Dick Move Selling Beta Key for Gold?

[Deleted]

So the question stands. It's presumably against ToS and seems a bit slimey to me.

I did receive 2 beta keys from a competition but I'll almost undoubtedly hand one over to a friend, was just curious of what everyone thought.

[Ryuushima]

if people want to pay gold for it then why not let them. Asking a ridiculous amount would not be very nice though

[Darsithis]

As far as I know it's not against the TOS, but I could be wrong. Is it a dick move? No, why would it be? Commerce. Someone wants one, you have one, they have funds, problem solved.

[Rixis]

Technically selling out of game items for in game currency and vice versa is against rules, but meh, you have a key, get something for it, no doubt many people who didn't get keys entered multiple competitions and thus has multiple chances for keys, you just happened to be one of the very few to actually get multiple.

[Asrialol]

I feel that the exclamation points in the poll makes it seem as if I care more than I actually do.

It's a smart move, though.

[Serissa]

Asking a ridiculous amount would not be very nice though

"Ridiculous" is very subjective. Personally I wouldn't pay 1k for beta key, I'm just not interested. But my good friend said he will gladly pay about 50k.

[Ciddy]

If seller and buyer both agree to the cost and what the buyer is getting, I don't see a problem. Far as I can tell, that's not against the ToS.

[WanderingBreezes]

"Ridiculous" is very subjective. Personally I wouldn't pay 1k for beta key, I'm just not interested. But my good friend said he will gladly pay about 50k.

I don't see why anyone would sell one for less than 500k. It's an item with more rarity, value and demand than heroic warforged gear and Al'ar put together.

[Fullmetal89]

No, it's a pretty legit/smart way to make a large amount of gold. Lots of bored geared players who haven't gotten beta yet will pay upwards of a 150k for a key. Hell makes me want to resub just to make gold like I did during Wotlk/Cata maybe I can finally get that challenge mode armor on my lock lol.

[Darsithis]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2016273830

The only thing you can trade gold for is in-game items. Codes != in-game items. If you get an item that can be traded from a code, that can be sold for gold. Otherwise you are breaking the ToS.

Another, more recent and longer blue post on the topic. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9165987111

I stand corrected. I figured if you can sell codes for mounts in-game...but I guess, in reality, you're selling the mount, not the code.

Unfortunately, since it does break the TOS I have to close this.