Quote Originally Posted by Vnolan View Post
There a few problems with that. If a GM investigated one and found it wasn't RMT, how would it prevent additional reports of the same listing while at the same time respecting the seller's privacy? If it was RMT, but the GM was fooled, that would allow the sellers to continue as they did before. If a seller was found guilty of RMT, they wouldn't be permabanned if it was their first offense, so the same seller could use the same contact info and claim they've shunned the ways of RMT. If they were permabanned, they could just use a new dummy account and different contact info.
All the GMs need do is "accept" the sell, then flag all seven people who party with them. Even a temp ban would scare virtually every sale group into immediately stopping. The trick to dealing with botters, RMTs and etc isn't to ban the dummy accounts but actively scare people away from doing it to begin with. SE is so hands off, no one's remotely concerned, thus you see an increasing amount of exploits.