Old Roblox accounts: how to check when an account was made — and what an early join date does and doesn't get you

"Old Roblox account" is a selling point of its own: a profile that has been around since the early years reads as a piece of history. But "age" means two different things on Roblox, and only one of them is about when the account was made. Here is how to read both, and what an early join date actually brings with it.

Account age and the age check are not the same thing

• Account age is when the account was created — its join date. It is a fact about the account.
• The age check is about the person: a selfie-based age estimate or a government ID that places the user in an age group. Roblox uses it to unlock chat, content rated 16+ or 18+ and some other features; without it, Roblox goes by the birthday entered at sign-up and keeps chat off.

An account made in 2012 can belong to an age group that is barred from chat, and a brand-new account can be fully age-checked. When someone writes "roblox account age", decide which of the two they mean first.

How to find the join date

Roblox's help gives the path for your own account:

1. Open Profile from the navigation menu.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
3. The join date is in the Statistics box.

Roblox's help describes this for your own profile. Whether someone else's profile shows the date to you can depend on the view — signed out, the profile we checked did not show statistics at all — so when you are buying, ask the seller for a screenshot of the Statistics box and then confirm it yourself after you log in.

What an old account can carry

The date itself unlocks nothing. What can make an old account different is what it collected along the way.

• Limited items. Roblox defines a Limited as an avatar item that was first sold normally and later went off sale, so the only way to get one now is from another player. A Limited U was sold in a fixed number of copies, each with its own serial number, such as #45 of 100. An account that bought early can hold items that are no longer on sale at all.
• Whether those items can move. An item's page has a Tradable field. Trading itself now needs an age check from both players and a Roblox Plus subscription or a legacy Premium one; in the US there is also a temporary allowance of a couple of free trades a month.
• A legacy Premium plan. Roblox stopped selling Premium on 30 April 2026 and launched Roblox Plus in its place. Existing Premium subscribers keep their plan, but once it is cancelled it cannot be bought again, and Roblox's help says Premium memberships are non-transferable.

Verification travels with the account, not with its new owner

Communities on Roblox can require verification before you join: a phone, email or ID check at the low level, ID or phone-plus-email at the medium level, an ID at the high level. An old account that was verified by its first owner keeps that status — and the age check behind it reflects the first owner's face or document, not yours.

Several accounts, one person

Roblox lets you keep up to five accounts in its web Account Switcher (for users 13 and older, without parent privileges). It also warns that when a user breaks the Community Standards, it may act on other accounts it decides belong to the same person — something to keep in mind before adding an old account to the same device as your main one.

What Roblox's terms say

The Roblox Terms of Use say plainly that selling your account or your credentials to another user is strictly prohibited, and so is buying another user's account. The one exception they describe is transferring an account together with the right to earn Robux from the content it created, under a valid written agreement. Any second-hand account carries the risk that the terms create.

Before you pay for an "old" account

1. Ask for a screenshot of the Statistics box with the join date, and of the items you are paying for.
2. Ask which items are Limited or Limited U, and check their pages for the Tradable field.
3. Ask whether the account has a Premium plan and whether it is still active — it cannot be restarted once cancelled.
4. Ask who passed the age check on the account, and expect to redo it with your own selfie or ID if Roblox asks again.
5. Pay through escrow, log in, check the join date yourself, then confirm — the buying help page explains how escrow works here.