No, yes, no.

There are exceptions. You’ll run into people saying that they bought an account into some tracker years ago and that was their doorway in to everything. Maybe some of those people are telling the truth.

Just get in the normal way.

Its really easy to get into MaM and TL, from MaM you can get invites to quality mid tier trackers such as BHD, Orpheus, Seedpool, Aither, ANT, and LST. For the vast majority of users that is going to cover all their needs.

Its just not worth spending money to buy invites.

You basically need a seedbox on the higher tier trackers and at that point debrid services are a better value.

Buying accounts is the quickest way to get your account banned especially if it’s a renowned tracker that doesn’t do OpenSignups. The staff knows much more than you do. And if you do get caught with a bought account on a big tracker, then be prepared to be blacklisted from all the other big trackers.

Though as I saw from your comments, you don’t wanna grind your way to better trackers which is totally acceptable as not everyone has the time/energy to do so. If you want to pay your way in, then there are some trackers that do allow it, either by buying an account directly from the tracker (No Third parties) or buying a seedbox with the tracker’s promo code. I saw you got into TL, that’s a pretty good tracker.

There’s also AvistaZ who let you in, if you buy a seedbox for a month with their promo code, they’re a movie focused tracker, their strong suite is Asian movies. You can join other trackers of the Z Family like CinemaZ (old movies and stuff), ExoticaZ (Porn), AnimeZ (Anime) if you join one of them, as you can invite yourself to their other trackers if you manage to get enough Bonus points on one of them (you get Bonus Points from seeding).

There’s also IPT which a lot of people may have recommended you to buy your way into. I would recommend **against **it due to a plethora of reasons, the main one being that you’re already into TL (and even if you weren’t, it makes much more sense to join TL by buying a seedbox for a month with TL’s promo code) and IPT has less content than TL and with worse retention.

Then there’s HD-torrent, their prices are a bit on the expensive side but they do have one of the biggest library of torrents with good retention, not as big as cabal trackers but certainly more than other trackers that you can get into by paying.

TLDR: Don’t buy anything from Third Party Invite Sellers as there’s a very high chance of your account getting banned. I guess you’ve probably guessed it by now that a lot of people who operate these invite selling sites are staff at other big trackers and selling invites themselves then banning those accounts makes their job of catching cheaters a lot easier.

If I’m spending money, it is on a Usenet provider and nbz indexer.

Just as a heads-up: expect some pushback just for asking.

In general buying accounts is frowned upon on all private trackers I’m aware of, including the rule to ban bought accounts on sight.

Several private trackers give out VIP status for people buying seed boxes through them though I guess there are some where you’d get an account in the first place through this.

It all depends on your goals. Personally I wouldn’t trust account sellers. I don’t see a way for them to get accounts without it being quite easily identifyable for the respective pages.

Personally I went the “hard” route but never tried to push into the cabal tier private trackers.

Just remember to not screw your account within the first hours by not taking care of your ratio and the trackers rules.

I know someone who bought an account and it went well. He told me there was someone he sent money to and they gave him creds to a pre-seeded account that was already two-to-one stats with a lot of data so he could leach for a long time before he had to start uploading.

I’m typically suspicious myself, but the risk is there any time you’re doing something elicit. I know I got burned trying to buy weed or LSD when I was a teenager a couple of times. It comes with the territory.

Nevermind redacted. They are insanely anal about… Everything. They literally have a rule against letting people who say they want to get in, get in.

Just use soulseek (nicotine+).

I wouldn’t bother, seems like a good way yobget banned and waste money. Private trackers are a pain in the ass yo get into (the good ones) so I never bothered I just try to find my media on Usenet+TL+public trackers. Usenet doesnt have anything but was way easier to just buy access to that and know I’ll get content then risk gaming my way into a private tracker

I don’t trust them, but based on some assumptions. They are statically less likely to be taken down. That cannot be argued, but because of strictly enforced rules, most (at least the ones I’ve seen) do not allow VPN IP addresses to be registered. The issue there is the user has a forced increase in reliance on the site operator to maintain pseudo-anonymity.

The fact you were able to buy in without any proof of who you are or that I’ve encountered people just giving away invites to strangers, would suggest at least some of these trackers are not trustworthy. What protects those communities is their insular nature. Once that’s circumvented, its essentially just the same as a public tracker.

It’s only a semi-private tracker but do you want an invite for IPTorrents?

What’s wrong with using the default qbit trackers and search plugins from the major sites?