Terms of use

1. Who we are

Groundcare Machinery For Sale is operated by Welto Limited, company number 14630258, registered office 167-169 Great Portland Street, London, England, W1W 5PF ("we", "us"). By using the site you accept these terms. Dealers accept them expressly when they apply to list. You must be 18 or over to use the site.

2. What this site is

We are an advertising platform. Dealers list machinery, buyers contact dealers, and any resulting sale is a contract between those two parties only. We are not the seller, not an agent for either side, not a broker, and not a party to your transaction. We do not inspect machines, hold stock, take payment for machinery, or handle delivery.

We never ask a buyer for payment and never hold funds. If anyone claiming to be from Groundcare Machinery For Sale asks you for money, it is not us. Please tell us, and read buying safely before parting with anything.

3. Who can sell here

Only UK businesses. We review every application and approve each seller before any listing goes live. Private sellers cannot list.

Approval means we were satisfied, when we approved them, that the seller is a genuine business. It is not an endorsement, a credit check, a warranty about the machinery, or a guarantee of how that dealer will behave. Do your own diligence.

4. Dealer obligations

If you list machinery here you agree that:

• every listing is accurate: the year, engine hours, condition and specification are as you genuinely believe them to be, and photographs are of the actual item for sale
• you have the right to sell what you list, and it is free of undisclosed finance or charges
• you hold the rights to any photographs and text you upload, and grant us a licence to display them
• every price states whether VAT is included, and where a consumer might buy it you make the VAT-inclusive price clear to them. "+ VAT" is a trade convention, not a price a consumer can be held to
• you will honour an advertised price or withdraw the listing
• you will not list anything stolen, unlawful to sell, or that you are not entitled to sell
• when you sell to a consumer you meet your obligations to them under consumer law, including the Consumer Rights Act 2015
• you will respond to enquiries, because a dealer who does not is worse than no listing at all
• you will keep stock current and remove listings once sold
• you will handle buyers' personal data lawfully; an enquiry makes you an independent controller of the contact details in it, and you will use them only to answer that buyer, not add them to marketing lists
• anyone you invite as staff acts on your behalf, and you are responsible for what they do on the site

We may refuse an application, remove or restrict a listing, or suspend an account where these terms are broken, where a listing looks fraudulent or unlawful, or where a dealer no longer trades. Whenever we do, we tell you why by email at the time. Before closing a dealer's account for good we give at least 30 days' notice, unless the law requires us to act sooner, you have seriously or repeatedly broken these terms, or we have good reason to believe listings are fraudulent or unlawful. Then we may act at once, and still give reasons. Reply to any such email to challenge the decision, and a person will look at it again.

You are responsible for your listings and your dealings with buyers. You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs that arise from your listings, from anything you do or fail to do in a sale, or from your breach of these terms.

5. Buyers

Contacting a dealer costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Everything you read on a listing comes from the dealer, not from us. Inspect it, or send someone who can, before you pay anything.

Do not use enquiry forms to send unsolicited marketing, scrape the site, or misrepresent who you are.

6. Illegal content and reporting

Nobody may post anything unlawful here, including listings for stolen machinery, fraudulent listings, or content that infringes someone else's rights. Every listing has a report link. We review reports promptly, remove unlawful content once we are aware of it, and may suspend the account responsible. If you disagree with a decision we make about content (yours, or something you reported), email us and a person will review it.

7. How listings are ordered

Search results show listings matching what you searched for. The default order is newest first, except that up to three listings with featured placement (a paid feature for dealers, bought with featured credits) are shown at the top of the first page. When more than three are featured, which three appear there changes each day, so each gets a fair turn; the rest appear in their usual place. Featured listings are always labelled "Featured". When you choose another order, such as price, year or engine hours, featured placement has no effect. Prices are compared excluding VAT, and listings that don't state a year or hours come after those that do. The "similar listings" shown on a listing page put listings from dealers on the Pro plan first, and say so. The dealer logos on the homepage are from Pro dealers, in alphabetical order. Nothing else a dealer pays for changes where their listings appear.

Complaints from dealers. If you're unhappy with how your listings are ranked or shown, a decision we've made about your account or listings, or anything else about the service, email info@groundcaremachineryforsale.com. We acknowledge complaints within 2 working days, a person (not an automated system) looks into each one, and we reply with our answer and the reasons for it, usually within 15 working days.

8. Fees

Buying is free. Dealers choose a plan (Free, Dealer or Pro) and pay a one-off listing fee for each listing they publish, at the rate for their plan when they publish it. The plans, their monthly prices, listing fees and what each includes are set out on the pricing page. We are not registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged on our fees. If we register, we will add VAT at the applicable rate from then on and tell you at least 30 days before. Fees are payable in advance by card through our payment provider, Stripe.

• Free period. Listings published before 1 January 2027 carry no listing fee, for as long as they stay on the site. “Published” means live, or submitted and waiting for your dealership to be approved, by 00:00 UK time (UTC) on 1 January 2027; a draft saved but not submitted by then is not published. The free listing is for the machine as listed: its make, model and year can't be changed after its first day live.
• Listing fees. A listing fee covers one listing until it is marked sold or taken off sale. Edits do not incur a further fee. A listing put back up within 90 days of coming down is not charged again; after that it is treated as a new listing and charged again. A deleted listing can't be put back: re-creating it is a new listing, and charged as one. No listing fee is taken before your dealership is approved.
• Subscriptions. Dealer and Pro are monthly and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from your billing page, and the cancellation takes effect at the end of the month already paid for, when your account moves to Free. Listings already paid for stay live.
• Changing plan. Moving up takes effect straight away, and the difference for the rest of the month is charged then. Moving down takes effect at the end of the month already paid for, and you keep the higher plan until then. Listing fees already paid aren't changed or refunded by a change of plan; new listings are charged at the rate for the plan you're on when you publish them. Featured credits follow the plan you're on when you use them, and a featured listing always runs its full 30 days.
• Free trial. Where a plan offers a free trial, it is available once per dealership. Card details are taken when the trial starts, nothing is charged during it, and the first monthly payment is taken when it ends unless you cancel before then.
• Featured credits. Credits included in a plan reset each month on your billing date: the day of the month your plan is billed, which during a free trial is the day the trial ends (or the last day of a shorter month). They are for the month they are given in, cannot be carried over, and have no cash value. Each credit features one listing for 30 days.
• Refunds. Listing fees are not refundable once the listing has been published, and subscription fees are not refunded for part months, except where we are at fault (for example, if a listing is removed because of our error) or where the law requires otherwise. If we remove a listing, or suspend an account, because it breaks these terms (including after a buyer's report we uphold), fees are not refunded. If we remove a listing in error, we put it back or refund its fee, as you prefer. A payment for a listing that couldn't go live is refunded automatically.
• Changes to prices. We may change our prices with at least 30 days' notice by email. A change does not affect listing fees already paid, and you can cancel a subscription before a new price applies to it.

9. Content and intellectual property

The site, its design and its editorial content belong to us. Listing content belongs to the dealer who uploaded it, licensed to us to display and to include in search results and alerts. Do not copy listings or dealer data in bulk, whether by hand or by machine.

10. Availability

We try to keep the site running and accurate, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change or withdraw features.

11. Liability

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that: we are not liable for the condition, description, legality or fitness of anything advertised, for anything a dealer or buyer does, or for any loss arising from a transaction between them. To business users we exclude liability for loss of profit, business, contracts or data, and our total liability to a dealer in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of the fees that dealer paid us in that period and £100.

If you are buying as a consumer rather than for your business, your statutory rights are unaffected.

12. Ending it

You can stop using the site or close your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Fees for a period already served are not refundable. If we close your account for a reason that is not your fault, we refund the unused part of any period you have paid for.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do. We email dealers about any change that affects them at least 15 days before it takes effect, or longer where the change needs work on your side; you can close your account before then if you do not accept it. Changes needed to comply with the law, or to deal with fraud, may take effect sooner.

14. Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer living in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.

15. Contact

info@groundcaremachineryforsale.com, or see the contact page. How we handle personal data is in the privacy notice.