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Originally Posted by Kushiel
By your own statement, you enforce my opinion that it is an opportunity to abuse the system. If it is very strictly policed through flags, then there is not a problem. Otherwise, there will be and probably are now cheaters doing this like all the other ways they find to abuse the rules for an advantage.
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Of course it is an opportunity for abuse, and I agree with you on that, but I disagree that it is the same as moving cards between your own accounts or that anything should be done about it; I don't think it should be forbidden, because it is not inherently cheating, and also because you can never police it effectively.
So why make an effort to moderate the auction house forum in that regard, when in fact that is even a cumbersome way of making a deal, when players can do live coordination in, f.e., a Steam chat? A card can be posted and snapped up in a matter of seconds. The odds that an outsider snatches the card by chance are virtually zero.
And I would argue that all of this is fair game, and does not constitute abuse, unless people use it to funnel PP from one account to another with outrageous prices. *That* is the crowd OOTPD should be after.
As a thought experiment - say I have a diamond card that you really, really want, and I am not really happy with it (it's a player I really, really hate, possibly a Yankee). The average for recent transactions of the card is 6,412 points. Because I like round numbers, we agree that I post my card for a buy-it-now of 6,500 PP at this and that time, and you buy it within seven seconds. I have 5,850 PP (minus tax), got rid of the damn Yankee, and you have the card you always wanted.
Who exactly is hurt by this transaction?
If I had posted the card without prior agreement for the same buy-it-now, would you not have bought it anyway? Where's the difference?