So my PA ran out and I went to check out my options:
1). Write reviews - not going to happen anymore unless some provider is giving me a 150 discount to compensate me for my time (so basically, never going to happen)
2). Pay by CCBill with my credit card - never going to happen with any shady little website or fringe business
3). Pay by CCBill with a pre-paid Visa - tried this but CCBill won't process it (was told that "some" banks behind pre-paids won't work on CCBill)
4). Have mods send you instructions for paying by money order - not going to happen and WTF is Eccie thinking
So here's the problem:
1) The money order instructions are not publicly visible
2). The name of the company they want you to mail it to is a name that implies a completely different industry
3). You are supposed to leave the payee blank
If I ever saw a setup for tax evasion or money laundering, that's it. Now, I could be in the midst of a full on tin foil hat episode, but remember this. Recently a youtube video was linked that had a law professor and cop discussing the importance of never saying anything to the police. A key point was that an innocent person can go to jail because of how things they say and do can be presented at a trial.
In my book, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's usually a duck. We all know how the feds shut down MyRedBook last year and would like to do the same to Eccie. We all know that the feds have used the tax code for over a 100 years to shut down criminals who they couldn't get evidence on of their primary crimes. So why would Eccie structure something like this? Even if it's purely legit, my money is on some DA being able to paint a different picture for a jury.
Now if this thread disappears, gets closed, I get banned, or that payment option gets altered, we'll know someones paying attention. My hope is that Eccie will give us additional legit ways to pay for premium access.
So what do you all think? Tin foil hat or Eccie is run by tards on their way to forcing all of us to sign up for TER once the feds shut down Eccie?
Before anyone says thanks for painting a picture for the cops: you should stop thinking all cops are fat and sitting around in donut shops and look at the millions of criminals sitting in prison and realize they can be extremely dedicated to figuring out how to catch people