A WBM Member must be a bookseller of at least 12 months experience in the book industry, and their listings or proposed listings should demonstrate an understanding of common bookseller terminology and practice.
A WBM Member must be willing to commit upfront to various tasks and duties (not onerous ones) within the WBM co-operative such as serving a 3-month term on our New Members' Selection Committee in due course, and various other site duties which crop up from time to time;
A WBM Member must display at our site basic contact details BEYOND a mere email contact address, although having a physical or "open store" address is not required. A valid postal address is required (this can be a PO Box address), as is an email contact and (normally) a phone contact number for the member;
A WBM member agrees to act (within reason) as a physical agent for all other members in his or her region, should any problems arise with postage delays or other difficulties encountered by another member, accepting other member returns for inspection purposes etc
A WBM member needs to "fit in" with our group and be prepared to contribute here and there to our site's growth and success, and a joining member agrees that he or she will do nothing to harm the good name and standing of the WBM, or bring it in any way into disrepute;
A WBM Member must state a Terms of Trade and Returns Policy when listing at our site, and this must be compliant with the law in his or her local jurisdiction, as well as being consistent with any global Terms and Conditions agreed by the members and posted to our site;
A member may set his or her shipping matrix at our site at his or her sole discretion EXCEPT THAT a member shall not set shipping prices which demonstrably contain a form of "hidden profit" over and above actual costs of shipping, packaging and reasonable handling charges by the shipper;
ACCEPTABLE & UNACCEPTABLE LISTINGS AT THE WBM
All WBM listings must have an author, a price, a binding and a title field populated;
On the main (books) WBM site only books, booklets, printed ephemera and book-related miscellanea are permitted (we may later open up other site pages for other types of material);
WBM listings must contain basic bibliographical data, ideally all or most of Binding (mandatory); Publisher; (if stated/known); Edition (if stated/known); Year of Publication; Size; Illustrator (if any); and Condition Reports on both book and dustjacket (if any), either in the VG/VG type format or in a more extended description;
WBM listings must NOT contain conditional or problematic descriptors such as "Binding Unknown"; "May have remainder marks"; "May contain previous owner markings" and the like;
WBM listings must not contain long strings of CAPITAL LETTERS aimed at highlighting a listing or a bookseller's services, other than standard bibliographic capitalisation normal with things like Roman Numerals "XXVII" and the like;
WBM listings should concentrate on the book being offered, and not contain add-on statements and attached descriptors relating to a Member's general or overall postage rates, speed of service or other bookseller-promotional points, except for brief recital of any special conditions regarding a particular book or books;
The WBM does not accept listings which are "Print on Demand" listings i.e. material which does not exist at the time of order;
A WBM member may not list large numbers of multiple and identical (or nearly identical) books for sale on our site in the practice known popularly as "page-hogging";
A WBM member must either have a listed book in his or her physical possession, or have clear rights and ability to order in titles as sold (e.g. from a publisher, in the case of new books). A WBM member shall not make multiple listings from other bookseller listings at the WBM site or elsewhere on the basis of supplying by way of "drop-ship" should orders eventuate;
A WBM Member shall not insert into any listing any phrase or comment which carries the implication that he or she is a better, faster or more proficient bookseller/supplier than other WBM Members listing at the site.
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