Well yes you did explain yourslef and it is against the rules to sell merit as a merit source. I would question why OP ever brought this to this thread as it just serves the hijack it and is a little off topic (hence why I tried to diffuse it - arguably unsuccessful) @OP keep stuff to one thread, don't duplicate.
The entire merit system is flawed, it was a good idea however it was executed in the wrong way I think (though Theymos did try at getting rid of spammers and it did sort of work).
And based on your post on that thread, yes you would lose it (apparenlty) anyway but using it up on a user is buys it makes it much less valuable than awarding it to someone because they made a post that you strongly agree with or believe is of good quality enough to earn those merits.
Well thanks for the first level headed reply, everyone else seemed out for blood regardless of what I said or how I said it. "rules rules, nothing else matters muh rules1111!!" Also I'm not a merit source, I think that means someone who generates it constantly if I'm remembering it right? I just wanted to offload the merit I initially received when the system was activated because I had no idea when it even expired, that wasn't stated anywhere I saw. I wasn't a fan of it and wanted to get rid of it, going 1 by 1 would've taken forever as I did receive a fair amount initially. But yes I understand your point about how it should ideally work in regards to handing it out to deserving posts. I didn't look over the rules indepth too much at first and just assumed they were given to each us and we could use them however we saw fit. I honestly didn't think it would cause such a fuss with what I did, lesson learned. Some of you guys take these internet points very seriously.