Tired of Gil Sellers - Stop their Harassment

[Zaels]

RMT buy more accounts? Aren't they obtaining most of their accounts by hacking into other people's accounts or using stolen credit card info?

[Sinth]

RMT buy more accounts? Aren't they obtaining most of their accounts by hacking into other people's accounts or using stolen credit card info?

Some percentage do, but the majority purchase accounts. The profit margins are high, as your only overhead tends to be a machine capable of running the game, a game account, and a website. Some RMT's employ actual people (for slave wages) to play the accounts in order to keep costs down on having to purchase new accounts because of bot bans, some use bots. All they have to do is average transaction rates higher than the cost of the account (per account) to net profit, and most of the time they can achieve this within a couple of days of an account being created.

As an example of how lucrative the business is: I know a guy who purchased his home ($200k+) solely off the income of bot farming in EQ. He started with 1 bot, and eventually had 18 machines with 18 bots running. He was making a few thousand a week selling gold.