If you need a honest answer to this thread then the answer is no, although theirs so specific way to punishment against those who buy Merits but it could bring trust issues amongst members like in a case where there's an agreement between two members and one refuses to comply, but them why would you be thinking of buying Merits when you still have more important things at hand, since you're still a low ranking Member your focus should be on learning from your seniors on how to create and come up with informative and educated topics that would fetch you Merits for free.
However, come to think of it, if selling merit was allowed then the forum would had come up with a board where members would be allowed to buy and sell their merits, the well was created as a reward by the forum to members for good contributions and not as an agenda for buy and selling, it's a good thing you're beginning to understand some negative on-goings in the forum so as to avoid them but I hope you also learn how to make good contributions as well so you'll begin to get Merits.