I do believe they are all exits for the creator.
As is any for-profit company. But we dont call them scams unless they fail to comply with their contractual obligations. The purpose of this list is to help determine how (un)likely it is an operator will honor the contracts its selling, not to determine how (un)profitable those contracts may be, either for the seller or buyer.
For example, petamine has cash in hand from the ipo on havelock. They have no incentive to maintain mining and that's where customers become the sheep. The mining has 0 profit. The remaining pumpers trade the actual "stock". The actual mining has no value. They even spread lies it would switch to p2pool to increase the stock price.
I don't think you are trying to mislead anyone but you haven't understood how deep these scams go. Or where the incentives and exits are.
No offense, but if you actually followed the petamine thread, you must have noticed I was one of the only people there that actually understood what was going on and quite accurately predicted what was going to happen. So dont tell me that I "dont understand".
Peta was a hugely overpriced IPO, but you can not blame the issuer for market demand. You are also mistaken in your assumption the p2pool switch rumor was to boost price; the operator holds no shares in peta, he has no incentive to boost the price post IPO. Its silly investors who thought that rumor was somehow going to boost the price, in reality switching to P2Pool would have been a really stupid decision, shareholders should be grateful he did not.
