Marketplace rules
Last updated 2026-08-28.
Members sell and swap books with each other here. This page is the whole of what you agree to when you list one: what may not be listed, what happens when someone reports a listing, and what to do if yours comes down. It sits under the site's terms, which cover everything else.
What may not be listed
Each rule below is one of the reasons a member can pick when reporting a listing, so this list is not a summary of the policy — it is the policy, in the same words a moderator sees when the report reaches the queue.
List only what you actually have, and send it Scam or fraud
Do not list a book you do not hold, cannot ship, or do not intend to send. Taking payment and not posting the book is the report moderators act on fastest, and it is the one that ends an account rather than a listing.
Genuine printings only Counterfeit
Publisher-printed books only. Bootleg omnibuses, print-on-demand copies of an out-of-print edition and printed scanlations are not listable here however plainly they are described — the catalog entry your listing attaches to is a real printing, and a reproduction sold against it misrepresents itself by sitting there.
It has to be yours to sell Stolen goods
List only books you own and are free to pass on. Review, press and promotional copies marked not for resale belong here too.
Nothing you cannot legally sell Prohibited item
If selling or posting it is restricted where you or the buyer live, it does not go on the marketplace. That covers recalled items and anything whose sale needs a licence you do not hold. This is a marketplace for physical printed books, so a download code or a reading-service account is not listable either — there is nothing to ship and nothing to inspect on arrival.
Adult comics are fine; adult listing photos are not Obscene content
Adult and erotic comics are part of the medium and may be listed. The line is the listing itself: your photographs appear in a browse grid and on an edition page to everyone, signed in or not, so photograph the spine or the shrink-wrap rather than explicit interior art. Material that is illegal to distribute is not listable in any form.
Grade honestly and photograph the actual copy Not as described
The condition you pick and the notes you write are the promise the buyer is paying against. Say what is wrong with it — remainder mark, cracked spine, price sticker, a shrink-wrap you have not opened — and photograph the copy in your hands rather than the catalog cover. Most disputes here are a grade nobody argued with until the parcel arrived.
Anything else Something else
The reasons above are what the report form offers by name; a report can also be filed as something else. If a listing of yours is taken down for something that is not written on this page, that is worth telling us — the outcome is either a rule published here or a listing put back.
What happens when a listing is reported
- The listing stays live. A report queues your listing for a person to look at; it does not hide it. Nothing is automatic, and no number of reports delists a book on its own — otherwise a throwaway account could delist anything it wanted to.
- A human decides. A moderator either dismisses the report or takes the listing down. We may show them a machine-written summary of the report to help them read it, but that summary can never hide, delist or resolve anything by itself.
- You are not told who reported you. A reporter's identity stays with the moderators.
- Repeat reports do not stack. One open report per person per listing, and a takedown closes every open report against that listing at once.
What a takedown does
A removed listing leaves browse, the edition pages and its own detail page together, and it stays down: a takedown is not something you can undo by editing the listing or re-saving it. That is deliberate — a removal the removed party can reverse is worse than no removal at all, because it looks like it worked.
A takedown applies to the listing, not to your account. Your shelf, messages, feedback and other listings are untouched. Repeatedly listing things that get removed, or anything under scam or fraud, is where an account itself is at risk.
If you think a takedown was wrong
Say so, and a person will look again. There is no appeal form yet — use the feedback board or the Discord, and say which listing it was. Two things are worth knowing before you do: a listing removed for a rule that is not written on this page should be put back, and if the rule is genuinely one we enforce, it gets written here rather than argued twice.
Money, fees and tax
- The site holds no money. There is no checkout here, no escrow and no payout. You and the other member settle between yourselves, by whatever means you both agree to.
- There is no fee. Listing is free and we take no cut of a sale, because no payment passes through the site to take a cut of.
- That also means there is no buyer protection. No chargeback, no held funds, no refund we can force. The reputation shown beside a member is the only leverage either side has, which is exactly why grading honestly matters more here than on a platform that holds the money.
- Tax is yours. Whatever you owe on what you sell is between you and your tax authority; the site reports nothing and withholds nothing.
What the marketplace keeps about you
Your listings and public wants, photographs you uploaded for a listing, completed transactions and the feedback attached to them, and any giveaway entries.
Why: To run the member-to-member marketplace and give both sides a record of a trade.
How long: Live listings and public wants are withdrawn when the account is deleted. A completed transaction and its feedback are the counterparty's record and are kept.
The rows behind that, and whether each one comes down in your data export:
| What it is | In your download |
|---|---|
| Books you listed for sale or trade. | Downloadable |
| Prices you offered on someone's listing, and prices offered on yours, with the message sent alongside each one and how it was answered. Gathered through your conversations, so both directions come down rather than only the offers made to you. | Downloadable |
| Your physical stock copies, private SKUs and bin locations, reservation and sold history, seller presets, metrics, workflow samples and private health-check dismissals. | Downloadable |
| Marketplace searches you saved, and whether each one alerts you when a member lists a match. | Downloadable |
| A postal address you gave for a book to be shipped to you, one per trade. Shown to the member shipping that book and to nobody else, never on a listing, and deleted with your account. | Downloadable |
| Books you publicly asked for, with the price you offered. A current public want comes down with your listings; older records from before the June 2026 marketplace redesign are not wired into the download yet. | Not wired into the download yet |
| Trades you completed, as buyer or as seller. Transactions are keyed by listing, not by member, so gathering yours needs an index the site does not have yet -- which is also why no page shows you them. | Not wired into the download yet |
| Feedback you left on a trade, and feedback left about you. Keyed by transaction, so it waits on the same missing per-member index. | Not wired into the download yet |
| Photographs you uploaded for a listing. | Not wired into the download yet |
| Giveaways you entered, and how each entry resolved. | Not wired into the download yet |
| A giveaway you ran. The giveaway is a public listing on the site and the creator stamp is part of it. | Not in the download |
| Half-finished listing drafts and session scaffolding; the listings they became are in the download. | Not in the download |
| A claim ticket linking you to a trade. The trade itself is in the download and carries the same facts. | Not in the download |
| Price points behind the market-history charts. The link to your account is dropped when the account is deleted. | Not in the download |
This table is generated from the same declarations the privacy page is built from, so the two cannot disagree about the same rows. What deleting your account erases — and what it cannot, because a completed trade is the other member's record too — is set out there.
Changes
These rules change as the marketplace does, and the date at the top moves when they do. Continuing to list after a change means accepting the new version.