Why not to do well in the game

[Kallera]

That is not what he was saying.

What he was saying is that they can't really do anything once the gil buyers have used the gil they bought.
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It sounds like that is exactly what is being done. They are not only taking the Gil from the person, but they are taking more Gil than what was involved in the purchase.

To illustrate an example:

Person A has 20,000 Gil on their person. Their retainer has 1 million Gil. They put up an item for auction for 200,000 Gil.

Person b bought Gil. Purchases the item, and later gets caught by the STF who then find they purchased person A's item.

From what I've heard on the forums, person A comes back to his retainer, only to find the retainer has 200,000 gil, maybe less, and then has to deal with se's support team for weeks on end.


Or is this not the case?