Giving You Stuff Just Because

This is something I'd like to ask. If someone in my guild, friend, or someone I meant, gave me a rare item, gold or anything, I am afraid I'll get banned.

What is ANETS comment on this?

I have seen alot of people get banned for this. Just because.

If someone gets banned for this, they should go and contact support to explain the situation, getting the person who gave the item to do so as well.


I doubt it's "just because."

What with the plethora of 'hacking' incidents there has been, Anet is probably just being cautious. If they ban the person, and the person comes and explains the situation, along with the second person to back them up if needed, it's not likely a hacker. However if the person that was banned doesn't come forward and try to get their account back, or they lack a proper arguement, it's likely a hacker or they were on the account without permission.

I'm pretty sure they check up on these things before going over to banning if they notice it at all. If they see you're in same guild, or can probly check if you've played together for a while they'll see nothings wrong. If you get banned anyways send in a support ticket with info on what happened etc you should be unbanned quickly.

I've given/been given rare items, lots of ecto etc. by friends to hold onto transferring between accounts etc, and recently some things from a longtime friend who quit guildwars and never had problems with it.

I've had no problems with getting gold and rare items from people who used to play and quit whom I've never met in game before yet know from real life. I don't see why this would be a problem.

Anet bans for anything suspicious such as large money/item transfers.

To be safe, when he/she gives u gold/items, you add in a few useless items to make it seem like a trade. Anet can't tell the diff between values of items.

I've moved millions of gold and hundred of ecto between 2 accounts without any issue. People who say they were banned for that reason are probably only telling you half the story.

I know quite a few people who have been banned for that (Ensign for example), and I highly doubt they were doing any illegal activity, seeing as the bans were temporary.

Anyways, if someone is giving you some gold/ectos, don't worry about it, unless they give you a lot frequently. However, I think if you receive gold/items from someone who ANet suspects is a gold seller, you will receive a permanent ban. Don't quote me on that, though.

I got 50e from a guildie to go towards my fissure armour, no problems yet (1 week after)

Screen the transfers too, that gives you hard evidence to use.

I always keep a few crappy gold items laying around in case i ever recieve something from a friend that might be ban worthy. Just throw the items in there to trade them with to be safe...

Dealing with a ban and having to contact support is something i'd just rather not have to deal with.

if you suspect it an illegal item dont except it. if its legit dont worry. i really dont see the reason to question unless you thought it was a duped item or something like that. peopl in this game give things away all the time. i give greens away left and right. i got them all legitment so there no problem

There might be some type of script that is triggered if only one side trades. Users have posted stories of being banned while moving things across accounts. Are they true? I don't know. All I do know is when I move things I always put some gold, 1gp, 10 gps.... something.

i lent a m8 100k +10 ectos the other day,took screens of the trade,he paid me back a day later and that was over 2 weeks ago and we didnt get banned,i think it flags you but they look at the chat logs "m8 can i borrow 100k+10" and "yeah m8 np" dosent look like buying gold online

I gave away items worth ~100k if I bothered to sell them. Or I gave 30k for GH, the other day I borrowed my friend 50k... which he gave back after 2 months -.-

I think it looks more like buying gold online. ,,Hey, I'm not looking forward to buy that 100k + 500ecto. But I would like to pay for the run few days ago. Okay, 100k + 500ecto please. Thank you''.

Ecto's @ 3,7K.
Don't think anyone gets banned for giving away ecto's

Anyway, what has become of this game when you have to take screenshots of trades with friends because you have to fear that Anet might ban you.

It's an autoban for 3 days, and there's no review by any staff members.

The ban is (afaik) only for gold, and some important money items such as zaishen keys and ectos. Trading rare items won't trigger the autoban.

Also, it's not every time that it triggers off large gold trades. I've personally traded a lot of stuff between my accounts, but I've also heard people that got both accounts banned by transferring a mere 500k or so.

And I wouldn't bother with screens or anything. The temp bans are only 3 days, and it'll take about 2-3 days to contact Anet, send them the right information, for them to review it, and for them to make a decision on the ban.

On the other hand, i think its still worth it: IIRC, perma bams are also issued based on previous incidents (= you are more likely to get perma instead of another tem if you have history of banings), so resoving unfair temp ban and "cleaning your name" is worth it, even if it wont give you your account back any sooner.

my fiancee and i , and her brother have 5 accounts between us, and routinely trade piles of gold items, greens, minis, etc from one acc to another for storage purposes. no ban.
if you got banned , or someone got banned there is most likely another reason behind it.
multiple trades of 100k from one acc to another within a certain timeframe may trigger an alarm however, im uncertain as i havent the $$ to test

I traded stuff between the two accounts I have and the one a friend gave me, I've recently gotten a gift from a friend, I gave some of my friends ectos and shards for their armors... never got banned. Of course nothing exceeded the value of 100k, gold trades between my own accounts were in the 5-30k range...

Well its a few days since the last post but whatever, I Have received a ban for trading a mere 100k to a friend, It happened last night. He purchased a new account and wanted to flash 100k at some guy, so i zoned to him (Great Temple of Balt) opened trade put in 100k and we both accepted, Less than 30 seconds later he traded the 100k back to me. We both went on our merry ways playing the game. About 20 Mins Later, i get kicked out of the game and when i log back in it says i've been banned for buying gold. Honestly this is EXTREMELY annoying. But other than the lame excuse for submiting a support request there is nothing we can do, so Anet is probably going to rip me off 100k, and not let me play the game for a few days for helping a friend out. I find this very wrong that they can do this and on the support site it plainly says "THERE IS NO APPEALS" So anet can randomly ban you and take gold from you whenever they feel like it. YAYYY, GO ANET.....