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The LegitBoosting Method, Step by Step
No ranking on this site starts from a marketing page. It starts with a paid order - our card, our money - logged from the checkout screen through to delivery, and 224 of those sit behind the scores you read here. A service that came out clean on every check in one month can slip the next, so the whole set goes back through re-audit monthly, and the last pass closed June 15, 2026. Nobody pays for a score here, and nobody has been offered the chance to.
The Trust Score Model
Trust Score is a 0-100 number assembled from five weighted inputs, and those weights do not shift between services, games or price brackets - the same five run on everything we publish. Safety and account handling carries 35% because it covers the one failure a customer cannot claw back: a chargeback returns your money, a flagged or suspended account returns nothing. Speed counts, price honesty counts, and neither of them costs you an account you spent years building. So the weight sits where the irreversible damage sits.
| Input | Weighting | What we look at |
|---|---|---|
| Safety & account handling | 35% | Whether offline or appear-offline handling is genuine and applied without being asked, whether a VPN is set to the account's own region before anyone signs in, how credentials are stored and how many people read them, whether ToS risk is stated in plain language instead of buried in a footer, and what happens to the login and session after delivery. |
| Completion reliability & speed | 25% | Whether the paid order finished at all, whether it finished inside the window we were quoted, and whether work began when the service said it would. Pauses, silent handovers and re-assignments go into the log, and the delivered result gets held against exactly what the checkout promised. |
| Pricing clarity | 15% | The figure on the payment screen against the figure advertised, run across several rank and division sweeps and both currency settings. Anything appearing late in the flow gets recorded: service fees, currency spread, priority upsells. Refund conditions earn credit only when they are written down and readable before payment, never when a support agent recites them afterwards. |
| Verified user sentiment | 15% | Reviews we can tie to a verifiable purchase, with burst posting and astroturf stripped out first. We read how a service answers a complaint in public, and we weigh the shape of the distribution over the raw count: a 4.8 built from two hundred posts in one week tells you less than a 4.3 accumulated over two years. |
| Support responsiveness | 10% | Reply time on live tickets and, more to the point, reply competence - measured against routine order questions plus one deliberately awkward request per service that no canned macro resolves. |
Our Verification Work
- Paid orders, fully logged. Every service in the rankings gets ordered from the way any customer would order: our own card, our own budget, no press account and no comped run. 224 orders sit behind the current numbers. We keep the record from the checkout screen through assignment, chat, delivery and whatever cleanup followed, and that record is what a score gets checked against, not the claim on the sales page.
- The awkward ticket. Support gets contacted twice. Once with the ordinary questions a live order produces, and once with a request built to be inconvenient - a mid-order change, a region question, a refund edge case sitting outside the script. How fast the answer arrives goes in the log, and whether the answer is correct carries more weight than how fast it was.
- Checkout walked to payment. We take the checkout flow to its final screen with a real payment behind it. Advertised price against final charge, across several rank spans, with the currency switched. Fees that surface only after an email address is entered get written down, along with anything the refund terms quietly carve out at that step.
- Refunds actually requested. A written refund policy is a claim until somebody files against it. So we file, on real completed and part-completed orders, and time what follows: what gets approved without argument, what gets argued, whether store credit is pushed in place of the original payment method, and how many days the money needs to land back.
- Review forensics. Ratings get pulled apart before they feed anything. Duplicate phrasing across accounts, clusters of five-star posts landing inside the same 48 hours, reviewers with no purchase trail, bursts arriving right after a bad month - that material comes out, and what survives is what feeds the 15% sentiment input.
Score Tiers
Anything from 90 up reads Excellent, 75 to 89 reads Good, 60 to 74 reads Fair, and a service under 60 lands in Poor with the findings that put it there spelled out on its own page.
Why Placements Are Not for Sale
Nobody buys a place in these rankings. Every one of the 224 orders behind them came out of our own budget, and four rules keep it that way:
- Test orders are placed anonymously, under ordinary customer accounts with no editorial identity attached, so no service gets the careful version of itself.
- One procedure and one set of weights applies to every service reviewed, whether it sits at the top of a list or at the bottom of it.
- No service sees its score, its write-up or its flagged items before publication, and nothing goes over for comment in advance.
- Placement is not for sale. No payment moves a service up a list, and no negative finding gets removed, softened or delayed because somebody asked us to.
Who Places the Orders
Aaron Mercer is Fraud Research Editor at Legit Boosting. He tracks chargeback disputes and scam reports for a living, which is how he reads a boosting site: refund terms first, complaint threads second, marketing copy last. He pays out of pocket for every test order behind a ranking here, all 224 of them, and he runs the monthly re-audit that keeps those numbers current - the most recent one closing June 15, 2026.
Corrections and Feedback
We get things wrong sometimes - a price moves, a policy gets rewritten, a service repairs the exact problem we flagged three weeks earlier. If you spot something off, drop a note to editor@legitboosting.net with the page and the claim you want re-checked. Each request goes back against our order logs and the dated screenshots taken during that test before a single line on the page changes.