If the going rate is indeed $8 - $10 then that's all it is a "going rate". an account with 1000 friends is worth so much more.
I really hope some of you guys make more than 8 bucks of an account with 1000 friends. I would not sell an account with 5000 ((GENUINE)) friends for less than $500, If I had my way I would charge $1000, because they are worth a shite site more than that over their lifetimes, I can assure you!
Have you guys ever wondered how these people make accounts like these and charge $5 for them. I mean come on if i had just 1 account with 1000 friends I could make $5 in my first hour! these friends that are being added have probably been added to thousands of accounts, they are completely worthless.
Get off your lazy ***** and spend a week making them yourself.
day 1 ) make 100 email accounts and then set up a FB account
day 2 ) download 500 photos off MS, go to someones profile and copy 5 of their pics, do this for 100 accounts
day 3) upload all the pics to the profiles, change the settings to suit your system, add some interests etc.
day 4) post on mafia wars group walls, only 1 day of this just to get some friend ready for day 5, 20 posts per person, twice a day.
day 5) you should now have 100 good real looking accounts with 50 - 100 friends each.
day 6) you will now have friend suggestions to add from, add no more than 40 a day, each account.
day 7) keep doing day 6
if you want more people get more accounts, don't be greedy and try and add more than 40 per account per day and you will be fine
lol if you keep doing day 6 for a month you will have sent out 4000 x 30 = 120,000 friend requests, of which maybe 30 - 40 thousand will add you.