I'm not going to apologize for my intentions. I will apologize for not thinking it through and hurting the guild. I will concede that it was stupid and shortsighted. There are only ~50 active members in the guild, we would never be able to raise the requisite gold to get a trader the normal way. We missed the boat on being big enough to be a trading guild. That gold was sitting there completely pointless. So I thought to try something different. To pay the current owner of guild to not bid on it for a week. Short story, he took the gold and ran. No one else was online at the time so I didn't think to run it by anyone else.
Gold in this game is entirely self contained. No real money can influence it at all. Believe me or not. You want to hate me and put me on your ignore lists, that's your prerogative.
It boggles my mind that you thought it was ok to do, while I am not on the NA side I can only assume the money was in there wasn't for members to take willy nilly and do what they want other than buying a trader. Regardless of your intentions they don't even make sense, you pay someone to not buy a guild trader, where was the money going to come from the then buy that guild trader? what about every other guild bidding on them? You could have easily posted on here for advice, this forum is why the guild exists in the first place.
How did you even contact this supposed guild leader of this other guild? Guilds aren't on your profile, as far as I know there's no way to see who is in what. So either they came to you which I find incredibly unlikely, you went on a long google search to find said leader going from the guild name which is also unlikely, or you were already part of that guild to know who to contact and have now just given that other guild all the money you took.
You story doesn't make any sense what so ever, the fact that you did it and said nothing before and after, it just looks like you've taken it for your own reasons in the hope you wouldn't get caught and have some up with farfetched story to cover yourself on here. Gold might not mean anything in the real world, but what you've really taken is time other members of this forum have put into the game.