Terms of Use
The marketplace
WhipLister is a free, advertising-supported marketplace for vehicles. Searching, browsing, saving, and messaging are free. Listing a vehicle is free for private sellers, dealers, and businesses. WhipLister is not a party to any sale between users (see Liability & Legal §1).
Accounts and verification
- One account per person or business. You are responsible for activity under your account.
- Publishing a listing requires a confirmed email (through the publish link we send), VIN validation, duplicate checks, and passing automatic scam screening. One verified email may hold one live listing at a time. WhipLister has no user accounts — listing control is by email link only.
- A verification or listing ban for fraud is permanent and applies across identity, device, and payment fingerprints.
Listing rules — the honesty standard
- Describe the vehicle truthfully: correct VIN, accurate mileage, correct title status, your own photos of the actual vehicle, and the required Highlights and Known Flaws sections completed in good faith.
- One live listing per VIN. No duplicates, no stock photos presented as the vehicle, no bait pricing, no vehicles you don't own or aren't authorized to sell.
- Keep availability honest: confirm freshness when asked and mark the vehicle sold the day it sells.
- Dealers must comply with applicable dealer advertising law and disclose dealer fees in the listing.
- AI-drafted content is the seller's responsibility: approving a draft means you stand behind every word.
Promotion
Optional paid promotion (Boost, Featured, Spotlight) is governed by the promotion rules: verified live listings only; activates when payment clears; one-time purchase; no auto-renew; expires on schedule; receipt by email; labeled on its face; and promotion never changes a deal check.
Prohibited conduct
- Fraud, scams, phishing, impersonation, or misrepresentation of any kind.
- Collecting other users' contact information for resale or off-platform solicitation.
- Circumventing verification, bans, bot checks, or rate limits; automated scraping beyond what robots.txt permits.
- Posting illegal content, stolen vehicles, or vehicles with undisclosed salvage/rebuilt titles.
- Harassment or discrimination. Vehicle sales must comply with applicable fair-dealing and consumer-protection law.
Enforcement, changes, contact
We may remove content or accounts that violate these terms, at our discretion (see Liability & Legal §10). We may update these terms; material changes will be announced on the site. Questions: autoboostteam@gmail.com. Safety concerns: Safety & Protection.
