Any sane person would've bought the item and sold it for more profit.
But an admin is not just "any person". He is something special, and thus should act differently.
Not to mention that POOP showed the intention of actually helping the guy out, but they didn't ask for it. It was all fine and now a month later they start bitching about it. He is showing the admin behaviour you want him to show by still doing what everyone would do, but offering compensation afterwards. Something everyone wouldn't do.
I don't know anything about those details, perhaps I have overread them. All I know is that POOPHAMMER only said he already sold it and didn't give anything back (according to kinngrimm).
An ingame admin should protect the interests of the ingame population. While showing normal behavior on the forums. POOP didn't break any of these rules of thumb.
I can't say anything different than "I think differently". An admin is not a human driven ingame feature, it's a real person, an authority. When an admin posts in a forum, writes in IRC or pisses next to you in the club toilet, he will always be seen as "XXX the admin". There is a reason why he became admin, and it's about him to show everyone what this reason was, every day. It's reliability, FAIRNESS, SOCIAL FEELING AND THE WILL TO IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY. Ripping off other players doesn't fit there.
That he can't buy items at a low price is a ridiculous thing to state. When you own such an item you should know better. If the admin in question even tries to help you out but you say 'no thanks, no need' than the case is closed.
Again I don't know anything about POOP warning him. And yes, admins should only be allowed to buy heavily underpriced items if the seller actually KNOWS what he is doing there.
On the matter of losing credibility, go ask the NA server population if they believe POOPHAMMER is a bad admin because of this. I'm willing to state most of them will say that they don't care at all.
A friend of mine was not allowed to become jail warden, because a few years ago he got caught with an illegal softair gun here in Germany (instead of semi-automatic it was full automatic). The prison director reasoned this with "You showed you were able to break the law once, what tells me you won't do it another time?". All you do is taken into account for responsible positions, which require a high amount of trust.
Poop did nothing wrong, just because he watches the marketplace like a hawk, doesn't mean that you should all come crying to the admins that you got screwed.
Admins are there to help and protect other players, not to rob them. Seriously, what kind of atmosphere are you propagating here? We play this game TOGETHER, not AGAINST EACH OTHER.
Admins have the same right as any player. Simply because he's a fast market player, doesn't mean he should be punished for it.
If being a "fast market player" means harming other people: yes, he should be punished, and he shouldn't have the same rights as players.
Just a question to all the haters: is it POOPHAMMER's job to be a perfect example of a perfect human being or does his job require him to set a good example ingame and punish anyone breaking the rules?
Both. As I said, an admin is not a player driven ingame feature, it's an entire person/personality. He has to act accordingly.
tl;dr:
Only absolutely good guys, so to say "living saints" should be allowed to be admins. Whoever doesn't fit this description is to be removed from that position. Period.
Edit: yes, for all those who didn't notice it yet: it's a lot about the "atmosphere" in the community. I would like to have a community where players help each other out, instead of only trying to harm others for the sake of their own advantage. If you say: "This is impossible to achieve" or "you can't expect that from the players", I say it's about the admins to give a good example and simply try it. If you try you can fail, but if you don't try at all you will never know. I don't think my "whish" is so wrong.
Edit2: @CountBerenger: I like how you can't do anything else than to consistently vote negative on anti-POOPHAMMER-posts. It looks so "helpless"
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