Unfortunately, as rule 18 stated above, account sales are allowed. So no one is getting banned just for buying/selling accounts. I think the rationale behind this has to do with the fact that many of these account sales are done offsite, anyway. And it is impossible to definitively prove that an account has been bought or sold unless someone comes out and admits it. The staff only want to ban people for infractions that can be definitively proved.
oh I know they are not going to be. I just simply said they should not that they will. Selling of accounts totally defeats and ruins the entire purpose of the trust and ranking system of these forums. It means that there is no trustworthy trust rating outside of your own personal experience simply because you will never know if it is a legitimate account or if it is simply a bought account.