Charging for runs.

[CookieMonsta]

To be fair, high end guilds doing it doesn't mean it's not technically against the rules if it's in there somewhere. It's not hard to find violations of the naming rules, for example. The wording within the rules is even that they may do things about it not that they will.

Nope not against the rules because it constitutes a fair compensation for commitment of time and skill. The only time its against the ToS is if the sellers take the gil and do NOT provide the service, or conversely, the buyer refuses to pay gil. In both situations the party which does not honor the agreement will be punished.

Yep. It will always be controversial, however.

Only because there are an inordinate amount of people on this thread who seem to think its OK to be entitled to someone else's time, skill and effort. If the service is given pro-bono then its the prerogative of the person providing, amount of shaming or moral high ground can change that.