Sell your LinkedIn account
Yes, you can sell it — and no, it is not illegal in most places. What it does break is LinkedIn’s User Agreement, which says an account belongs to one person. The remedy for that lands on the account, not on you, and it lands after the account has stopped being yours. We buy established LinkedIn profiles — the kind with a real registration date and a connection graph that was built rather than bought. Tell us three things and you get a figure, or a clear no with the reason. No login needed to find out.
The full version of that answer is the next section. If you have already decided, skip to the form → — or, if you are not sure the account is worth anything yet, work out what your LinkedIn account is worth first: five properties decide it, and one of them decides most of it.
The honest part
What you are actually risking
Nearly everyone who lands on this page is asking the same thing, and it is really two questions with two different answers. Is it illegal? In most jurisdictions, no — no statute makes handing control of a social profile to somebody else a crime in itself. Does it break LinkedIn’s rules? Yes, plainly. The User Agreement says an account belongs to one person and may not be transferred, and it says the profile has to be a real identity. That is not a grey area, and nobody buying accounts should pretend it is one.
The two answers carry different consequences, and the distance between them is the whole risk picture. A terms breach exposes you to the platform’s remedies — restriction, suspension, closure. It does not put you in front of a court. What is worth knowing before you decide is which part of it lands on the account and which part stays with you.
| The thing people worry about | Where it actually lands |
|---|---|
| A law being broken | Not what this is, in most jurisdictions. Fraud committed through an account is a crime; transferring the account is a contract problem with LinkedIn rather than a criminal one. Where a specific computer-misuse statute exists, check it — that is a real exception, not a rhetorical one. |
| LinkedIn’s User Agreement | Broken, without ambiguity, at the moment the account changes hands. Not before: an account created by a real person and verified with a real document breaks nothing by existing. The transfer is the breach, which is why the transfer is the part worth doing carefully. |
| LinkedIn’s remedy | Restriction or closure, applied to the account. After handover that is the buyer’s loss rather than yours — which is also the reason somebody who paid properly for the years has more at stake in keeping the account out of trouble than you ever did. |
| Your name | Stays where it is. A buyer who paid for the tenure has little reason to rename the profile, so whatever the account does afterwards it does under your name, to an audience that includes people who know you. This is the part most sellers have not thought about. It is a reason to decide carefully rather than a reason that nobody should decide. |
| Your network | Stays connected. Former colleagues keep whatever relationship the profile had with them, and anything the account sends later arrives from a face they recognise. |
| Your recovery paths | The one exposure with your name genuinely on it — and the only one that closes completely. An email address, a phone number or a connected app still bound to the account is a door that leads back to you. Shutting all of them is a twenty-minute job, and it belongs before the handover rather than after it. |
Why the recovery email decides most of this
There are two ways this transaction gets done and the difference between them is one field. A credentials handover — here is the login, here is the password, good luck — leaves you holding the recovery email, which is bad twice over. The account can still be pulled back through you, and the configuration itself is what LinkedIn’s security systems are built to notice: a live account whose password and recovery path belong to two different people is precisely what a hijacked account looks like.
An ownership transfer moves the recovery address across in the same session as the password, ends every other live session, and takes your phone number and connected apps off the account on the way through. That is the order of operations here, and it is not a courtesy to the buyer. It is the step that severs the account from you, which is the only part of your exposure you actually control.
What cannot be promised is that nothing happens. LinkedIn can restrict an account it concludes has changed hands, and that risk does not reach zero on this site or on any other. What can be said is where it lands: on the account, after it has stopped being yours, held by somebody who paid three figures for the tenure precisely because they need it to survive. The single thing that most reduces the chance of an account being burned after a sale is that whoever ends up with it paid enough to mind. The four steps further down are written so that you can stop at any of them.
Before you hand anything over
What a bad deal looks like from your side
Most of what has been written about selling a LinkedIn account is a warning about being cheated out of one, and the warnings are earned. The useful thing about the pattern is how consistent it is: the same five moves, in roughly the same order, whoever is running it. None of them needs anything technical to spot.
- A password before a price — A quote needs a country, a registration year and a connection count. Anybody who has to "log in and check it first" is not checking. That is the whole theft, carried out with your consent and nothing else.
- Money moving towards the buyer — An escrow deposit, a verification charge, a release fee, a tax. Payment in this transaction travels one direction only. Any step that asks you to send money is the step the deal was built around.
- Nothing in writing — Who does what, in what order, when payment lands and by which method. That is four sentences. A buyer who will not put them in a message before anything moves has already told you what happens after it does.
- A clock — An offer that expires tonight, a buyer about to board a flight. Demand for a ten-year-old profile does not evaporate by morning, and there is no version of this where sleeping on it costs you the sale.
- A number with no questions behind it — A flat figure quoted before anyone asked the country, the year or where the connections came from is not a price for your account. It is a price for a category — and usually one that gets renegotiated downward once the account has moved.
What happens here is the mirror of that list: no credentials to get a figure, nothing for you to pay at any point, and the sequence agreed in writing before anything moves. The buyer’s half of the same procedure is published too — what a buyer receives, and in what order — which is two minutes well spent before deciding who you are handing an account to.
Get a figure
Tell us about the account
Pick where we should reply and give us that number or address — that is the only required part. The three qualifying fields are what decide the figure, so the more of them you fill, the closer the first answer will be to the final one.
What moves the figure
What we are buying
- Age beats everything — An account registered three or more years ago is worth more than a bigger, newer one. Registration date is the one property nobody can manufacture, and it is the first thing we look at.
- A real connection graph — Connections that came from actual colleagues, classmates and industry contacts. Five hundred real ones are worth more to us than three thousand bought ones, and the difference is visible in the graph.
- A clean record — No current restriction, no recent identity challenge, no bulk-messaging warnings. If there has been a warning, tell us — it does not always disqualify the account, but finding out later ends the deal.
- A country that matches the profile — Profiles from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordics are in steady demand. Elsewhere still sells, usually at a lower figure.
The process
Four steps, and you can stop at any of them
1. Send the basics
Country, roughly how old the account is, and how many connections it has. No login, no password, nothing sensitive at this stage — we cannot make an offer without those three facts and we do not need anything else to make one.
2. We check it against what we are buying
Demand moves by country and connection tier month to month. We check your account against what is actually selling and come back with a figure, or with a clear no and the reason. Either way you get an answer, usually inside two business days.
3. You decide
If the figure works, we agree the payment method and the handover order in writing first. If it does not, nothing happens and we keep nothing — no data, no profile URL, no obligation on your side.
4. Handover and payment
The account moves over together with the recovery email, and payment follows on the terms agreed in step three. Most suppliers are paid in crypto; anything else we settle before the handover starts, not after.
Saves us both time
What we do not buy
- Accounts created in the last few months — there is nothing there we cannot make ourselves
- Profiles that are already restricted or under an identity challenge
- Accounts whose connections were obviously bought — the graph gives it away in minutes
- Anything you do not control the recovery email for
- Company pages, Recruiter seats or Sales Navigator subscriptions on their own
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Questions
What people ask before they send an account
Can I sell my LinkedIn account?
Yes, in the sense that the transfer is possible and there is a buyer for it — that is what this page is. No, in the sense that LinkedIn permits it: the User Agreement says an account belongs to one person and may not be transferred. Both answers are true at once, and the rest of this page is about what that actually costs you, which is less than the internet implies and is not nothing.
Is it illegal to sell a LinkedIn account?
In most jurisdictions, no. No statute makes handing control of a social profile to somebody else a crime in itself. Fraud committed through an account is a crime; transferring the account is a contract problem with LinkedIn. Where a specific computer-misuse statute exists, check it — that is a real exception rather than a rhetorical one.
Who buys LinkedIn accounts?
Sales teams, recruiters and lead-generation agencies who need a profile that already has a registration date and a network, because neither can be bought from LinkedIn at any price. We are one of those buyers and we also resell to them — the shelf those accounts land on is published, with prices, at /services/linkedin-accounts-for-sale. That is the honest reason we can quote you: we know what the account sells for.
How much will you pay for my account?
It depends on the registration date, the connection count, the country and whether the profile is ID-verified, and those four move the figure a long way. We do not publish a price list because a published number would be wrong for most accounts in both directions. Send the three basics and you get a real figure, not a range.
Do I have to give you my password to get a quote?
No. A quote needs the country, the approximate age and the connection count — nothing else. Credentials only come up after you have accepted a figure, and nobody should send a password to get a price.
Is selling a LinkedIn account against LinkedIn’s rules?
Yes. LinkedIn’s User Agreement says an account belongs to one person and may not be transferred or sold, and LinkedIn can restrict an account it believes has changed hands. That is the honest answer and you should weigh it before you decide. It is also why we ask about past warnings and why the recovery email matters.
What happens to my personal data on the profile?
The profile keeps its history — that is most of what we are buying. If there are posts, endorsements or sections you want removed before handover, do it before you send the account, not after: once it has moved, editing is no longer yours to do.
What happens to me if LinkedIn works out the account was sold?
The remedy lands on the account — restriction or closure. It does not follow the person who sold it: LinkedIn has no route for charging a previous holder for what the current one does, and nothing about a finished deal gets reopened. What can still reach you afterwards is a recovery path left behind — an email address, a phone number or a connected app still bound to the profile. That is exactly why those are moved or stripped during the handover instead of being left for later.
Do I get paid before or after the handover?
Whichever we agree in writing before anything moves — that agreement is step three and it is not skippable. For a single account it is usually settled inside one session, most often in crypto. What never happens in either direction is you sending money: there is no fee, no deposit and no escrow charge on the seller side of this, and a request for one is the signal to stop.
What happens to my name and my old connections after you sell it on?
The headline, the About section, the current role and the city get rewritten by whoever ends up using it. The photograph and the name usually do not, because renaming a profile on the day it changes hands throws away part of what was paid for. Your former connections stay connected either way, so anything the account sends later arrives from a profile they recognise. Nobody can undo that for you afterwards, which makes this the point at which to decide it.
How long does the whole thing take?
A quote usually takes up to two business days. If you accept, handover and payment are normally the same day, because the only slow part is agreeing the figure.
Can I sell more than one account?
Yes, and it is worth telling us up front if you have several — a batch from the same country and age band is easier for us to place, and that usually shows up in the figure.