Sending Gold Cross-Server New Method (Requires Partner Or Second Account) (Patreon)

So with the recent AH change comes an apparently unintended yet significant change: sending gold across realms is now relatively easy with a second account or a confederate.

The process (which I've tested):

1. Log-on to the character you wish to send gold.

2. Find an inexpensive item listed on the auction house with only 1-3 listings.

3. Buy up these items.

4. List the items for resale at the amount of gold you wish to transfer. 

5. Buy up the item with the character on the realm to wish to send gold from. 

There have been various strategies published over the years on how to transfer gold: this is the genuine article. Older strategies were horrendously impractical for various reasons. The only downside with this method is the auction house cut, which is minimal compared to, say, transferring gold across server by wow token. 

What can you do with this?

Why is this valuable? There are many gold-making strategies which can make very large amounts of gold based on server arbitrage: ie buying low on one server and selling high on another. Probably the best example of this is buying and selling pets. 

If you look at the price of pets on the Undermine Journal that they can be bought very cheap on some servers and sell for much more on others. This is a very good way to make gold. But there's a real problem with transferring the gold from sold pets back to the server where you purchase the pet. The above method solves that problem. 

Will Blizzard issue bans?

So far we have heard nothing from Blizzard about this, and they have not implemented the relatively trivial counter-measure to prevent transfers within a battle.net account (I tested this with two accounts on the same battle.net account). It seems that they don't care about this technique, and are unlikely to take action against players who use it.