Quote Originally Posted by EusisLandale View Post
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.
Fair, but if you've read the terms (as you seem to have) then you should already know: There's nothing that says you can't trade gil for in game services.

Now if the service itself is a violation (say, paying someone to harass someone), then yeah you'll get in trouble. But that's because of what you're doing, not the transaction.