We actually need this suggestion for our marketplace. As some of you may know MS is around banning any tag for sale. Hopefully, if we have this it will stop them...
1. Members who have a tag cannot post it if they don't have cash to buy the upgrades therefore the GT section may go completely dead.
2. If someone pays $20.00 for upgrades to complete a $100.00 scam they're still making an $80.00 profit.
3. I notice when a random kid who's done nothing contribution wise for the site and posts a thread that they just upgraded their rep skyrockets. Scammers could easily use this to their advantage saying "Look at my rep I'm legit!"
4. If an upgraded members FK were to be hacked what stops the hacker from scamming?
You're trying to prevent something that's inevitable for you or anyone else to go around. Legitimacy online is a joke -- easily used to someone's advantage. Just leave it be because you're not going to prevent scamming. At all.
Idk how I'd feel about this. This means less tags would be passed around because there is new members who sell OG tags for dirt cheap, and then they get resold for like $100 more, but at least it adds new GTs to the market.