Is It Safe?
A straight answer about EA’s rules and your account
- £6.24
- 100K on PC
- 2 hours
- to your club
- 21 days
- to ask for a refund
Never entirely, and here is why
EA’s rules say coins must not be bought and single out comfort trades as harmful. Sanctions can follow the first time, so no seller can honestly call an order safe.
What you can steer is how much of your account you share, how the delivery runs and what you do while it runs.
Sanctions EA keeps in reserve
Taken from EA’s pages on playing by the rules and on handling coins and points.
Balance taken back
EA may strip the coins in question from the club.
Trading limited
Market access can be cut on console, PC and in both apps.
Club wiped out
In serious cases the whole Ultimate Team club is deleted.
Account barred
Bans stretch from online play up to the entire account.
Single-use codes and nothing more
For a delivery the seller gets your EA login e-mail plus several backup codes. Each code dies after one use, and once the order is done you can generate a fresh set in the security settings.
Never hand over any other login detail by chat or e-mail; an honest seller has no use for it.
Habits that help
Stay out of Ultimate Team everywhere until the balance moves. Afterwards spend at a normal pace instead of dumping everything on overpriced cards in one evening.
Order only what you need; the order desk accepts own figures from 100,000 coins.
Does EA notice a bought balance?
EA watches the Transfer Market for odd trades and says it acts against coin buying and distribution. A Comfort Trade relies on ordinary listings, but nobody outside EA knows exactly what it spots, so treat any claim of being invisible as sales talk rather than fact.
What happens to the account if EA steps in?
Its help pages mention taking coins back, limiting the market, deleting the club and barring the account from online play or from all EA games. Which one applies depends on the case and on any earlier history, and the coins themselves usually go first.
Should I change anything afterwards?
It is wise to open the security settings once the order is complete and save a fresh set of backup codes, retiring the used ones. Keep two-factor authentication switched on, and only share codes again if you place another order.
Does a refund cover an EA penalty?
No. Refunds on the payment page deal with orders that were not delivered, delivered only in part or cancelled under its rules. Losses from EA acting on the account after delivery are a risk you accept when deciding to order coins at all.
Decided after reading the rules?
The desk is at the top; take just the amount you need.
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