250 USD for Sr.Member? Seems a fake to me. Why would anyone sell their only account for such a cheap price? Maybe you have like dozens of them and not value it. Anyway, honest members will stay away from deals like that and you'll only attract scammers. You deserve that.
That actually sounds reasonable to me, although I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of the account sales market. The reason why it'd cost so much for a Sr. Member account is that it now takes forever for someone--and usually an illiterate, spamming account farmer--to rank up that far. For most morons who sell accounts chronically, I don't think they'd even be able to nowadays without resorting to merit-dealing, and they'd risk getting tagged for that.
Dear The Pharmacist,
I need your help to make a decision about the right thing to do. I also may have some intelligence for you about how a certain scam is working here.
I am referring to this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4850954.0I made this new account today to help shed light upon what I think actually happened there, because I am the previous owner of Gekko463.
My name is Nick.
The poor kid who bought it I only know as John Doe from the BitDice Telegram. I transferred him the account because I really wasn’t using it anymore and he asked about it on the BitDice Telegram. He duly paid me 6000 CSNO for it, which was on that day worth about $340, or the price of one ETH that day, which is what we settled on.
He is really upset that you marked my former account as a “scam” account.
He is just a poor 3rd world kid trying to feed his family with entrepreneurship. Being an old guy, I had no idea this was wrong. I see the kids doing it all the time. But your discretion and limitless power over him has now rendered the account worthless. I don’t want to see him ripped off, but I also now would have a damaged account if I took it back by invoking the change of password email. We will both be left with nothing, and it is the fault of a genuine scammer and...you.
Marketing on Bitcointalk is a "thing". The whole place is set up for that. Even you seem to have advertisements in your own signature here for "Chipmixer". Why deny this ability to kids just starting out, willing to pay market price for prime real-estate?
So here is the olive branch I am offering you. I think “Gekko Star”, the account that made the accusation runs this website:
https://pricecalculator.winI went to that site the night we were discussing this, entered the web address for my account, and it returned an value of 0.115941375 BTC. This is all documented on the BitDice Telegram. That is where we began negotiations.
That is the only way anyone outside of your Mod staff could have known that the Gekko463 (my birthday is April 1963) may have been up for sale.
So I am asking you what YOU think is the moral thing to do here.
1. Do you think I should give him back the 6000 CSNO and invoke the email to get the account back? The account has “SCAMMER” plastered all over it now.
2. Do you think you could find it in your heart to remove that red badge of shame and let the kid get on with his entrepreneurial dreams?
I hope you can use the information I have given you to easily recognize the next 100 times that the person behind “Gekko Star” uses his “valuation” website to try to scam YOU and your mod team into turning great accounts over to him.
My gift to you.
Please be kind and make the kid whole. Don’t know that I have ever posted a wallet address on that account that I still use, so getting it back to me might be a big ask.
If you are not willing to help, what do YOU think I should do? Give his CSNO back? Give him part back?
The only person intending to “scam” here was this Gekko Star guy. Your rigidity serves his nefarious purposes.
Willing to sent you hashes of the transaction, a copy of the password change email, screenshots of the telegram conversations...anything you like.
I hope you can help.
Cheers,
Nick (formerly the owner of Gekko463)
