We at LuckyCharmGold have years of experience selling and buying OSRS Gold. Our highest priority is making sure you as a customer are happy with our services and can buy and sell gold on our website without getting a ban on your account. Our way of Real-World-Trading (RWT) in OSRS is very different compared to other websites and vendors, and we got asked many times how we prevent RWT bans.
Therefore, we wrote this extensive RWT guide that will help you minimize the risk of an RWT ban in OSRS. A majority of RWT bans are focused on sellers, not buyers. Even after Jagex’s recent announcement of rule changes, this has changed very little. What does however happen is that sellers get caught, and accounts that have traded the seller (buyers) will get a RWT warning.
A vast majority of RWT activities still go unbanned, for instance: we only had a few bans on our trading accounts since starting up gold selling over 4 years ago. These bans all had a few things in common, we learned from the RWT bans, so that we can prevent them in the future.
As a buyer or seller, rest assured that we take the security of our customers extremely seriously and do everything in our power to keep you and your account safe, but to stay as safe as you possibly can be following these instructions when purchasing or selling OSRS Gold to us.
Contrary to popular belief, a VPN or proxy will NOT make the chances of catching an RWT ban lower. Using a VPN will make you more likely to be banned. Firstly, a VPN or proxy can be used before by somebody else for RWT and can be flagged by Jagex. Doing another gold trade on the same IP address will cause your account to be instantly banned for RWT.
Secondly, your account changing IP addresses and instantly trading large amounts of wealth is very suspicious and will cause Jagex’s system to raise suspicion. We noticed that a lot of RWT bans have come from the change of an IP address. The safest thing to do is to trade on the IP address and device that you normally play the game on, as this will not flag your account within Jagex’s systems and thus will keep you safer.
Some customers may be inclined to use an alternative account such as a pure or a fresh level 3 account to use as a mule for their transaction. This is also a very big misconception made in the RWT business. Unless one of these accounts is also played on frequently alongside your main account.
A fresh account is monitored heavily, and alternate accounts that do not play the game but are logging in to trade large sums of wealth will increase the likelihood of your main being banned, as Jagex is far more likely to flag an alternate account used solely for RWT and trace the wealth transfer back to your main.
Another reason why trading on alternate accounts is a bad idea is the fact that two trades are done on your IP address instead of just one. Having more trades done between accounts always increases the risk of an RWT ban. Furthermore, low-level accounts with low playtime that are trading on free-to-play worlds will also increase the likelihood of being flagged, as these are the accounts that are closely monitored by Jagex.
Therefore, at LuckyCharmGold we only use high-level accounts with good playtime and membership to minimize the risk of our trading accounts being flagged and caught, and we suggest that, if possible, you do the same. A level 3 fresh-off tutorial island trading large amounts of wealth is far more suspicious than a high-level main with hundreds of hours of playtime.
To prove this point, check out the video of Solomission, where his level 3 account got banned because he was trading large sums of wealth from his main to his level 3 account.
There are various methods that people use for Real-World-Trading such as regular trading, staking, Player-Killing (PKing), tip-jar, and drop trading. We at LuckyCharmGold advise you just to use the regular trading method when buying and selling gold. Jagex has no way to monitor if the trade was a loan or a PVM split that was obtained, for instance.
Staking was another great way to transfer large amounts of gold, however, since the duel arena removal, this is no longer viable. Using other methods such as PKing, tip-jar and drop trading raises suspicion from our point of view. It is highly irregular to do trades with large sums of money for these methods, which from the point of view of Jagex looks like RWT. When something looks like an obvious RWT, the chances of catching a ban are more likely.
We heard many stories about RWT bans happening to customers who previously bought gold from other vendors. These websites or sellers were usually trading huge amounts of gold on their accounts daily, trading on level 3 accounts and in F2P worlds. That is just asking for an RWT ban as a seller, but also for you as a buyer.
What happens in these situations is that their throw-away accounts get permanently banned daily, and all the accounts that traded the account (which are customers) will get either a RWT warning, or will also be permanently banned. The few times that our accounts got banned for RWT were cases where we were buying gold from bulk re-sellers, and our accounts got banned because these bulk resellers got banned in the first place. Therefore, we moved to a process of only purchasing gold from our customers, to then re-sell again to our customers.
Instead of buying OSRS Gold, you can also buy OSRS items instead. From our experience, this reduces the likelihood of an RWT ban, since the trade looks far more natural. Real players usually never trade over large sums of gold, but they usually lend each other items. For instance, PVMers regularly lend each other items such as a twisted bow for them to do certain bosses. These trades are regularly done at Grand Exchange. Since the trade looks like two players are swapping each other items, the chances of an RWT ban are therefore way less likely.
Bonds are a way of directly buying gold of Jagex, with absolutely 0 risks of an RWT ban. Though some overly cautious players choose to purchase their gold this way, it is highly recommended to avoid buying bonds. They are extremely expensive for the amount of gold you get, costing around 4-5x as much as black market gold, whilst the actual risk of purchasing gold is extremely low if you decide on the right website that cares about your safety.
Although Jagex has been increasingly threatening to crack down on RWT, the sheer volume of gold traded means it is exceptionally unlikely you will be caught. We have never had any customers banned from buying or selling gold through our services. There are always players who do catch an RWT ban, mostly people who are very careless with RWT practices. Luckily, these people will be banned first before Jagex even has us or you on their radar. They will always ban the obvious RWT, and since our trades are way more natural, we are unlikely to get caught.
If you followed all the practices listed above, the chances of a RWT ban would be very slim. There are two types of bans that you can catch, an RWT major permanent ban and an RWT minor 3-day ban.
Most buyers of OSRS gold get an RWT warning from Jagex in the form of a minor 3-day ban. This happens mostly when an OSRS gold seller is caught, all the accounts that have traded the permanently banned seller's account will get a RWT minor x-day ban. We get plenty of questions from people who got a ban like this when buying from other websites (usually trading with level 3’s), and if it is safe to do more RWT on the account. We answer that if you care about the account, it is best to not RWT anymore. If you still want to RWT, then make sure to buy OSRS items in member worlds from high combat-level accounts from a reliable vendor.
If you are caught with a permanent ban, there is nothing else you can do to recover your account. Unfortunately, your account has been lost and there is no way to appeal the ban. The only option left is to create a new account and start over again.
We at Lucky Charm Gold have stress-tested the best RWT methods so that you can buy OSRS gold safely without getting banned. We use high combat-level accounts with static residential proxies, and we prefer to trade on member worlds if you buy gold from us. Furthermore, we also have a system where we use main maxed combat accounts and rotate these accounts so that we can trade large sums of gold, but do not over-trade on a single account. This allows us to prevent RWT bans on our accounts, also making sure that you as a customer remain safe. Since this is a unique approach, we cannot give away too much information about this since we want to keep this a secret for our competitors.
Whether you want to buy OSRS gold or OSRS items, our website is super simple and easy to use. Simply follow the instructions on the screen, entering the amount of gold or items you wish to buy or sell, your in-game username and email address, and your desired payment method.
We accept a wide range of payment methods such as credit cards, PayPal, cryptocurrency & direct bank payment. One of our dedicated live chat agents will assist you as soon as they can and help you through the process. The agent will give you a world and a location. Simply trade the account and verify that it is you through the live chat and accept the gold. We always strive to serve our customers as soon as possible.
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