That all said, there were a lot of rational details that people overlooked here, so their panties got into a wad for nothing. First the OP didn't have a default trust account, they had no understanding of how the trust system worked. If they did have a trusted account, it was most likely on trust depth 3/4 which would be relatively meaningless. We don't know how much the OP was charging for trust and we don't know if their trusted account had any weight at all.
I
asked him how much he was charging, however he
refused to answer, and is more evidence that he was trolling as opposed to actually selling trust.
I actually hoped that they did have a trusted account, because the only way to see how it would have all played out.
They most likely did not have an account on default trust considering that he was
banned for ban evading it would be likely that as of when he created the account that his other accounts were already banned, and as a result would be unable to leave positive trust (he was actually banned
multiple times making it even less likely that is "main" account is both on default trust and not banned).
I have a few theories on why selling trust isn't profitable either, but we would have had to see it in action.
The reason is the same that it does not make sense to buy a trusted account and then scam. Default trust accounts have additional value because they are on default trust. It is unlikely that someone is going to be able to sell enough trust in order to make up the additional value their account has for being on default trust. It would be easy to detect when someone is selling trust, especially considering that someone could simply buy trust on an alt account and then whoever ends up leaving that person positive trust is the person selling trust and can be easily called out, and as a result would likely be removed from the default trust network. I was actually about to do this right before the OP was banned, but abandoned the idea once I saw that he was banned.
There have been some people in the past who have essentially been selling trust either via their escrow service or other services they offer (that are often overpriced). Many of them have been removed from default trust for a variety of reasons, while some others remain. Some people who are clearly trying to farm trust attempt to use these people's services.
The fact that trust is being defacto traded via various services makes the decision to leave positive trust for someone a much more complex question then it should be. If I had left positive trust for everyone that I provided escrow services to, on every occasion that I escrowed for them then a number of people who I personally find sketchy would show as having significant amounts of positive trust because of me which is not something I want.