What constitutes sufficient evidence of RMTing to be turned into the server staff for investigation? A /tell from someone saying they will sell something to you for real money? Too easy for someone to just play it off like "I was just kidding, bro." Plus, the professionals who allegedly make a significant income off of this activity aren't dumb enough to do that.
I imagine it would take some sort of proof of electronic transaction to a specific account, and then tying that account back to a EQ character name once the in-game trade is completed. And the only way for us, the player, to do that is to participate in the RMT itself and risking a ban ourselves. And why would we do that? Certainly the non-legit person doing RMT is completely okay with allowing RMT to happen, so they wouldn't be putting up the infos/screenshots.
So a rules-abiding player is forced to participate in illicit activity in order to provide sufficient evidence for the server staff to take action on?
The server staff isn't going to shell out real money to a PayPal account just to follow the trail to get rid of an RMTer... not worth the money to do so, unless they can force the payment company to withhold the payment due to services not rendered/product not delivered.
I know it's one thing to say "provide us evidence and we'll look into it", but how specifically would you like us to do so, in order to not put our own accounts/reputations at risk for being tagged for RMT?
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