I was one of the few who made a lot of plat buying and selling accounts back in the day. It was no different than any other plat making service. I would buy accounts, sit on them, and resell them, and make a good bit of plat. I never RMTd. In fact most people doing it probably didn't.
What got it banned was a few bad apples who would screw the new owner over. On one transaction I did, the guy removed the BCG (valued at 275k at the time) from the account before I could log in. He eventually got banned. But it was people who did this that screwed everyone else over. The devs got tired of dealing with it and just banned it.
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