1.1Present Regulations describe Terms and Conditions applicable to our services on www.shellauction.net. The services are provided by the company AL&LA S.R.L. Unipersonale, domiciled in Via Paolo Uccello 12 - 20148 MILANO (MI), ITALY, VAT number 09193880961, email: alelashellauction.net . The original of this Document has been written in Italian. As you agree to this Document, you implicitly agree to the Italian version of it.
1.4Shellauction.net has the right to modify at any time the contents of these Regulations, thus including any modification about fees and payments, by publishing them on the website. The new Rules will be automatically effective after 15 (fifteen) days from their communication by electronic means to the interested Users. Within this deadline, if you do not agree with the new Terms and Conditions of the Regulations, you will be free tocancel any time simply by contacting our Customer Care service at alelashellauction.net . This version of our Regulation has been updated the 25/05/2018
1.5Shellauction.net is a public website for specialized collectors (both advanced and non-advanced). When you subscribe, you have to give your generalities according to the instructions reported below. After registration, you will receive an email from the Customer Service, asking you a brief presentation about yourself and some references of yours. This is necessary to guarantee a safer and higher standard service to our Users.
Users registering as Dealers have to send: 1)a valid identity paper (passport); 2) a reference letter from a Dealer that is already in shellauction.net or from a worldwide known dealer. However, each request will be undisputably valued by the Shellauction.net Staff.
Shellauction.net will have the undisputable right to admit or not any User to its services, assigning him a login and password.
2.3All Shellauction.net Users must respect National and International Laws, as well as the Regulations that discipline the use of Shellauction.net.
2.4Shellauction.net and Users act fully autonomously and independently. Present Regulations do not imply any collaboration, agency, association, intermediation or employment.
3.4It is forbidden:
a) To send spam emails to email addresses of Shellauction.net Users, as better specified in the Privacy Regulations.
b) To transfer or sell your login to other persons (Including Feedback);
c) the use of your login by other persons, even if they have been delegated by you.
Moreover, it is forbidden to sell through Shellauction.net the following items:
- fossils from Italy;
- fake shells;
- animal species under CITES regulation (Washington Convention, 8 March 1973);
- animal species under Bern Convention (19 September 1979);
- animal species inder Habitat Dir. 92/43/CEE (21 maggio 1992);
- animal species that are not allowed to be exported by Laws of their country of origin.
3.5Shellauction.net has the indisputable right to cancel, modify, suspend any insertion, without any obligation to advise the Seller.
4.2It is forbidden for all Users to use the Feedback right with the intent to be offensive or indecent. Shellauction.net has the undisputable right to delete or modify offensive or indecent feedbacks.
5.1Your offer, according to these Regulations and to the Laws in force, is a mandatory commitment, which means that it is a contract. Bid only if you want to buy and remember that, if you win the object, you have to respect the contract. When you bid on an object, you automatically accept the selling conditions reported in the item description, as they are defined by the Dealer. Bids cannot be retracted, other that in exceptional circumstances that will be indisputably evaluated, case by case, by Shellauction.net, and only after a quick communication to the Customer Service: alelashellauction.net . For example, they are exceptional circumstances a bid for a wrong amount, or a wrong name of the species.
5.2Fraud. In addition to the applications of Law enforcements, Shellauction.net has the right to suspend or delete your account if it is clear that you have undertaken fraudulent activities by using our website.
5.3Increasing by trick a maximum bid. In addition to the Law penalties, it is a violation of present Regulations to increase by trick the price of an item for sale or interfere with the insertions.
7.2DEALER USER:
For Dealers, registration and biddings are free on www.shellauction.net.
A fees is applied to sales, according to the below mentioned modalities. With subscription to the website and the consequent acceptance of present Regulations, Dealers accept that they are committed to pay fees as below stated.
For each sale, you can choose between two fee options:

1) Fees on sold: you will be charged on sold items only. You will not be charged for the insertions, as well as for the unsold items.
You can insert two types of items:
- NORMAL SHELLS (base value from 1 EURO to 200,00 EURO, or XXX USD)
- RARE SHELLS (base value more than 200,00 EURO, or XXX USD)
We apply a 10% fee on the final price for normal shells and 5% fee on the final price for RARE SHELLS.
Please note that in the last months the EURO/Dollar exchange rate has experienced wide variations, and it is still fluctuating a lot. We will update the Exchange rate at the beginning of each sale.

2) Mixed fees: NOT MORE SELECTABLE SINCE SEPT 2019, (fees on insertion and sold): this option includes an insertion fee of 1% of the item insertion price (from a minimum of 0,10 euro to a maximum of 2,50 euro) on all items, INCLUDING UNSOLD ONES. You will also be charged by a 5% on the final selling value for any item sold at a price lower or equal to 50,00 euro, + 3% on the exceeding value if the item has been sold higher than 50,00 euro.
For example:
If the final price is 40,00 euro, than the fee on sold is 40 * 5% = 2,00 euro
If the final price is 70,00 euro, than the fee on sold is (50 * 5%) + (20 * 3%) = 3,10 euro.

Please note that our fees are VAT Taxable if provided for laws, for details click here

The (n. 1) option is the default. In the case you will not choose the other option, the "Fee on sold" option will be applied.

At the end of every sale, due fees will be displayed in your user page. When you reach 300 euro, or in any case after 6 months, a Pro Forma Invoice will be sent to your email. Payment must be done within 15 days from the Pro Forma. We will deliver regular Invoice or Receipt after your payment has been cashed.

By accepting this Regulations you authorize Shellauction.net to send the Invoices by email to the email address provided by you.
You can pay your Shellauction.net fees by:

- PayPal: it's a safe and convenient way to pay Shellauction.net fees; if you choose this payment option you will have to pay the PayPal fees. The amount of PayPal fees will be also reported in your Pro Forma Invoice.
Our paypal email is: paymentshellauction.net

- Bank Transfer: you can pay using bank transfer directly from your Bank or on the web. If you choose this option, please be aware that no cashing commissions will be charged on Shellauction.net, that they must be all paid by you. Here follow the data for the Bank Transfer. In the description field please put you login:

Bank Account data for Bank Transfer
Send to: AL&LA S.R.L.
Bank: INTESA SANPAOLO
IBAN: IT31H0306920502100000014692
BIC SWIFT: BCITITMM
7.4Shellauction.net is not assuming any responsibility for the eventual payment of Dealers' Taxes and other fees derived from the transactions in our website. It is possible that European members (Italy included) would have to pay VAT.
8.1Shellauction.net is not an Auction House. It is important to understand that Shellauction.net doesn't give any intermediary service and it is not an Auctioneer as well, in the traditional way this term has been used. Shellauction.net is just a "place" where Users can sell or buy shells, any time, and from any internet point and with different modes. Shellauction.net doesn't have any control or responsibility for what quality, security, lawfulness of the items for sale are concerned. It cannot also verify the truthfulness and accuracy of the insertions, the provided information or users' capacity to sell, buy and bid. Shellauction.net doesn't have any role in the transaction between dealer and collector.
8.2According to Law prescriptions and with the exception of customers' rights, Shellauction.net offers his service "as it", without any further assurance, either expressed or implicit.
8.3Being Shellauction.net a web hosting provider, it cannot guarantee the truthfulness of personal data as provided by Users when they register. For this reason Shellauction.net is not keeping any responsibility for eventual damages, either direct or indirect, happened because of the use of false data by the Users. We strongly recommend you to collect all the informations about the people you're willing to make a transaction with, and for this you're welcome to use the feedback system, since it is based on the indications of our Users. In accordance to the D.Lgs. n. 70/2003 and the European Community Guideline 31/2000/CE on electronic commerce, Shellauction.net is not obliged to perform any surveillance on the activity on its website. Since Shellauction.net doesn't act as an intermediary or controller of transactions, in the case of controversies Users commit themselves to exclude Shellauction.net, AL&LA S.R.L., or their employees and consultants, from any liability or any kind of damage reimbursement. Accepting this Regulations you authorize Shellauction.net to use your personal informations in respect of the Italian and European Privacy Rules (GDPR 2016/679).
8.4Following documents, also through web links, as well as the pages therein reported, are fundamental parts of these Regulations.
8.6In the case that a clause of these Regulations will result null or ineffective, this will not affect the whole Regulations.
9.1Apart from the ordinary actions contemplated by Law for not respecting the obeys of these Regulations, Shellauction.net keeps the right to advise, suspend pro-tempore or definitively, by interrupting its services because of:
(a) Violations of present Regulations;
(b) If Shellauction.net cannot verify the authenticity of the informations you gave when you registered or during your use of our service;
(c) You act in a way that can cause important economic losses or that can cause legal liabilities to Shellauction.net or to other Users. If you're either temporally or definitely banned, you will not be allowed to register again.
10.1According to Law prescriptions and with the exception of customers' rights, Shellauction.net is not liable for economic losses, indirect or direct damage, also of the image, that could be experienced by users or third persons because of the use of our web site and/or our services.
10.2Accepting the present Regulations, you commit yourself to keep Shellauction.net, its employees, administrators, consultants untouched by any claim or reimbursement request by thirds, that could derive from the violation of the rules contained in the present Regulations, of the Law obligations or thirds' rights.
12.1Applicable law. Present contract is regulated by the Italian Law.