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  1. Age. By using this site, you agree to be old enough to do so; old enough to form financial transactions with other adults. We do not do age verification. Parents should parent their own children.
  2. Bids. Before placing a bid, be certain about the item and the amount you wish to bid. Although bidding is possible from an item list, we recommend that you view the item and read its full detail. The seller is responsible for describing their item accurately. The buyer is responsible for studying the full detail of the listing. Once a bid is successfully entered, the seller can not edit the listing. However, they can withdraw it via deletion (see below).
    1. History. Bidding history is not stored. We only record the highest bidder, highest bid, and count the number of bids made on an item.
    2. Increment. Our bid increment is $0.01.
    3. Max. To protect buyers from entering typos or overbidding, we cap max bids at twice the minimum bid. However, if a buyer really wants to bid something up, then they may place successive bids.
  3. Currency. All prices are in US Dollars.
  4. Dates. Free eStores ℠ uses a YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format where YYYY is a 4-digit integer representing the year, MM is a 2-digit ineteger indicating the month, DD provides the day, hh is hour, mm is minutes, and ss is seconds.
  5. Donations. We welcome donations although they are totally not necessary. Our action site is free to our users.
  6. Free. What do we mean by free? Free means that the Free eStores website charges no fees such as the "insertion fees", "final value fees", and other fees charged by other online auction sites and services; it's free to use our site as a medium to transact auctions. There are no service limits or paid premium services. Every users enjoyes the same free use of our website. Of course, buyers must pay sellers for their items. And 3rd parties such as PayPal or credit cards may charge fees. Our Free eStores ℠ site has no influence or control over either of those.
  7. Illegal Activity. We do very little in the way of monitoring and assume no responsibility for the actions of our users. However, we urge everyone to follow all laws relevant to their place of residence regarding postings and tranactions made on this Free eStores ℠ website.
  8. Indemnity. Using Free eStores ℠ requires that you indemnify and hold us completely harmless from any and all claims or demands including our affiliates, agents, contractors, directors, employees, officers, subsidiaries, and suppliers.
  9. Items.
    1. Autorenewal. Auctioned items autorenew by default. However, members can turn autorenewal off.
    2. Brand. The item's make or brand such as Nike, LEGO, or Ford.
    3. Condition. New means brand new; still in the sealed box. Like new means from an opened box but never used.
    4. Deletion. Sellers may delete an item completely even if there are bids on it, but only before bidding has expired. If an item's listing closes with an active bid greater than the seller's reserve price, then the seller is obligated to provide the item at the agreed upon price.
    5. Delivery. Items can be shipped, picked up, or either meaning either shipped or picked up; or delivered as downloadable PDF files To determine their interest in an item, buyers should review the seller's delivery terms. If an item is delivered via electronic download or free shipping, then shipping is irrelevant and there is no cost to the buyer. If an item is delivered by local pickup, then usually the buyer would travel to the seller's location and pick up the item. So, this would happen at the buyer's cost including fuel / mileage to get there plus any trailer rental, etc. if needed for large items. If an item is delivered by paid shipping, the buyer should look at the seller's location, item dimensions, and weight, then estimate the shipping cost. This is easy to do. For example in the US, just visit the Post Office shipping cost calculator page, enter the item's information, and you'll have it. Items can be shipped COD. Or buyers can print a shipping label to PDF and email to the seller. It's up to the buyer to decide whether they want to insure the shipment. A delivery option of Either means either buyer-burdened option; either Paid Shipping or Local Pickup.
    6. Description. A detailed description of the item at least 20 characters long. HTML is allowed. Describe the item itself only. Do not link to or advertise for a separate website or company. Sellers must list complete descriptions of their items and divulge any known lack of function, intermittent function, damage, etc.
    7. Edit. Sellers can edit an item only if there have been no bids placed. One reason for this is to deter potential deceptive practices by disallowing a seller to change the terms of sale or item description after a bid has been placed. If a seller discovers mistakes in their description after bids have been placed, they may withdraw the auction by deleting the item completely.
    8. Gender. Indicates whether the item generally appeals strongly to one gender such as a mens tie or womans high-heeled shoes.
    9. Height. The item's height in inches in its shipped condition so inlcuding any packing material and box.
    10. Length. The item's length in inches in its shipped condition so inlcuding any packing material and box.
    11. Listed. When the item was listed; the auction start date and time. This is a required field. Sellers have some flexibility editing this date. One reason for this is so all of their listings synch-up and autorenew at the same time. If an item is listed for a future date, it will be viewable only by the seller as 'Scheduled'.
    12. Model. The item's model name or number.
    13. Pictures. Up to 5 pictures are allowed. The first (primary) picture is required. They should be of the actual item in its current condition; not stock photos, old photos from when the item was new, etc. Allowed formats include BMP, JPG, JPEG, and PNG being square in shape.
    14. Reserve Price. Sellers can't specify a reserve price. Your starting price should reflect the minimum you're willing to accept for an item.
    15. Returns. All auctions are final; no returns.
    16. Starting Price. The price at which bidding will begin and to the minimum a seller is willing to accept for their item. This field is required and is defined as including any fees and taxes such sales tax, handling fees, and packaging; but not shipping.
    17. Status.
      • Draft. Viewable only by the seller during its creation or editing.
      • Listed. Available to the public for sale.
      • Expired. Auction ended with no bids and was not autorenewed, or a fixed price item no longer offered for sale.
      • Won. Auction ended with at least one bid so was won by the highest bidder.
      • Payment Sent. The buyer paid for the item.
      • Payment Received. The seller acknowledged receipt of payment.
      • Shipment Sent. The seller shipped the item.
      • Shipment Received. The buyer acknowledges receipt of the item.
    18. Time Remaining. Time remaining until the auction ends.
    19. Title. A general description of the item. HTML is not allowed. Be as accurate and concise as possible.
    20. Type. Listings are either in an auction format or fixed price. For sellers that only have one of an item, we recommend that they list it in auction format because once it's sold the item's status will need to be changed to Expired so it no longer appears as an active item for sale. Fixed price sales are intended to support sellers who make their own items or who have large quantities of an item to sell.
    21. Views. Any time a user other than the item's seller, or anonymous visitor views the item's detailed listing is counted as a view.
    22. Watch. Because we only track the highest bidder, members interested in an active auction should watch it especially if they've bid on the item.
    23. Weight. The item's weight in pounds in its shipped state so inlcuding any packing material and box.
    24. Width. The item's width in inches in its shipped state so inlcuding any packing material and box.
    25. Wish. Members may create a wish list of items. This can be useful between friends and family to share birthday and holiday gift ideas.
    26. Year. The item's year of manufacture or model year.
  10. Members. These are the sellers and buyers who use Free eStores ℠ as an auctioneer to exchange items. Many members are both sellers and buyers.
    1. Deletions. Accounts may not be deleted. Member information is tied to items, and items are tied to financial transactions. We keep a record of transactions in case disputes arise and members request evidence from us.
    2. Email. Be careful to use your real address since it is used for password recovery. You Paypal address is preferred. Email addresses are kept private by us. However, when an item sells, the seller must share some information in order to receive payment for their item. Paypal generally requires the seller's email address or cell phone number.
    3. Follow. Members may follow each other. A member's followers and followees is viewable by others.
    4. ID. 5-20 characters being alphanumeric, dash, dot, or underscore. If you are new, choose your ID carefully. Members may edit their accounts, but not change their user ID's. This is because user ID's are used throughout our parent site for many purposes.
    5. Password. Passwords must be between 5 and 25 characters in length, and are member-editable.
    6. Reputation. Both buyers and sellers may rate the sales experience. The average of these ratings forms each member's reputation.
    7. Zip Code. Up to a 6-digit alphanumeric zip code for local pickup, shipping, or receiving. 5-digits for US; 6 for other countries. The zip code you provide will be viewable by the public. Contact us if you want to help get Free eStores ℠ launched in more countries.
  11. Money. Free eStores ℠ doesn't handle any monetary transactions nor do we store your financial information. This function is outsourced to PayPal.
  12. Notifications. As a condition of using Free eStores ℠, members implicitly agree to whitelist our domain (merschat.com), and receive notifications required for our site to function properly including to the:
    1. Autorenewal. Seller when any of their item listings autorenew. It's important sellers know this in case they sell the item through another channel.
    2. Deletion. Buyer when a sellers deletes a listed item for which they are the highest bidder. Sellers may do this before the auction expires but not after. The reason we allow this is in case the item is sold through another channel, lost, stolen, damaged, etc. while the auction is underway.
    3. Payment Sent. Seller when a buyer indicates that payment for an item has been sent.
    4. Sale. Seller when their auctioned items receives a bid greater than their starting price to indicate its time to pack and prepare the item for shipping to or receipt by the buyer. Sellers should check their item over one last time; make sure it's in the best possible condition for presentation to their buyer. If the item is being shipped, then this would be the time to pack the item as-needed to protect it from damage. Even if several days remain before the auction ends, sellers know it will sell so why not prepare early? However, sellers should wait until the auction ends, and payment is received before shipping their item.
    5. Win. Highest bidder within an hour after an auction's expiriation to indicate they've won the item and need to make payment.
  13. Personal Information. The minimal information stored by Free eStores ℠ is used for the sole purpose of website operations. We never sell any of your information to anybody for any reason.
  14. Pornography and Profanity. Neither is welcome here as they have nothing to do with the purpose of this site. We have no section for "adult" material. If we receive complaints about a user posting pornography or profanity, the material may be deleted and the account most likely cancelled.
  15. Term. All auctions are 7 calendar days starting when the listing is made.

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