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Terms and Policies

Below are our policies for the Coachella Valley Trading Company (CoTradeCo). If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us:

PH: 866-530-4804
FAX: 866-525-8219

cotradeco.com

PO BOX 957
La Quinta 92247-0957

Shopping policies

Rush shipments & special instructions

Please request Fed Ex, UPS Air; Next Day, 2nd or 3rd Day, or Freight Collect. We will promptly take care of your needs.

Shipping policy

CoTradeCo ships prepaid and invoices you for the charges.

  • Your order is shipped from the nearest CoTradeCo location.
  • UPS is used whenever possible. However, should your order exceed UPS size or weight limits, “Common Carrier” will be selected to speed delivery to you.
  • $1.00 handling fee per item will be added to shipping charges.
  • All orders are shipped within 3 days unless otherwise noted either in the category containing a product or in the product listing itself.
  • Trader Dan will contact you if your order cannot be shipped within 3 days.
  • Final shipping price will be calculated once we have reviewed and verified your order. You will be contacted by phone or sent a confirmation email with final shipping before your card will be charged. Trader Dan doesn’t like surprises, and he doesn’t think you should get any on your bill!

Returns

Call 866-530-4804 to receive an authorization number and return the merchandise within 30 days.

Note: Customers will be responsible for shipping charges on cancelled orders.

Inside delivery

Please specify if you need inside delivery when placing your order. UPS does not charge for this service. There may be a charge when using a truck line.

Prices

CoTradeCo strives to maintain prices at the lowest level. Occasionally, prices change without notice due to circumstances beyond our control.

Social networking and community policies

An important part of the CoTradeCo experience is community building and social networking. We encourage our visitors to post stories and images from their own lives for work and pleasure, stories and reviews of our products, as well as tools for promoting yourself and your business. This is a free no-cost service provided for our visitors which requires an account with CoTradeCo. All material submitted to the CoTradeCo website is copyright and belongs to the individual who submitted it. Please do submit copyrighted material that does not belong to you. Otherwise have fun and play civil. People submitting material violating copyright or otherwise acting like a jerk will have their accounts deleted from the system.

Communities, stories community blog, your SPOT, and SPAM

Our goal is to provide the most useful online resource for the communities and industries we serve. Our policies are designed to help protect our visitors from any kind of online abuse. Real people posting real items is unlikely to ever be considered SPAM.

SPAM will not be tolerated in the CoTradeCo community blog stories. We provide various story topics for individuals, businesses, clubs, and other organizations to share information, network, and dialogue. All community blog story posts should be done in the appropriate community and story topic in order to provide focused and useful information to our communities.

CoTradeCo provides a special story topic called SHAMELESS PROMOTIONS for the purposes of encouraging our communities to promote their own ventures and activities and is one of the core services of CoTradeCo. If you are posting an event, an advertisement, or other promotional item be it for profit or not, please post it in the Shameless Promotions story topic. While the CoTradeCo trading post encourages everyone to post, there are some items and circumstances that can be considered SPAM even within the Shameless Promotions story topic.

Items considered SPAM at CoTradeCo

  • Posting the same exact story twice.
    We allow repeated postings for the same business, service or club but limit the frequency of posting to once per week per community for similar postings, but require each posting to be unique in description. Identical duplicate entries will be deleted.
  • Identical posts on third party services
    Feel free to post your content on multiple sites and services, but please try to provide some unique in your postings here (e.g. some alternative verbiage).
  • Automated posting
    Posting content via robots for the purposes of mass distribution is not allowed. We may offer various means of sharing syndicated content but this is very different from a program or bot spamming our site.
  • Links to external sites without description or clear purpose.
    You must always provide adequate and useful summary description explaining the purpose and usefulness of any post or profile links. Any external links should make sense and be useful in the context they are provided.
  • Content offering get rich quick style business opportunities
    While we promote networking and business opportunities we do not endorse or support multi-level marketing systems and vague undefined opportunities. Basically do not post anything that doesn’t clearly explain itself, requires enrollment in a low risk huge income opportunity, or is not a clearly legitimate business opportunity that you would consider pitching at a local Chamber of Commerce.
  • Ongoing posting without providing a profile image and some basic profile information
    Part of the usefulness of our communities comes from real human interaction. Repeatedly posting on CoTradeCo, especially advertisements, without a SPOT that shares a little about who you are does not enrich our communities
  • Posting irrelevant information
    Content posted that has no use whatever to our community members, even in the Potluck community

Any post considered SPAM will be deleted from the CoTradeCo servers at our discretion. Repeated SPAMMING of our site will result in your SPOT being deleted. We regret to even have to think about, let alone discuss the potential of SPAM here at CoTradeCo, but these policies are here to protect all of us.

Privacy

We take your security and privacy very seriously. Our official privacy policy can be found here.

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