Why have I done to deserve a ban

#0 - March 9, 2010, 4:13 p.m.
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Apparently not this account that's banned but my other account is, I am not able to post on the banned account as it won't allow me to select a character.

I believe my account was auto flag somehow from trading a large sum of gold to this character, Hamasakii on Dath'Remar (from my other account) was the character that traded gold to Doraemoon on Dath'Remar, and it is the bank toon I have on the realm and since I recently transferred my two main characters to another realm and couldn't carry all the golds due to the gold limit on realm transfer, I traded the left over gold to this character on another account but still on the same realm. The trade also includes some other sellable items as well.

The concern is my account just got banned almost instantly after the trade and it seems to me there's no investigation involved before the decision is made. It is not hard to tell that characters involved in the trade was on 2 accounts but the same owner as there were character transfer history between the 2 accounts (isn't it characters only transfferable between accounts if they belong to the same owner??), and also the 2 battlenet account names are identical other than the domain name.

A ban is a very serious punishment regardless how many hours down time it causes specially to players that participates in high end raiding, it not only affect me playing the game but the rest of the guild. Is there any investigation taken place before such punishment applies?
#48 - March 9, 2010, 7:17 p.m.
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Obviously they thought I sold gold to this character by trading 20K gold, and my bank toon is level55 by the way, why would a gold seller sell gold on a level55 character.


Why wouldn't they?

Regardless, if you feel that this account action was applied in error, then the only appropriate method of disputing the matter is via email at [email protected].

I'd like like to refer you to our How to Stay in the Game article:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21507