It is allowed per forum rules, but a large part of the community now frowns upon doing so. So unless you want your account tagged, it's best not to engage in buying/selling of accounts. People should heed your advice to rank up the normal way, instead of buying a custom-made bitcointalk account with as much merit as you can afford. This makes me nauseous.
Is it any surprise that OP here received his only merits thus far from an account seller? I think not.
I see,
yah, on my side. if I have full member or higher rank account. I wouldn't to sell it, because there is an effort inside when we build up these account.
it's too bad to throw away the effort that has been made.