Expert: Mistress Violette - 10/14/2008

Question
I have a little question regarding slave actions or slave selling.
I am master for quite some years now and i have a profile on some bdsm communities.
Today i found an profile of a female slaves , saying her mistress putten her up for sale as her mistress wanted to start training new puppies.
Little curious as i am  i've send her lil message which was replied shortly after saying to contact her mistress directly through yah messenger.
Done that as i still was lil curious but also causious.
During the talk with the mistress it turned out she was willing to sell her slave for around 1800 pounds + 280 commitment fee.
Dunno know if these amounts are far as i nver went into slave auction material before.

I kept leading on the chat just to see what would happen.
Location of mistress and slave was Glasgow - UK and it was asked if i would like to pick up the slave in person.

Also the mistress asked to send the "commitment fee" through western union.
I asked why not banktransfer much safer and more reliable , she replied by banktransfer is impossible as she was already being warned by the fbi and internetpol about it.

Found it all weird and strange and also noticied she gotten more agressive in her answers.

This told me it was a huge chance to a nice scam, 280 pounds by willing masters send without anyway to get refund when finding out being tricked

Still wonder what the "normal"procedure is with slave actions or selling between the circle of bdsm

Greetings Dennis

Answer
Hi, Dennis,

I agree with you, this screams "Scam!" I think you were wise not to follow through.

I really don't think there is a "normal" procedure for slave auctions, since it's not legal to sell people. Like contracts, it's something that can't be enforced. People do it informally to reinforce the power exchange or the play, knowing the transaction has only the authority they give it. Some groups do have slave auctions every now and then, for fun or for charity. The rules and boundaries would be determined by the group members. This is usually an "event" rather than a regularly occurring situation. I've seen some sites that purport to conduct slave auctions but I have my doubts that many really conclude the transactions. Much of it seems to be done for the thrill and the fantasy.

What also could happen is a couple coming to an agreement that the slave would be "sold" to someone vetted by the selling dominant for competence and safety. There would be a token exchange of something of value and ownership would be transferred. I can see how this would be exciting for some. In the end, though, the slave could always leave if the situation didn't work out, because holding that person against his or her will could land the slave owner in a pile of legal trouble. About the best we can do when it comes to owning people is approximate.

At least you had some interesting exchanges. :)

Mistress Violette