Setting aside the fact that the STEEM being sold isn't on-chain, and setting aside the fact that STEEM bought off-chain cannot be sent from one Steem account to another ... @ats-david is making a much more fundamental point:
Does @metalpay use a Steem wallet that’s different from this blogging account?
If 100 people bought 1.000 STEEM100.000 STEEM is secured on-chain. Even if they must manually do the transfers to the hot-wallet. each, it would be a good idea if @metalpay would make some effort to show where this
The first place one might look when investigating this is here:
https://steemitwallet.com/@metalpay/transfers
But there's no STEEM secured there. So where is it secured?
The plot thickens,...