Terms of use

This is a translation for convenience. The German version is legally binding.

1. Scope and provider

1.1 These terms of use (“Terms”) apply to the use of wabisabi.cards and all related features (together “wabisabi”). The provider is Pascal Claisse, c/o flexdienst – #22363, Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 74, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany (“we”). Full details are given in the legal notice.

1.2 Users’ own terms do not apply unless we expressly agree to them.

1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these Terms is any natural person who uses wabisabi for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or profession (§ 13 BGB).

2. What wabisabi is – and what it is not

2.1 wabisabi is a catalogue and price comparison for cards of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. We combine publicly available offers and prices from several marketplaces (currently eBay and Cardmarket), assign them to cards and present them clearly.

2.2 We do not sell any cards ourselves and are not a party to any purchase contract. A purchase is concluded exclusively between you and the respective seller on the marketplace, under their terms. The marketplace and the seller alone are responsible for offers, sellers, delivery, payment and warranty.

2.3 Prices, availability, conditions and assignments are determined automatically and may be incomplete, delayed or incorrect. Only the information on the marketplace at the time of your purchase is authoritative. Price histories, portfolio values and statistics are guide values and not a valuation, investment or purchase recommendation.

2.4 Links to eBay are affiliate links; we receive a commission on a purchase. The price for you stays the same. Offers are ordered by their price excluding shipping, not by commission. Shipping is added on top; the marketplace shows the amount.

3. Use without an account and your account

3.1 You can use the catalogue, search and price comparison without an account.

3.2 Further features – such as portfolio, favourites, lists and sharing portfolios – require a free account. When you register, a free contract of use under these Terms is concluded between you and us.

3.3 You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.

3.4 You must provide your own valid email address and protect access to your account (in particular to your email inbox, your second factor and your passkeys) from third parties. Each person may hold only one account; accounts are not transferable.

4. Obligations, profiles and moderation

4.1 You use wabisabi only within the applicable law and these Terms. In particular, you may not

• extract content, price data or images from wabisabi automatically on a larger scale (scraping), copy them or use them for your own offerings, except via an interface we provide for this purpose and within its limits,
• overload the website or interfaces, circumvent security measures or exploit vulnerabilities,
• submit unlawful, offensive or misleading content through “Report a problem” or other features,
• use a display name that is offensive, discriminatory or otherwise unlawful, contains advertising, or by which you pretend to be another person, a company or wabisabi.

4.2 If you breach these obligations, we may warn you, block individual features or suspend your account temporarily or permanently. In doing so we take your legitimate interests and the severity of the breach into account.

4.3 Display name and shared portfolios. You can set a display name in your profile and share portfolios via a link. Anyone who knows the link can see a shared portfolio – its content, your display name and your profile picture. You are responsible for your display name and for what you share. You can stop sharing at any time.

4.4 Moderation. If a display name or a shared portfolio breaches clause 4.1, or if we receive a substantiated notice that it does, we may remove the display name or stop the sharing. Each case is decided by a person; we do not use automated moderation. We will inform you of such a measure by email and state the reason. You can object to the decision by replying to that email or through the contact form; we will then review it again. You can set a new display name or share again yourself at any time, as long as it complies with these rules. Further measures are governed by clause 4.2.

4.5 Notices of unlawful content. If you consider content on wabisabi to be unlawful – such as a display name or a shared portfolio – you can tell us through the contact form or by email to [email protected]. Please include the link to the content and your reasons. We review every notice promptly and tell you our decision if you give us an email address.

4.6 Point of contact. The single point of contact for users and for the authorities of the Member States, the Commission and the Board under Art. 11 and 12 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) is [email protected]. You can write to us in German or English.

5. Paid features

All features of wabisabi are currently free of charge. If we introduce paid features, separate terms will apply to them, which we will show you before any contract is concluded and which you must expressly accept. A paid contract is never concluded without your action.

6. Access for AI assistants (MCP)

6.1 By signing in with your account or with a key you can connect an AI assistant to wabisabi via the Model Context Protocol (“MCP”). You may use this access only for your own non-commercial use unless agreed otherwise. You may not publish or pass on the data retrieved, or build it into other applications or services. Keep the key secret. In your account you can disconnect connected apps at any time, and revoke or replace the key at any time.

6.2 If you allow an app or the key to write, the assistant can add cards to your portfolio and favourites and change or remove them there. These changes count as your own entries. Whether the assistant recognises a card correctly – for example on a photo – is up to the assistant and its provider, not us; check its suggestions before you confirm them. You can switch write access off in your account at any time, for each app separately.

6.3 We set usage limits (e.g. requests per day and per minute) and show them in your account. We may change them and restrict access in case of misuse or excessive load.

6.4 Links to offers handed out through this access lead via a redirect page on wabisabi that shows the destination. Links to eBay are affiliate links there too (clause 2.4).

7. Availability and changes

7.1 We strive for availability that is as uninterrupted as possible, but do not owe it. Maintenance, disruptions at service providers and outages of data sources may lead to restrictions.

7.2 We continue to develop wabisabi and may change, add or discontinue features. We will inform you in good time before material changes.

8. Rights to content

8.1 The content of wabisabi – in particular texts, database, design and software – is protected by copyright or as a database. You may view it for your personal use and share individual items with attribution of the source.

8.2 Card images, card names and the Pokémon logo are trademarks or copyrighted works of Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc. and The Pokémon Company; we grant no rights to them.

8.3 We may use content you submit to us (e.g. reports) free of charge to fix errors and improve our data.

9. Liability

9.1 We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and to the extent of any guarantee we have given.

9.2 In the event of a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation, our liability is limited to the damage that was foreseeable and typical for the contract at the time it was concluded. Essential contractual obligations are those whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely.

9.3 Otherwise, our liability for slight negligence is excluded. This applies in particular to decisions you make based on the prices, values or statistics shown (clause 2.3) and to purchase contracts with third parties (clause 2.2).

9.4 The above limitations also apply in favour of our legal representatives and vicarious agents.

10. Term and termination of the account

10.1 The contract of use for the free account runs for an indefinite period. You can end it at any time by deleting your account in the account settings.

10.2 We may terminate the contract of use for the free account by email with four weeks’ notice. The right of either party to terminate for good cause, for example in the event of serious or repeated breaches of clause 4, remains unaffected.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms where there is an objective reason, such as a change in the law, new case law or new features. We will notify you of changes by email at least six weeks before they take effect. If you do not object before they take effect, the amended Terms are deemed accepted; we will point out this consequence, your right to object and the deadline separately in the notification. If you object, either party may terminate the contract with effect from the date the change takes effect. Material changes to your rights and obligations require your express consent.

12. Final provisions

12.1 The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, you retain the protection of the mandatory provisions of that country.

12.2 If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is our place of business.

12.3 We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

12.4 Should individual provisions of these Terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

12.5 These Terms are available in German and English. The German version is binding.