How Verification Works

When a shop registers through "Sell your bikes", it does not appear anywhere on the site yet. It stays invisible until our admin has reviewed it. We check four things:

Trade licence

The shop submits its trade licence. We confirm it is a registered business, not an individual posting from home.

Physical address

The shop gives us its trading address and sends a photo of its shop front. We check that the address on the trade licence matches the address it trades from. This platform is for physical shops only. If there is no address to visit, there is no listing.

We do not visit shops ourselves. Verification here is a documents check, done carefully by a person, not a site inspection. We would rather tell you exactly what we did than let you assume more.

Owner identity

The shop's owner sends their NID. We keep it privately, never publish it, and use it only to confirm a named person stands behind the business.

Contact confirmation

Before we approve a shop we reach its owner on the number they registered with, so we know a real person answers. The WhatsApp number, phone and email shown on that shop's bikes are the shop's own and it can change them at any time, and not every shop lists an email.

Admin review

Finally, our admin looks at the whole submission together and approves or rejects it. Nothing is automatic. A person makes the call. Only after approval can the shop list bikes, and every new or edited listing then passes a moderation check before it appears publicly.

When you see the VERIFIED badge on a shop, it means we have confirmed:

• The shop is a registered business with a trade licence.
• It gave a trading address that matches its trade licence, and a photo of its shop front.
• A person here reached the shop on the number it registered with before approving it.
• Our admin has reviewed and approved it.

In short: a registered business, with papers that match, at an address you can go to.

We want to be plain about the limits, because false confidence is its own kind of scam.

• We are not a party to the sale. The deal is strictly between you and the shop.
• We have not stood inside the shop. We check documents, not premises. If a shop turns out not to be there, report it and we will act.
• We do not inspect each individual bike's mechanical condition. The shop shows the papers status; you still check the bike yourself.
• We do not handle or guarantee payment. We never take money, so we cannot refund or protect a payment. Deals happen at the counter, in person.
• The badge is not a warranty on the bike. Inspect it properly, bring someone who knows engines if you can, and complete the BRTA transfer.

Verification gives you a trustworthy place to start. Your own inspection finishes the job, and Verify before you buy walks you through it: the official BRTA tools that check a document in a minute, the numbers to match on the bike itself, and the plate checks that do not exist here whatever anyone tells you.

Every listing has a report button. If a bike looks fake, a price looks like bait, the papers status seems wrong, or a shop behaves badly, use it and tell us what happened.

We take reports seriously because verification is not a one-time stamp. If a shop breaks trust, it can lose its badge and its place on the platform. Keeping the bad actors out is a job we keep doing, and your reports are part of how we do it.