Terms of Service

The marketplace at hifiregistry.com is operated by HiFi Registry LLC, an Arizona limited liability company. The platform, including all software, source code, databases, content, brand assets, trademarks, and other intellectual property comprising the platform, is owned at all times by High Fidelity Holdings LLC, also an Arizona limited liability company, and is licensed to HiFi Registry LLC for the limited purpose of operating the marketplace. The two entities are separate Arizona limited liability companies with independent governance, capitalization, books, and records.

Where these Terms refer to “HiFi Registry,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” they refer to HiFi Registry LLC acting on behalf of, and under license from, High Fidelity Holdings LLC.

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the platform. By creating an account or completing a transaction, you agree to these Terms, which form a binding contract between you and HiFi Registry LLC.

Sellers are responsible for the accuracy of their listings, including:

• Accurate condition grades (1–10 scale, tied to photos)
• Honest descriptions of known defects, modifications, or missing accessories
• Correct item category and specifications
• Photos that accurately represent the current condition of the item

Listings that misrepresent condition, omit material defects, or use deceptive photography are grounds for immediate removal and account suspension. See our Moderation Policy for details.

Manufacturer certification claims (including but not limited to Wilson Audio Certified Authentic™) are asserted by the listing dealer under that dealer’s authorization from the manufacturer. HiFi Registry displays these claims but does not independently verify manufacturer-specific certification programs. Buyers should verify certification status and warranty coverage directly with the dealer and/or the manufacturer.

The following are not permitted on HiFi Registry:

• Counterfeit or replica equipment represented as genuine
• Stolen property
• Items with removed, altered, or falsified serial numbers
• Unlicensed software or firmware modifications
• Any item prohibited by applicable law

HiFi Registry charges a single flat listing fee. There are no commissions, no percentage-of-sale charges, and no recurring fees of any kind.

The $25 listing fee is a one-time charge, collected via PayPal at the final step of the listing wizard. Your listing remains active, good until sold, with no expiration and no renewal fees.

Pausing a listing, enabling vacation hold, or any other change to listing status does not incur any additional charges. The $25 fee is paid once, and that is the entirety of what HiFi Registry collects from sellers.

Listing fees are non-refundable. Full fee details, including music media pricing, are available on the Fee Schedule.

For listings at $10,000 or above, we suggest — but do not require — completing a one-time identity check using Stripe Identity. Stripe Identity is used solely for identity verification and does not process any payments on HiFi Registry. The $25 listing fee is collected separately via PayPal.

Users may, at their own discretion, share personal contact information such as email addresses or phone numbers with other users at any time. HiFi Registry does not prohibit off-platform communication or transactions. However, if users choose to communicate or complete a transaction outside of the HiFi Registry platform, they do so entirely at their own risk. HiFi Registry has no jurisdiction, authority, or obligation with respect to any off-platform communication or transaction, and will not moderate, review, or take any position with respect to any off-platform communication or transaction. Users who take communication or transactions off-platform do so entirely at their own risk and have no recourse through HiFi Registry.

Taxes. You are solely responsible for determining, collecting, withholding, reporting, and remitting any taxes, duties, or other government charges that may apply to your transactions on HiFi Registry, including sales tax, use tax, value-added tax, and income tax. If your activity exceeds applicable reporting thresholds, PayPal may issue you a Form 1099-K under U.S. tax law for the listing fees you have paid through PayPal. HiFi Registry LLC and High Fidelity Holdings LLC do not issue tax forms to sellers, do not withhold taxes on your behalf, and are not parties to your tax-reporting obligations.

We may suspend or terminate your account, restrict your access, or remove any listing or content, at our sole discretion and at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including (but not limited to) actual or suspected violation of these Terms, misrepresentation, feedback manipulation, failure to complete a committed sale, abusive behavior, or activity that we determine in good faith may expose HiFi Registry LLC, High Fidelity Holdings LLC, or other users to harm or legal risk.

Ban decisions and the categorical reasons for them may be published on our public moderation log — accounts are identified by username and the category of violation, not personal details. See Moderation Policy for details. The public moderation log exists to maintain trust and accountability with the community; the broader discretion above exists so we can act quickly when we need to.

You retain ownership of photos and descriptions you upload. By posting them, you grant HiFi Registry LLC and High Fidelity Holdings LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to display, reproduce, distribute, and sublicense that content on the platform and in platform communications (e.g., transaction emails, sold-price records). The sublicense right exists solely to permit High Fidelity Holdings LLC, as the owner of the platform software, to make your content available through the platform; it does not authorize the sale or transfer of your content to unrelated third parties. We do not sell your listing photos to third parties.

HiFi Registry strictly prohibits any automated, programmatic, or non-human access to the platform, including but not limited to web scraping, crawling, spidering, data mining, screen scraping, automated browsing, bot-driven requests, or any other method of extracting data from the platform in bulk or at scale without HiFi Registry's prior written consent.

This prohibition applies regardless of the stated purpose — commercial, research, competitive analysis, price monitoring, or otherwise — and regardless of whether the extracted data is publicly visible on the platform. The structure, compilation, and arrangement of HiFi Registry data constitutes proprietary information protected under applicable law.

HiFi Registry reserves the right, without notice and at its sole discretion, to:

• Rate-limit, throttle, or block any IP address, IP range, account, or user agent exhibiting patterns consistent with automated access
• Terminate accounts found to be engaged in automated data collection
• Permanently ban IP addresses or networks associated with scraping activity
• Take legal action against individuals or entities engaged in unauthorized data harvesting

HiFi Registry actively monitors platform traffic for anomalous access patterns. Detection of automated activity may occur through rate analysis, behavioral fingerprinting, honeypot detection, or other technical means. You agree not to circumvent, disable, or interfere with any such monitoring or protective mechanisms.

Violations of this section constitute a material breach of these Terms and may expose the violating party to civil and criminal liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and other applicable federal and state law.

HiFi Registry respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. If you believe content on the platform infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notice of infringement to our designated Copyright Agent:

Your notice must include all of the following, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if multiple works are involved;
3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing — the specific URL on hifiregistry.com is required;
4. Your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Upon receipt of a compliant notice, we will remove or disable access to the material expeditiously and notify the user who posted it. Repeat infringers will have their accounts terminated.

Counter-notice. If you believe content you posted was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice to the Copyright Agent including: your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the removal was a mistake or misidentification, your contact information, and a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal court in the district where you reside (or, if outside the United States, the federal court in Maricopa County, Arizona).

Knowingly submitting a false notice or counter-notice may subject you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

HiFi Registry is a marketplace, not a dealer. We do not own, inspect, warrant, or guarantee any item listed for sale. Transactions occur between users; HiFi Registry LLC and High Fidelity Holdings LLC are not parties to any sale.

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HiFi Registry LLC AND HIGH FIDELITY HOLDINGS LLC DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, NOR THAT RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE PLATFORM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

Limitation of liability.To the fullest extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability of HiFi Registry LLC, High Fidelity Holdings LLC, and their respective officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents to you, for any cause whatsoever — regardless of the form of the action and whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or otherwise — is limited to the listing fee you have paid for the relevant transaction. In no event will we be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

High Fidelity Holdings LLC's role with respect to the platform is limited to licensing the platform software and intellectual property to HiFi Registry LLC. High Fidelity Holdings LLC does not operate the platform, process transactions, hold user funds, moderate content, provide customer service, communicate with users, or otherwise engage in user-facing functions.

Users have no direct claim against High Fidelity Holdings LLC for matters arising from the operation of the platform, including (without limitation) transaction disputes, content removal, account decisions, technical failures, breach of these Terms, or other claims rooted in platform operations. Such claims must be brought, if at all, against HiFi Registry LLC.

Any claim that may be brought against High Fidelity Holdings LLC is limited to claims directly arising from its ownership of the licensed intellectual property and remains subject to the disclaimers and limitation of liability set forth in Section 12.

No officer, member, employee, contractor, or agent of HiFi Registry LLC or High Fidelity Holdings LLC has personal liability under these Terms or for any matter arising from the operation of the platform. Claims arising from or related to the platform or these Terms must be brought against the relevant limited liability company, not against any individual associated with it.

This Section does not purport to limit liability for an individual's own intentional misconduct that falls outside the scope of their role with the LLC.

We will deliver any notice required or permitted under these Terms by email to the address associated with your account, or by posting to a prominent location on the platform. Notice is effective when sent (for email) or when posted (for platform notice). You are responsible for keeping the email address on your account current.

You may deliver notice to HiFi Registry LLC by email to admin@hifiregistry.com. DMCA notices must follow the procedure set forth in Section 11. Privacy-related requests should follow the procedure set forth in our Privacy Policy.