Originally Posted by
Polarbear
i just wanted to give everyone an easy to understand example why trading is bad.
imagine you are an owner of a new club. you spent a lot of time and work on it to establish the best club in town.
you decide to make it a private club, because you want to party exclusively with your friends and cool people who you know and trust.
so you hand out membership cards to your friends and selected people.
every membership card has the receipients name on it and is property of the club. it has the words "non-transferable" written in bold letters on it.
unfortunately after some time you recognize, that a group of people gave their membership cards away to strangers. some traded them for other clubs, some sold them, some just gave them to unknown people on the street.
now every evening more and more strangers show up in your club who behave badly, cheat and don't pay their drinks.
so you enforce the rule, that people are not allowed to give their cards to others and only use them for themselves. i mean first of all you invited cool people to your club and not some douchebags.
then you hire a bouncer, that throws out all the people who have no right to be in the club, because they didn't get the membership from you but traded for it.
those bouncers have a real hard job, because all those losers are wining, bitching and keep arguing in front of the door. i costs you a lot of money and even more stupid strangers show up that you simply don't want in your club.
now everyone (including the good members who kept their cards) is pretty pissed at those who traded them away to strangers, because they are the ones who betrayed the club and ruined all the fun.
i hope some traders get the message.
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