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Is AccsMarkets legit and safe? What you can check before you pay

A page we wrote about ourselves cannot prove anything on its own, so this one sticks to what you can check: where your money sits during a deal, who has been identity-checked, how a disagreement is decided, what we do not do, and figures read from the platform itself.

Where your money is and when the seller is paid

  • Paid in and held

    When a buyer starts a deal, the sale price and the escrow fee are taken from their AccsMarkets wallet in one step and held by AccsMarkets. The seller is not paid at that point.

  • Cancel before delivery

    Until the seller has delivered the account details or added the escrow email, the buyer can cancel from the deal page and the whole payment goes back to their wallet, fee included. Stock accounts are delivered the moment they are paid for, so they cannot be cancelled this way: they go straight to an inspection period.

  • Inspection before the seller is paid

    After delivery the buyer has an inspection period to log in and check the account against the listing before anything is released. The default is 24 hours; a stock seller can set another length, which is shown before you buy, and the deal page shows when the period ends.

  • When the seller is paid

    The seller is paid only through the deal's own steps. The buyer confirms the account is as described, after ticking every required item of a safety checklist. For accounts that move by adding the escrow email as a manager, the seller confirms the handover once our team's access check, the buyer's verification and the transfer countdown are done. Our team can rule for the seller in a dispute. In the older login flow the buyer or our team completes the deal, and a release by our team needs a typed reason and is logged. The seller receives the full sale price.

  • If the inspection period ends without a confirmation

    The deal can be released to the seller automatically, unless it is on hold, a help request or support ticket is open on it, a video check is pending, or either member is flagged or banned. In those cases our team looks at it first.

  • Larger deals and holds

    Deals of $500 or more also need a video call with our team before the buyer can verify access or confirm. Our team can also put any deal on hold while it looks into it: while a hold is on, the members cannot cancel, confirm or complete the deal, and nothing is released automatically.

  • What it costs

    The buyer pays the escrow fee on top of the sale price, at a rate that depends on the seller's plan. The seller receives the full sale price. The current rates are on the Fees page.

Read more:How escrow worksFees

Who is verified, and what that means

Identity verification is a requirement for selling, not for buying.

  • Sellers have to pass ID verification

    To create a listing or sell stock, a member has to pass identity verification: the front and back of a government ID and a selfie. Withdrawing money needs it as well.

  • Who decides

    Submissions are reviewed by our team. One that clears every automated check at the platform's thresholds can be approved without a person, and staff can see which approvals were automatic.

  • What the ID Verified label means

    It means a member's identity documents were reviewed and approved. It is a review of the documents and selfie that were uploaded, not a lookup in a government database, and it says nothing about the quality of the accounts that member sells. Verified sellers carry an ID Verified label on their profile, and you can filter the marketplace to verified sellers only.

  • Listings are reviewed before they go on sale

    A new or edited listing waits in a review queue and goes on sale only when a person on our team approves it, and only for a seller who is ID verified. A text filter checks the title and description for scam-style wording, spam, profanity and external links first. Each stock account is approved by our team before it can be bought.

  • Ownership of the account

    Sellers prove they control an account by placing a code tied to their member ID in the account's public profile. For YouTube, Telegram and X the code is checked automatically; for the other platforms our team checks it when it approves the listing. A listing is marked as ownership-verified only after one of those checks.

  • Buyers

    Buying does not need ID verification. A member does have to confirm their e-mail address with a 6-digit code before they can start a deal, list something or message others, and a large deal adds the video call described above.

  • Rules and sanctions

    Our team can warn, restrict or ban an account that breaks the rules. A banned member is locked out of deals, and a banned seller's listings cannot be bought.

  • Trust score and reviews

    Every member has a trust score from 0 to 100. It goes up 5 points for each completed deal and down 5 for a lost dispute, and our team can also set it by hand. After a completed deal, the buyer and the seller can each review the other, and our team can hide a review that breaks the rules.

Read more:KYC policyHow seller badges workSellers

What happens if something goes wrong

  • Ask for help first

    Either member can use Call Escrow Admin on a deal that is not completed or cancelled. It tells our team, who can join the deal chat. It is not a dispute and it moves no money.

  • Opening a dispute

    Either the buyer or the seller can open a dispute on a deal that has been funded and is not yet completed or cancelled, with a written reason. The money stays locked until the dispute is decided.

  • Evidence

    Both sides can add a written statement and files, images or PDFs, during the evidence window. Our team reads both sides.

  • Who decides

    Members of the AccsMarkets team review the evidence and decide. There is no outside arbitrator.

  • The possible outcomes

    A ruling for the buyer cancels the deal and refunds the price and the fee to the buyer's wallet. A ruling for the seller releases the sale price to the seller. Our team can also record a negotiated split that both sides agreed to, or close a dispute without a ruling, which puts the deal back where it was. The side that loses a dispute also loses 5 points of trust score.

  • Appeal

    A ruling can be appealed once. An appeal asks our team to review the decision; it does not change the outcome by itself.

Read more:Help CenterTermsRefund policy

What we do not do or guarantee

  • We do not control the social networks

    A network can limit, suspend or remove an account at any time, including after a sale, and its terms may restrict selling or transferring accounts. AccsMarkets holds the payment and rules on disputes inside a deal; it cannot overrule a platform's decision about an account.

  • Escrow covers the deal, not what happens outside it

    Paying a seller directly, moving the conversation to another app or sending logins in a message leaves the protection. Payment, delivery and chat belong inside the deal.

  • A review is not a promise about the account

    Follower counts, account age and revenue figures are entered by the seller. Our team reviews the listing and the buyer checks the account during the inspection period; neither a listing review nor an ID check promises that an account is as described.

  • Confirming is final

    Once a buyer confirms, the seller is paid and the deal is completed. A completed deal cannot be disputed, so use the whole inspection period before you confirm.

  • No promised response times

    We do not promise how quickly we answer a message, review a listing or rule on a dispute.

  • Withdrawals are reviewed

    Wallet withdrawals are reviewed by our team and need identity verification, so they are not instant.

  • Legality is yours to check

    Whether you may buy, sell or transfer an account depends on the platform's terms and on the law where you live. We cannot tell you that for your case; check before you pay.

What the platform has done so far

Counted from the platform's own records on . Nothing is rounded up, a count of zero is left out, and a figure that could not be read is left out rather than shown as zero.

Deals completed, with the seller paid
18
Listings on sale in the marketplace now
41
Sellers with a listing on sale who hold the ID Verified level100% of the sellers currently selling.
13 of 13
Members who hold the ID Verified level10% of members. Buying does not need ID verification, so this is not a measure of buyers.
46 of 457
Average seller review, out of 5From 2 reviews: too few to say much.
5.0
Disputes opened to date, whatever the outcome
4

Reviews are on each seller's own profile, where you can read them one by one. Browse sellers

How to check any marketplace before you pay

These apply to any marketplace for accounts, ours included. Use them on us too.

  • 1. Find out who holds the money, and when it is released

    Payment should sit with a platform or a third party until you have checked what you bought, and the release conditions should be written down. If a seller asks you to pay them directly, or to pay first and sort it out later, stop. On AccsMarkets: see the first section of this page.

  • 2. Read the dispute process before you need it

    Look for who decides, what evidence counts, whether a decision can be reviewed and whether it is all written down. If a marketplace cannot tell you how a dispute is decided, assume you will be told when you have one. On AccsMarkets: see the disputes section above, and the Terms.

  • 3. Compare the total price and the refund rules

    Fees, minimums and what is refunded, and when, should be visible before you pay. Compare the number at checkout with the listed price, and check what a cancellation costs. On AccsMarkets: the Fees page and the Refund policy.

  • 4. Check the seller and the marketplace independently

    For a seller, look at completed deals, reviews, how long they have been a member and whether their identity was checked. For a marketplace, look for reviews on sites it does not control, for a real contact, and for how old its domain is. Be careful with pages that show only praise, and do not take any site's word about itself, this one included. On AccsMarkets: every seller profile shows deals completed, trust score, any reviews and the ID Verified label where earned.

  • 5. Verify the account yourself before the money is released

    Screenshots can be edited. Log in, check the figures against the listing, change the password and the login e-mail, and add your own two-step verification before you confirm. On AccsMarkets: that is what the inspection period and the safety checklist are for.

  • 6. Start small and stay inside the platform

    A low-value first deal shows you how the process, the support and the seller behave before you commit more. Keep payment, delivery and chat inside the platform, because protection ends where the platform's process ends. Be wary of anyone who pushes you to hurry or to move to another app.

Your login details, account and data

  • Login details inside a deal

    Login details delivered through a deal are encrypted when stored and shown to the buyer inside that deal. When our team opens a deal's login details, it is written to an audit log.

  • Two-factor authentication

    Members can turn on two-factor authentication with an authenticator app. The Security page lists the protections on an account.

  • Your data

    Members can ask for an export of their data and ask for their account to be deleted from the Privacy page in their dashboard settings. Deletion requests are reviewed by our team. See the Privacy policy.

Read more:SecurityPrivacy policy

Check it yourself, and tell us if this page is wrong

Every statement above describes how the platform works today. If something here does not match what you see on a deal page, a listing or a seller profile, please tell us.