well on
http://ahungry.com/eqauctions you get a full copy of the messages people are typing in EC, including the names speaking. so you can use your own judgement to decide who might be lying.
also the problem of quitting EQ doesn't matter anymore, all that mattered was these people quit before velious, but velious is out, and there will never be a new expansion, so if a similar website got setup now, and then the developer quit, it would be totally fine and still work?