im sure for all of you this is a silly question im just really curious, i pretty much lurk the market place forums when im looking to buy or sell things just wondering why people spend so much money on BCT accounts?
If you want to participate in bounties, signature campaigns etc., there are a lot more opportunities available to senior ranks. One reason for this is that the higher your rank is, the more formatting you can use in your signature. The normal way to rank up is to participate on the forum and earn merits, but I guess some people are too lazy or incompetent to do that.
This is defenatly one of the usecases, and personally, i'm ok with this usecase... Sure, it's lazy, but as long as the member that bought the account for the sole purpose of participating in bounties and signature campaigns makes reasonable posts, i don't see a lot wrong with this (sure, it's lazy, but hell, there are worse things in life).
The problem is the second usecase: people buy high ranking accounts in order to scam other people... Imagine a newbie trying to sell a product: if he tells you to send first you'd probably tell him to sod off... Now imagine a legendary green trusted member doing the same: chances are pretty big that people will actually send first.
Now, if this green trusted member was a real green trusted member, there would probably be no problem... But if that green trusted member was, in fact, a scammer that just bought a green trusted legendary account, i think you'd just have been scammed.
A thirth (potential) usecase would be anonimity... Buy a throwaway account to use over tor without any link to your real ip... If you try to reg an account over tor yourself, you're usually slapped with units of evil and have to pay a fee anyways, so it might be easyer to buy an account somebody else created to begin with
