I agree 100%
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Aw thanks … Rare positivity lol id buy from you if you were selling haha…
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95% of the accounts I have been interested in are terrible. Over 100k followers gained in couple of months with no/little engagement. There probably are people who are dumb enough to fall for these accounts, but with little research and statistical apps (analyzing their history) I found all their scams. I’m not sure if the swapd.co team is actually checking these accounts, even though they state the following : “All properties sold within our community are carefully audited by our staff. We check for ownership, fake followers/likes, and make sure the transaction goes over smoothly.” yet most of the pages I was interested in are full of fake followers and look like complete scams.
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I’ve been having the same issue. Late responses and a lot of the accounts I’m interested in have a very bad like/engagement to followers ratio.
Hopefully this can improve in the future, but I’m sure @SWAPD has a lot of things they also have to take care of.
I hope so, I really joined this page to find a good and legit page.
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Hey guys! Thanks for flagging me here. I will answer your concerns one by one.
You’re not wrong! Correction isn’t needed.
However, it’s not like we wash our hands and say “nope! you’re out of luck.” Just a few days ago one of our members @toms (let’s hope he verifies this) purchased a fanpage for 1900 USD. After a few short days it turns out it was hacked and he lost access to it. Technically, we’re clear of this as there is just no way for us to know. However, we did manage to help @toms and recover 1500 USD of those funds. The rest we applied as credit out of our own pocket. Now please don’t think we will do this every time, it all depends on the situation, our history with the cheated client, the method of payments, etc.
Since all payments and accounts go through us, there are virtually very little chances (almost none) of getting scammed. Worst case scenarios are what happens after transactions (hacked properties/etc). But, we try to limit these situations via identity verifications. Since SWAPD opened in May of 2017 we conducted many, many transactions. I believe we’ve only had three mishaps, and every single one was handled by our staff.
eBay doesn’t allow the sale of digital rights, as transfer cannot be proven, so they tend to avoid them. Listings get deleted all the time, just because you see them on eBay, doesn’t mean they’re allowed. And yes, buying accounts is tough and people can get pushy. But let me tell you, I’ve been doing this for seven years now. If you stick through it, you will find what you need at the price you want, it just takes patience.
This is the side effect of having an open style listing platform. There is no quality control. For example, on ViralAccounts.com everything gets screened and we only post the creme of the crop, however, that means very few listings, sometimes even one per week. SWAPD has a lot of new daily listings, but it takes time and will to find and negotiate a good deal. It’s like buying a used car, most of them will be crappy and sellers will want to rip you off. But if you hunt long enough, you will find that sweet deal! I promise you that.
To improve buyer experience we have some good ideas we are going to implement soon, but to enjoy these changes you will have to download our phone apps. We plan on sending push notifications straight to your phones that will list the best daily listings reviewed and approved by staff. Not only that, we plan to make verification almost mandatory to weed out bad sellers. As we speak I am about to go and test the beta version of our Android app (iOS is almost ready too). Once we work out the bugs we will submit them to the App store and Google Play for you to download. SWPAD is still technically in beta and an experiment. We learn as we go along and improve things based on user input. This is why I love topics like this and thank you for your concerns and ideas.
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Hey all, thought I’d throw my two cents in on accounts and quality. To echo @SWAPD sentiments, it does take a fair amount of time to really go over an account properly and often truthfully that work is still abit of guess work and often better done once we have access to the admin controls of the account and can see for ourselves some of the legit data.
You will notice that we have now implemented minimum listing requirements and we do remove listings if they do come to our attention and are particularly problematic. I myself have probably removed 10-15 listings in the last 60 days because of concerns like victor raised. So please rest assured that we do our best to monitor the quality of accounts.
The other thing to please keep in mind that we often do not even see the handles of the accounts until the checkout process or if one of us is interested in more information, or someone flags a concern with us, because handles aren’t displayed publicly and going over each one would be quite the undertaking.
With all this in mind, please anytime let me know any accounts you think aren’t up to scratch and I will always make myself available to check them over and chat about. We want everyone on the platform to get great value and for everyone to profit.
Thanks for the great conversation!
Jason
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Hi @SWAPD (why did when I type @SWAPD turned into @richiewerq)
The reason I talked about ebay is because ebay has a supposed money back guarantee and safety and paypal has one too… which is why I mention this. I was curious how it would actually work if they dont allow selling accounts… I just dont know to what extent do they “guarantee” and “protect” you … especially with this sort of item/business etc. It’s great if this website can protect you more then those websites like ebay/paypal and probably more than strangers on instagram/fameswap…
@Alpha @Swapd @Administrators @admins @Goofy So if I buy an Instagram account with an original email and the seller recovers by changing the passport etc. You will not help me in any way? There’s basically no guarantee for me at this point. I am about to buy an account for quite a big sum. I have to know how safe I am. Can you please respond ASAP?
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@anon88238204 - So you’re just going to ignore that prompt that said don’t over spam tags? You’ve received an official warning for tag spamming.
And all the information you seek is in the buyer rules, transaction terms, our Terms of Service and finally, our knowledge base.
for youtube what if seller decides to remove you “admins” as manager/owner and leave swapd and scam the buyer after he gets the money
The seller will never have access to the money and property at the same time.
if he removes you before the 7 day period is complete, and that we have already paid,
do you refund the money?,
because the money is being held with swapd escrow, until we get the channel
The escrow is never released until we or the buyer has confirmed that they are in control of the channel fully. That’s all you need to know 
yes i understood what you said.
but take this scenario.
1.we the buyer paid you on checkout to start channel purchase.
2.swapd escrow takes the money from the buyer and the channel from the seller.
3.now buyer is waiting 7 days to get full ownership of the channel.
4. now the escrow has both the money and the channel.
and on the channel, the buyer and swapd escrow will both have manager access, until the buyer gains full ownership of the account.
5. now let’s say on the 6th day, the seller decides to remove swapd escrow and the buyer as manager and gains back access to his account.
so our money is still not with the seller yet, but held by swapd escrow, since the seller broke the rules and removed us before 7 days.
so what happens in this case
does swapd escrow refund us the money they held, since seller broke rules?
Yes.
Swapd handles scams very well but noticed there was no easy way to check for existing scammers so I created this for Swapd members to use to report any scammers: ScamGrade.com
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If anybody is skeptical just go on google & read the reviews, I’ve been doing research on this site for a about a year now and I’ve seen one article that was basically somebody salty because they didn’t get their way…. Swapd also have partners, you can always just buy from a partner, or just don’t shop on the site at all.
Looking at the sellers revenue I promise they won’t care about losing a sale or two… also you guys should really thank these people on the swapd team because they’re honestly doing US The customers a favor. Just my two cents
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Scams happen everywhere; we try our best to mitigate them. But considering the fact that we’ve done close to 50M in sales volume in the past six years, with literally very few people complaining about us on the web, that should say everything about us and about the services we provide.
And I can with most certainty say that the negative articles about us are people who:
- Were scammers that were caught
- People complaining about our policies, which they did not agree on (ID verification)
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