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A Fair Marketplace Starts with Honest Behaviour

Our marketplace brings buyers and sellers together to trade car parts safely, fairly, and with confidence.

Everyone using the Car Parts Marketplace is expected to act honestly, communicate respectfully, and provide accurate information.

Sellers must describe their parts truthfully, upload genuine images, provide correct vehicle compatibility details, and fulfil orders as promised. Buyers must provide accurate order information, use the dispute process responsibly, and avoid making false claims.

Fraud, fake listings, spam, dishonest reviews, payment abuse, and attempts to mislead another user are not allowed.

These standards apply across product listings, orders, account messages, payments, disputes, reviews, uploaded evidence, and all other activity connected to the marketplace.

The platform separates buyers, sellers, and administrators into clearly defined roles. Buyers can manage orders and disputes, sellers can manage listings and fulfilment, and administrators can review marketplace activity when intervention is required.

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The Standards Every Member Must Follow

Simple rules that help buyers find the right parts and help genuine sellers build trust.

Be Honest

Provide complete and truthful information about your identity, products, orders, payments, deliveries, and complaints.

Be Accurate

Check product details, vehicle compatibility, quantities, prices, shipping information, and delivery addresses before submitting them.

Be Respectful

Communicate professionally. Threats, harassment, abusive language, discrimination, and repeated unwanted messages are not acceptable.

Use the Platform Responsibly

Do not misuse listings, messages, reviews, disputes, payment tools, or support services to pressure, deceive, or harm another person.

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What Happens When a Rule Is Broken

Reports are reviewed using the available account, listing, order, payment, message, and dispute information.

Submit a Report

Report the relevant product, account, order, message, review, or transaction. Include a clear explanation and any supporting evidence.

Useful information may include:

  • Order number
  • Product listing
  • Seller or buyer name
  • Screenshots of messages
  • Tracking information
  • Images or videos
  • Payment or receipt details
  • Description of what happened

Marketplace Review

The marketplace may review account history, listing information, payment activity, order records, messages, uploaded evidence, delivery updates, and previous reports.

During the review, users may be asked to provide further information or respond to a concern.

Protective Action

Where necessary, the marketplace may temporarily:

  • Hide or archive a listing
  • Restrict account activity
  • Pause an order or payment
  • Hold a seller payout
  • Limit messaging
  • Mark a dispute for review
  • Request identity or ownership verification

The project already supports seller states such as pending, approved, rejected, and suspended, as well as product states including draft, published, and archived. It also uses formal dispute statuses for open, under-review, resolved, and closed cases.

Decision and Enforcement

Depending on the seriousness and frequency of the behaviour, action may include:

  • Education or a formal warning
  • Listing correction
  • Listing removal
  • Order cancellation
  • Refund or payment release
  • Account restrictions
  • Temporary suspension
  • Permanent account removal
  • Blocking of related accounts
  • Referral to a payment provider, delivery carrier, brand owner, or relevant authority where appropriate

Enforcement decisions should consider the available evidence, the effect on other users, previous behaviour, and whether the conduct appears accidental, negligent, repeated, or deliberate.

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Keep Reviews Honest and Useful

Reviews should reflect a genuine marketplace experience and help other members make informed decisions.

Reviews Must Be Genuine

A review should be based on a real order or genuine interaction with the buyer or seller being reviewed.

Reviews Must Be Relevant

Focus on the product condition, listing accuracy, communication, dispatch, delivery, packaging, and overall order experience.

Reviews Must Not Be Manipulated

Users must not offer refunds, discounts, free products, money, or other benefits in exchange for a particular rating.

Where reviews are available, the following are not allowed:

  • Reviewing your own account, shop, or product
  • Using friends, employees, relatives, or additional accounts to create ratings
  • Asking for a positive review before resolving an order issue
  • Threatening a negative review to demand money or special treatment
  • Posting repeated reviews about the same transaction
  • Including personal information, abusive language, or unrelated claims
  • Coordinating false reviews against another seller or buyer
  • Copying reviews from another website or marketplace

A seller may politely ask a buyer to leave an honest review, but must not tell the buyer what rating or wording to use.

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Activity That Is Not Allowed

The following behaviour can result in listing removal, account restrictions, payment review, suspension, or permanent removal from the marketplace.

Fraud and Identity Misuse

Do not use false identities, stolen information, unauthorised cards, fake documents, or another person’s account. Do not create accounts to impersonate a buyer, seller, business, or marketplace employee.

Fake or Misleading Listings

Do not advertise parts that do not exist, are not available, or are materially different from the listing. Product images, brands, condition, specifications, and compatibility details must not mislead buyers.

Counterfeit or Stolen Parts

Do not list counterfeit branded products, stolen vehicle parts, altered identification numbers, or goods obtained through illegal activity.

Payment Fraud

Do not use stolen payment methods, fake payment confirmations, fraudulent refund requests, chargeback abuse, or attempts to avoid marketplace fees.

Off-Platform Transactions

Do not pressure another user to complete payment outside the authorised checkout process to avoid fees, payment protection, transaction records, or marketplace review.

Spam and Unwanted Messages

Do not send repeated promotional messages, unrelated links, mass messages, suspicious attachments, or requests for personal information that are not needed to complete the order.

Review Manipulation

Do not buy, sell, trade, pressure, or reward someone for a positive or negative review. Do not review your own listings through another account or organise coordinated reviews.

False Disputes and Evidence

Do not submit fabricated complaints, altered photographs, unrelated videos, false tracking information, or misleading documents.

Harassment or Threats

Do not insult, intimidate, threaten, discriminate against, or repeatedly contact another member after being asked to stop.

Account and System Misuse

Do not attempt to bypass restrictions, access another user’s account, scrape private marketplace data, interfere with platform security, or exploit technical errors.