Prohibited Listings & Acceptable Use

1. Prohibited listings

The following may not be listed on EcomFlips:

• Stolen or hijacked accounts or assets — including stores, domains, ad accounts, or social accounts obtained without authorisation.
• Suspension-evasion sales — listings whose purpose is to evade a platform suspension, ban, or enforcement action (e.g. selling a Shopify Payments-banned store so the buyer re-registers it).
• Businesses selling illegal products, counterfeits, or products that infringe intellectual-property rights.
• Businesses built primarily on fake reviews, fake traffic, bot engagement, or fabricated analytics.
• Businesses the seller does not own or lacks authority to sell.

2. Mandatory disclosures

Sellers must disclose, in the listing or the deal room, before any offer is accepted:

• Past or current platform bans, suspensions, restrictions, or strikes (store platform, payment processors, ad platforms, marketplaces).
• Active or historical payment holds, elevated chargeback rates, or reserve requirements.
• Ongoing or threatened disputes, claims, or legal proceedings affecting the business.
• Any material dependency (a single supplier, a personal brand, a rented social account) not obvious from the listing.

3. Accuracy warranties

All financial figures — revenue, ad spend, ROAS, profit — are warranties, not marketing. Buyers can dispute misrepresented metrics during the inspection window, and misrepresentation can lead to a refund resolution, listing removal, and account suspension.

4. Acceptable use of the platform

• No exchanging contact details or transacting outside the platform after being introduced through EcomFlips (this voids all protections and is a ban-level violation).
• No harassment, threats, or abusive language in deal rooms.
• No fake accounts, shill offers, or manipulation of trust signals.
• No scraping, reverse engineering, or interfering with the service.

5. Enforcement

Violations can result in listing removal, deal cancellation, account suspension, and — where funds are in escrow — resolution through Escrow.com's dispute process. In Phase 1, contact-detail sharing in chat triggers a warning and an admin review flag rather than an automatic ban; repeated or egregious violations are handled manually.