THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE TERMS ON WHICH GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. OFFERS YOU ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES.

Welcome to the user agreement (the "Agreement" or "User Agreement") for GetCheapBooks Inc. If you reside outside of the United States, the party you are contracting with is GetCheapBooks.com, Inc.. This Agreement describes the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our services available under the domain and sub-domains of www.getcheapbooks.com (the "Site") and the general principles for the websites of our subsidiaries and international affiliates. If you do not agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not use or access our services.


You must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this User Agreement and the Privacy Policy, which include those terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by reference, before you may become a member of GetCheapBooks. We strongly recommend that, as you read this User Agreement, you also access and read the information contained in the other pages and websites referred to in this document, as they may contain further terms and conditions that apply to you as an GetCheapBooks user. Please note: underlined words and phrases are links to these pages and websites. By accepting this User Agreement, you also agree that your use of other GetCheapBooks websites will be governed by the User Agreement and Privacy Policy posted on those websites.

We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. Except as stated below, all amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we will notify you in accordance with your Notification Preferences. This Agreement may not be otherwise amended except in a writing signed by you and GetCheapBooks Inc. This Agreement is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on March 14th, 2005 for all users.

1. Membership Eligibility.
Our services are available only to, and may only be used by individuals who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to children (persons under the age of 18) or to temporarily or indefinitely suspended GetCheapBooks members. If you are a under the age of 18, you can use this service only in conjunction with, and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. If you do not qualify, please do not use our Site. Further, your GetCheapBooks account (including feedback) and User ID may not be transferred or sold to another party. If you are registering as a business entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement.

2. Fees and Services.
Joining and buying items at GetCheapBooks is free. We do charge fees for listing items for sale through our Site. When it sells, you are charged a selling fee. Our Fees and Credits Policy is available (at http://www.getcheapbooks.com/help_marketplace.asp#sellerPayment) and is incorporated into this Agreement by reference. We may change our Fees and Credits Policy and the fees for our services from time to time. Also, we may choose to temporarily change our Fees and Credits Policy and the fees for our services for promotional events (for example, free listing days) and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event on the Site.. We may in our sole discretion change some or all of our services at any time. In the event we introduce a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using our service and the Site and all applicable taxes. Payments are made via Paypal's online payment system. GetCheapBooks is not liable for payments made in error due to an incorrect or compromised email address of the seller.

3. GetCheapBooks is a Venue.

3.1 GetCheapBooks is not a seller. Although we are commonly referred to as an online seller web site, it is important to realize that we are not a traditional "seller." Instead, the Site acts as a venue to allow anyone to offer, sell, and buy just about anything, at anytime, from anywhere, in a variety of pricing formats. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. As a result, we have no control over the quality, safety or legality of the items advertised, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. We cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.

3.2 Fixed Price Marketplace. We offer you the availability to purchase items at a fixed price from other users. Specific terms and conditions apply to your use of the marketplace which you can review from http://www.getcheapbooks.com/help_marketplace.asp.

3.3 Identity Verification. We use many techniques to verify the accuracy of the information our users provide us when they register on the Site. However, because user verification on the Internet is difficult, GetCheapBooks cannot and does not confirm each user's purported identity. Thus, we have established a user-initiated feedback system to help you evaluate with whom you are dealing. We also encourage you to communicate directly with potential trading partners through the tools available on the Site. You may also wish to consider using a third party escrow service or services that provide additional user verification.

3.4 Release. Because we are a venue, in the event that you have a dispute with one or more users, you release GetCheapBooks (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

3.5 Information Control. We do not control the information provided by other users that is made available through our system. You may find other user's information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution, common sense, and practice safe trading when using the Site. Please note that there are also risks of dealing with underage persons or people acting under false pretense. Additionally, there may also be risks dealing with international trade and foreign nationals. By using this Site, you agree to accept such risks and GetCheapBooks is not responsible for the acts or omissions of users on the Site.

4. Buying.
As a buyer, you are obligated to complete the transaction with the seller:

o if you purchase an item through one of our fixed price formats, unless the item or the transaction is prohibited by law or by this Agreement.

By buying an item you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale included in the item's description so long as those conditions of sale are not in violation of this Agreement or unlawful. If you choose to purchase mature audience items or items that are restricted to adult use, you are certifying that you have the legal right to purchase such items.

5. Listing and Selling.

5.1 Listing Description. You must be legally able to sell the item(s) you list for sale on the Site. You must describe your item and all terms of sale on the listing page of the Site. Your listings may only include text descriptions relevant to the sale of that item. All listed items must be listed in an appropriate category. All items in multiple item listings must be identical. All items must be shipped or exchanged with buyer within two (2) business days.


5.2 Fraud. Without limiting any other remedies, GetCheapBooks may suspend or terminate your account if we suspect that you (by conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) have engaged in fraudulent activity in connection with the Site.


5.3 Manipulation. Neither you, buyers nor sellers may manipulate the price of any item nor may you interfere with other user's listings or transactions.

6. Your Information.

6.1 Definition. "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to us or other users in the registration, buying or listing process, in any public message area (including the feedback area) or through any chat feature. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and we act as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information.

6.2 Restricted Activities. Your Information (or any items listed) and your activities on the Site shall not: (a) be false, inaccurate or misleading; (b) be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (c) infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (d) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, antidiscrimination or false advertising); (e) be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (f) be obscene or contain child pornography or, if otherwise adult in nature shall be distributed only to people legally permitted to receive such content; (g) contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; (h) create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers; and (i) link directly or indirectly to or include descriptions of goods or services that: (aa) are prohibited under this Agreement; (bb) you do not have a right to link to or include. Furthermore, you may not list any item on the Site (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using our service) that, by paying to us the selling fee or the final value fee, could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates our current Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Items.(j) involve the sale of international edition textbooks published by Pearson Education, Inc. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in  the United States or other jurisdictions where prohibited. We reserve  the right to terminate any sales of and remove and close the account of  any such seller.


6.3 License. Solely to enable GetCheapBooks to use the information you supply us with, so that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to Your Information. GetCheapBooks will only use Your Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

7. Access and Interference.
Much of the information on the Site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to GetCheapBooks by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of GetCheapBooks and the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iv) bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.

8. Feedback.

8.1 Integrity. You may not take any actions that may undermine the integrity of the feedback system. We may limit the number of listings you may place on the Site based upon the level of your feedback. If you earn a net feedback rating of 1 (one) with a total number of ratings of 10 (ten), your membership may be suspended, and you may be unable to list or buy.

8.2 Export. You acknowledge that your feedback consists of comments left by other users and a composite feedback number compiled by GetCheapBooks, and that the composite number without the comments does not convey your full user profile. Because feedback ratings are not designed for any purpose other than for facilitating trading between GetCheapBooks users, you agree that you shall not market or export your GetCheapBooks feedback rating in any venue other than an GetCheapBooks operated website.

8.3 Import. We do not provide you the technical ability to import feedback from other (non-GetCheapBooks operated) websites to GetCheapBooks because a composite number, without the corresponding feedback does not reflect your true online reputation within our community.

9. Breach.
Without limiting other remedies, we may limit your activity, immediately remove your item listings, warn our community of your actions, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if: (a) you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference; (b) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us.

10. Privacy.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent and we only use your information as described in the Privacy Policy. We view protection of users' privacy as a very important community principle. We understand clearly that you and your information is one of our most important assets. We use third parties to verify and certify our privacy principles. Our current Privacy Policy is available (at http://www.getcheapbooks.com/help_privacy.asp). If you object to your Information being transferred or used in this way please do not use our services.

11. No Warranties.
THE SITE AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. MAKES NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION:
a. THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT;
b. THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR OPERATE WITHOUT ERROR;
c. THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THE SITE WILL BE AS REPRESENTED BY SELLERS, AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE TIME OF SALE, LAWFUL TO SELL, OR THAT SELLERS OR BUYERS WILL PERFORM AS PROMISED;
d. ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE; AND
e. ANY OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, RIGHT, CLAIM, OR REMEDY IN TORT, WHETHER OR NOT ARISING FROM THE NEGLIGENCE OF GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC..
TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES.

12. General Release.
BECAUSE GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. IS NOT INVOLVED IN TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN BUYERS AND SELLERS OR OTHER PARTICIPANT DEALINGS, IF A DISPUTE ARISES BETWEEN ONE OR MORE PARTICIPANTS, EACH OF YOU RELEASE GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. (AND ITS AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES) FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS, AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH DISPUTES.

13. Limitation of Liability.
a. Indemnity and Defense. You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless GetCheapBooks and its affiliates (and their respective employees, directors, agents and representatives) from and against any and all claims, costs, losses, damages, judgments, penalties, interest and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of any Claim that arises out of or relates to: (i) any actual or alleged breach of your representations, warranties, or obligations set forth in this Participation Agreement; or (ii) your own website or other sales channels, the products you sell, any content you provide, the advertisement, offer, sale or return of any products you sell, any actual or alleged infringement of any intellectual property or proprietary rights by any products you sell or content you provide, or Seller Taxes or the collection, payment or failure to collect or pay Seller Taxes. For purposes hereof: "Claim" means any claim, action, audit, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding instituted by a person or entity; and "Seller Taxes" means any and all sales, use, excise, import, export, value added and other taxes and duties assessed, incurred or required to be collected or paid for any reason in connection with any advertisement, offer or sale of products by you on or through the GetCheapBooks.com Site, or otherwise in connection with any action, inaction or omission of you or any of affiliate of yours, or any of your or their respective employees, agents, contractors or representatives.
b. Limitation of Liability. GETCHEAPBOOKS.COM, INC. WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, THE SITE, THE SERVICES, THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, OR THOSE RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE SERVICES.


14. Legal Compliance.
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service and your buying, listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items.

15. No Agency.
You and GetCheapBooks are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

16. Notices.
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by email to GetCheapBooks. Attn: Legal Department (in the case of GetCheapBooks) or to the email address you provide to GetCheapBooks during the registration process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, we may give you notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the address provided to GetCheapBooks during the registration process. In such case, notice shall be deemed given 3 days after the date of mailing.

17. Resolution of Disputes.

In the event a dispute arises between you and GetCheapBooks, our goal is to provide you with a neutral and cost effective means of resolving the dispute quickly. Accordingly, you and GetCheapBooks agree that any claim or controversy at law or equity that arises out of this Agreement or our services ("Claims") shall be resolved in accordance with one of the subsections below or as otherwise mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties. Before resorting to these alternatives, we strongly encourage you to first contact us directly to seek a resolution and we will consider reasonable requests to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation, as an alternative to litigation.

17.1 Binding Arbitration. For any Claim (excluding Claims for injunctive or other equitable relief) where the total amount of the award sought is less than $10,000 you or GetCheapBooks may elect to resolve the dispute through binding arbitration conducted by telephone, on-line and/or based solely upon written submissions where no in-person appearance is required. In such cases, the arbitration shall be administered by any established ADR provider mutually agreed upon by the parties. Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.

17.3 Alternative Dispute Resolution. Alternatively, GetCheapBooks will consider use of other alternative forms of dispute resolution, such as binding in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. All Claims (excluding requests for injunctive or equitable relief) between the parties must be resolved using the dispute resolution mechanism that is selected in accordance with this Section by the first party to file a Claim. Should either party file an action contrary to this Section 17, the other party may recover attorneys' fees and costs up to $1000, provided that the party seeking the award has notified the other party in writing of the improperly filed Claim, and the other party has failed to withdraw the Claim.

18. Additional Terms.
The following policies are incorporated into this Agreement by reference and provide additional terms and conditions related to specific services offered on the Site: