Legal — Buyers

Buyer disclosures

When you place a bid on a IronHead™listing and check the "buyer disclosures" acknowledgement, you confirm that you have read and understood the disclosures below. These run alongside the auction rules.

As-is sale

Every listing on IronHead™— complete motorcycle, partial motorcycle, parts lot — is sold as-is. The seller does not warrant the lot's condition, mechanical fitness, roadworthiness, or suitability for any particular restoration project. The platform adds no warranty on top of the seller's representation.

The as-is term means the buyer accepts the lot with whatever defects, missing parts, prior repair quality, and mechanical faults exist at the moment the hammer falls. A buyer who needs additional warranty protection must negotiate it privately with the seller or walk away from the listing.

No implied warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the seller disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability, any implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and any other warranty that would otherwise arise by operation of law. The buyer accepts the lot on the seller's express representations only — the listing description, the listing photos, and any direct communication the seller posts on the comments thread.

Where the buyer's jurisdiction provides a non-excludable warranty (for example, consumer-protection regimes that forbid the disclaimer of merchantability for personal- use buyers), the disclaimer applies only to the extent the jurisdiction allows.

Mechanical and transaction risk

Vintage motorcycles carry mechanical risk that no seller can eliminate. Cracked cases, stripped threads, fatigued welds, electrical faults under load, and frame damage that is only visible after paint removal are common in 40-to-80-year-old machines. The buyer accepts this risk; the platform does not warrant that a motorcycle described as "running" will continue to run after delivery, that a transmission described as "shifts cleanly" will not develop a fault, or that an electrical system described as "wired to factory spec" will pass a road-side inspection in the buyer's jurisdiction.

The transaction risk — that the seller cannot deliver the lot, that courier damage occurs in transit, that customs seizure occurs on cross-border delivery — is shared between the buyer and the seller under the platform's stepped disputes process. The platform's role is limited to marketplace coordination and mediation; it does not hold buyer sale funds in escrow.

Mileage and odometer caveat

Mileage readings are seller-reported. The platform does not independently verify any odometer reading, does not warrant any odometer reading as accurate or current, and does not warrant that the odometer has not rolled over, been replaced, or been tampered with prior to the seller's ownership. A buyer concerned about mileage (motorcycle-frame VIN match, title-document match, prior-owner corroboration) must perform that due diligence on the listing's documentation before bidding.

Title transfer risk

The seller represents the title status at the moment of listing submission. The platform does not warrant that the title will transfer cleanly in the buyer's jurisdiction, that the title is accepted by the buyer's home-state DMV / DVLA / prefecture, that a salvage or rebuilt title can be re-registered for road use, or that a missing/in-transit title will resolve before delivery. The buyer is responsible for understanding what their jurisdiction accepts before bidding.

Parts lots

Many IronHead™listings are individual parts — tanks, frames, engines, wheels, carburettor sets, fairings, seats, specialized brackets — rather than complete motorcycles. Parts lots carry no representation that the part fits a specific year/variant of a model family without modification, that the part is OEM-grade (rather than reproduction or refurb), or that any prior owner's modification is documented. Buyers should read the listing description carefully and message the seller through the comments thread before bidding on a parts lot they are not certain about.

Platform-vs-party responsibility

IronHead™operates the marketplace, records bids without collecting buyer sale funds, runs the auction clock, and curates submissions for legal and safety review. We do not own the lots being sold, we do not warrant the lots' condition, and we are not the warrantor of any seller statement beyond what we publish in the listing. Mechanical, transaction, and title-transfer risk sits with the parties to the sale; the platform coordinates manual settlement and mediates disputes but does not insure or hold sale funds.

What to do before bidding

• Read the listing description and inspect every photo carefully. Zoom in on the critical areas (frame stamp area, engine cases, top of the bore through the spark plug hole).
• Read the seller's prior auction history and credibility aggregate on the seller profile link in the summary panel.
• Ask the seller a clarifying question through the comments thread on the listing. Sellers are expected to reply and their replies become part of the listing's representations.
• Resolve every open question before bidding. Hard-to-reverse mechanics and title uncertainty are reasons to walk away.

Effective date: 2026-08-26. This document is informational and has not been reviewed by qualified counsel. Items about jurisdiction-specific implied-warranty exclusions, consumer-protection carve-outs, and salvage-title road-use rules require professional legal review before this text can be relied on as a binding contract.