Real Money to Get In-Game Currency: Eternal Bond Edition

[Valarian]

I am afraid to address the economics of the trade in too much detail because it's hard to tell at what point discussion about RMTs crosses the line of an overzealous ban-hammer, but, on my server, it is far more cost effective to trade wristlets to real players to generate gil than to buy it from a shady RMT, or to buy your wristlets from SE directly if you're the sort who's willing to part with real money in the first place.

[Edeline]

I am afraid to address the economics of the trade in too much detail because it's hard to tell at what point discussion about RMTs crosses the line of an overzealous ban-hammer, but, on my server, it is far more cost effective to trade wristlets to real players to generate gil than to buy it from a shady RMT, or to buy your wristlets from SE directly if you're the sort who's willing to part with real money in the first place.

Depending on server prices for those, and calculating with the RMT tells, yes.
Buying bracelets gives you more gil for less money. The only difference now will be people won't get banned, nor fear that the items they sell for expensive amounts on the MB will be caught in a rmt transaction money. The only difference between both RMTs atm are the bots spamming tells. But there's no other way to fix this. If you make them untradeable, real couples won't be able to give it to each other. If you limit the purchase to only 2 per character, people won't be able to re-marry. If you make them untradeable, it means you can't marry friends that aren't willing to pay irl money, but you are willing to (however you wouldn't be able to) for both.