Transparency
Trust is the entire product here, so this page spells out how LootWise actually works — what we are, what data we touch, how the ranking is computed, and how to reach us when something is wrong. If anything on this page ever conflicts with what the product does, that's a bug: tell us.
On this page
We are a comparison engine, not a marketplace
LootWise indexes publicly visible game-account listings from third-party marketplaces, normalizes them into comparable attributes, and ranks them with one formula, the same for every listing. That is the whole business. Concretely:
- We never sell accounts or list our own inventory.
- We never process payments, hold escrow, or broker a transaction.
- We never see or hold account credentials.
- Every listing links back to its source marketplace — the “Go to listing” button is the end of our involvement.
What we collect, and how
We re-read each marketplace we list about every 3 hours. Our crawler reads them logged out, at conservative request rates, honoring robots.txt. From each public listing we extract: price, platform, skin and item attributes, delivery and warranty flags, and a numeric seller rating. When you open a listing detail page we may additionally run a single live re-check of that listing so the “last updated” badge tells the truth.
Every listing surface shows when the data was last confirmed. We never hide staleness — if a listing hasn't been seen for longer than our crawl cycle, the badge says so in red.
Which listings we show
A listing reaches search only when its seller has a track record we can read. Listings from sellers rated below 85% positive feedback, or with no feedback at all, are stored and archived like every other listing, but they are never shown, never ranked, and never count toward any account's score. A new seller appears once their first ratings do.
The same applies to listings whose claims cannot be true, such as an impossible skin count or a price of zero. Listings whose claims merely disagree with each other stay visible and count for less in the score; when the disagreement is large, the card carries a caution tag.
What we deliberately never store
- Seller identities. No names, handles, avatars, or profile links — where a marketplace shows “SellerX 98.5% (87,585)”, we keep only the numbers. Sellers are people; their identity is not our data.
- Game assets. No key art, no loading screens, no marketplace screenshots. The one exception is the small in-game icon beside a skin's name, shown to identify the item: fetched once from the game files, hosted here, never at request time, and switchable off site-wide in minutes. Our skin dictionary stores names, icons and market metadata only.
Cosmetic icons © Epic Games, shown to identify items. LootWise is not endorsed by or affiliated with Epic Games. 2,809 icons are hosted here, fetched once from the game files and never at request time.
- Buyer payment data. Nothing is sold here, so there is nothing to store. Your LootWise account is an email address, a password hash if you set a password, and the display name and avatar you pick — see the privacy policy.
How the ranking works
The default ranking is the LootWise Score: a 0–100 measure of account value per dollar, adjusted for transfer safety, recomputed against the live market after every crawl. What it counts and in what order — locker size and rarity, exclusives and OG status, extras like V-Bucks and Save the World, seller trust, price — is public, and so are the golden examples every version must get right: read them here. The exact weights are ours: calibrated against real market prices, versioned, and identical for every listing on the site.
Every account page shows what went into its score — locker, rare and exclusive skins, extras, seller trust and price. Signed-in members open the full breakdown underneath: every term, every factor and the raw score.
No pay-for-placement, ever. No marketplace, seller, or anyone else can pay to influence a score or a ranking position. Formula changes bump the version, rescore every account, and are noted publicly.
Affiliate disclosure
LootWise is free and currently earns nothing. In the future, outbound “Go to listing” links may become affiliate links, meaning a marketplace pays us a commission when a purchase follows a click from LootWise. If and when that happens: commissions never influence the ranking (the score stays formula-driven, versioned and identical for every marketplace), and this page will state exactly which marketplaces pay us.
The honest part: risk disclosure for buyers
Account sales violate Epic's EULA. Buying a Fortnite account can result in the account being banned or recovered, and marketplace protections vary widely. LootWise does not vouch for any seller or listing — a high score means the listing's published attributes represent good value, not that we have verified the seller's honesty. Read how to buy safely before spending money, and never spend what you can't afford to lose.
Takedowns, complaints, corrections
If you are a marketplace, rights holder, or seller and want something removed, corrected, or explained — or you're anyone who found wrong data — write to hello@lootwise.gg. The mailbox is monitored; we acknowledge takedown and legal requests within 5 business days and act on verified data errors faster than that.
See also: About · Terms · Privacy. Game and marketplace names, and Epic's cosmetic icons, are used for identification only; no marketplace logos or artwork appear anywhere on LootWise.