How much is a 2016 or 2017 Discord account worth?

TL;DR

A 2016 or 2017 Discord account is worth more than a new one, but the year is only where the price starts. What sets it is the badges on the account, the quality of the username, and whether the original registration email comes with it. An account sold without its original email is worth much less, because the seller can recover it after the sale.

Why old Discord accounts have value at all

Discord launched in 2015. Accounts registered in the first few years qualify for things newer accounts can't get, and no amount of money makes a new account old. That fixed, shrinking supply is what the whole market rests on.

In practice, age matters in a few ways:

• Some servers require accounts to be a minimum age before they can join or post. An older account clears those rules automatically.
• Some badges were only available for a set period and can never be issued again, so only accounts from that period can have them.
• An account with years of history behaves differently from a fresh registration on a platform that watches for automated behaviour.

Age is needed for value, but it isn't enough on its own. A 2016 account with no badges and a random username is just an old account.

The four things that actually set the price

1. Badges, and especially Early Supporter

This is usually the biggest single factor. The Early Supporter badge went to users who bought Nitro before 10 October 2018, and Discord has closed it for good. It doesn't depend on an active subscription, so it stays on the account whether or not Nitro is still paid for.

Since it can never be earned again, supply only goes down as accounts get banned or lost. Almost nothing else in the account market works like that. Elsewhere, supply can always grow.

Other badges buyers look at include HypeSquad and Bug Hunter, which Discord still awards to people who find and report bugs. Combinations matter more than any single badge. An account with Early Supporter, a HypeSquad badge and a short username sits in a different price bracket from one with Early Supporter alone.

2. Username quality

Usernames are priced almost separately from the account. A short username, a real dictionary word or a recognisable name can be worth more than the age of the account behind it. Three- and four-character usernames are the obvious example, but a clean, memorable name you can say out loud often sells better than a random short string.

If you're buying for the username, say so, and treat the age as secondary when you price it.

3. Whether the original email is included

This is the one first-time buyers most often underestimate, and it's the difference between owning an account and borrowing one.

The original registration email, usually shortened to OGE, is the way back into the account. If the seller keeps it, they can contact Discord support after your payment clears and ask for the account back. You'd have no recourse with Discord, because as far as Discord is concerned the original owner is asking for their own account.

An account sold with full email access and one sold without it are different products, whatever the listing says. Find out which one you're buying before you talk about price.

4. Moderation history

An account with past bans, or one under any current restriction, is worth far less and is usually best avoided. This is hard to check from the outside, which is exactly why the checking time before you confirm matters.

What does not add value

Being honest about this saves you money:

• Server memberships come with the account, but they're easy to replace and shouldn't add to the price.
• Friend counts don't mean much.
• Active Nitro runs out. You're buying the rest of a subscription, not an asset, unless it's the historical Nitro that earned a badge.
• "OG" gets used loosely. Ask for the registration date and check it inside the account.

How to verify the registration date properly

Don't accept a screenshot. Screenshots of a Discord registration date are easy to fake, and faked dates are a common problem in aged-account listings.

Do it in this order:

1. Get access to the account.
2. Open the account's profile and read the "Member Since" date yourself.
3. Compare it with what the listing claimed.
4. Only then decide whether to confirm the purchase.

That order only works if your payment is still held while you check. It's the whole case for using escrow on a purchase like this instead of paying a stranger directly.

Working out a fair price

There's no fixed price table, and anyone offering one is guessing. The honest method is comparison:

1. Find live listings for accounts with a similar year, a similar set of badges and a similar quality of username. All three need to match.
2. Note whether each one includes the original email. Leave out any that don't, or mark them down heavily.
3. Look at the spread of prices, not at one asking price.

You can compare current asking prices for Discord accounts and for Early Supporter accounts specifically on EPICSWP, where each listing says what's included.

The buying checklist

Before you pay:

• Confirm exactly what's included: the account only, the account plus email, or full recovery access.
• Ask for the registration date and agree that you'll check it yourself.
• Confirm which badges are claimed and that they show on the profile.
• Agree what happens if the account turns out not to match.

Before you confirm receipt and release payment:

• Sign in yourself.
• Change the password.
• Change the email to one you control.
• Do a password reset yourself, to prove the email really is yours.
• Remove any existing two-factor authentication and set up your own.
• Check the registration date on the profile.
• Check the badges are actually on the profile.

Only after all of that should you confirm. Confirming receipt releases the money, so it's the last step, not a formality.

Where escrow fits

Escrow does one specific thing: it holds your payment until you confirm. That protects you from a seller who takes the money and delivers nothing, or delivers an account that doesn't match.

Be clear about what it doesn't do. Discord's Terms of Service don't allow selling or transferring an account without Discord's written approval, and escrow can't change that or protect an account from Discord's enforcement after the sale. What it gives you is time to check everything above while your money hasn't moved. When the main risk is misrepresentation, that time is the protection.

Related reading

• Buy Discord accounts, live listings paid through escrow
• Buy Discord Early Supporter accounts, the badge that closed in 2018
• Aged Discord accounts, on what account age does and doesn't get you