Digital Accounts Store

A GitHub account arrives as one line of text

Accounts come first in this shop, and each one is delivered as a line on your order page. This is what a full line from a listing with a mailbox, a 2FA key and a token holds, field by field.

1. Username

   The account's name on GitHub and the end of its profile address. GitHub also accepts the email at sign-in.

2. GitHub password

   For the first sign-in at github.com. Replace it once you are in.

3. 2FA key

   Letters and digits that make the six-digit sign-in code. Paste it into a 2FA code generator when GitHub asks.

4. Access token

   A personal access token (classic), on listings that name one. It works for git over HTTPS and the API, not for the sign-in page.

5. Email

   The address the account was confirmed with. On most listings the mailbox comes too, on several a Gmail address.

6. Mailbox password

   Opens that mailbox, so GitHub's confirmation and reset emails reach you. Absent on listings marked GitHub access only.

Age is what most listings are sold by

The title gives the time since registration as a floor or a band. Fresh accounts are days old or 10 days and up. Then come monthly bands, such as one month, one to two, two to three, four to five, or three to nine months. The oldest are sold as one year and over, one to two years, or two to three years.

Age only dates the sign-up. It says nothing about commits, contributions or followers, and the profiles are plain unless the title says otherwise: one listing adds a repository and an avatar.

How they were registered, and the mailbox

Most listings were registered by hand from mixed IP addresses; one was registered automatically from the USA. Each account has its email confirmed. Whether the mailbox is handed over depends on the listing: most include it, one adds IMAP access so you can read it in a mail client, and one is marked GitHub access only, which means the GitHub login without the mailbox.

Two-factor authentication is already on for most listings aged by the month or by the year, with the key in your line. Without the key or the mailbox you cannot get back into an account that asks for a code, so keep both with the password.

Stars and forks for a repository

Growth is the second part of the shop. A star is a bookmark a GitHub user leaves on a repository, and the total shows at the top of the repository page; a fork is a copy of the repository under another account, counted beside it. Both are ordered with the link to a public repository, and that link is all checkout asks for.

After payment the order goes to a delivery service picked for that order, usually within minutes; when it starts and how fast it runs depends on that service. Standard goes to the best-priced service with a good completion record and has no refill. Premium goes first to services with a refill window and uses it when the service that filled the order has one.

A count added this way is a number on the page. It does not bring people who read, run or contribute to the code, and it can fall back later.

Followers for a profile

Followers are ordered for a public profile link, the github.com address that ends with the username. The count shows on the profile under the avatar. The order runs the same way as stars: one delivery service per order, Standard without a refill, Premium placed with services that have a refill window first.

A profile you bought here can be grown too, once you have taken it over. It is a separate order with that profile's own link.

Taking over, and what the warranty covers

Sign in at github.com/login with the first two fields and, when asked, the code made from the key. Then add an email address you control and make it primary, change the password, set up two-factor again with your own authenticator app, and look through Sessions, SSH keys and tokens for anything you did not create.

Do this inside the warranty window on the listing. If the password is refused, a code is not accepted, or the account is suspended, open a ticket from your order page with a screenshot before the window closes: it is replaced from the same listing, or refunded when the listing is empty. Signing in never voids the warranty; suspensions caused by bulk or automated activity are not covered. A growth order that has not started or stopped short is checked with its service, then completed or refunded for the part not delivered.