But what if "michael" is proven to have a partnership with someone. Let's call this someone "B".
"B" claims that "michael" is a seperate person than him. "michael" is his old "friend" of "B". "michael" spam the hell out of the registry, and if the negotiation is successful, "michael" will pass the sales to his "friend", "B" to complete the deal.
What I concern is, I had already given "B" a chance, asking him to stop buying names from "michael" for the sole reason that "michael" is conducting business in bad faith. "michael" claims that he wants the buyer's domain for "educational purposes", in which "michael" will build a website that sells educational products with the use of the buyer's domain.
In reality, of course, is wrong. The buyer's hope of his site will turn into something meaningful, something educational, will never work out. It is because "B" will resell the domain for a profit.
"michael" must have been a bad boy, because it has not been known whether he had ever told "B" how he got the names or if "B" knows how "michael" got the names, for what grounds.
What I suggest is, if you do not see a quality domain like 3 letters or numbers com/net, cvcv .coms, etc being sold in popular forums, popular auction venues, then the name will most likely be acquired in private.
If you see a "seller" have been getting all those new gems from this few months, acquired from multiple different buyers, from a unknown source. Then the "seller" might be "B" or "michael". I hope we do not conduct any transactions with "B" or "michael" because obviously, they have played low.