<b>TRADING PASS DISABLED USERS GUILD</b>

For Gaia users who have had their trading passes disabled for no reason, with no ability to appeal. Join this guild to express your dissatisfaction with having to wait an indefinite amount of time to trade the items that you spent so much effort to collect. Gaia have not properly informed their users about these issues, and users are not even informed that their passes are disabled, you just go to the market on day and the pass is gone! This is an ongoing issue at Gaia, and one which they don't seem willing or able to address.

<b>ABOUT</b>

<b>This is a guild for users who have had their trading passes disabled for innocent reasons</b>. It appears that users that spend too much time trading on the marketplace or make too much money through trading automatically get tagged as potential botters or buyers of Gaia Gold which are breaches of the Gaia Terms of Service.

There is no information automatically given to users when this happens and the 'investigation' takes an indeterminate time, upwards of a few months or even years! In fact I have not even read of anyone ever getting their pass back. Their items are in effect rendered worthless, despite the time and/or money they spent to get them.

I have had two accounts disabled, each one I spent a significant amount of time buying cheap deals on the marketplace and re-selling them at market price to make profit. This is a legitimate use of Gaia and is in fact advertised as being such by the site itself. Yet if you are too successful, by getting good deals or dedicating a lot of time then Gaia will most likely disable your trading pass, making you unable to trade or even gift to friends.

It is understandable that Gaia needs to control botting and buying and selling of gold offsite (which creates the incentive to bot). However, punishing innocent user by subjecting them to an indefinite trading pass ban is unreasonable. In effect, if trading is what you enjoy about Gaia - getting good deals and making money fast - you will be punished.

<b>AIM</b>

The aim of this guild is to make the problem apparent. <b>Only join if your trading pass has been disabled, and only if you have not used a technique to make gold without being at the computer (botting) or bought gold</b>. That way the number of users in the guild will represent the number of innocent users who have had their hard work wasted by Gaia's system. You may join from multiple accounts as long as each account had its trading pass disabled. <b>Mods or other Gaia staff who would like to contribute/clarify any matter are also welcome to join</b>.

Once you have joined, <b>please post the date you got your trading pass disabled, and the reasons you think it happened</b> (ie. you spent two straight days buying and selling/you played a lot of booty grab/you bought several expensive items off the market/you got a 'too good to be true' deal off the market).

In criminal law you must have a guilty mind/intent to be labelled a criminal worthy of punishment. The same goes here - if you knew you were breaking the ToS you are not to join this group. All users are also assumed to know the content of the ToS. People who have no guilty mind however, should not be punished. You are welcome here as a form of protest against Gaia's indiscriminate punishment.

<b>All of Gaia's ToS rules apply to this guild. Also, no abusive language against Gaia or any other users will be permitted</b>. Such behaviour helps no-one. As well as posting the circumstances of you trading pass being disabled, feel free to discuss the issue itself and your dealings with Gaia mods or their 'contact us' ticket system.

Chaz LaRue (Two Trading Passes Disabled for Successful Innocent Marketplace Dealing).