Is buying gil legitimate

[Enkidoh]

No, it is not legitimate. Purchasing gil offered by 'Real Money Traders' (RMT or 'gilsellers') is actually against the Terms of Service you agreed to when you created your account, and thus, if SE discovers you have purchased said gil for real money, your account will not only be suspended, but completely deleted. RMT harms the legitimate economy in the game and ultimately ends up costing you as a player. So ignore the temptation to deal with the devil so to speak.

Besides, it's not that difficult to get gil nowadays legitimately via the Challenge Log, the Hunt and levequests, so why people are still buying illegal gil for cash is beyond me.

[Black91CRX]

if SE discovers you have purchased said gil for real money, your account will not only be suspended, but completely deleted. RMT harms the legitimate economy in the game and ultimately ends up costing you as a player. So ignore the temptation to deal with the devil so to speak.

I was under the impression that only the sellers were perma banned, the buyers merely suspended.

[MeridaQ]

I was under the impression that only the sellers were perma banned, the buyers merely suspended.

No the buyers also get banned, my friend got banned because he had a friend (they are not close anymore) log into his account buy gil then mail it to his character. My friend got banned his friend got ill-gotten gains. ;-;