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Old Jan 13, 2019 | 6:57 pm
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Originally Posted by littlewinglet
A glitch like that wasn't caught due to volume from 10 more people here joining in, it was just a matter of time before periodic book-keeping and auditing at GCC. Not like 100 HHs can fly under the radar with 50-100k per month volume. I'm sure many other people outside of this thread, who were doing even legitimate buying, accidentally tripped it and got extra $$.

So now that it's dead, feel free to share the details. Was this really a reproducible trick or just random luck and a bunch of people blindly stumbling about and reporting what works to one another?
It wasn't just 10 more people, it was likely well over 100. The reach FT has is much further than the ones who comment. In fact, the ones commenting on FT are generally not the HHs. There were multiple forums, telegram channels, discord channels, slack channels and a whatsapp group all taking advantage of it. It would be naive to think only the 10 active commenters here were the ones benefiting.
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