California Civil Code 1749.8 – For purposes of this title:(a) “Consumer product” means tangible …
For purposes of this title:
(a) “Consumer product” means tangible personal property that is distributed in commerce and normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, including property intended to be attached to or installed in real property regardless of whether it is actually attached or installed.
Terms Used In California Civil Code 1749.8
- property: includes property real and personal. See California Civil Code 14
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(b) (1) “High-volume third-party seller” means a third-party seller who, in any continuous 12-month period during the previous 24 months, has entered into 200 or more discrete transactions through an online marketplace for the sale of new or unused consumer products to buyers located in California resulting in the accumulation of an aggregate total of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more in gross revenues.
(2) The number of discrete transactions referenced in paragraph (1) includes only those transactions through the online marketplace for which payment is processed by the online marketplace directly or through its payment processor.
(c) “Online marketplace” means a consumer-directed, electronically accessed platform for which all of the following are true:
(1) The platform includes features that allow for, facilitate, or enable third-party sellers to engage in the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipping, or delivery of a consumer product in this state.
(2) The features described in paragraph (1) are used by third-party sellers.
(3) The platform has a contractual relationship with consumers governing their use of the platform to purchase consumer products.
(d) “Third-party seller” means a person or entity, independent of an online marketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts with an online marketplace to sell a consumer product in the state by or through an online marketplace.
(e) “Verify” means to confirm that information provided to an online marketplace pursuant to this title is accurate. Methods of confirmation include the use of one or more methods that enable the online marketplace to reliably determine that the information and documents are valid, correspond to the seller or an individual acting on the seller’s behalf, are not misappropriated, and are not falsified.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 10. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.)