Terms and Conditions for Orange Pages


Last updated: October 2026

Orange Pages is run by Orange Pages Limited (company number 8869748, NZBN 9429051567057). These Terms are the deal between you and us about using the site, and our Privacy Statement is part of them.

1. Using Orange Pages
1.1  You need two things: a Lightning wallet, which is how you sign in and how you pay listing fees, and an email address, which is how we and the person you’re trading with reach you.

1.2  There’s no password here. Your wallet is your account. Lose access to it and you lose the account, your rating and your trade history with it — we’ve got no other way to tell it’s you. Back up your wallet.

1.3  Give us a real name and an email address you actually read, and keep it current. Trade notifications go there, and a trade that falls over because you weren’t reading your email is on you.

1.4  One account per person. Setting up extras, or using someone else’s, is grounds for us to close the lot.

1.5  Whatever happens through your account is your responsibility.

1.6  We can decline to open an account, or suspend or close one, under section 10.
2. What you may not list or do
2.1  Don’t list anything that’s unlawful to sell or possess in New Zealand. That includes controlled drugs and drug paraphernalia, firearms, ammunition, explosives and restricted weapons, stolen property, counterfeit or pirated goods, prescription medicines, tobacco or vaping products unless you’re a licensed retailer, alcohol unless you hold the right licence, live animals, human remains or body parts, hazardous substances, objectionable material under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, and anything subject to a recall.

2.2  Don’t list financial products, securities, loans or investment opportunities, or anything you don’t currently have or have an immediate right to sell.

2.3  Don’t run more than one account, arrange trades that didn’t really happen, collude with someone to inflate ratings, or otherwise game the rating system.

2.4  Don’t harass, threaten or abuse another user, publish someone’s private information, send unsolicited commercial messages, scrape the site, or interfere with how it runs.

2.5  Use another user’s contact details only to arrange and finish the trade you’re both part of. Anything else is a breach of these Terms.

2.6  Don’t click Buy on something you don’t actually intend to buy. Committing hands you the seller’s name and email address and takes their item off the market for 72 hours, so doing it without following through takes something real off them. Don’t use the buy flow to collect contact details for any other reason, and don’t hold open more commitments than you can realistically finish.

2.7  Don’t create a Services listing for a business you don’t own or aren’t authorised to represent.

2.8  We review every listing before it goes up, and we aim to do that within 48 hours. We can decline or remove any listing, and close any account that breaches this section, without notice and without refunding the fee.
3. Your privacy
3.1  How we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Statement, which is part of these Terms. Read it before you trade.

3.2  One bit is worth repeating here. When a trade starts we automatically send the buyer and the seller each other’s name and email address so you can sort the trade out directly. There’s no way to trade without it, and once those details are out we can’t pull them back.
4. Fees and payment
4.1  Payment for an item goes straight from buyer to seller over the Lightning Network, on whatever terms the two of you agree. We’re not part of that: we never hold, escrow, forward or see your payment, and there’s no escrow on this platform.

4.2  We take no commission. Whatever the buyer pays the seller is entirely between them.

4.3  Listing an item on the Goods marketplace costs 1000 sats, paid from your Lightning wallet when you create it. One fee, and the listing stays up until the item sells or you take it down.

4.4  Listing a business on Services costs 10000 sats, paid the same way. No renewal fee, no ongoing charge.

4.5  Fees aren’t refundable, including if we knock a listing back at moderation. We’ll tell you why and you’re welcome to fix it and resubmit, but you don’t get the first fee back.

4.6  A listing isn’t published until its fee is paid. An unpaid one sits in your account until you pay for it or delete it.

4.7  We can change our fees. A change only applies to listings created after it takes effect, never to one you’ve already paid for.

4.8  Your tax is your business. Income tax or GST might apply depending on how much and how often you sell, and Bitcoin you receive can have tax consequences. We don’t withhold tax, issue tax invoices, or advise on any of it — talk to an accountant or see ird.govt.nz.
5. How a trade works
5.1  Orange Pages is a venue, not a party to your trade. We publish listings and put buyers and sellers in touch. The contract for the sale is between the two of you.

5.2  A seller creates a listing and pays the fee. We review it before it’s published.

5.3  A buyer commits by clicking Buy and confirming. At that point we email both parties the other’s name and email address so they can arrange the trade directly. This is automatic and it cannot be undone. Before you click Buy, be aware that doing so gives the seller your name and email address, and gives you theirs.

5.4  Once a buyer commits, the listing is held for them for 72 hours. If nothing has moved by then, the seller can relist it.

5.5  Payment goes directly between the two of you in Bitcoin. Once sent, a Bitcoin payment can’t be reversed — not by us, not by anyone.

5.6  When the trade’s done, both of you mark it complete and leave feedback about each other. Feedback isn’t optional — you can’t list another item until you’ve left it for your last trade, though you can still buy. If a trade is disputed and can’t be marked complete, clause 11.6 applies.

5.7  We do not inspect items, confirm that a seller owns what they are selling, verify anyone’s identity, guarantee delivery or condition, hold funds, or reverse payments. Please read that sentence twice before your first trade.
6. What buyers and sellers must do
6.1  If you’re selling: own the item or have the right to sell it, describe it accurately including any faults, use photos of the actual item, honour the price you listed, reply to your buyer promptly, and hand it over or send it as agreed.

6.2  If you’re buying: pay in full and on time, turn up when you said you would, and don’t try to renegotiate after you’ve committed.

6.3  Both of you should talk directly and in good faith, and have a real go at sorting any problem out between yourselves before bringing it to us.

6.4  Sell often enough, or in enough volume, and you might be selling “in trade” under the Fair Trading Act 1986 and the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 — even with no registered business. That comes with real obligations: what you sell has to match how you described it and be fit for purpose, and buyers have remedies if it isn’t. Whether you’ve crossed that line is about what you actually do, not what you call yourself.
7. Ratings and feedback
7.1  Your rating is worked out automatically from the feedback your trading partners leave, and climbs through Nocoiner, Shitcoiner, Bitcoiner and Maxi as you complete trades. It applies to Goods only — Services listings carry no rating.

7.2  Feedback is public and permanent. We won’t remove or edit it just because you disagree with it.

7.3  We will remove feedback containing abuse, someone’s private information, or unlawful content, and we may remove feedback we think has been manipulated.

7.4  Your rating is an automated summary of what other people have said about you. It’s not a guarantee from us that anyone is trustworthy, and it shouldn’t be your only reason for trusting them.

7.5  Manipulate ratings and we’ll reset the rating and close the accounts involved.
8. Services listings
8.1  Only the business itself, or the Orange Pages team, can create a Services listing. Don’t list someone else’s business for them.

8.2  A listing created by a business is Verified once we’ve confirmed it owns the email address used, either by matching it to the website domain or by a manual check.

8.3  A listing our team has created from a public source shows as Community-listed until the business gets in touch to confirm its details. It then becomes Verified and the business takes over managing it.

8.4  A Verified listing can be edited or removed only by its verified owner. A Community-listed one can be edited only by our team.

8.5  A business can ask us to remove a Community-listed entry at any time, for any reason or none, at no cost.

8.6  Each physical location needs its own listing.

8.7  Keeping a listing accurate is the business’s job. We’ll email the verified contact once a year to ask whether it’s still current, and any signed-in user can flag one that looks out of date.

8.8  A Services listing means a business has told us it accepts Bitcoin. It’s not a recommendation, and it’s not a promise they still accept it today.
9. Your content and ours
9.1  You keep ownership of everything you post. By posting it you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce and distribute it for running and promoting Orange Pages, including on our Nostr and Telegram channels.

9.2  Anything published to Nostr goes out across a public relay network we don’t control. Once it’s there it can stay publicly available even after you delete the listing here.

9.3  You confirm you own or have permission to use every image and description you upload, and that nothing you post infringes anyone else’s rights.

9.4  The Orange Pages name, logo and site design belong to us. Don’t use them without our written permission.
10. Suspension and closure of accounts
10.1  You can close your account whenever you like.

10.2  We can suspend or close an account that breaches these Terms, or that we reasonably think is being used fraudulently or to manipulate ratings.

10.3  Where we can, we’ll tell you why. We may act without notice if waiting would let someone else get hurt.

10.4  If you think we’ve got it wrong, email [email protected]. We’ll look again and reply as quickly as we reasonably can. That’s a review by us, not an independent process, and it doesn’t affect any legal right you have.

10.5  When an account closes, any live listings come down and no fee already paid is refunded. Trade and feedback records that other people’s ratings depend on are anonymised rather than deleted — see the Privacy Statement.

10.6  Any trade already under way still needs finishing. Closing your account doesn’t get you out of a commitment you’ve already made.

10.7  Sections 7, 9, 12 and 14 keep applying after an account is closed.
11. When a trade goes wrong
11.1  Talk to each other first. Most problems are a slow reply or a mix-up about pick-up. Give the other person seven days before escalating.

11.2  If that doesn’t sort it, either of you can email [email protected] with the listing, the dates and whatever evidence you have. We’ll acknowledge it and work through it as quickly as we reasonably can, and we’ll tell you if we need to hear from the other side first.

11.3  What we can do stops at this platform. We can review and annotate or remove feedback, remove a listing, and suspend or close an account.

11.4  What we cannot do, and will not attempt: recover or reverse a Bitcoin payment, compel anyone to deliver an item or refund money, compensate you for a loss, or make a legally binding ruling about who is right. Nobody can reverse a Lightning or on-chain payment.

11.5  A trade you make here is a contract between you and the other person, and your legal rights against them aren’t affected by anything we do or decide. For amounts up to $30,000 the Disputes Tribunal is usually the right forum. If you think you’ve been defrauded, contact the New Zealand Police.

11.6  A disputed trade can’t be marked complete, so the feedback stays outstanding and neither of you can list another item until it’s resolved — including whoever did nothing wrong. Buying isn’t affected. If a dispute is dragging on, tell us at [email protected].
12. Our liability
12.1  Orange Pages is provided as it is. We don’t promise the site will always be up, error-free or uninterrupted.

12.2  We are a venue, not a party to your trade. What we undertake to you is to publish listings, moderate them against these Terms, put buyers and sellers in touch, and operate the rating system. We do not undertake anything about the people you meet here or the items they list. In particular we are not responsible for the identity, honesty, solvency or conduct of any user; the accuracy or completeness of any listing; the existence, ownership, condition, quality, safety or legality of any item; whether a payment is made, or an item delivered, or either matches what was agreed; or anything said or done between two users away from this site.

12.3  Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986 where those Acts apply to you. Where you are using Orange Pages for the purposes of a business, the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply and sections 9, 12A and 13 of the Fair Trading Act do not apply.

12.4  Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law, or your rights under the Privacy Act 2020, which cannot be contracted out of.

12.5  Subject to clauses 12.3 and 12.4, our total liability to you for everything connected with Orange Pages is limited to the greater of NZ$2,000 and the total fees you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

12.6  We’re not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost opportunity, or loss of Bitcoin however it happens.

12.7  If you breach these Terms and that lands us with a claim from someone else — because you listed something you didn’t own, or something unlawful — you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it.
13. Changes to these Terms
13.1  We can update these Terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed.

13.2  If we make a material change we’ll ask you to accept the updated Terms next time you sign in. You can’t carry on using the site without accepting them.
14. Governing law
14.1  These Terms are governed by New Zealand law, and the New Zealand courts have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute about them.

14.2  If any part of these Terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.

14.3  These Terms and our Privacy Statement are the whole agreement between you and us about using Orange Pages.

14.4  You can’t transfer your account or your rights under these Terms to anyone else.

14.5  We can transfer these Terms, and our rights and obligations under them, to someone else if Orange Pages or Orange Pages Limited is sold, merged or restructured. Your account, listings, ratings and personal information would go with it, and the new operator would be bound by these Terms and the Privacy Statement as they stood at the time. We’ll email registered users once that’s happened. You can close your account at any point, before or after — section 10 says what that means.
15. Contact us
15.1  General questions and account issues: [email protected].

15.2  Trade disputes: [email protected].

15.3  Privacy requests: [email protected], marked for the attention of the Privacy Officer.

15.4  Orange Pages Limited, registered in New Zealand. Company number 8869748, NZBN 9429051567057. Our registered office address is on the Companies Register, free to search at companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz.
16. Accepting these Terms
16.1  We ask you to accept these Terms and our Privacy Statement when you set up your account, and again whenever we make a material change. You can’t use Orange Pages without accepting them.

16.2  We keep a record of which version you accepted and when.