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Re: selling toon: can I do it according to EULA?

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From: skibber
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17
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On 15-03-2011 17:11:11, Steve Kaye wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:51:35 +0100, evan...@gmail.com (EvanMac)
> wrote:
> 
>>Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:40:24 +0100, EvanMac wrote:
>>> >  because I have a toon (belf pally prot/retri) I levelled to 80 (and 81
>>> >  in cata) for tanking pourpose, but because I want to level my druid for
>>> >  tanking pourpose, I thought to delete it; but soon I also thought "why
>>> >  don't sell it?"
>>> >
>>> >  so, I made a fast check on ebay and found that some hi-level toon sells
>>> >  for around 700 ย€.
>>> >
>>> >  so, my question is: can I do this according to EULA or blizz will ban my
>>> >  account?
>>> >
>>> >  to be clear, I just want to make some money, only if possible/legal,
>>> >  from a toon I think I'll never use
>>> >
>>> >  OTOH I have a collateral question: How much could be worth the toon?
>>> >
>>> >  here she is:
>>> > <http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/hakkar/clotilde/simple>>> >
>>> >  and I have a worgen druid too, how much maybe worth her?
>>> >
>>> > <http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/hakkar/kensa/simple>>> >
>>> >  thanks in advance for your replies
>>>
>>> There are two problems:
>>>
>>> To sell just one character but not all of them, you would need to transfer
>>> the character off your account. As far as I know, this can't be done (I
>>> think there are some provisions for members of the same family or some such
>>> but am not sure), so you would need to sell your whole account.
>>
>>uhm... every time I transfered a char from a ream to another, I always
>>saw the checkbox to transfer to another account; dunno if I can transfer
>>the toon to whoever I want
> 
> You can transfer characters between accounts but it is only between
> accounts of family members.  I think that you need to transfer it to
> an account with the same surname.
Always.
> 
>>> And even if it were possible, selling anything from in-game for real-life
>>> currency is against the EULA/TOS.
>>
>>I read all the eula and tos today's morning, before posting here, and it
>>seems to me that I can't sell *item(s)*, but not my toon
> 
> You can't transfer characters between accounts unless it is between
> family members so the relevant sentence would be under the section
> "Ownership/Selling of the Account or Virtual Items" and is as follows:
> 
> "Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of World of Warcraft
> Accounts or BNET Accounts (each an ย“Accountย”). You may not purchase,
> sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or
> trade any Account, and any such attempt shall be null and void."
> 
> 
>>anyway, because I realized that I don't play with my pally (as stated in
>>the OP) I take her in my account without doing anything... I'd rather
>>prefer that she continues her life in some other people hands :D
> 
> I couldn't imagine getting rid of such a high level character.  I have
> one of character of each class on my main server, the lowest is level
> 64, and I wouldn't consider deleting any of them.  Things change too
> much* so I don't know which character will be my favourite tomorrow.
> 
> * And by "things", I include my own personal preferences.  I used to
> think that playing a Druid as Balance was a ludicrous idea because
> Feral was so much fun.  I literally couldn't figure out why anyone
> would do it.  :)  Now my Druid's main spec is Balance and it has been
> since the early 70s.
> 
> steve.kaye
> --
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Subject: Re: selling toon: can I do it according to EULA?
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