Is it "legal" under POE rules to sell character names for POE currency? (Question for the community)

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Gary_GGG wrote:

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silumit wrote:

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Eben_GGG wrote:

Hiya, thanks for asking about this. Unfortunately trading names for currency or real money is not allowed and could result in a ban.

Out of curiosity: if this is ToS violation, then which clause of ToS is in contradiction with such behaviour?

Section 6h
(h) Perform in-game services during your use of the Website, Materials or Services for any form of compensation outside of POE.

I know you did say this, but in the ToS, this is so vague. In the trading forum rules, it states:

"Buying and selling items or accounts for real money or external currencies (such as Forum Gold) is not allowed and we will ban people who attempt to engage in it in-game or on the pathofexile.com forums.

The following things are examples of behaviour that could get you banned under this rule:
Posting a trade thread where you ask for things other than Path of Exile items in exchange for your gear.
Offering people money or external currencies in exchange for their Path of Exile items or accounts.
Advertising external item sales sites. It's best to avoid mentioning them by name.
Running a service where you sell items or accounts to people for things other than Path of Exile items."

It never states that character names cannot be sold, and it doesn't -specifically- state that you can't do it in the ToS. Selling these names, which are PoE related, in exchange for -PoE- items and currency shouldn't be illegal. Obviously a GGG representative stated it was, and I'm not going to put myself in jeopardy of my account, but I'm now asking people of the PoE community: what do you guys think about that ^ statement?

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uhErik wrote:

Selling these names, which are PoE related, in exchange for -PoE- items and currency shouldn't be illegal. Obviously a GGG representative stated it was, and I'm not going to put myself in jeopardy of my account, but I'm now asking people of the PoE community: what do you guys think about that ^ statement?

I don't understand why it isn't allowed based on what Gary quoted from the ToS, you've clearly stated it would be for in-game currency and not for compensation outside of the game. Time to update the ToS?