Trust & safety
What we check, what we guarantee, and what we refuse.
Trust badges are easy to print. These are the specific things we do, the specific conditions under which you get your money back, and the listings we turn away.
Every listing goes through this
Before a channel appears on the site, it passes six checks. Anything we find goes on the listing page — including the things that hurt the price.
01
Analytics screen-verified
We watch the seller navigate YouTube Studio live — revenue, traffic sources, retention and demographics. Static screenshots are never enough; they are trivially edited.
02
Policy record pulled
Copyright strikes, community guideline strikes, and any active claims. We publish the count on the listing, including when it is bad news.
03
Monetisation history
For review-ready channels we check how many times monetisation has been applied for and rejected. Repeated rejections materially affect what a channel is worth.
04
Traffic quality check
Views-per-subscriber, sudden view spikes, and traffic source mix. Channels showing bot-inflation patterns are rejected outright, not quietly listed.
05
Ownership proof
The seller demonstrates control of the account before we list. We do not take a screenshot as proof of ownership.
06
Content licence review
For music and compilation channels we check that the catalogue is actually licensed and that the documentation transfers with the sale.
Buyer protection
Five conditions, all of them written down.
Competitors advertise a “100% money-back guarantee” without ever stating what triggers it. Here is ours, spelled out — so you can hold us to it.
- Your money is in escrow, not with the seller
- Payment sits with our escrow partner from the moment you fund it until you confirm you own the channel. The seller is never in possession of your money while you are exposed.
- Full refund if the numbers do not match
- If the channel’s verified metrics differ materially from what the listing showed, you get everything back. Not a credit, not a partial — the full amount.
- Full refund if the transfer fails
- If ownership cannot be transferred for any reason — seller withdraws, account issue, Google restriction — escrow returns your funds in full.
- Cancel free if the policy record changes
- We re-check strikes immediately before transfer. If a strike has appeared since verification, you can walk away at no cost even after funding escrow.
- Seven-day post-transfer support
- We stay on call for a week after handover. If access issues or AdSense linking problems surface, we resolve them rather than treating the sale as closed.
What we turn away
A marketplace that lists everything is not a marketplace, it is a classifieds page. We reject roughly one in three channels submitted to us.
- Channels with active copyright strikes that put them at risk of termination
- Channels showing purchased-view or bot-subscriber patterns
- Channels whose content would fail a fresh monetisation review
- Sellers who cannot demonstrate live control of the account
- Sellers who ask to hand over an AdSense account instead of relinking
- Channels where the seller misrepresents figures during verification
Honest limitations
What we cannot promise
- We cannot guarantee a channel keeps its traffic after it changes hands. Audience behaviour shifts when the content or upload rhythm changes — often downward.
- We cannot guarantee YouTube will approve monetisation on a review-ready channel. That decision is Google’s alone.
- We cannot prevent YouTube from acting on a channel after transfer if it later violates policy. Our re-check covers the moment of handover, not your future uploads.
- We cannot recover a channel if you hand your credentials to someone else after the sale.
Anyone who promises you these things is selling you something other than the truth.
Something look wrong to you?
If a listing on this site does not match what you find during verification, tell us and we will pull it. That includes listings you found through a competitor.
Report a listinghello@buyyoutubechannel.store