Just as an update, I (by chance) ran into an ebay hero last night. To cut the story short, he was a 27 month vet who had been inactive for two years (he said) but could still get all the vet badges with an inactive account because he had the login and password.
When I challenged this, he said "phone" and then quit team. LMFAO.
I ran into one (or perhaps was the same one), a lvl 50 scrapper on Infinity. We added him to team and were in PI doing the portal mish with Babbage. He kept saying in team chat to wait for him, but he was taking forever.
So we're grinding through the mish and he finally asks 'how do I get to Peregrine.' so we say the obvious 'boat from Talos'.....a few minutes later, 'how do I get to Talos.'
So we told him not to worry, once he gets to PI we'll TP him to mish door...to which he says 'what does TP mean'
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We all figured he was some kid playing on his/her parent's account....but who knows...
--yena
Earnesto Hess is an awesome TF that does things that is not usually in the game. And the story is short, max two hours. Its a shame that the contact has to be unlocked but its loads fun.
Now as for buying accounts. I know of a site or two that allows you to customize a toon you want at 50 for about 300$. So a popular toon like a Scrapper or Tanker at 50 with a lot of Vet badges, influence and maybe even a SG and base to boot Im sure could net $500. But why in the world would you pay for something like that. Kind of defeats the purpose of actually playing. But hey, if you got money to burn whatever, spend it and play for Im sure the short time they will before they get bored.