User Agreements, Terms and Conditions
The following describes the terms on which BigBox Hobbies offers you access to our services.
Welcome to BigBox Hobbies. By using BigBox Hobbies, you agree to the following terms with BigBox Hobbies. This Agreement is effective on June 12, 2010 for current users, and upon acceptance for new users.
Before you may become a member of BigBox Hobbies, you must read and accept all of the terms in, and linked to, this User Agreement and the BigBox
Hobbies Privacy Policy. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also access and read the linked information. By accepting
this User Agreement, you agree that this User Agreement will apply whenever you use BigBox Hobbies sites or services, or when you use the
tools we make available to interact with BigBox Hobbies sites and services.
Using BigBox Hobbies
While using BigBox Hobbies sites, services and tools, you will not:
- post content or items in an inappropriate category or areas on our sites and services;
- violate any laws, third party rights or our policies, such as the Prohibited and Restricted Items policies;
- use our sites, services or tools if you are not able to form legally binding contracts or are temporarily or indefinitely suspended from using our sites, services or tools;
- fail to deliver payment for items purchased by you, unless the seller has materially changed the item's description after you bid, a clear typographical error is made, or you cannot authenticate the seller's identity;
- fail to deliver items purchased from you, unless the buyer fails to meet the posted terms, or you cannot authenticate the buyer's identity;
- manipulate the price of any item or interfere with other users' listings;
- circumvent or manipulate our fee structure, the billing process, or fees owed to BigBox Hobbies;
- post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, or libelous content (including personal information);
- take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of the sites or using it for purposes unrelated to BigBox Hobbies);
- transfer your BigBox Hobbies account (including feedback) and User ID to another party without our consent;
- distribute or post spam, unsolicited, or bulk electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
- distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm BigBox Hobbies, or the interests or property of BigBox Hobbies users;
- export or re-export any BigBox Hobbies tools except in compliance with the export control laws of any relevant jurisdictions;
- copy, modify or distribute rights or content from the BigBox Hobbies sites, service or tools or BigBox Hobbies's copyrights and trademarks; or
- harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, without their consent.
Abusing BigBox Hobbies
BigBox Hobbies and the Community work together to keep our sites and services working properly and the Community safe. Please report problems, offensive content, and policy violations to us.
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit, suspend or terminate our
service and user accounts, prohibit access to our sites and their content,
services and tools, delay or remove hosted content, and take technical and
legal steps to keep users off the sites if we think that they are creating
problems or possible legal liabilities, infringing the intellectual
property rights of third parties, or acting inconsistently with the letter
or spirit of our policies (for example, and without limitation, policies
related to shill bidding, conducting off-BigBox Hobbies transactions,
feedback manipulation, circumventing temporary or permanent suspensions or
users who we believe are harassing our employees or other users).
Additionally, we may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion,
suspend or terminate accounts of users who may be repeat infringers of
intellectual property rights of third parties. We also reserve the right
to cancel unconfirmed accounts or accounts that have been inactive for a
long time, or to modify or discontinue BigBox Hobbies sites, services or
tools.
Limitation of Liability
You will not hold BigBox Hobbies responsible for other users' content,
actions or inactions, items they list or their destruction of allegedly
fake items. You acknowledge that we are not a traditional auctioneer.
Instead, our sites are venues to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy just
about anything coin-related, at anytime, from anywhere, in a variety of
pricing formats and locations, such as stores, fixed price formats and
auction-style formats. We are not involved in the actual transaction
between buyers and sellers. While we may help facilitate the resolution of
disputes through various programs, we have no control over and do not
guarantee the quality, safety or legality of items advertised, the truth
or accuracy of users' content or listings, the ability of sellers to sell
items, the ability of buyers to pay for items, or that a buyer or seller
will actually complete a transaction or return an item. For certain
categories, a bid or offer initiates a non-binding transaction
representing a buyer's serious expression of interest in buying the
seller's item and does not create a formal contract between the buyer and
the seller.
We do not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer.
Further, we cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our sites,
services or tools, and operation of our sites, services or tools may be
interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Accordingly,
to the extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms
and conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill or
reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages arising,
directly or indirectly, out of your use of or your inability to use our
sites, services and tools.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.
Waiver and Release of Liability
If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our
officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees,
founders and co-founders) from claims, demands and damages (actual and
consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of
or in any way connected with such disputes. If you are a California
resident, you waive California Civil Code §1542, which says: "A general
release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or
suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which
if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the
debtor." You also waive any similar Civil Codes in your State of
residency.
If there is an unexpected outage, database crash, loss of information or
any problems with our website design and operations, you release us (and
our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees,
founders and co-founders) from claims, demands and damages (actual and
consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of
or in any way connected with such disputes.
Access and Interference
The sites may contain exclusion robot headers. Much of the information on
the sites is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary or is
licensed to BigBox Hobbies by our users or third parties. You agree that
you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to
access the sites for any purpose without our express hand written
permission.
Additionally, you agree that you will not:
take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, or publicly display any content (except for your information) from the sites without the prior express written permission of BigBox Hobbies and the appropriate third party, as applicable;
interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the sites, services or tools, or any activities conducted on or with the sites, services or tools; or
bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the sites.
Listing Conditions
By listing an item on BigBox Hobbies's sites, you agree to pay BigBox
Hobbies's fees for such, assume full responsibility for the content of the
listing and item offered, and accept the following listing conditions:
When you list an item on BigBox Hobbies's sites, your listing will be
posted on BigBox Hobbies's sites and can be viewed in My BigBox Hobbies.
Your listing may not be immediately searchable by keyword or category for
several hours (or up to 24 hours in some circumstances), so BigBox Hobbies
can't guarantee exact listing durations. Where your listing appears in
search and browse results may be based on certain factors including
listing format, title, bidding activity, end time, keywords, price and
shipping cost, feedback, and detailed seller ratings. You can read more
about where your listings appear in search and browse results in BigBox
Hobbies's Help or Guide Pages.
Privacy
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for
their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We use your
information only as described in the BigBox Hobbies Privacy Policy. We
view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle.
We store and process your information on computers located in the United
States that are protected by physical as well as technological security
devices. You can access and modify the information you provide us and
choose not to receive certain communications by signing-in to your
account. If you object to your information being transferred or used in
this way please do not use our services.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents,
subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees, founders or co-founders) harmless
from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by
any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement, or
your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
No Agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.
Prohibited Activities
You may not use the PayPal and BigBox Hobbies service for activities that:
- violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation related to sales of (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (e) items that are considered obscene, (f) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (g) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (h) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, (i) certain weapons or knives regulated violate under applicable law;
- violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation related to transactions that (a) show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law, (b) support pyramid or ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs, (c) are associated with purchases of real property, annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card, (d) are for the sale of certain items before the seller has control or possession of the item, (e) are by payment processors to collect payments on behalf of merchants, (f) are associated with the following Money Service Business activities: the sale of traveler's checks or money orders, currency exchanges or check cashing, (g) provide certain credit repair or debt settlement services;
- involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent;
- violate applicable laws or industry regulations regarding the sale of (a) tobacco products, or (b) prescription drugs and devices; or
- involve gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not it is legally defined as a lottery) and sweepstakes unless the operator has obtained prior approval from PayPal and the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.