Bought 40 aged accounts, 34 dead inside a week — has anyone ever actually been refunded?

Bought 40 aged accounts on the 8th. As of this morning 34 are gone.

The seller has a long history here and elsewhere, the accounts arrived on time, logins worked, everything looked like it should. I warmed them the way I always do - nothing posted for six days, one profile touch each, separate IPs, five per subnet.

Six survive. The other 34 went in three clusters on the 11th, 13th and 16th. Seller's position is that I burned them and there's no refund on aged accounts once the credentials have been used, which is in his terms and I did read them.

So the actual question, and I'd like real answers not sympathy: has anybody here ever been refunded on dead accounts? What was the argument that worked?

No. Next question.

same seller? mine died in 4 days

nobody refunds accounts. the whole business exists because the failure is unfalsifiable

That's the honest version of what he told me, yes. Doesn't make it a good business.

My friend i am sorry, this happen to me last year with 25 accounts and i get nothing back.

What i learn actually is to buy in three small batch instead of one big. Costs more per account but when the batch die you lose 8 not 40. Is not solution, is only smaller wound.

Three clusters on three dates is the useful detail in your post and everyone is skipping past it.

That is not attrition. That is the platform matching them to each other. Something the accounts had in common was visible, and because you bought them together, most of what they have in common came from the seller, not from you. Which also means it wasn't your warm-up.

That's the argument you want with him, and it still won't get you a refund.

Name the seller or this thread is worthless to everyone reading it in six months.

Not naming him while I'm still talking to him. If it goes nowhere I will.

34 of 40 is brutal, sorry. how much was that in money if you dont mind

Just over $900. Not fatal, just annoying.

Aged account is aged for seller not for platform. Age mean nothing if the trust score is already bad.

IME the cluster pattern nullroute describes usually shows up in something boring you can actually check.

Pull whatever creation metadata you still have on the six survivors and the dead ones and diff it. Creation date, registered region, recovery method present or not. When I did this on a batch that died the same way, every dead one had the same recovery email domain and the survivors didn't. Took ten minutes and explained the whole thing.

Doing that tonight. Will post whatever it shows even if it makes me look stupid.

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