So it is the same slot? That's all I needed to know.
I am claiming that you bought the resell from Tony when you knew another member was looking for it before you. I am also claiming that you knew this was not a nice move on your part and tried to cover it up, as the sale was not logged in the feedback thread, you didn't advertise the slot for sale in this thread and advertised it for sale on another forum.
While there may be nothing wrong with taking the resell instead of giving Tu13es a heads-up, selling it on another forum (thereby placing the account at greater risk) to cover it up was a poor decision on your part. As a result, I will no longer be dealing with you.
Oddly enough, I believe you now share the account with Tu13es, so selling it on another forum would have you doing wrong by him for the second time where this game is concerned.
Moving on, a good number of you active posters suck. Recently, two members had joined the thread. One newb made obnoxious comments, while the other politely asked for instructions on how things work. While several members had no problem responding to the first newb, no matter what he posted, the second newb had to post three times before he received an answer.
But the second newb didn't receive a thorough detailing of how things work when he finally got an answer. No, he got a half-assed job from a few members in this thread, which led to one member, MiaFlsurf, taking advantage of his confusion. Mia then admitted to taking advantage, and no one said shit to him, with one member even complimenting him for doing so.
While this does make Mia a hypocrite when he claims the locked slots shouldn't be sold so members can't be taken advantage of, it alone doesn't invalidate his argument. What does render his argument useless is a group with a locked spot can be treated just like a group with two resells, since in both cases, both owners should be having access to the password at all times.
On the pricing of locked slots, I see $10 is the value that most have gone with. Regardless of whether this is fair or not for most groups, for groups where the locked slot can be used on the main, the phantom gets shafted. For these special groups, why is the locked slot half as much as the phantom, when the major flaw of the locked slot - the inability to earn trophies on your main - is not present? It would seem that 30/15/15 would be a more fair distribution, but that's for the thread to decide.
If a locked slot is sold, the phantom's price should be reduced. While the resell does take on the increased risk, the only reason the game can be purchased in the first place is due to the $25 contributed by the phantom. It would be one thing if the phantom was paying a small sum, but at $25 and being limited to 16 users, it is very unfair to the phantom. This can of course be remedied by having the standard at 20/40, but resells who have no intention of selling a locked slot would be paying more due to the stubbornness of a few members.
Even if it remains 25/35, I was under the impression that was the chosen ratio due to $40 resells being around the same price as retail. Understandable, but why is the same ratio used on $10, $20, $30 games?