Cyr wrote on May 26
th, 2014 at 5:06pm:
Problem with that of course is that I regularly buy stacks when I see them for a good deal and the resell them later.
Recently I dropped 4K shards on items and am in the process of reselling them. So I have tons of inventory still on my account.
I buy large amounts of goods from the ASAH when I see deals.
I also resell those goods on the ASAH.
By large amounts I means I spent literally over 4000 shards recently on items.
I have since made back about 3500 shards.
So lots of stuff.
not sure if true (I do trust him but I don't read his account email, of course) but a friend of mine got banned on Sarlona for buying 5k dwarven ingots; 14 days ban as well.
If I was you, I'd pass on those obviously duped items on the auction house, especially if you resell them. Because, if you buy 5k dwarven ingots, you can probably not ever get that many on a legit way.. Everyone knows that, Turbine, too. And that's why you are banned.
Greed < Account, my advice for next time. I don't think they are deleting shards, but they surely gonna delete the large stacks of mats that you bought. If you are lucky, they are lazy and you can buy your stuff back from the buy back option @ tavern npc. However, they are saying that they are monitoring your account, so be careful if you buy back anything. Again, my friend could buy his stuff back, and didn't get banned again, but I don't know what he bought back and what he left in there (since it's bugged and does not delete but just remains in the buy back window - yey- 46 pages by now - chances are high that you can just buy it back in a couple of weeks before u22...
either way, good luck.