Quote Originally Posted by SonTensei View Post
I dont think they ban many buyers.
I suspect you're right about this. Unless someone is conspicuous in their behavior (i.e. talking about it in game or somewhere that can be associated back to them), I'd guess they have somewhere near 0% chance of getting a ban.

one customer said "hold on before we run i need to talk to my friend"... this guy never got banned yet. after MONTHS!
WOW. I take it he never actually said he was buying right? He just used that "friend" euphemism to get around that?


They do ban the sellers/farmers and make a profit doing so, Those companies get accounts banned, then make new accounts buying new copies of the game. So if they ban 10k accounts per month and sell the game over for say 30 bucks, they are essentially generating an additional $300k in sales per month or 3.6 million per year... its in SE best interest to let sellers sell man
I think that's part of the reason that so much of what they do involves compromised accounts to keep their costs down.

On an only tangentially related note, the spam advertising/friend request strategy seems like a self-defeating strategy to me in the long run. It calls attention to them and based on the messages I receive, none seem like they would be coherent enough for the average user to actually act on.