hoppel

I worked with Skinscom and Pricempire for most of this summer, on both QA testing (for Pricempire V2) and social media. I think the community should know how that went. - The bug While testing Pricempire's V2, I found a trading exploit that let you buy an item, get your balance refunded, and still receive the item. It was repeatable with throwaway accounts, so the only real ceiling was the site's inventory. Their own ticket has it labeled Urgent and Security. The first fix only clawed the money back afterwards by pushing the wallet negative, which does nothing against a throwaway account, so it was reopened after security review and a second fix was needed to actually close the refund path. I reported it privately, sent the devs a video, and waited for their go ahead before writing reproduction steps anywhere. I never used it for anything beyond testing. I actually ended up out of pocket figuring it out. Alongside that I reported 40+ medium to high severity bugs that got fixed. - The money The deal was $2 to $5 per fixed bug, plus a bonus for critical findings. At the end I was told the 40+ bugs came to about $100, and that they were bumping it to $250 "because of the critical findings." So the floor of the range for every single bug, and $150 for an exploit that could have emptied nearly the entire inventory (Pricempire and Skins appear to share it). That leaves me with two thoughts: If this is what these companies think the people working for them are worth, how much do you think they value their customers? I believe the person running social, marketing and testing there, Laith Cooper (Crim / whoiscriminal), is the reason I ended up with a fraction of what I should have been paid. I'll explain why below and you can judge for yourself. - The social media work I was on the X management team for both Skins and Pricempire nearly the whole summer. The team was me, Crim and Pineapple(sh3fas). I sourced 95% of tweets that went out on both accounts and dropped them in the group, Crim rewrote them with AI and posted. I was never given access to either account, even though I had been working with Skins since January. That always felt off. I was supposed to be paid $500 a month for running both accounts. Instead I got $1,000 for June and July in one lump, two and a half months in, right as I was being let go. I kept working through mid August, was not paid for any of it, and found out I was done when I got removed from the groups. Conveniently, right after the testing wrapped up. I was never announced as part of the team, never got a role in the Discord despite asking several times, and only ever spoke to Crim and two other people from management. After I was let go I posted that I was looking for work and listed Skins and Pricempire as past clients. Crim DMed me asking why I shared that without asking him first. That was the last straw. - What I can and can't prove I have no proof that Crim took a cut of my pay or presented my work as his own to Skins management. I want to be clear about that. What I do have is everything above, the fact that I organized the other testers and the whole testing operation for no extra pay, his recent hiring tweet saying "we pay extremely well," and the fact that he blocked me right after I posted a vague tweet about this last week. So there are two possibilities. Either Crim decided what I got paid, in which case you should know who is running the accounts of the marketplace you trade your skins on. Or Skinscom management set those numbers themselves, in which case you should know how much a skin marketplace values the people who keep it running. I'm not asking for money and I'm not here to trash anyone. I just want people to be aware of where they trade. Last thing, for @Romer . I see what you post about spending every day. If the money is real, why is this how your company treats the people working for it? And if you actually care about your CS marketplace, are you aware of who is running it for you?