Alright this thread is slowly spiraling out of control now.
No-one gets banned as long as he follows the ToS and rules. So simply transferring some gold or equip to an alt as example will not get you in trouble. To expand that example: IF large large LARGE amounts of gold switch hands between players without in-game counter value this does not lead to an immediate ban either but to an investigation. Every sanction against game accounts is the conclusion of very thorough investigation and every account holder has means to appeal a sanction by contacting our support team.
I know this reply is a little late, considering I was just referred to the forums about this whole zvx thing. I usually don't log in to game forums because I have a fear of my account getting hacked from exp of other games, but I had to log in to share my experience with the text i quoted.
Back when ch4 came out, the economy on the reni server was booming, people were farming SC and GCH as much as they could and unbinding gear or puri'ing stats to sell on the AH. At this time during the game, everyone was making t10 stones and after doing some research on how those t10's were selling, I decided to make my own and try and sell mine. At that time, t10 stones were selling for around 150mil per stone, so I BOUGHT dias from the website, I BOUGHT over 10k charges from the dias store during a promotional sale where it was like 100 charges for 50 dias. I then proceeded in making my t10 stones and when i had finished tiering and waiting those long hours of fusing, I listed 2 t10 stones at 150m each.
A couple hours had passed and I decided to log out and come back to the game. When I had tried logging in, an error occurred saying my account had been suspended for 30 days. I was confused because I had been offline and the last thing I did was list the t10 stones on the AH. Come to find out, after sending a ticket in, my account had been suspended on the false accusation that I had bought gold from a gold spammer because I sold my 2 t10 stones, which meant I had 300m sitting in my mail box. Understandable, when you ignore an investigation and hit the ban button first. That's like using the famous "good/bad" cop method to "punch face now, ask questions later." After a few hours of TRYING to appeal my account on terms of suspension because I was explaining to the GM that I had probably sold my t10 stones, it took nearly 3 weeks, after me giving up on my tickets, on my 30 days suspension for another GM to message me stating that she had looked into the ah history and found proof that I did indeed sell 2 stones 150m each and apologized to me and lifted my suspension. (the suspension wasn't just my account either, they had banned my IP address as well, which pissed off my dad who was/is still an active game player of RoM).
With all of this being said, I do believe that what you said in your reply contradicts my experience and although I am still clearly playing the game, its extremely hard for me to believe that based on your quoted text, "IF large large LARGE amounts of gold switch hands between players without in-game counter value this does not lead to an immediate ban either but to an investigation," that in the future, if something like my experience happens again to someone else in the game, that you GM's will stick to what you have told us you would do, or act on impulse like what happened with me.
Now going back on topic of the whole buying/selling of zvx tokens in game... If per say, someone needs gold to buy some gear on the AH that will indeed help their class move on to do better/more fun and challenging experiences in the game and someone, perhaps a guildmate, is willing to give you the money to do so by mailing it to you, is there a chance that you gm's will put a suspension on them in fear that they might be selling/buying zvx tokens for that one person instead of investigating a little further into the situation about what is really taking place?