Whats to stop us from having 2 accounts. hording a bunch of blizzard credits then using it to buy out a one time high priced item from the IRL money account?
Whats to stop us from having 2 accounts. hording a bunch of blizzard credits then using it to buy out a one time high priced item from the IRL money account?
The Blizzard credits are split between accounts, thus they cannot be added together. Therefore you could not buy out one high priced item from the RMAH.
I've moved this to the D3 forum.
I don't really get the question though - how can you hoard blizzard credits? You get credits for selling items you farmed. Why would you need to hoard them on multiple accounts? Do you mean so you can take advantage of the free auctions per week and thus use multiple accounts to have free auctions and avoid the fees? But you need to have D3 registered on each account so that probably nullifies any profit you could make from that anyway, and it's likely that blizzard credits aren't transferrable, you can probably either spend them, or check them out into your paypal (with a fee).
As I understand:
It's to avoid the micro transactions.
The most recent article I've read on the topic says that you can do it two ways:
1)Profit is stored on you bnet account but can only be used to buy stuff only inside that account - games, subscriptions or other items on RMAH.
2)Or you can check out money after each sell to paypal, paying fees after each one.
This method means having 2 bnet accounts with 2 separate D3 subs going on in order to amass credits on one and then cash them out as one big purchase, hoping to reduce the fees.
As we have no idea what those fees and AH prices will end up being, we have no idea how profitable this would be.
I see, then you probably could get some advantage I suppose out of using multiple accounts, but we still don't have exact details. I thought that you only got a small number (estimated, 3?) free listings a week and if using blizzard credit you still had to pay fee to list above that - but we have no idea. We need to wait for confirmation.
I'm sure there is some way to use multiple accounts to some very small advantage, but unlikely to be worth it as fees are likely to be very small and multiple accounts will cost you another game license per account. Certainly, I don't think it will "break" the system as the title suggests, I think the advantage will be so minor that it will not affect the system really.
Hmm, well I don't know if it differs worldwide, but in the UK, paypal is a static percentage regardless of the figure. The person receiving the money currently pays 3.4% unless the item is sent as a gift payment (no fees at all, but there is absolutely no protection/insurance and only designed for friends/family not for business transactions so I assume will not be valid here).
I've also just read that somewhere =_= Didn't ever use it yet.