StarPets, AdoptMe.gg & Pet Shops — Safe or Scam?

What these sites are

Third-party marketplaces (StarPets and AdoptMe.gg are the big names) let people buy Adopt Me pets with real currency. The seller meets you in-game and hands the pet over through a normal trade. The sites themselves generally do deliver pets — that part isn't the problem.

The problem

Buying pets for real money is against Roblox's Terms of Service. Cross-platform trades — anything traded for value outside the game — violate the rules, and enforcement lands on accounts, not websites:

That's the trade-off nobody's ad mentions: the sites can be "legit" as businesses while every transaction still gambles your Roblox account.

• Accounts involved can be warned or banned, and pets acquired this way can be removed.
• There is zero recourse if anything goes wrong — Roblox support will not help recover a real-money pet trade by design.
• Kids using a parent's card on third-party sites have none of the protections a Robux purchase carries.

The gray zone people cite

Yes, plenty of players use these sites without consequences. Enforcement is inconsistent — that's true. But "usually unenforced" is a bad foundation for an account carrying years of inventory, and the risk concentrates exactly when it hurts: high-value pets attract attention.

Bottom line

The big marketplaces mostly aren't scams in the "take your money and vanish" sense — the risk is the ToS, and it's real. If the account matters to you, keep its economy inside the game.