Ordinary sellers act as intermediaries. Farmers, those who create their own accounts, it is easier to buy merit. Or is the fact that Teymos, without knowing it himself, created an additional black market for Merit sales, is news for you too?
Snitchers are those who seek out sellers or buyers and complain about giving in the form of a merit.
So what you are saying is that the merit farmers sell merit to the account farmers which sell the accounts to the account sellers.
Just because the "subcontract" the merit farming - the account farmers are still the ones that want the merit.
If it is costing account farmers to by merit then the system is working - it means less accounts and the accounts will cost more.
It means the merit discouragement is working.
I still don't see why the "informers" and other "rascals" want merit - unless they are part of the account farming enterprise.