This tactic only works on lower levels, and by lower levels I mean up to 2nd. Or if you bid for an average/weak player. I used to be able to get players for 2 to 5 tokens, now it's hard to get one for 10.
I nearly took your input on board until i realised your a level 3! This tactic works on more levels than the first one and on good players too. There will always be tight people on every level that will lose a player for the sake of 1 token! Ive done it on level 4 ffs!