Our vision is to build a trustworthy community where you should treat other people the way you'd want to be treated. It's a little cliche, but a site like this just won't work if it's anything else.
If you see your auctions disappear or your credit balances go down it's most likely because Listia has deleted one of your auctions. We reserve the right to delete any auctions containing or related to these items without notice. We reserve the right to delete auctions that appear to be illegal, fake, fraudulent, incomplete or duplicates at our discretion. We also reserve the right to delete any auctions that we deem inappropriate for Listia without notice or explanation. Violating these rules will result in a temporary suspension and repeated violation rules may result in a premanent account suspension.
Cigarettes & tobacco
Drugs
Alcohol
Pornographic material
Food
Used cosmetics and makeup
Used underwear and swimwear
Expired goods
Firearms, weapons, knives over 2" & explosives
Livestock, pets & animals
Currency or offers to pay the winner
Prepaid credit cards (or money gift cards) from American Express, Discover, MasterCard, or Visa
Magazines or newspapers
Coupons (anything with "$x off $y", "buy x get y free" or requiring a minimum purchase)
Non-Transferrable vouchers or checks
Discount or promo codes
Contests, Sweepstakes, Lotteries and Raffles
Classified ads
Services
Links to outside sites
Invite codes to illegal sites or to sites that are readily available. We may limit invite codes to certain sites based on our discretion
Electronic downloads of any kind (MP3 files, digital photos, electronic books, pdf files, etc.)
Software CD Keys, serial numbers & licenses
Credit cards
Replicas, fakes, counterfeit items, and unauthorized copies
User accounts to other sites
Intangible goods, trash, and other items that Listia deems unsuitable for the site
Mis-represeneted items
Multiple Identical or Very Similar Items (more than 2)
Please make sure to specify shipping costs and any related service charges in your listings. It's against our rules to provide unclear or misleading shipping information or to charge unreasonable fees for shipping and related services. This also applies to total shipping charges when providing combined shipping across multiple auctions.
If you specify Free Shipping for your auction, it must be unconditional. This means that you cannot add conditions within your auction for shipping to be free.
If you accept PayPal for shipping charges, you cannot require that users pay using the "personal" or "gift" payment option. This is because those options do not allow buyers to request refunds from PayPal if anything happens.
Auctions that do not adhere to these rules may be removed or refunded if they have already ended. If you spot an auction with misleading or excessive shipping charges, please report them to us by clicking the "flag" link.
You may only charge for:
Actual shipping cost (exact amount charged by the shipper)
Handling cost (packaging, materials, gas, insurance, etc.)
Delivery confirmation and extra services (tracking, signature, etc.)
Taxes and government fees
Even though Listia uses credits instead of cash we take fraud very seriously. The following actions are prohibited and may result in suspension. Credits obtained from these actions may be taken away without notice.
A single user signing up for multiple accounts
Creating more than one account on a computer
Creating more than two accounts per household
Shill bidding (when sellers or someone they know places a bid on their auction to drive the price up)
Winning your own auction using separate accounts
Harassing other members through the message system, personal e-mail or any other system
Using hateful language or excessive profanity on the site or in messages
Hacking or exploiting the web site
Mis-representing your auctions and items
Accumulating credits fraudulently or unfairly
Promoting your referral link via SPAM
Violations of any of our policies may result in one or more of the following. If you have any questions about our policies or your account please email us here
Listing deletion
Account suspension
Partial activity suspension
Forfeit of promotional account credits
Loss of account privileges
Users can be suspended from using certain parts of the site such as commenting and bidding on auctions as well as listing auctions. Display of inappropriate behavior on the site can lead to these suspensions without warning. Users will be notified via email with the details of their suspension.
