Attention Kodi Box Sellers: Paypal will ban Selected Sellers

No, I don't care if 1 person or 1M people use my addons. I don't get paid to do this and I certainly don't get paid for more users using my stuff. I developed my addons for myself personally, and I share them w/ other people in the Kodi community just to give back and to meet other people like me that have created cool stuff. Why would I want someone taking the thing I built for free, slapping it on some cheap box and then making a profit on it?

Another problem w/ box sellers is that the people they sell to are by far the most ignorant of Kodi users. I don't mean ignorant as an insult, but rather as it's actual definition. If you think about it, you can see why. The only people that buy from box sellers are the ones that don't feel capable of doing any of the work to set up Kodi on their own, and they are the kind of people that do the least amount of research. So, they are both ignorant AND not curious. Most of the box buyers don't know how to install Kodi. They don't know how to install addons on their own. They don't know how to configure anything. They don't even know how to upload a log when asked. They represent an overall "dumbing down" of the users.

The previous problem is exacerbated by the problem that many of these box sellers are less than honest, so they sell the box to someone and then they tell them to come to TVA for support. That person then comes to us and DEMANDS that we fix whatever broke for a box we never sold them with a warranty we never promised. Then, they get mad at us when we can't (or won't) help them.

For further reference, read these links:
https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/
tvaddons.ag/subject-devs/
tvaddons.ag/grievances-2015/

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