With all due respect, Wrath, I've only ever had bad experiences with the exchanging of MC accounts.
An old Admin in the other gaming community I'm part of sold his account for money, but "forgot to mention" the transaction to the rest of the staff. The next day, we had to deal with a massive banning spree when the new owner decided to take the account for a test drive. Not to mention the security hole a while back with migrated accounts where we had 3 more "Admins" go insane and just cause a fuckton of trouble. If I recall correctly, even Notch's account was hacked.
Was I a little to quick to judge? Maybe. I could have been a little more polite about it as well. But I'm a networking security major. I'm paranoid by nature. If I see a transaction with risks that outweigh the benefits, I have a hard time not at least throwing a word of caution out. Given the incidents I've had to deal with in the past, my opinion isn't completely unfounded.
If I have offended you, I truly apologize. I also apologize to the OP for my quick judgement and dismissal. I just don't want the same incidents to happen to them. That was all I was trying to prevent.
Of course it ends badly, and there are several warnings that state that you shouldn't, but remember, traders, are stupid, they don't consider the risks, all they want is the rewards. I even warn people about it when they bring up, but more than half the time, they've already accepted the risks.
I wasn't aware of that situation, yet it's their own fault, for not expecting that users would eventually find a way around their system. Perhaps DARKLY needs to make something like this, because when people ask me where to go to trade their stuff, I lead them back here, or over at skial, I don't want to stop leading them but if they're going to receive TD's 'hospitality', then I can't feel good sending them here if this is what they're going to be subject to.
http://www.skial.com/threads/warning-regarding-account-trading.239/
It makes me offended because if you might not know it, I'm from the LP side of the workforce, I hate seeing people lose things. :3
/Think this thread needs a lock.