Boosting Communities Still in Operation Despite Blizzard Ban

wowhead.com:

Although officially banned in January, it appears that third-party boosting communities are still alive and well, matching players willing to spend gold on dungeon or raid clears with groups able to carry them. A Twitter post by Penkek highlights several major European boosting communities which are still in operation, along with a video in which they are matched with current World Second guild Method for the sale.

In the video, Penkek purchases a Sepulcher raid sale from Dawn and is then invited to join a Method raid group, seemingly in violation of Blizzard's ban on boosting communities. The google document and video lay out plenty of evidence that doesn't need to be repeated, but the bigger question is why Blizzard has allowed these tacitly banned communities to persist, along with why prominent guilds are still involved with them.

Certainly the most obvious answer is for the money, though Method's involvement has sparked further conversation, with high profile individuals such as Echo raid leader Scripe bringing up additional points: We can find some sympathy here, as it's easy to believe that guilds have no other way to keep up with the obscene amounts of gold required to participate in the Race to World First if not for these kind of organized sales. That's made more difficult with each passing tier too, as it's no secret that spending has been steadily increasing, although while part of that is due to normal inflation and some of it is circumstantial due to the relative power of things like corruptions or set bonuses from tier to tier, the amount of gold spent on those things isn't set by Blizzard so much as driven by what the guilds are willing to spend on them.