Hell no.

The rate of scams is overwhelmingly far higher for account sales - this is without doubt. Gold and script sales have far, far less problems in liability.

 

I almost guarantee there will be another problem in the next 5 days.

 

Well you can't exactly recover gold from a gold sale, and going via the propper routes you can ensure yourself that a gold sale/scirpt sale will not leave you in the red.

Accounts are different and the reason you see so many account scams because that's litterly the only thing you can scam with these days.

You are right, there will maybe be another problem in 5 days, but you don't hear about the 100's of account trades that went fine.

Edited November 19, 20169 yr by Zappster

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It would just hurt the forum.

Well you can't exactly recover gold from a gold sale, and going via the propper routes you can ensure yourself that a gold sale/scirpt sale will not leave you in the red.

Accounts are different and the reason you see so many account scams because that's litterly the only thing you can scam with these days.

You are right, there will maybe be another problem in 5 days, but you don't hear about the 100's of account trades that went fine.

 

You think hundreds of account trades are going to go down in the next 5 days? Nah. Probably more like 15-20 at the most, and about 2-3 of those will result in a dispute. That's a ridiculously high rate and only serves to introduce more drama into the community.

 

Face it - the only reason why people want account sales on here is because they benefit from them, regardless of the ridiculously high scam rate.

 

Would you introduce 15-20 people into your home if you knew that 2-3 of them were probably going to harm your family? Doubt it.

No one is making you use that section of the market, if you don't like it dont use it.

 

When i first started here the majority of my trades were from selling accounts, i've personally sold over 100 accounts on this site - and really i've not had any issues at all.

No one is making you use that section of the market, if you don't like it dont use it.

 

When i first started here the majority of my trades were from selling accounts, i've personally sold over 100 accounts on this site - and really i've not had any issues at all.

 

I'm not saying that I've been personally attacked or anything (though I have been scammed for an account before) in that regard. I'm saying it's the cause of the vast majority of drama and scamming on OSBot, which is just a fact. This is why I've intentionally stayed out of account trading.

 

The best option would be to remove it, but most would never vote for that because the account trade benefits them, even if they have to occasionally deal with ridiculous drama or scams in their trades.

The scam rate is not "insanely high" 

Most of the time it's under some misunderstanding or failed frame attempt and usually gets peacefully resolved. Ex http://osbot.org/forum/topic/105813-

Most of the disputes are a disagreement between 2 users or a group of users in a service gone wrong.

Of these accounts that are scammed, they are by new users who could have scammed anyone. 

 

Often the service ones are an even bigger hit to the community. Big banks get stolen at the same time. 

Items being stolen or services not being completed are huge