Starting from the subject of selling invite codes, which is not the purpose of this project, but understanding the frustration of the invite issuers that they lost money giving invites to others and the invited people failed to get validated/Verified, I came up with another approach. (before throwing stones, let's see if this works, and maybe other old members can do the same.)
I will give an invite to someone who needs it (since I want the network to grow, as it is supposed to be) with a collateral of 500 DNA.
Why?
• because we already wasted a lot of money an time with people not committed to get at least validated once, not talking about getting Verified.
The reasons were various: they forgot about the validation, they were sleeping, their flips didn't loaded, internet issues, electricity issues, etc, etc...
What this collateral means?
• you will get back the collateral if you succeed to get Verified status.
• you will loose the collateral if you fail to get Verified, whatever the reason you have.
Why should you trust me/others with your money?
• you shouldn't, but then... why should I/they trust you that you'll do the job and you won't waste us the invite/money?
Note:
1) I provide support for installing the wallet, set up the VPS server, understand flips.
2) I don't sell invitation codes. I just make sure you won't waste my money and time.
I've got with this proposition to the team long before your post. I said: let's do something to prevent scam sells. Everyone NOO. Great.
I do have 4-5 people that bought until now from one, one got verified last round finally and got his money back as bonus, amazing user. But users using a treshold sounds more than normal from my point of view and it is something the dev team should implement in the code of idena.