When the shelf does not have it
Request a LinkedIn account
Most of the shelf is not published — how much we hold, and when we counted it. Most of what we hold is matched to a specification rather than listed, because publishing a full inventory of LinkedIn profiles is how those profiles get scraped and flagged — so the published half is deliberately the smaller one, and this page is how you reach the rest. Name the age, the network size and the country it has to be registered in, and it gets checked against what is actually in hand.
What are you looking for?
Pick where we should reply and give us that number or address — that is the only required part. Everything else narrows the shortlist.
Before you send one
Three things worth knowing
- Some requests we turn down
- A specific named person’s profile. A registration country we have no supply in — and that is the one to be precise about, because the profile’s location and the ISP proxy can always be set to your market, and that is not the same thing as finding an account that was registered in it. Or a combination that does not exist: a twelve-year-old account with 5,000 genuinely relevant connections in a niche industry is not a sourcing problem, it is a fiction. You get told that rather than put on a list.
- Sourcing is not instant
- An aged account has to be bought from the person holding it, which is a conversation, not a purchase order. Common specifications are often filled within days; an unusual country or a ten-year-old profile can take considerably longer, and you are told which it is before you commit to anything.
- A request is not a reservation
- Nothing is held against an unpaid request. If a matching account arrives you get first refusal in the order requests came in, which is as close to a queue as it gets.
One thing to be exact about on the country line. Every account handed over here has its profile Location field and its ISP residential proxy set to the market you are selling into, so “can I get an account for the Dutch market” is always yes and is not a sourcing request at all. What sourcing has to find is an account registered in the Netherlands — with Dutch employers in its history and Dutch people in its network, neither of which anyone can configure afterwards. Say which of the two you mean and the answer comes back about the right thing.
And if what you are describing is ten or more accounts that have never belonged to anyone else — your brand on them, your target industry in the network, one consistent batch — sourcing is the wrong instrument entirely. Those are built to order over 3–6 months and handed over outright when they are finished.
If what you need is a profile for one quarter rather than permanently, a request here is the wrong shape — the buy-against-rent comparison is the faster way to work out which of the two you actually want.