Not really. I ain’t into the whole boosting business, eventhough it is certainly profitable.
The most I have done is helped out in the “free void dragon” initiative Kyrelle organised on this forum, so people who did not have the chance and time commitment for raids can get their chance at getting the mount.
BFA had its positive sides back in those days, this being one of the rare ones.
No.
I do not care for raiding or keys.
And PvP gear is stupidly easy to get.
No but I was very close.
TLDR, I hit the point where I had 8/9 heroic, and mostly 18s-19s in M+, and was not getting invites for Sarkareth or +20s. Eventually one pug did invite me to heal a 20 FH. We timed it with about 5 mins to spare, and everyone was happy. Honestly, I was so exhausted by this that I didn’t then run with my success other than to do another 20 FH next week.
A week later, augvoker launched and since I was maining preservation, I gave it a shot. Got all my portals within 5 days. Also got tipped off to a community that runs multiple heroic raids every week and which provided a chance to get me some curve.
If no random pug had ever asked me to join a 20, and augmentation evoker was not a thing (or I wasn’t maining it) or I hadn’t encountered this raid community… I’d have hit that point of desperation where I either quit the game entirely, or paid gold for a Sarkareth kill and a few 20s.
The stars literally had to align in three different directions to keep me on the straight and narrow. There are so many ways I would have either boosted or quit. I had actually ended my sub with 2 weeks left to run when all this kicked off! 
If there is a lesson here for Blizzard… making 20s the standard weekly key was a massive jerk move that really knackered a lot of players. But you know this because now it’s 16. I did notice that.
Nope, never seen the point of it but far as I’m concerned as long as they arent breaking any rules then people can buy boosts for whatever they want.
best fun I’ve had in WoW since my old guild was doing achievement runs.
Sometime. Usually i boost for gold, but sometimes buy people for some achivements or mounts. It’s pretty usual for mmo. I don’t buy what you mean - lvling, raiding or m+, but here a lot of things beyond of usual boost. For raiders or m+ players it’s the only way to earn money for consumables. For the rest, it’s a way to get what they can’t themselves by doing what they can. Last time i take boost for snail mount, by pets. It was for free, cause of guild, but something like this can be bought.
I bought Antorus hc last boss for 150k gold. I was playing mage on my second account. Antorus hc awarded some kind of arcane bird which was super-fit for my mage and which was going to be removed because of stupid Blizzard policy to remove good things. I actually was 9/11M progressed on my main account, however I did not want to bother my guild with helping me and I didn’t want to spend much time gearing that mage at that time, to get the achievement the proper way.
Turned out, guy who did the sells, just made a Pug. It felt weird, but whatever. We killed Argus after few wipes, I got my mount.
I bought a boost, but only once.
I HATE pug groups with a passion, especially for raids and M+.
Pugs are the absolute worst, and it doesn’t make much sense. After one wipe half the grp leaves only to waste more time in a que instead of sticking around.
Anyway last season my guild was not what i expected and i ended up leaving and finding a new guild that is absolutely bloody awesome( yeah looking at you guys ^^)
Because of that i struggled massively to get the curve of Raszageth and to get into proper pug groups. No curve is a death sentence.
It was only 60K. ( still alot of gold for me) but i worked hard, my guild was not going to help me in any way shape or form. So i bought a boost.
I DID WHAT I HAD TO okay! it was the only curve i ever bought, i am not proud of it. But i had Razageth on farm so that was a plus.
No. Then I might as well not play the game at all. How unrewarding and pointless.
The mount is account bound… why did you need to gear “that mage”?
I wrote that this mage was on my second account. I create a separate account for every alt, because I hate that “account-wide” system with achievements and other things. All my characters are supposed to be unique.
Time and energy savings.
I did it a single time yet with a fresh leveled alt to have something good in vault I bought a single 17s for vault, the week later I did them myself.
I bought a boost once, and it was in SoD to kill Sylvanas. I already had multicurves in SOD. But it was day before the reset, and pugs were failing so bad. So I decided to spend 50k and get it done. (Guild has disbanded so I had to join pugs)
I don’t understand this either. They leave on the first wipe and… what? Go back to the finder, try to find groups on this particular boss, wait 20-30 mins for an invite if they’re dps, and then repeat the cycle? How many pulls would the first group have had in that time?
Stupidest thing I’ve seen was a 4% wipe, and people leave. Why? A 4% wipe is not “omg these people are rubbish and they will never learn or improve” territory… just go again and kill it.
The last two bosses can be tricky; seen some pugs get completely hard stuck on them and after 6-7 pulls even I will give up if there’s no sign of progress and we’re bleeding away the good players.
I sympathise because that’s where I was getting to this tier. I’d pugged up to 8/9 but needed curve to join the Sarkareth pugs.
And tbh, I see why; the ones that don’t demand curve tend to fall flat, fast. People run to weird places with the knockback, dispel at the worst time, don’t take bombs, don’t interrupt adds, run away and die alone with the soak… generally demonstrate that don’t know what those mechanics do.
That said, also seen that happen in “curve only” and “anyone dies in P1 gets kicked” runs. Idk if this is boosted players, or just those who got carried by accident one day.
Some pugs are responding by checking logs and finding out how many kills people have to try to weed out the one-kill wonders, which may just drive boosting up to the point where people get 2-3 boosts with 2-3 different communities.
Kind of all feels like a symptom of the same issue; heroic raids are not really pug content. There are tools to let us pug them, but it’s just not the design and intent that we should raid this way. It’s always better with a guild/community run, on discord, coordinating, not getting angry, and not walking away every time there’s a wipe.
I’ll be honest, I bought 1000 Gold back in TBC when I was starting just to afford using a mount. Did the illicit trade in Ratchet. 
Yes
Would and probably will do it again
Sometimes you just want something, like the Void Dragon from N’zoth or had enough of the be 9/9 HC , have Curve and CE. etc for a normal invite…
Or just don’t have enough time, but have gold to spare
Or in my case, you are an old timer with bad eyes and horrible reflexes and hand-eye coordination but want to be a bit overgeard to compensate it to carry your weight in normal
No because if I had that much gold I’d probably get the lightforged warframe, or max all my heirlooms, or something along the lines that can only be bought with gold and not from simply playing the game.
Never bought a boost, as i feel its like cheating to get into higher content which i will ultimately fail at. That said, my guildies have boosted me a few times for free this season- reason being is that i dont start m+ until a few weeks into the season and even then, i skip it most weeks unless its the 4 mythics weekly
I’ve done this lots of time.
Never an issue.
why did you do that?
For fast gear/rating.
And what was that?
Mostly M+.
The Sellers are always friendly and helpful.
The teams are 99% of the time amazing, Sometimes it takes a while for the organiser to find all keys needed, and people who are willing to stay for the X amount of hours it takes to do 8 in a row.
Tho… I did have a team early in the expansion that could not time a Tyrannical Ruby life pools.
But the Seller guy made sure i got a new group that could finish the keys for me.
When i’ve bought it’s been around 1 Million gold for a 8 specific 16’s.
But does get cheaper as the season moves on.
no never did it and its not by a lack of gold, been here since Vanilla so over the years i accumulated a lot of gold, but to give you an answer you should play the game and not paying to go faster up the ladder, but hey that’s me.