Look at it this way. If you are banned for spending gold you made legit on an in-game item on the Market is that even a game you would want to be playing anyway?
Playing in fear that using IN-GAME systems, such as PF or the Market the way those systems were intended and being banned for it is nuts, and the fact that these sorts of questions are being asked so often shows the sad state of the game in general.
We didn’t, they just permabanned almost everyone who remembers, also purged threads, comments.
So what you’re telling me is it’s still something that’s going on lol
no, they implemented a 3 day hold on literally everything you buy, so no more fraud and chargebacks.
as long as you earned your gold and didn’t credit card it you’ll be fine!
Account age/activity play a huge role.
If a new account has hundreds of thousands of gold with no money spent on the shop, they are probably flagged.
I don’t think your concern should be getting banned, your concern should be having Gold taken away from you or if you don’t have the money then your account being in negative gold.
One thing I would correct you on is there won’t be more threads on it since your account gets banned from posting on the forums as well. To create a new account on Amazon, you need a phone number. Combine these two and it’s unlikely to see too many threads pop up in general about bans.
Except there are many people with alt forum accounts so you are disproven right away
Edit. Also forgot that a thread can be anywhere including in reddit or on a rmt discords/sites with messaging.
On Reddit, you’re not allowed to discuss bans so it’ll more or less never show up there, on RMT discord/sites, never been on them so no idea I couldn’t tell you. Also, for an alt forum account, you need 2 phone numbers since 1 already got banned (I’m assuming, never tried the same one) so I’m sure that turns away a lot of people.
While I’m mentioning this, may as well as also mention they usually give RMTers a very short temp ban from what I’ve seen so you would have to trigger their system for something else I’m presuming for a longer ban.
I’ve bought some Level 10 damage gems and cool down haven’t sold any though and yes I did swipe to buy these gems by selling skins.
Level 10 damage gem is worth around $500 - $600 depending on your region.
I saved up enough level 7 gems to make a level 9, ended up selling them as level 7s instead of combining for a 9.
Thought about combining and selling but have seen enough people claiming they got falsely banned for RMT for selling high level gems that I came to the conclusion it’s not worth the risk for 3k-13k more gold.
buy? super safe 
sell? it’s safe, but if an rmt buy your item you could get warned, your gold is taken away, and your gem will not be refunded. Worse case scenario your account gonna get banned because you accept rmt gold
Never heard issues from the buyer themselves. However, I have a friend who plays alot, he sold a lvl9 damage gem for 100k+ I believe. He received a warning after a 1-2 days + the gold earned from the gem was removed.
I really hope AGS brings it up with Smilegate and talk about this openly with the community. It appears to be an ongoing issue without any real solution for it.
Only 100k+? That’s within market price lol. That’s absurd.
Yeah, it was market value. This was only 2 weeks back or so.
Oh and for reference, it was on EU Central region.
Why would it be not safe? If you don’t rmt you have nothing to worry about.
It is a serious problem. But one that is happening to so few people that they can just deny that it is even happening. I would still say your odds of being banned are virtually 0. But if you are unlucky enough to be hit by this you will lose the gold and the item you sold and no one at AGS support will be able to return either to you.
@Shadow_Fox said she was going to bring it up at a weekly meeting.
That was the last we heard of it from them. I was hoping that it would at least reduce the frequency of it happening to people if they became more aware of it. But there have been like 3 additional cases that showed up on the forums since that meeting was supposed to take place.
Another one from earlier tonight 
Did they change the punishment to a first time warning and take away gold rather than an instant perma ban? Or has it always been this way?
afaik the punishment for confirmed RMT is still 1 month suspension per 100k detected. As far as this “warning” thing goes it does seem to be a recent development. It is possible they are applying that across the board to any RMT. But I feel like this is probably something exclusive to the AH as every single case has the same story. Sold a high value item. Few hours/days later gold is removed. Sometimes a warning is issued and sometimes they just login to find the gold missing from their account.