I guess Mr Avatar or his Bots/Scripts drop books at Luna bank also? I got one off the ground the other day..He/She lists prices, items, and "discounts" etc..I wonder what kind of money/salary he/they are making.
Also I doubt that they are real criminals as we are postulating here. The crime they are committing is not against US law, but against a game's TOS. But there is another thread for this I guess. The real question in my mind is : Is their US$ per hour worth the effort that they must incur to get the items/pets they sell? Also how do they get the items if not by grinding countless hours like we the players do? Do they have an army of low wage "farmers" in a foreign country to do the gathering of goods? Do they have bots that do this in Fel, chop wood at odd hours and non-US times for instance? Mining ore and selling it to NPC's? or what? Are they able to make many Plats of gold just mining, or lumberjacking etc.then selling the stuff to NPCs?
So ok. Now they got the Plats : Maybe 100000 plats? who knows, they must go to a subscribed toon, that is "legit" in surface. Then get the "other goods" i.e in-game items from players? Then sell the plats to UO players? Then get items from the UO store via foreign currencies and sell them via their website?
My points is that all this would leave some trail of evidence, that would nail whoever is behind these schemes. Hard to believe otherwise. I bet you there are many points in this chain that this could be intercepted, including players that know people - other "players" that are involved in this, and say nothing about it.
Final point : It is obvious that Devs and also lots of players DO NOT think it is important to intercept this activity and to take a pro-active attitude and try to stop this. Likely has been going on for so long, that it is ingrained in this game and also other games. It is possible that some of the game people are afraid that if RMT'ers quit, the game will quit too..I reckon..
