Re: Buying gold other than WG
I did once try buying gold from other sites (as a test) to see if they were “semi-legit”. Semi-legit meaning the money used to buy the gold may not of come from a legal source but you (the buyer) are protected from having the gold be removed from your account.
bought roughly $30 worth of gold for about $18 (ish) from some shady website for 3 different accounts. Within 3 days 2 of the 3 accounts lost the gold completely because the website was using stolen credit cards to buy the gold as Plazma mentioned above (not surprised).
Also not long ago WG themselves posted a memo on their website regarding the issues of buying from unauthorized WoT gold sellers. It details that any charge backs, flagged paypal accounts or reported stolen funds of any kind used to buy the gold will result in an immediate refund, thus, removing the gold from your account. (this is where it gets foggy for me) I can’t remember if WG uses the same policy as PlayStation where a negative balance (in this case, your WoT gold) will result in account ban… again that part is foggy for me.