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General Terms and Conditions
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Zebralens.com is owned and run by Zebras Ltd (F44c Waterfront Studios, Dock Road, London E16 1AH), referred to below as Zebralens.
DEFINITIONS
By placing bids at Zebralens.com, you ("participant, "customer",
"user", "bidder", "visitor", "auction winner")
agree to enter an agreement with Zebralens and accept the following terms and
conditions, which are subject to revision by Zebralens.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCOUNT MEMBERSHIP
Auction participants and Zebralens Ltd members must be at least 18 years of
age, or of lawful age in the country of residence, whichever is older. Should
you be a minor, you relinquish the right to purchase auction items/services
for the lowest unique bid. Any attempts to register more than one account per
physical person will result in immediate bed suspension and/or deletion.
1 - PRIVACY
1.1 Privacy. Zebralens takes your privacy seriously, and values the trust that you have shown by sharing your personal information with us during registration. In return, Zebralens policy is to never share your information with affiliates or partners without your consent.
1.2 Consent. Zebralens has many great deals, and if you appreciate offers, rebates, and news that are custom-tailored for your personal tastes and interests you may choose to allow Zebralens to share your personal information with its affiliates. During registration and under "Member Settings", you may decide to actively consent to allow Zebralens to share your personal information with our partners.
1.3 Zebralens Newsletters and Offers. Zebralens reserves the right to send information about its services and offers to customers who have placed bids, registered to receive the Zebralens newsletter, or opened an account at Zebralens.com. Members may at any time choose to unsubscribe (or "opt-out") to any of these marketing send-outs, either through their member settings or by contacting Zebralens support www.zebralens.com.
2 - LOWEST UNIQUE BID AUCTIONS
2.1 Rights to Bid. Participants may bid on any number or all of the ongoing auctions until they are closed. Every auction closes at a set time and date disclosed on our web site.
2.2 Bid Amounts. Bids can only place in whole British pence (for instance, 7 pounds and 23 pence, and not 7 pounds and 23.5 pence). As such, bids can be placed from £1.50 and upwards. The auction item is sold for the lowest unique bid at the end of the auction. In case of international auctions, where bids are placed from different countries, the item is sold for the lowest unique number in the currency of the country that the winning bidder is registered to.
2.3 Valid Bid Registration. Incoming bids are valid once they are registered at Zebralens. The bid is not valid at the time when it is sent from the bidder's computer. Typically, the bid is registered within one day after it is sent from the user, but in some rare cases, bidders may experience connection problems with the Internet service provider. These connection problems may result in a delay between the time the bid is/are submitted by the bidder and the time it is received by Zebralens. In order for the bid to be valid during an auction, it has to be registered with Zebralens at the designated closing time for each auction. When a bid is registered, the bidder receives a confirmation via e-mail. If a customer requests an interval bid just before the end of an auction, the customer acknowledges that it could be so that only some, not all ,of the requested bids may be processed, in ascending order, until the time runs out.
2.4 Limits of Liability. Zebralens is not responsible for a customer's ability to participate, or if a customer is seriously hindered in any way which is beyond Zebralens control. This includes, without exceptions: erroneous, incomplete, terminated, delayed or in any other way lost information caused by your computer equipment, your computer program, or other technical equipment used to place your bids. Nor is Zebralens responsible for technical in operability of telephone service providers, equipment for telephone traffic, errors in the Internet, online systems, computer equipment of the ISP, failed or incomplete e-mail functionality with Zebralens, technical problems with your connection, high traffic load on the Internet or web site, and/or a combination of the above-stated. This also applies to any damage or fault which can occur on your and/or someone else's computer equipment, computer program and/or stored data as a result of participating in Zebralens.com. Zebralens is not responsible for changes in legislation affecting the auction or how the auction is carried out in a state of war, natural disaster or if other similar occurrences should occur. The customer is expressingly aware of and consents to that Zebralens is not liable for any direct or indirect damage, including delay of or inability to use the service, loss of income, goodwill, data or other economic loss due to: use of or inability to use the service; cost of acquiring replacement products or services due to products, services or information given through using the service; unauthorized use of or change of the service or the customer's data..
2.6 Lowest Unique Bidder. The person who at the end of the auction has placed the lowest unique bid is the winner of the auction. The lowest unique bid refers to the act of placing the lowest bid along with being the only one to place the bid in question. Zebralens.com continuously identifies the lowest unique bid and also keeps the relevant individuals informed about the status of the bid and other relations to this bid, subject to the limits of liability stated above. In the extreme rare case of no bid being unique, Zebralens.com automatically calculates the lowest number/amount carrying solely two bids. The first person to have placed the bid in question will then win the auction. If no lowest unique number can be found using only two bids, the lowest unique number using three bids will be calculated and so on according to the aforementioned procedure.
2.7 Product Descriptions. Zebralens is not responsible for the item descriptions on Zebralens.com, and they are subject to revision at any time. The published market values are basic estimates made by Zebralens, and may be different due to the nature of commerce and ever-changing prices.
2.8 Bonus offers. A bonus amount, i.e. an amount which exceeds the actual amount
being debited when members make deposits to their account, can only be used
to participate in the current auctions at Zebralens, and can in no other way
be used or reclaimed in the form of payment or compensation otherwise.
Bonus offers given to Zebralens customers may only be used once per person/member/individual
and for one account deposit, if applicable. All bonus offers are subject to
the terms and conditions specified at the time of the offer. Zebralens reserves
the right to take appropriate action, which may include immediate account deactivation
without refund, towards any users abusing bonus offers. Potential offers that
describe percentual deposit gains can only be used for one deposit, at one single
time, for each campaign and user.
2.9 Account Balance Withdrawals. If a member wishes to have a certain balance, which has previously been deposited at Zebralens, repaid in the form of balance on a bidding account, the member will be charged an administrative fee of 4.5% of the full account balance or £ 20, whichever is higher. This fee covers handling, administrative and international transaction fees between Zebralens and the member. The member also waives any claim to potential bonus amounts in the account that are linked to the amount being paid back, and these bonuses will be deducted from the account prior to the calculation of the administrative fee.
3 - AUCTION WINNERS
3.1 Auction Winner Notification. Zebralens contacts the winner, as defined under "Lowest unique bidder", and sends an invoice covering the winning bid and the shipping costs. If the invoice is not paid in time, the winner of the auction will lose the opportunity to purchase the item/service for the winning bid. Auction winners are responsible for inspecting all products immediately upon delivery and report any problems to Zebralens Customer Support within 14 days after delivery.
3.2 Delivery. Items are normally delivered 1-3 weeks after the wining photo shoot. In rare cases there may be delays from the photo printer that prevents Zebralens from delivering the item to the winner within 4 weeks, and in these cases Zebralens pledges to notify the customer of the delay and explain the circumstances. All items are delivered by courier, to the address specified in the winner's account.
3.3 Product Warranty. Items sold on Zebralens.com typically come with the manufacturer's
warranty, which obviously vary by manufacturer. Although Zebralens is happy
to assist the customer in correcting any issues with defections products, the
company does not offer any explicit product warranties.
In case there are any faults with the received item(s), please contact www.zebralens.com.
The customer will then be given the option to return the goods for inspection.
If the fault of the product is covered by the manufacturer's warranty, Zebralens
will assist the customer in acquiring a brand new product from the manufacturer.
3.4 Product Refunds. An auction winner has the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days, provided that the product is unused and unopened. If the customer wishes to cancel the purchase of an auction item, the customer should contact Zebralens.com and either send the item to us, or deliver them to a specific address.
3.5 Contact Information. When placing a bid, the customer agrees to provide a telephone number that Zebralens can use to contact the customer at the time of the auction close in the case that the customer has placed the lowest unique bid. Aside from a telephone number, the customer may also provide Zebralens with other contact details including, but not limited to,address and gender when opening an account. As stated under "Privacy", Zebralens adheres to applicable privacy laws and has policies in place that this information will not be shared with third parties without the member's expressed consent.
3.6 Publication of auction winners. Zebralens has the right to contact the winner after the end of an auction and publish information about the winner. All winners of items worth £ 300 or more are obligated to submit a picture and full name to Zebralens for publication on Zebralens.com. In order to provide its members and the public with transparency in regards to auction winners, Zebralens has the right to forward auction winners' contact information to relevant media, individuals, and Zebralen's certified accounting firm.
4 - USER CODE OF CONDUCT
Zebralens.com users agree to not involve themselves in any of the following
activities:
" Provide false or wrongful information.
" Register more than one account.
" Attempt to use Zebralens.com and its functionality's in any way that
it is not meant to be used.
" Knowingly submit bids with the intent to not pay the full price for them.
If a user wins an auction, Zebralens may reserve the right to confirm that all
bids have been appropriately paid for before delivering the auction item.
" Violate Zebralens trademarks or copyrights.
" Plant, distribute or use viruses, Trojan Horses, worms, spiders, or any
other potentially harmful software.
5 - RIGHTS RESERVED
Zebralens reserves the right to modify the above-stated conditions at any time.
Contact:
F44c Waterfront Studios. 1 Dock Road. London. E16 1AH. Information: Tel: 020 75112333. Accounts: Tel: 020 75112501
Zebralens lowest unique bid auctions differ from regular auctions in that lowest and unique bid wins the auction. Bids can only be placed in whole pence, and the goal is to place low bids that are unique when the auction ends. For each bid that you in place. Zebralens gives you one of the following three responses:
1. Your bid is the lowest unique bid. If the bid maintains this status, meaning that no bidder places a bid on the same amount, you will win the auction when it ends.
2. Your bid is unique. but not the lowest. To win the auction, all bids that are lower and unique must be knocked-out of the auction by either you or another bidder the same amount.
3. Your bid is unfortunately not unique. Amounts that receive several bids cannot win the auction.
4. If your bid is the lowest unique at the end of auction you get the right to buy the auction item for that bid, which almost always is a fraction of what the item would otherwise have you cost you. Bid and win
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