I had written to support asking about this very thing, how the "approved" way of transferring items/np from my main account to my gallery (for adding to the gallery/np for shop upgrades, etc.) and was told that yes, the trading post was fine. I have a trade of 10 balloons (chia, aisha, etc.) sitting on my gallery account so I can bid from my main - just enough np for 2 shop upgrades and a couple of gallery items. I just never use the tp on weekends.
I have heard of people being frozen for transferring via the tp or even using the send to neofriend when sending from one account to another. Usually it seems that the items were very expensive/rare and too many np were being transferred. First, you can't just send a million np to another account using the tp, 800k is the limit. Second, I've heard over and over again to only send small amounts of np, sending a large amount seems to trigger something. Same with using the send to neofriend an item worth more than, say, 200k (I send small -- under about 75k -- items to my gallery that way).
Also, if you're going to send things do it slowly, don't try to send like 20 items/100's of K worth of np in a day or so. I only send one or two small items over a week and only use the tp for np/larger item transfer maybe once a month. I'm not trying to be sneaky or "get over" the system, I just don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention for something that so many of us do (and need to do) that is NOT cheating.
Yes, the trading post, as well as auctions and even the send to nf are all logged (one of the things that drives me crazy when you lose something in a glitch and are told there's no way to prove you had the item because there's no record).
I know of many people who just put some cheaper items in their shop on the other account and overprice them, and buy them from their main account to fund the other account.
As far as using auctions, I'm not sure. That seems like it would send a red flag faster than the tp. Why? You're putting an item on auction, then bidding on it on the same IP, which is a definite no-no. Like, people sharing a computer (not accounts) bidding on the same item and all getting frozen for scamming.
The one thing to never, ever do is send np from another account to your main account. That will almost always get you frozen, same with sending items to your main account. How that's cheating if, say, you have 2 accounts and want to liquidate and close one of the accounts I don't know. If you're just sending np to your main to have more np or items to sell (like from a RE) you're setting yourself up.
And Morningstar is correct in not using Tombola things (or advent/any freebie) as the item for transferring no matter where - tp, shop, auction. I use things like the cheaper character balloons, etc. that I have had stashed in my gallery sdb forever.
It's all so frustrating. No one knows for sure what you really can and can't do without running the risk of a freezing for multi, scam, etc. even with emails from support.
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