Quality tier

Quality tier is the grade a panel assigns to a service within its catalogue, such as LQ, mixed, HQ or real, used to sort similar services by price and expected account type.

Tiers exist because one action, such as followers on a given platform, can be supplied from very different account pools at very different costs. A catalogue lists them side by side and uses the tier to explain the price gap. The tiers are the seller's own ranking: nothing requires two panels to draw the lines in the same place, and a tier name on one panel says nothing about the same name on another.

Within one catalogue the tiers are at least meant to be consistent with each other, so they are some help when comparing services on the same panel. Across panels they are not. And because resellers import supplier listings, a single catalogue can contain services from different suppliers whose tier names were written by different people, placed next to each other as if on one scale.

Treat the tier as a starting point and check the parts of the listing that commit the seller to something: the refill window, the speed, the start time and the maximum. Two services in the same tier with different refill terms are different offers. Two services in different tiers with the same terms deserve a test order each before you pay the higher rate.

What it does not mean

A quality tier is not a measurement. No independent party tests the accounts before the tier is assigned, and the tier does not change when the supplier's pool changes. A higher tier predicts a higher price; it does not by itself predict fewer drops.