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Auction Terms
Project Wonderful provides the auction service to facilitate exchanges among its users. Items, such as advertising time, offered for auction through Project Wonderful are being sold by other users, not by Project Wonderful. Sellers and buyers are responsible for all aspects of the transactions in which they participate. All transactions must be consistent with any applicable legal rules and with Project Wonderful's guidelines and Terms of Service.
General Information on Using Project Wonderful.
Project Wonderful has limits that you should understand: Project Wonderful provides its service as a platform for our users to connect with one another. Project Wonderful does not screen or control users who may sell or bid on auction items, nor does Project Wonderful review or authenticate all auction listings or items offered for sale. Therefore, users of this service should be aware that:
- Sellers and buyers must be 18 years old or older.
- Sellers and buyers are completely responsible for working out the sale of goods. All sales are final, and there are no refunds.
- Sellers and buyers must resolve any disputes that may arise from auction transactions. It is important to use care throughout your dealings with other people in Project Wonderful.
- Sellers and buyers are responsible for researching and complying with any applicable laws, regulations or restrictions on items, or manner of sale or exchange, that may pertain to transactions in which they participate.
- Sellers and buyers are responsible for all applicable taxes and for all costs incurred by participating in Project Wonderful.
- Sellers and buyers may not create ads with content that is obscene, offensive, harmful to minors, invasive of anyone's privacy, or otherwise inappropriate. Furthermore, ad boxes may not be placed on web pages that include such content.
Rules for getting started: listing auctions.
- Compliance with applicable laws. You may not offer for sale or sell items to any buyer in a jurisdiction where the item or terms of the sale violate applicable laws or regulations.
- Clear and accurate information. You must accurately describe the item you are selling.
- Search integrity. You may not include any language in your listing, including in the listing description, which may confuse potential buyers or cause your listing to be included in search results to which it is not responsive. For example, if you are going to describe your item by stating what it is not, you may not include this information in the listing's description.
- Appropriate Tags. You must list your items usings tags that are not inappropriate to the item in question.
- Appropriate listing content. You may not link to, post images or other content, or include advertisements for goods or other matter that: (a) describe items that you are not selling in Project Wonderful, or (b) you do not have right to link to or include. You also may not include any content or images in your listings or bids that are obscene, offensive, harmful to minors, invasive of anyone's privacy, or otherwise inappropriate.
- Rights to and possession of items for auction. You may not offer any item for sale which is not in your possession, you do not have the right to sell, or that does not exist at the time of the auction.
- Spam. You may not spam Project Wonderful, including: (a) posting any listings that invite users to contact the seller to conduct sales transactions outside Project Wonderful or otherwise advertise within a listing; or (b) sending unsolicited commercial mailings to users of Project Wonderful.
Rules for Participating in Auctions: Selling and Bidding.
- Manipulation of service. You may not use or manipulate this service for any fraudulent activity or purpose.
- Disruption of service or auctions. You may not disrupt other auctions in progress or the Project Wonderful service. For example, you may not contact bidders in an auction being run by a different seller and then offer similar items or the same item at prices below the current bid.
- Manipulative bidding. Neither buyers or sellers, or any party acting on their behalf, may engage in manipulative bidding practices, including sellers bidding on their own auctions or bidders "bidding up" the highest bid in an auction so as to make other bidders retract their offers.
- Non-paying bidders. You should complete any auction transaction in which you are the winning bidder. Bidders should not place bids in multiple auctions for the same items unless they intend to buy all items on which they placed bids.
- Fraud. You may not use this service for any fraudulent purpose, including collecting payment from bidders and not providing the item purchased or filing false claims for insurance payments.
Other Important Rules.
- Other Rules Regarding Auctions. Additional rules for Project Wonderful are posted at various places within Project Wonderful. These rules may be subject to change without notice and in Project Wonderful's sole discretion.
Project Wonderful's Right To Terminate.
Project Wonderful, in its sole discretion, may terminate any auction or your Project Wonderful ID immediately and without notice if (a) Project Wonderful believes that you have acted inconsistently with the spirit or the letter of the Project Wonderful Terms of Service or the Project Wonderful Guidelines, or (b) Project Wonderful believes you have violated or tried to violate the rights of others. If your auction or account is terminated, any funds we've credited to your account may also be revoked. Your membership may be terminated if you do not use this service at least one time during a reasonable period of time (as determined by us) which shall not be less than six months. Please help us keep Project Wonderful an enjoyable and positive experience. If you see a listing that violates our rules, please let us know by contacting us.
Last update February 9th, 2007.
