Who are you exactly referring to as we here? nigger you are overselling, we are getting free merits in airdrops by theymos. you could as well get an easy 1 merit if you could show your 19 years old sister to me, you will get 1 merit only after successfully delaying my inevitable burst of *com.
When somebody buys merits, how could they keep joining bounties, campaigns and earn money by garbage posting? if you have money to throwaway, donating them to the forum would be considered a contribution. if not today, someday any undeserved-bought merits would join the ignored/deleted/off limits and you could get tagged almost immediately.
Beggar, I'm afraid to merit random members, some of them have been tagged by Lauda and other respected DT members. I wouldn't dare selling merits(either my own or my source merits) even if I could. if there are desperate members who'd pay more than $10 per merit, I would encourage you to publicly state that you are going to buy merits out of desperation and then sign a message with the address containing the funds.
If you need a shortcut to get some merits for signature campaigns and you could accept the **terms, you should have no problem getting merits with money. I will not take any money from you, nor will I give you any merits, I would simply mention your situation at the next board meeting where theymos would attend to discuss the forum. if he agrees on selling merits and you agree to the terms, you'll have your legit merits.
Now lets lol.
*you know what I meant.
** terms: 1)- No signature allowed for a week. 2)- I could have the power of banning you for 2 months if you were garbage posting.