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October 18, 2014, 07:17:56 PM
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Are you even still selling this? This whole chain of replies have drifted on a tangent completely.

No, it's never really been for sale. Read above.

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October 18, 2014, 07:37:53 PM
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Are you even still selling this? This whole chain of replies have drifted on a tangent completely.

No, it's never really been for sale. Read above.

Either that, or its been sold and the new QA is holding true on the original QA's position in this matter in order to maintain the plausible deniability.

Hopefully we will never know.

BTW this new QA has almost as good of a sense of humor as the old one!  Not an easy task.

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October 18, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
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Are you even still selling this? This whole chain of replies have drifted on a tangent completely.

No, it's never really been for sale. Read above.

Either that, or its been sold and the new QA is holding true on the original QA's position in this matter in order to maintain the plausible deniability.

Hopefully we will never know.

BTW this new QA has almost as good of a sense of humor as the old one!  Not an easy task.

LOL - well, thank you. I studied his magnificence for months to master it.

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October 18, 2014, 09:09:41 PM
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how to ensure that my account is not sending negative feedback when to buy it ?
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October 18, 2014, 09:13:20 PM
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I can give you 10 DOGE WOW

I can get those for free when I walk my dog. He gives me those for free right after he pees.

LOLOL > Free bump just for that

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October 18, 2014, 09:39:19 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.
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October 19, 2014, 05:24:03 PM
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For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

What an asshole.

Claiming that shows absence of the ability to adjudicate such a test.
QA was one of a kind.
The current impostor is but a shadow of the former glory.

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October 19, 2014, 06:42:34 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)


For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

What an asshole.

Claiming that shows absence of the ability to adjudicate such a test.
QA was one of a kind.
The current impostor is but a shadow of the former glory.

It's a rough road ahead. I have some big silly clown shoes to fill. LOL

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October 19, 2014, 07:36:06 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)


For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

What an asshole.

Claiming that shows absence of the ability to adjudicate such a test.
QA was one of a kind.
The current impostor is but a shadow of the former glory.

It's a rough road ahead. I have some big silly clown shoes to fill. LOL

After doing a linguistic analysis, word usage, and punctuation regression analysys, it is now clear that there are more just the two. 
QA is likely a team of people, that has been definitively narrowed down to a combination of John Nash, Nick Szabo, Taylor Swift, M. Karpales, the young Bob Hope, and Roger Ver.
The gig is up QA, you've been doxxed.

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October 19, 2014, 07:50:29 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.
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October 19, 2014, 08:06:45 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)


For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

What an asshole.

Claiming that shows absence of the ability to adjudicate such a test.
QA was one of a kind.
The current impostor is but a shadow of the former glory.

It's a rough road ahead. I have some big silly clown shoes to fill. LOL

After doing a linguistic analysis, word usage, and punctuation regression analysys, it is now clear that there are more just the two. 
QA is likely a team of people, that has been definitively narrowed down to a combination of John Nash, Nick Szabo, Taylor Swift, M. Karpales, the young Bob Hope, and Roger Ver.
The gig is up QA, you've been doxxed.

ROFL I'm the new Satoshi.

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October 19, 2014, 08:11:06 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.

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October 19, 2014, 08:22:30 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.
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October 19, 2014, 09:29:36 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.

Can't you just make a bunch of accounts for signature campaigns and save the money used to buy them? Do they pay more for different ranks?

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October 19, 2014, 09:46:33 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.

Can't you just make a bunch of accounts for signature campaigns and save the money used to buy them? Do they pay more for different ranks?
You can but you would need to wait at least 2 months to become a "member" or ~4 months to become a 'full member' (most campaigns are closed to everyone except full members and above, although PD was open to members for most of it's campaign).

Yes the higher your rank, the more you will generally be able to earn from your signature, mainly because higher ranking members can have bigger/"better" signatures. See this thread for more information about how much more higher ranking members can make.
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October 19, 2014, 09:52:46 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.

Can't you just make a bunch of accounts for signature campaigns and save the money used to buy them? Do they pay more for different ranks?
You can but you would need to wait at least 2 months to become a "member" or ~4 months to become a 'full member' (most campaigns are closed to everyone except full members and above, although PD was open to members for most of it's campaign).

Yes the higher your rank, the more you will generally be able to earn from your signature, mainly because higher ranking members can have bigger/"better" signatures. See this thread for more information about how much more higher ranking members can make.

Does the amount you make offset the cost of the account purchase and make it worthwhile? It just seems like a trifling amount of money for the effort.

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October 19, 2014, 10:03:17 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.

Can't you just make a bunch of accounts for signature campaigns and save the money used to buy them? Do they pay more for different ranks?
You can but you would need to wait at least 2 months to become a "member" or ~4 months to become a 'full member' (most campaigns are closed to everyone except full members and above, although PD was open to members for most of it's campaign).

Yes the higher your rank, the more you will generally be able to earn from your signature, mainly because higher ranking members can have bigger/"better" signatures. See this thread for more information about how much more higher ranking members can make.

Does the amount you make offset the cost of the account purchase and make it worthwhile? It just seems like a trifling amount of money for the effort.
Back in the hayday of the PD campaign you could easily ROI on a senior account with only making a few hundred posts (which is possible to do in one month). After a while PD limited the max paid posts to 400, which made it so you could ROI in one month for a senior and anything you earned any subsequent months would be profit. It was very much worth it back then to be buying accounts.

Now it will take a little bit longer to ROI on your account however you need to do much less work if you are in a signature campaign, as the monthly rates are lower, but the effective rate per post is much higher.

A very few people actually auction off their signature space (I would say that you could probably get a decent "fee" for selling your signature space if you can get past the fact that you promised to never conduct any business with your account) and if they are very well known they can earn a decent amount. Kluge I believe auctioned his signature for 6 months for (I think) .35 BTC while promising to make only 30 posts per month.
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October 19, 2014, 10:17:06 PM
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An appropriate level of trolling, lol. I like that.

To end all debate, I did not sell this account. I argued with someone about how bad the account selling and sock puppet problem was at this forum. I said it wasn't a big deal. To prove my point I made this thread trying to honeypot possible buyers that would communicate via PM only. I have received 22 offers to purchase the account in a year. Half of those never posted in the thread and one of those was an account reseller that never posted in the thread. I'm not happy to admit I was wrong. It's a bigger problem than I thought it was.

For the record I would have given any potential buyer a test to make sure they had an appropriate knowledge of Bitcoin (capital B) and an appropriate sense of humor prior to selling the account, in order to ensure that your legacy lives on.

I thought about that but that would have eliminated too many buyers here. Technology freaks != Personality (take nutildah for example)
I am sure that someone would be willing to buy your account that would meet my criteria, I would probably just need to wait long enough. I have learned that patience is a virtue in the account trading business as waiting for the right buyer (who is willing to pay enough or otherwise) can be quite profitable.

It's hard to believe that people will buy accounts. Is it just to steal from people or are there other motivations? Surly it can't be to impress the great abyss of losers that post on THIS forum.
I am pretty sure you know their motivations - signature campaigns. I am pretty sure I have seen you make lists of people you think are spamming because they have a paid signature (and saying they are being added to your ignore list). I would say that a fairly good number of accounts that participate in a signature campaign were likely sold at one point. (I do think that sig campaigns does add a little bit of spam but not as much as some people claim, but they also add some valuable conversation/discussion - but that is not the point).

I would say that using a purchased account to steal/scam is extremely risky as there are ways to make money off an account in a legit way and if the account is caught attempting a scam then it will lose the majority of it's value. I have seen people say that they have caught "sold" accounts trying to scam however I personally doubt they know for sure that an account was in fact sold for the reasons stated above.

Can't you just make a bunch of accounts for signature campaigns and save the money used to buy them? Do they pay more for different ranks?
You can but you would need to wait at least 2 months to become a "member" or ~4 months to become a 'full member' (most campaigns are closed to everyone except full members and above, although PD was open to members for most of it's campaign).

Yes the higher your rank, the more you will generally be able to earn from your signature, mainly because higher ranking members can have bigger/"better" signatures. See this thread for more information about how much more higher ranking members can make.

Does the amount you make offset the cost of the account purchase and make it worthwhile? It just seems like a trifling amount of money for the effort.
Back in the hayday of the PD campaign you could easily ROI on a senior account with only making a few hundred posts (which is possible to do in one month). After a while PD limited the max paid posts to 400, which made it so you could ROI in one month for a senior and anything you earned any subsequent months would be profit. It was very much worth it back then to be buying accounts.

Now it will take a little bit longer to ROI on your account however you need to do much less work if you are in a signature campaign, as the monthly rates are lower, but the effective rate per post is much higher.

A very few people actually auction off their signature space (I would say that you could probably get a decent "fee" for selling your signature space if you can get past the fact that you promised to never conduct any business with your account) and if they are very well known they can earn a decent amount. Kluge I believe auctioned his signature for 6 months for (I think) .35 BTC while promising to make only 30 posts per month.

Thanks for the detailed answer. That would never be worth it for me. Kluge auctioned his signature for (at current price) $135 earned over a 6 month period. I'm retired now but when I worked I made more than that in the typical morning, afternoons were better. I suppose if you're a kid looking for a way to make some cash with no other way available it could get you some beer money. If you have the ability to work a part time job then the time involved posting that much for beer money wouldn't be worth the effort.

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still want to sell your account......?

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