Terms and Conditions

 

Users

Most importantly:

Each Sitepaw account must be held by one person only, and each person may hold only one Sitepaw account.

 

Also important:

- Private offers outside the Sitepaw system are expressly forbidden.

- Users may not link to certain categories of external site. These include:

- Pages containing explicit, obscene or vulgar language or images.

- Pages containing copyright infringing material.

- Pages which could be classified as self-promotion, such as pages affiliated with the user.

- In general, external links are considered suspicious unless they're obviously contextually related.

- Comments should be made only to further the sale process:

- Negative comments are strictly disallowed; any accusations of fraud or theft should be dealt with through the Support process.

- Frivolous comments are discouraged.

- Users should take due care and perform due diligence when on either side of a transaction.

- All users should diligently monitor listings they are interested in; Sitepaw can provide no guarantees about delivery of emails.

- Users who are banned by Sitepaw administration can expect no refund of any monies paid.

 

Listings

- By submitting a listing, you grant Sitepaw a permanent, irrevocable and unrestricted license to store and display the details of your listing.

- By submitting a listing, you agree that in the event of a sale your contact details will be sent to the winning bidder.

- The seller must have the right and good faith intention to sell the item listed.

- The seller is obliged to sell to the user who made the winning bid or offer.

- A user making a winning bid or offer is obliged to buy for the amount of the winning bid or offer.

- The seller must provide full details of the item for sale, and must not intentionally hide information from public view.

- Items may not be offered for sale through any other channel whilst the subject of a listing on Sitepaw.

- Domain names sold must include the ability to transfer the domain name to another registrar.

- Listings breaching any guideline may be suspended or removed without refund of any monies paid.

 

Auctions

- A reserve price must be set, and the reserve must be equal to or greater than the minimum bid price.

- The reserve price may not be made public by any means.

- The reserve price may not be changed once it has been met.

- The reserve price may be raised only if no bids have yet been placed.

- A Buy It Now price, if it exists, must be equal to or greater than the reserve price.

- Both the Buy It Now price and the reserve price may be lowered, but neither may be changed to an amount lower than the highest accepted bid.

- The listing will publicly display whether or not the reserve price has been reached by an accepted bid.

- Bids made in the final four hours postpone the end time to four hours after the bid was placed.

- An auction is completed once it has ended and all bids made in the last 72 hours have either been accepted or rejected.

- If an auction is completed and the reserve price is not met, the listing is passed in and all accepted offers immediately expire.

 

- If there are bids greater than or equal to the reserve price, the highest accepted bid is the winning bid.

 

Private Sales

- A minimum offer price may or may not be set.

- The minimum offer price will not be display in the public listings.

- The minimum offer price may be displayed to the user when they make an offer which is lower than it.

- A private sale is won when the seller accepts an offer.

 

Bids and Offers

- Bids and offers are anonymous to everyone except the seller.

- Making a bid or offer agrees that you may be the winning bidder, and that if so your contact details will be communicated to the seller.

- Sellers may not bid or offer on their own listing, either on their own behalf or through an intermediary.

- Users may not reveal to other users who placed a bid or offer, whether via PM or public comment or any other way.

- Bids or offers without a response from the seller within 72 hours will be automatically rejected.

- Responding to a bid or offer is permanent; rejected bids may not be subsequently accepted, and accepted bids may not be subsequently rejected.

 

Bids

- Bids are legally binding and irrevocable until a higher bid is accepted, at which time the previous highest bid expires.

- Bids may not be withdrawn by the bidder.

- All bids must be either accepted or rejected by the seller.

- Buy It Now bids without a response within 72 hours will be automatically accepted.

- Buy It Now bids may only be placed if the BIN price has not yet been matched or exceeded by an accepted bid.

- When a Buy It Now bid is placed, no other bids may be placed until that bid is accepted or rejected.

- Acceptance of a Buy It Now bid means the user who placed that bid is the winner, and the auction is won.

- If the seller specifies their PayPal address, Buy It Now bids may only be placed by direct PayPal payment; in this case, the bid is always accepted when the PayPal payment is made.

 

Offers

- Offers less than the minimum offer will not be accepted by the system.

- Offers may be retracted at any point before they are accepted by the seller.

- Offers are legally binding and irrevocable once accepted by the seller.

 

Refunds

- Listing fees will be refunded as required by Sitepaw's discretion.

 

Sitepaw's Role

Sitepaw does not enter into monetary transactions or business dealings between marketplace buyers and sellers. Sitepaw is a neutral facilitator only, and will not be responsible for the failure of either party to follow through with their obligations, agreed or otherwise.

The content of a marketplace listing is the responsibility of the respective sellers including compliance with all laws and not engaging in misleading and/or deceptive conduct and therefore Sitepaw is not liable for any violations of rights of a third party, in particular intellectual property rights, trade mark rights, and copyright resulting from a marketplace listing. Sitepaw reserves the right to remove any listing, bid, offer or comment from the system at its own discretion.