Confused by $200 limit for bnet balance

[Markco]

Personally, I want to use the battlenet account as a holding pen for funds. When I want to cash out I'll buy items to resell for gold and then sell the gold on the rmah (or something similar).

This $200 limit puts a minor damper on my plans, especially of I want to cash out like once a month.

or is the limit $200 added per day? It's very confusing with the wording.

If someone can clarify or link to a better explanation, I'd appreciate it.


Basically, I understand thy blizzard is trying to give parents more control over their child's spending and prevent money laundering, but does this effect us in any way ?

We should still be able to buy items with PayPal for way more than $200 (and sell).

[AKUder]

I was looking into this a couple days ago. See my forum post here: http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...aypal-directly.

At least they did increase it $250 for US. I'm also confused as to how they impose this $250 limit. The way the interface on the AH looks now, you select where funds are deposited when you list an item on the AH. So if you select b.net balance, for a bunch of auctions and they all sell which would put you over the $250, what do they do? How do they prevent the one item you listed for selling for over that $250 mark? This is something they haven't resolved that I can see.

[Naviaras]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you chose where to cash out when the transaction closes. That means you could have many items posted and the next time you log in it would give you the choice of where the funds should go BB or PayPal. Even if that is not the cast I'm sure that they will have a pop up stating that your BB is full if you try to deposit there.

The big reason for the $250US balance is a legal one. Blizzard/Activison isn't a financial institution (Bank). They don't want the liability that comes with tracking/losing customer's funds. That is why they partnered with PayPal. Not only is PayPal already configured to track and store customer's fund, especially for tax purposes (Death and Taxes), they are capable of doing that for multiple countries.

It is quite easy to forget that "Traders" are not Blizzard's primary target for the RMAH, it is the "Casual" player. The "Casual" player is playing D3 for fun, not to make money. They will rarely post more items for sale than the free listings. They will most likely make purchases directly via a Credit Card. They are also the most likely to keep a low balance. The entire AH system is just a system to ensure safe and secure item transfer between players. The fact Real Money is even allowed is because the demand of players for that system.

@Marko: Since you are a trader you have to look at the RMAH just like a entrepreneur. Can you make money is a system where you don't control the rules? If you can, you go into business. If not, you don't. As a small fish you can complain if you don't like the rules, but you are VERY unlikely to get them changed. There are people with a whole lot more money and power (Government & Big Business) than you who's voice counts for more.

[viledevil]

my take was you could only deposit that amount in a single day, similar to the way poker sites limit what you can deposit in a given time period.

[AKUder]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you chose where to cash out when the transaction closes. That means you could have many items posted and the next time you log in it would give you the choice of where the funds should go BB or PayPal. Even if that is not the cast I'm sure that they will have a pop up stating that your BB is full if you try to deposit there.

I honestly couldn't remember when I made my post. It would make more sense that you decide after the auction sells, I just seemed to remember in the beta AH that when you posted an item there was a drop down menu to select where you wanted the money to go rather than after it sold. Obviously that doesn't make much since with the $250 limit, that's just how I remembered it. This is Beta so if my recollection is correct, it will probably be changed.

[AKUder]

Here we go: http://diablo3markets.incgamers.com/...ah-gold-income. There's a screeny from Azzure where it you select where the funds go when you list the item. Just to reiterate, it only makes sense that this will change, but that's how it's set up now.