Guild Wars 2

I just found out. I have a friend whom just started playing and I
thought I’d be nice to her and use some of my cash to get her some
of the basics. But… It’s not possible? The only way I think it may be possible,
would be to start a guild and perhaps share via the guild bank?

Just send her money in the mail and let her buy it.

Unless it’s changed:
The items are Soulbound on Aquire so you can’t even put them in the guild bank.
If you put them in your personal bank, and switch to another character you can’t even pick it up on the other character.

Ya they’re soulbound. I’d prefer it is they were account bound so we could at least share them between our own characters.

They changed that shortly after launch; you used to be able to resell them as well (prorated based on use). However, I’m guessing that since you can buy them for karma and Anet is so incredibly scared of people turning karma into gold they quickly changed it after launch to where they are like all karma-bought items: useless once you’re done with them.