Account buying is an enormous problem in D5

Title. I went on a 4game loss streak where I had players blatantly ADMITTING to having bought their accounts, "Haha yeh I bought this shiz fr lyke 50 bucks man, report me I dOnT cArE", I report them, and they MIRACULOUSLY do not get banned. I look at their history and it's literally feeding on every single game.

It's actually a vicious cycle. Master tier players will buy Plat accounts for $20, grind it up to D5, and then sell it for $100. Then they log into their other Plat account and smash the same players that they just sold the other account to. All the while, innocent D5 players have their games ruined. Do you see how toxic that is?

Smurfing in low elo is a bit of a problem. I remember hating it when I was silver, havingto face against obvious smurfs. However, to climb in the first place, you need to be better than everybody in your current ELO anyways, so it's kinda like: you're going to have to be able to beat the smurfs here and there with the help of your team if you really want to climb. However, in higher elo, when players REVERSE smurf by buying cheap D5 accounts on Ebay, the team they get placed on automatically loses. There's no counterplay there. No matter how good you are, the feeding bought account player will lose the game for you. In the other situation, you could potentially beat the smurf yourself. To summarize, I think that allowing high elo players TO HAND LEVEL FROM SCRATCH new accounts has arguments that it should be allowed, and that is debatable, however, there is NO argument for allowing high elo accounts to be bought and have games ruined by new/unskilled players who spent 3 days paycheck on a D5 account.

It's actually really messed up. I know Riot can tell our IPs. And they can tell when somebody is hard feeding. I report them for it, they admit to it, and even then I get no penalty issued notices? Three times THEY ADMITTED to it after ruining my games, and NOTHING. I think that is beyond unacceptable. I also think that Riot should be doing their job and actually systematically weeding out these accounts and permabanning them. With IP tracing, I KNOW it would be INCREDIBLY simple to do it.

Good luck out there guys. It's a jungle. [vlad-salute]

Edit: D5 = P2-D4, although this is probably affecting lower reaches of Plat as well