren't the 200m or whatever people claim they eventually went up to.
Actually, now that I read into it again, you can be suspended/banned for selling bulk gems during the whole fiasco.
Multiple people on my friends list were temporarily suspended. Because at the time of gold duping, if you sold mass gems for 10x the regular price of gems, you were actively taking part in manipulating the market. It's part of their whole investigation.
Yea, it's looking like a perma ban now, as I get the error 52 message now. As far as I know of the friends on my friends list, I'm the only one that got the perma ban for only selling gems. A friend that duped gold once got perma ban, though he did say he duped once to test it out.
It's actually my second time getting suspended for selling gems as well, though the first time Blizzard un-suspended me telling me that what I was doing is fine (buying gems from RMAH to sell on gold AH). That was roughly a month ago. Maybe that has something to do with the ban this time since it was technically my second suspension in a short period of time, even if Blizzard admit the first ban was a mistake. Blizzard won't tell me any reason aside from being somehow linked to the duping incident. I had a few other friends who sold gems as well, but they didn't sell such a large quantity of gems. Some of them didn't even get a temporary suspend though, and got to keep the gold they made.
@TianZi: Sorry to hear that. If it were me, I'd probably try IMing one of the Blizzard CM's and/or emailing wowgmfeedback-us@blizzard.com with a polite explanation of exactly what you did and did not do. It might not go anywhere, but it's at least worth a shot. You could also try calling support I guess and ask for a review. I hope you're able to get it sorted out.
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Multiple people on my friends list were temporarily suspended. Because at the time of gold duping, if you sold mass gems for 10x the regular price of gems, you were actively taking part in manipulating the market. It's part of their whole investigation.
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I've bought gems and sold them on RMAH somewhat regularly over the past 3 or so months. However, it was generally more like $20 of gems at a time to reduce RMAH balance and get gold. This time I spent ALL my RMAH balance simply because I thought the change in floor price of legit gold caused gems to temporarily change in price right after the patch was released. Gems were going for around 80-100m when I sold the, they weren't the 200m or whatever people claim they eventually went up to.
Yea, it's looking like a perma ban now, as I get the error 52 message now. As far as I know of the friends on my friends list, I'm the only one that got the perma ban for only selling gems. A friend that duped gold once got perma ban, though he did say he duped once to test it out.
It's actually my second time getting suspended for selling gems as well, though the first time Blizzard un-suspended me telling me that what I was doing is fine (buying gems from RMAH to sell on gold AH). That was roughly a month ago. Maybe that has something to do with the ban this time since it was technically my second suspension in a short period of time, even if Blizzard admit the first ban was a mistake. Blizzard won't tell me any reason aside from being somehow linked to the duping incident. I had a few other friends who sold gems as well, but they didn't sell such a large quantity of gems. Some of them didn't even get a temporary suspend though, and got to keep the gold they made.