The Five-Minute Check: Verify Any Shop Before You Pay
Before paying a digital-goods shop, check how long it has been indexed, whether it has any recorded positive feedback, and whether your payment method leaves you recourse. None of these prove a shop is safe; all of them catch the obvious failures.
Shellix Editorial Board··1 min read
Why five minutes is enough
Most losses happen because nobody looked. These checks are boring and they work.
What to look at first
- How long the shop has existed in our index
- Whether it has any recorded positive feedback at all
- Whether the payment method leaves you any recourse
What none of this proves
Feedback and sold counts are scraped from each shop's own storefront. Shops control them.