The Grinder Sold a Mythic Account. Moonton's Rules Made the Sale Void From the Start.

You spend months climbing to Mythical Glory. Someone on Shopee pays for the login. Then a ban lands, the account goes dark, and the buyer wants the money back.

Now you are staring at a product that no longer works, a sale that was against the game's rules the whole time, and a payment that was never as safe as it looked.

The account was never yours to sell

Moonton's terms for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang prohibit account trading. Selling or buying an account violates the terms of service, and account trading sits among the offenses that can draw a suspension up to a permanent ban. So the seller was always exposed.

Grinders know the risk and take it anyway because the math is real. Ranked skins, a maxed account, and a Mythic badge represent hundreds of hours nobody pays you for otherwise. A Shopee listing turns that grind into cash a working student can actually use for rent or tuition.

How the money is held

Shopee runs payments through a mechanism it calls the Shopee Guarantee. The buyer's payment is held by Shopee, or its appointed agent, and released to the seller only after the buyer confirms receipt. The seller earns no interest on the held sum.

That design works when the thing you bought keeps existing after delivery. A game account can stop existing at any point Moonton decides to enforce its own terms. Once an account is banned, the login is worthless, and both the payment and the labor behind it hang on whatever the two platforms decide separately.

Advocacy for gig-adjacent sellers keeps hitting the same wall. There is no contract to enforce because the underlying sale was against the game's rules to begin with. Some sellers report losing the payment when a banned account triggers a dispute, though platform dispute outcomes for game-account sales are not documented in any reliable public record.

Two platforms, zero accountability

Moonton treats the login as its property. Nobody warns you at checkout that the terms of service void the entire arrangement. Between the marketplace listing and the game company's ban policy sits a student seller who thought a Mythic account was an asset.

The listing goes up, the payment clears into the Guarantee, and the terms that make the sale void sit in a document neither buyer nor seller opened. The buyer risks a dead account. The seller risks a payment that was never really theirs.

The grind was real. The skins were bought with real load and real hours. The one thing that was never real is the idea that you owned any of it, and Moonton wrote it that way on purpose.

So the account gets banned, the sale collapses, and the seller absorbs the loss on labor a game company already claims as its own.