I think instead of using donations, there should be a separate place where you can pay for trust seals, but I don't think anyone wants to take the effort to police all that.
I got banned and contacted a JMOD too, i went and bitched on the RS official forums, expect I really did not rwt, the j mod responded back saying we have evidence.
Knowing full well that it takes forever to hand train melee to 99 on 07 (100k exp an hour thats like 300+ hours for all 3 99's) the 500$ price tag seems reasonable.
Take this as a free bump.