Dude. You are complaining that you got caught trying to promote XY7 as a myspace spam shop? And you're complaining about $164.
Sorry man, you said you're young. Take this as a learning experience - if someone tells you something "off the record" that means keep it off the record. Don't try to promote something like that in a forum signature. You broke their official TOS, regardless of whatever phone call might have happened, and you got banned.
I've worked with both Max and Auggie in the past, and they're good guys. As with any business relationship, if someone gives you the green light to go a little gray market, don't promote it in a forum sig. Der.