Legal Notices
Last Amended on Sept. 18, 2008
Untitled Document
Account Agreement
This document contains important information regarding the terms and conditions which govern your account with thePit.com, Inc., hereinafter referred to as "thePit.com." Your access to and use of your account and thePit.com services are subject to your compliance with all the terms and conditions set forth in this Account Agreement.
You understand that access to and your use of your account constitutes your consent to and agreement to abide by the terms and conditions of the Account Agreement. thePit.com may at any time revise these terms and conditions by updating the Account Agreement. You agree to be bound by subsequent revisions and agree to review the Account Agreement periodically for changes to the terms and conditions of the Account Agreement. The most up to date version of the Account Agreement will always be available for your review on the website.
In this Agreement, "you" and "your" refer to the individuals, corporations or parties who are the account holders, have an interest in the account(s) and sign this Account Agreement. "thePit.com" refers to thePit.com., Inc., its employees, representatives, officers, directors, agents, successors and assigns. The "website" refers to www.thepit.com.
You represent and warrant that the information you supply in your new account documentation requested by thePit.com and provided by you is accurate and truthful.
In consideration of thePit.com accepting and maintaining an account for you, you hereby understand, consent, and agree to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- Transaction Decisions. Your account with thePit.com is self-directed. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any and all orders placed in your account. Any investment or trading decisions you make are unsolicited, done at your sole discretion, and at your own risk. You further understand that while you may be able to access news stories, market reports, analysis reports, research reports, and other data from the website, no such information constitutes a recommendation from thePit.com to buy or sell any of the cards listed on the website.
- Representation as to Capacity to Enter into Agreement. You represent that you have the required legal capacity and that you are of the required legal age (i.e., eighteen years of age) to enter into this Agreement and that no one except you has any interest in your account with us.
- Purchase of Sports Cards. To execute an order to purchase cards, thePit.com requires that your account contain buying power equal to or greater than the purchase price of the cards and any and all applicable commissions and/or fees prior to trade date. Any order inadvertently accepted and executed without sufficient funds in the account will be subject to cancellation or liquidation at thePit.com's discretion. If an order is processed and inadvertently physically delivered to you when full funds are not available in your account, your payment must be promptly submitted to thePit.com. You are responsible for all of your orders, including any orders which exceed available funds in your account.
You understand there may be occasions when thePit.com cannot ship cards you have ordered from the website, even if such an order has been executed, because a seller has defaulted on a transaction and/or thePit.com is unable to acquire the card[s]. In these instances, thePit.com will refund your account the purchase price you paid at the time your buy order was executed plus applicable commissions.
- Sales of Sports Cards. When thePit.com executes your order to sell cards that are in your account with thePit.com, thePit.com immediately credits your account with the appropriate funds (sale price minus applicable commissions and fees). While thePit.com will execute an order to sell cards which you have not yet deposited in your account, thePit.com must physically receive such cards in proper deliverable condition within 5 days (excluding Sundays) of the date such order was executed. You are responsible for a fee of $25 and five percent (5%) of the sell price at the time of execution and any additional losses or expenses incurred by thePit.com as a result of your failure to make such timely delivery, including but not limited to losses suffered as a result of increases in market value. thePit.com will collect such fees from the credit card number you place on file with thePit.com before you are able to place an order. You further understand thePit.com may halt any and all trading activity of your account if you fail to make timely delivery. Proceeds of the sale cannot be paid to you until the card(s) have been received by thePit.com in proper deliverable condition.
You understand that while you have five days (excluding Sundays) from the sale date for thePit.com to receive cards which you sell to thePit.com that are not in your account at the time of sale, you must own all such cards at the time you place the order and at the time such order is executed by thePit.com. You further understand you must send such cards to thePit.com within five days of the sale date and that purchasing these cards from thePit.com during this five day period will not relieve you of your obligation to send us such cards. Short selling is strictly prohibited.
- Market Makers. You understand that that thePit.com may hold positions in the sports cards listed or otherwise mentioned on the website. You understand that thePit.com may trade for its own account as a market maker and is the party with whom you are making transactions. You understand that thePit.com is under is no obligation to market make or post bids or asking prices for any sports cards listed on the website.
- Cards as Commodities. You understand that on the website, thePit.com treats different individual sports cards of the same exact athlete, manufacturer, issue, set, year, grade, and grading agent as fungible, interchangeable sports cards. You understand and agree that if you physically deliver a sports card to be deposited in your account with thePit.com and then subsequently request delivery of that card, thePit.com will more than likely not ship to you the identical serial numbered card you previously delivered but rather a card of the same exact athlete, manufacturer, issue, year, grading agent and grade. Note that thePit.com does not buy or sell cards that have qualifiers of any kind.
- Order Entry. You understand that entering an order with thePit.com does not guarantee execution of the order and you agree that thePit.com shall not be responsible for any order that is not executed. You understand that all orders placed with thePit.com are limit orders which thePit.com's market makers must affirmatively accept before they can be executed. Do not assume that any order has been executed unless and until you have received a transaction confirmation from thePit.com via e-mail or the website. You further understand that thePit.com has the right to break any executed transaction on the grounds that it was, in their opinion, "clearly erroneous." thePit.com shall not be deemed to have received any order electronically transmitted by you until it has actual knowledge of such order.
- Transactions and Settlements. All orders for the purchase and sale of sports cards will be authorized by you and executed with the understanding that an actual purchase or sale is intended. You understand that while you have five days (excluding Sundays) from the day of sale for thePit.com to receive cards which you sell to thePit.com that are not in your account at the time of sale, you must own all such cards at the time you place the order and at the time such order is executed by thePit.com. You further understand that you must send such cards to thePit.com within five days (excluding Sundays) of the sale date and that purchasing these cards from thePit.com during this five day period will not relieve you of your obligation to send us such cards. Short selling is strictly prohibited.
- Order Confirmations, Statements, Notices and Other Communications. You understand that it is your responsibility to review, upon first receipt, whether delivered to you by e-mail, by a posting on the website, or by all other electronic means, all order confirmations, statements of account balances, holdings, transaction history, notices and other communications. All information contained therein shall be binding upon you, if you do not object, either in writing or via electronic mail, within forty-eight hours after any such document or information is sent to you or available on the website. In all cases, thePit.com reserves the right to determine the validity of your objection to the transaction. Such notices, information and other communications from thePit.com shall be deemed to be delivered and available to you whether actually received or not.
You agree that thePit.com fulfills its legal obligation to deliver to you any such document if sent via electronic delivery. Electronic delivery may be in the form of an email, an electronic mail attachment, a posting on the website, or in the form of an available download from the website. You represent that you will download the relevant document promptly after receiving notice of its availability. Should you experience any difficulty opening a document electronically delivered by thePit.com, you will promptly advise thePit.com in order to allow us to make the required delivery by other means. Failure to advise thePit.com of such difficulty within forty-eight hours after delivery shall serve as an affirmation that you were able to receive and open said document.
- Cancellation Requests. When you place a request to cancel an order, the cancellation of that order is not guaranteed. Your order will only be cancelled if your request is received by thePit.com's market makers before they have executed it. During market hours, orders are subject to immediate execution. Do not assume that any order has been cancelled until you have received a transaction confirmation from thePit.com via e-mail or the website.
- Account Protection. You acknowledge and agree that thePit.com will store cards that you purchase from the website until you request delivery or the cards are no longer listed to be traded on thePit.com and that part of the commission paid by you constitutes good and valuable consideration in exchange for your right and thePit.com's promise to store such cards for you. You understand that thePit.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine which cards are listed to be traded on thePit.com and may at any time, and in its sole discretion, thereby ship to you those cards in your account that are subsequently delisted. You understand that sports cards owned by you that are held in your account at thePit.com are not physically segregated from the sports card inventory of thePit.com or the sports cards owned by customers of thePit.com in their accounts.
You understand and acknowledge that thePit.com holds cash balances of its customers in a customer account. You understand and agree that as compensation for maintaining and administering customer funds in the customer account as a custodian, thePit.com is entitled to any and all interest earned or accrued on the principal of such account, including interest earned through the purchase of United States treasury bills or Certificates of Deposit. You acknowledge that thePit.com is not acting as a trustee, fiduciary, escrow agent or banking service with respect to cash balances of its customers, but is acting only as a custodian.
- Delivery of Sports Cards. To ship cards to you, thePit.com requires your account contain sufficient funds to both ship and insure your cards at the time of shipment. You understand thePit.com fully insures, at your expense, all cards that it ships to you, that you have deposited with thePit.com, or that you have purchased from thePit.com, for the full value of the card(s) at the time of shipment. You understand that any claim that you did not receive such cards or that they were received in damaged condition will be investigated by both thePit.com and its private insurance carrier. You further understand and agree that in the event of a loss covered by such insurance, thePit.com cannot guarantee it will physically deliver to you the cards but it will credit your account for the payment provided by the insurance carrier. thePit.com will credit your account for alleged loss or damage only if and when the private insurance carrier makes payment to thePit.com.
You understand and agree thePit.com is not responsible for any errors, omissions, claims, or disputes regarding the particular grade of any cards physically delivered to you by thePit.com. All such inquiries and complaints shall be submitted directly to the grading agent that graded the card.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for any cost, including but not limited to the payment of insurance, and the delivery of sports cards to thePit.com in proper deliverable condition that you have sold to thePit.com or that you intend to deposit in your account. You acknowledge thePit.com will not accept, for deposit in your account, any sports cards that are not listed to be traded on thePit.com or any sports cards you have sold to thePit.com but that are not received in proper deliverable condition and thePit.com will return all such cards to the mailing address listed on your individual account application. You are responsible for any losses or expenses incurred by thePit.com in sending such cards back to you.
You understand there may be occasions when thePit.com cannot ship cards you have ordered from the website, even if such an order has been executed, because a seller has defaulted on a transaction and/or thePit.com is unable to acquire the card[s]. In these instances, thePit.com will refund your account the purchase price you paid at the time your buy order was executed plus applicable commissions.
- Fees and Charges. You understand that thePit.com may charge commissions and other fees for execution or any other service furnished to you, and you agree to pay such commissions and fees at thePit.com's then prevailing price. You acknowledge and agree that such commission rates and fees are determined and set solely by thePit.com and are subject to change at any time, with reasonable notice by posting such notice on the website, and you agree to be bound thereby. A schedule of fees is available on the website.
- Taxes. You agree to pay all applicable federal, state and local fees and taxes. You understand and acknowledge that thePit.com collects sales tax only on purchases of cards delivered to residents of California State who have not provided thePit.com with a valid resale certificate. You represent that any sports cards purchased from the website that you leave in your account at thePit.com and do not have shipped to you are purchased exclusively for the purpose of reselling them.
- Market Data. You understand that thePit.com asserts a proprietary interest in all of the Market Data it furnishes on its website, including but not limited to the price quotations for sports cards on its website and/or last sale information for completed card transactions. You agree to use such Market Data only for your individual non-business use and shall not furnish such data to any other person or entity. You are not authorized to resell access to any such data or to make copies of such data for sale or use to and by others.
You understand that thePit.com does not guarantee the timeliness, sequence, accuracy, completeness, reliability, or content of market information, or messages disseminated to or by any party. You understand that thePit.com does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. You agree that your use of the website or any service of thePit.com is at your sole risk. thePit.com service is provided on an "as is", "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under the laws applicable to this Agreement.
thePit.com is not liable, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless thePit.com, for any inaccuracy, error or delay in, or omission of, (1) any such data, information or message, or (2) the transmission or delivery of any such data, information or message; or any loss arising from or occasioned by (i) any such inaccuracy, error, delay or omission, (ii) non-peformance, or (iii) interruption in any such data, information or message, due either to any act or omission by thePit.com or any disseminating party or to any "force majeure" (e.g., flood, extraordinary weather condition, earthquake or other act of God, fire, war, insurrection, riot, labor dispute accident, action of government, communications or power failure, equipment or software malfunction) or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of thePit.com or any disseminating party.
- Responsibilities and Limitations of Liabilities. You understand that if and when your account application is accepted, we will send you, via the email address you provided, a password which provides access to your account. You represent that you will be the sole and exclusive authorized user of such password and you accept sole responsibility for use, confidentiality and protection of the password as well as for all orders and information changes (i.e., changes of address) entered into your account using such password.
You accept full responsibility for the monitoring and safeguarding of your account. You will immediately notify thePit.com in writing, delivered via e-mail and certified/return receipt requested U.S. mail, if you become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your password and account number; or any failure by you to receive a message from us indicating that an order was received and executed; or any failure by you to receive an accurate written confirmation of an execution; or any receipt by you of confirmation of an order and/or execution which you did not place; or any inaccurate information in your account balances, positions, or transaction history.
If you fail to notify thePit.com immediately upon your knowledge when any of the above conditions occur, neither thePit.com nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates or subsidiaries can or will have any responsibility or liability to you or to any other person whose claim may arise through you for any claims with respect to the handling, mishandling or loss of any order. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall thePit.com or anyone involved in creating, producing, delivering or managing thePit.com's services be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the service, or out of any breach of any warranty. This exclusion or limitation of liability will not apply to the extent that any applicable statute prohibits such exclusion or limitation of liability. To the extent that any applicable statute applies which modifies the above, thePit.com's liability shall not include any hypothetical gains or losses, and it is agreed that the trier of fact shall only consider the actual facts, or lack thereof, of the parties to this Agreement.
The use and storage of any information, including, without limitation, the password, portfolio information, transaction activity, account balances and any other information or orders available on your personal computer is at your own risk and is your sole responsibility. You are responsible for providing and maintaining the communications equipment (including personal computers and modems) and telephone or alternative services required for accessing and using the website or related services, and for all communications service fees and charges incurred by you in accessing the website or related services.
- Limitations, Restrictions and Termination of thePit.com Services. You are authorized to use materials which are made available by thePit.com's services for your own needs only, and you are not authorized to resell access to any such materials or to make copies of any such materials for sale or use to and by others. You will not delete copyright or other intellectual property rights notices from printouts of electronically accessed materials.
You understand that thePit.com may at any time, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, including by reason of its ceasing operations, prohibit or restrict your access to the use of the website or related services or your ability to trade. thePit.com may terminate your account at any time for any reason, including by reason of thePit.com ceasing operations, and without prior notice to you. You are free to terminate your account with thePit.com at any time for any reason without any prior notice. In the event your account is closed, including by reason of thePit.com ceasing operations, thePit.com will promptly notify you, and send all cards then held by thePit.com in your account, and will charge or bill your credit card on file for the cost of shipping, handling and insurance. The closing of an account will not affect the rights and/or obligations of either party incurred prior to the date the account is closed.
- Legally Binding. You hereby agree that this Agreement and all the terms herein shall be binding upon you and your estate, heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns.
- Extraordinary Events/Technical Difficulties. You specifically agree to hold thePit.com harmless from any and all claims, and agree that thePit.com shall not be liable for any loss, actual or perceived, caused directly or indirectly by government regulation, exchange or market regulation, suspension of trading, war, strike, equipment failure, communication line failure, system failure, security failure on the Internet, unauthorized access, theft, or any problem, technological or otherwise, that might prevent you from entering or thePit.com from executing an order, or other conditions beyond our control. You further agree and understand that you will not be compensated by thePit.com for "lost opportunity", e.g, for any claim that you were unable to enter an order due to technical difficulties and the sports card you wished to purchase increased in value. Furthermore, in a technical environment, should an error occur with respect to the tracking of any account holding or order entry, the true, actual and correct transaction or position will be restored. It is your responsibility to ensure account correctness and accuracy and to contact thePit.com immediately with any discrepancies.
- The Laws of the State of California Govern. You hereby submit to personal jurisdiction within the State of California, and this Agreement and its enforcement shall be governed by the laws of California and shall cover individually and collectively all accounts you may open with thePit.com and shall be binding upon you and your successors (whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise), heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of thePit.com and its successors, assigns and agents. thePit.com may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any of its subsidiaries or affiliates without giving you notice, or to any other entity upon prior written notice to you.
- Arbitration Disclosure
- Arbitration is final and binding on the parties.
- The parties are waiving their right to seek remedies in court, including the right to jury trial.
- Pre-arbitration discovery is generally more limited than and different from court proceedings.
- The arbitrators' award is not required to include factual findings or legal reasoning and any party's right to appeal or seek modification or rulings by the arbitrators is strictly limited.
- Agreement to Arbitrate Controversies
You agree that any and all controversies which may arise between you and thePit.com or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries or affiliates including but not limited to those involving transactions of any kind made on your behalf by, through or with thePit.com, its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries or affiliates and the construction, performance or breach of this or any other agreement between you and thePit.com shall be determined by arbitration conducted before the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with its arbitration rules then in force. You specifically agree, however, as permitted by statute and/or regulation, to arbitrate all such controversies before the ("AAA") in Los Angeles, California. Judgement upon any award of the arbitrators may be entered in any court, state or federal, having jurisdiction thereof.
No person shall bring a putative or certified class action to arbitration, nor seek to enforce any predispute arbitration agreement against any person who has initiated in court a putative class action; or who is a member of a putative class who has not opted out of the class with respect to any claims encompassed by the putative class action until:
- the class certification is denied; or
- the class is decertified; or
- the customer is excluded from the class by the court. Such forbearance to enforce an agreement to arbitrate shall not constitute a waiver of any rights under this Agreement except to the extent stated herein
If you are a foreign national, non-resident alien, or if you do not reside in the United States, you affirmatively agree to waive your right to file an action against thePit.com any foreign venue other than with the AAA as set forth above. The laws of the State of California will govern the interpretation and enforcement of the terms of this Agreement, and you further consent to the jurisdiction of the State of California over you individually with respect to this Agreement.
- Waiver. Except as specifically permitted in this Agreement, no provision or condition of this Agreement can be, nor should be deemed to be, waived, altered, modified or amended unless agreed to in writing by an authorized officer of thePit.com.
- Amendments; Entire Agreement. You understand that access to and your use of your account constitutes your consent to and agreement to abide by the terms and conditions of this Account Agreement. thePit.com may at any time revise these terms and conditions by updating the Account Agreement. You agree to be bound by subsequent revisions and agree to review the Account Agreement periodically for changes to the terms and conditions of the Account Agreement. The most up to date version of the Account Agreement will always be available for your review on the website. Continued use of thePit.com after such changes will constitute acknowledgment and acceptance of such amendment. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between you and thePit.com concerning the subject matter hereof. Certain policies and/or procedures may be further outlined on thePit.com website, and by your use of thePit.com website and services, you agree to be bound by any and all such postings. You may not assign any right or obligations hereunder without first obtaining the prior written consent by an authorized officer of thePit.com.
- Separability. If any provision or condition of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable by reason of any law, rule, administrative order or judicial decision by any court, or regulatory or self-regulatory agency or body, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision or condition. The validity of the remaining provisions and conditions shall not be affected thereby and this Agreement shall be carried out as if any such invalid or unenforceable provision or condition were not contained herein.
- Headings are Descriptive. The headings of each provision hereof is for descriptive purposes only and shall not be deemed to modify or qualify any of the rights or obligations set forth in each such provision.
Welcome to thePit.com. This website is owned and operated by thePit.com, Inc.,
its affiliates, agents and licensors (collectively, "we", "us", "our" or
"thePit.com"). You understand that your use of this website constitutes your
consent to and agreement to abide by these terms and conditions (the "Terms").
thePit.com may at any time revise these terms and conditions by updating the
Terms. You agree to be bound by subsequent revisions and agree to review the
Terms periodically for changes to the terms and conditions. The most up
to date version of the Terms will always be available for your review under the
"Terms of Use" link that appears at the bottom of the website. We may
also offer other services from time to time that are governed by different
terms and conditions. For instance, when you open an account with
thePit.com, your customer relationship with thePit.com is governed by
thePit.com Account Agreement, amended from time to time, and always accessible
when you click on "Legal" under "Customer Service."
GRANT OF LICENSE
thePit.com grants you a single, non-exclusive, limited personal license to
access and use the website conditioned on your continued compliance with the
terms and conditions in these Terms. You may not transfer or share your right
to access or use of the website.
ACCESSING THE WEBSITE
With the exception of applications commonly known as Web Browser software, or
other applications formally approved by thePit.com in writing, you agree not to
use any software, program, application or any other device to access or log on
to thePit.com's computer systems, Web site or proprietary software or to
automate the process of obtaining, downloading, transferring or transmitting
any content, information or quotes to or from thePit.com's computer systems,
Web site or proprietary software. thePit.com is not responsible for, and makes
no warranties regarding, the access, speed or availability of the Internet in
general or the website in particular.
You agree that you will not: (a) use any robot, spider, other automatic device
or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained
herein without our prior written permission; (b) use any device, software or
routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the
website or any transaction being conducted on either; (c) take any action that
imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
or (d) reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any
source code. Much of the information on the website is updated on a real time
basis and is proprietary or is licensed to us by others. You agree that you
will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly
display any content from the website without our prior written permission, or
that of the appropriate third party.
NO INVESTMENT ADVICE OR RECOMMENDATIONS
All content on the website is for informational purposes only. You alone will
need to evaluate the merits and risks associated with the use of the website.
Although the website may provide information relating to approaches to
investing or types of cards you might buy or sell, no information available
through the website is intended or should be construed as an investment
recommendation or endorsement from thePit.com. Nothing contained on the website
constitutes investment advice. Decisions based on information contained within
the website are your sole responsibility. In exchange for using the website,
you agree not to hold thePit.com liable for any possible claim for any damages
arising from any decision you make based on such information.
MARKET MAKING
You understand that at all times or from time to time, thePit.com may hold
positions in the sports cards listed or otherwise mentioned on the
website. You understand that thePit.com may trade for its own account as
a market maker and is the party with whom you are making transactions.
INFORMATION
The website may make available certain market data, quotes, news, research,
statistics and opinions or other information (collectively "Information") that
it has prepared itself or that has been independently obtained by other
services and individuals, including news wires, statistics providers,
journalists and other providers (collectively the "Information Providers").
thePit.com does not guarantee or certify the accuracy, completeness, timeliness
or correct sequencing of the Information made available through thePit.com, the
Information Providers or any other third party transmitting the Information
(the "Information Transmitters"). You agree that neither thePit.com, the
Information Providers nor the Information Transmitters shall be liable in any
way for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or correct sequencing of the
Information, or for any decision made or action taken by you relying upon the
Information. You further agree that neither thePit.com, the Information
Providers nor the Information Transmitters will be liable in any way for the
interruption of any data, Information or other aspect of the website. You
understand that none of the Information available through the website
constitutes a recommendation or solicitation that you should purchase or sell
any particular sports card.
COMMUNICATIONS
Unless otherwise indicated for a particular service, any communications or
material you email, post or otherwise transmit through the website, including
data, questions, comments, or suggestions will be treated as non-confidential
and nonproprietary. On occasion thePit.com may reproduce, disclose, transmit,
publish, broadcast, or post such communications or material. Furthermore,
thePit.com is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques
contained in any communication you send to thePit.com for any purpose
whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing and marketing products
using such information.
LINKS
thePit.com may provide a link to other services or sites as part of the
website. Such sites are not under the control of thePit.com, and thePit.com
makes no representations whatsoever concerning the accuracy, timeliness, or
suitability of the content . Unless we expressly state otherwise, the fact that
thePit.com has provided a link to a site is not an endorsement of the service
or site, its content, or its sponsoring organizations.
DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATIONS
WHILE THEPIT.COM INTENDS TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND RELIABLE INFORMATION THROUGH
THE WEBSITE, INADVERTENT ERRORS MAY SOMETIMES OCCUR. THEPIT.COM RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES AND CORRECTIONS AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT NOTICE. THE
INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." THEPIT.COM
DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO ANY
MATTER WHATSOEVER RELATING TO THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND
NONINFRINGMENT. USE OF THIS SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THEPIT.COM
IS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OR INJURY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES OR
INJURY CAUSED BY ANY PERFORMANCE, FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION,
INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER
VIRUS, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF INFORMATION, WHETHER RESULTING, IN WHOLE OR IN
PART, FROM BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHERWISE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify and hold thePit.com and its affiliates, agents,
employees, and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including
attorneys' fees, made by any third party arising out of your violation of these
Terms.
TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
The website and its content is owned by thePit.com or its affiliates or agents
and is protected by United States Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and the
copyright laws of other countries. All content, trademarks, services
marks, trade names, logos, and icons are proprietary to thePit.com or its
affiliates or agents. The materials provided in this service, including
graphic images, buttons, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished,
uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior
written permission, except that you may download, display, or print one copy of
the materials on a single computer solely for your personal, non-commercial,
home use, provided that you keep intact all copyright, trademark, and other
proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the
materials for any other purpose is a violation of thePit.com's, its affiliates
or its third party information providers copyrights and other proprietary
rights. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by
implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right under any copyright,
patent, trademark, or other proprietary interest of thePit.com, its affiliates,
or any third party.
MODIFICATIONS TO THE WEBSITE
thePit.com reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or
permanently, all or any portion of the Web Site with or without notice. You
agree that thePit.com will not be liable to you or to any third party for any
such modification, suspension or discontinuance.
TERMINATION
The license granted under these Terms will terminate if you fail to comply with
any term or condition. Upon such violation, you agree to terminate access to
the website. You further agree that thePit.com, in its sole discretion and with
or without notice, may terminate your access to any or all of the website, and
remove and discard any information or content within the website. You
also agree that thePit.com will not be liable to you or any third-party for any
termination of your access to the website.
GOVERNING LAW
These Terms shall be subject to and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, excluding its conflict of law principles. The
parties consent to jurisdiction of venue exclusively in the State of California,
County of California. If any part of these Terms is unlawful, void or
unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the
validity and enforcibility of any remaining provisions.
ARBITRATION DISCLOSURE
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Arbitration is final and binding on the parties.
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The parties are waiving their right to seek remedies in court, including the
right to jury trial.
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Pre-arbitration discovery is generally more limited than and different from
court proceedings.
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The arbitrators' award is not required to include factual findings or legal
reasoning and any party's right to appeal or seek modification or rulings by
the arbitrators is strictly limited.
AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE CONTROVERSIES
You agree that any and all controversies which may arise between you and
thePit.com or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries
or affiliates including but not limited to those involving transactions of any
kind made on your behalf by, through or with thePit.com, its officers,
directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries or affiliates and the construction,
performance or breach of this or any other agreement between you and thePit.com
shall be determined by arbitration conducted before the American Arbitration
Association ("AAA") in accordance with its arbitration rules then in force. You
specifically agree, however, as permitted by statute and/or regulation, to
arbitrate all such controversies before the ("AAA") in Los Angeles, California. Judgement upon any award of the arbitrators may be entered in any
court, state or federal, having jurisdiction thereof.
No person shall bring a putative or certified class action to arbitration, nor
seek to enforce any predispute arbitration agreement against any person who has
initiated in court a putative class action; or who is a member of a putative
class who has not opted out of the class with respect to any claims encompassed
by the putative class action until:
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the class certification is denied; or
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the class is decertified; or
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the customer is excluded from the class by the court. Such forbearance to
enforce an agreement to arbitrate shall not constitute a waiver of any rights
under this Agreement except to the extent stated herein
If you are a foreign national, non-resident alien, or if you do not reside in
the United States, you affirmatively agree to waive your right to file an
action against thePit.com any foreign venue other than with the AAA as set
forth above. The laws of the State of California will govern the interpretation
and enforcement of the terms of this Agreement, and you further consent to the
jurisdiction of the State of California over you individually with respect to
this Agreement.
Please note that when you buy or sell, thePit.com treats cards of the same
player, year, manufacturer, set, issue, grade and grading agent as interchangeable
cards. For example, thePit.com views two 1989 Upper Deck Griffey
PSA-9 cards identically, without regard to individual serial numbers.
Therefore, you are not buying or selling the exact same serially numbered card
that you may see scanned on the website.
Note that thePit.com does not buy or sell cards that have qualifiers of any
kind.
In addition, thePit.com makes no distinction between the Topps Finest cards
that are manufactured with coating and the cards without coating. If you
purchase a Topps Finest card from thePit.com, and choose to have it shipped,
then you may receive either the coated or uncoated card.
Rules For Online Conduct on thePit.com Message Boards.
By using this Service, you agree that you will not post any
of the following material on the message boards:
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Material which is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, indecent, libelous, invasive
of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically insensitive or
otherwise objectionable;
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Personal attacks against users of this board;
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Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities
with the intent to commit them;
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Unauthorized copyrighted material or material that infringes any patent,
trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any party;
- Any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials,
"junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any other
form of solicitation, except with the express permission of thePit.com;
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Material which impersonates any person or entity or falsely states or
otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
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Posts which are deemed inappropriate by the thePit.com.
You agree that thePit.com, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password,
account (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and discard
any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation,
for lack of use or if thePit.com believes that you have violated or acted
inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Policy. ThePit.com may also
in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or
any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of
your access to the Service under any provision of this Policy may be effected
without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that thePit.com may immediately
deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your
account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service. Further, you
agree that thePit.com shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any
termination of your access to the Service.
Statements or postings which violate the above terms will be deleted upon discovery.
Users who violate the Policy may receive a warning. Depending on the severity and
frequency of violations, the user may lose his account temporarily or permanently.
Account suspensions are at the sole discretion of thePit.com. More than one account
is not allowed. Re-registrations by individuals suspended or removed from the board
must first be approved by thePit.com.
Any user posting on thePit.com message boards implicitly agrees to these rules,
regardless of whether they have been read or not. Messages posted on these boards
reflect the views or opinions of the participants and not those of thePit.com or
its employees. Under no circumstances will thePit.com be liable in any way for any
Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any material,
or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any material
posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Service.
You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of
any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness
of such Content. You acknowledge and agree that thePit.com may preserve material
and may also disclose material if required to do so by law or in the good faith
belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
(a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Policy; (c) respond to claims that
any material violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights,
property, or personal safety of thePit.com, its users and the public.
You agree to indemnify and hold thePit.com, and its subsidiaries, affiliates,
officers, agents, co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from
any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third
party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or make
available through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to
the Service, your violation of the Policy, or your violation of any rights of
another.
Please report any violations of this Policy agreement to Customer Service at
thePit.com.
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