We do. B2B Partnerships, some big companies trust us, and ultimately, I thought of the academic world so as to prove the expertise (I'm the complete opposite of an academic)
* We write public guides (see: https://legitcheck.app/explore-the-library/) - we have about 1m words written on the subject
* People are free to contest it. If we're wrong, we'll correct
* The more other people link to our guides, the more we get... credentials, I guess?
Can't the infosec community define and setup a "trust" network?
E.g. everybody trusts a number of people, and trust can be transitive (perhaps with weights). Hence when I read some review the network can compute a trustworthiness value. If the product turns out to be fake, the system can do a backprop and adjust weights. Etc. etc.
But the challenge would then be to explain something like this to the average non-techie who's just buying some expensive sneakers because they're cool
I really admire your approach to this. Making guides should not only improve your credibility but also overall help reduce the market of fakes by reducing demand.
That's why we never considered charging for our guides, even something as little as $1 → The point was to allow people to inform themselves about fakes, with as little friction as possible
That way, if we bump the % of people who get scammed by even a few negative points, we'd still be happy for a positive contribution
I find it ironic that you are selling authenticity checks, and yet I can't tell if the check is authentic.