To anyone considering a career in online weaponry

I had recently been scrolling through the plethora of online auctions on Trademe and to my suprise found some really interesting sales. The link i have here is for the auction of 3 level 60 characters for the online game World of Warcraft. What suprised me was not that the bidding started at $300, but that this was not an unusual price range for this type of 'item'. I was still shocked that people would spend that much money to cheat their way through a game until i realized. Perhaps it wasn't about unnaturally gaining an advantage over other players, but instead was much more like purchasing a cd from the store (If any of you nasty pirates still understand the concept of paying for music). What i mean, is that since these people are not planing on creating their own online characters from scratch (or perhaps had already done so, then supsequently got bored of that character and wanted a change), then perhaps they are treating the online game more like the instant gratification as you would a cd. Perhaps to these people its not about the interactivity of the online game (or at least, not anymore), but that they can participate at a higher level of gameplay without the effort that perhaps the more 'hardcore' gamers might. I understand that the general theme of a video game is to provide entertainment, but does this seem like a big waste of money, to pay for the game, then to pay the monthly fees, then to pay for what would seem to me as being the entire point of the game and what you're paying for in the first place. Although in saying all this, i've never actually played the game, or even so much as seen it in action. Am i even missing out on anything?