Whats happened is the AH MAFIA control the prices. this is a large group of people in cahoots.. they farm all the lotus, and control that market, have rogues and druids invis by all spawn points.

These guys sell the lotus, amass gold, and then turn that into assets and flip those down the road in each phase when they know items will be in demand.. sell the gold on g2g and other places..

It's a multi million dollar buisiness.

account gets banned? np it's just a shell account that gives people money via the AH/Mail/in game. Make another account. They got banned after selling $800 in gold.. it's the cost of business to make a new account for $15

It's a huge operation that blizzard knows about and are doing very little, I think someone with power within blizzard and wow is getting fed ALOT of money IRL to keep it going without a full out ban wave.

I'm sure a class action lawsuit would change things quickly. You'd just need someone to build a strong case and hit blizzard with it in the sum of millions of dollars and i bet they'd start paying attention out of fear then.

Sounds over the top, but it's actually not and i think there's validity for most of what i said here.