When an item sells Mercari emails a prepaid label; you ship within 3 business days, and the buyer then has 3 days to open and rate the transaction
How you get paid
Marketplace price; fees after-earning (verify current %)
Requirements people miss
A valid US mobile number is required — VoIP and international numbers are not accepted, so a Google Voice or similar number will not get you in — reported, not confirmed
Worker costs
No upfront cost found — we searched their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free.
The rating of the app workers use — never the customer app. Each store is its own witness; we show both and never average them. The count is what makes a score mean something. Click a listing to see the number as it stands today.
One app serves both workers and customers here, so this rating blends both populations.
Where this came from
Where we got this
Ruling
Every claim on this card, traced — 13 claims:
Cost picture read from the company's own page
money-pass2 (owner arc 2026-08-25): EVIDENCED ABSENCE — we read their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free.
How you get in read from the company's own page
resource-package-v7.md Part 1: their own help centre — 'How It Works' documents the seller flow
How you get paid unproven — carried from an older research method and not yet re-read from a source
Inherited at the v8 migration from the record's evidence class (Verified-official). This claim does not yet say where IT came from; the record does.
Local operating status derived from our own coverage research, not from the company's words
mktcle-reclass (owner ruling 2026-08-26): STRUCTURALLY UNSOURCEABLE from provider property — companies do not state their metro lists, so no re-fetch can ever pay this claim. Reclassified out of the owed pile into the declared class: derived from our own coverage research, not from the company's words.
Requirements people miss reported by someone else — not the company's words
Worker-reported, not stated on Mercari's own pages (resource-package-v7.md Part 2). Held as a CLAIM level so the marker survives: re-sourcing Mercari's DOOR raised the record to Verified-official, which suppressed the marker on this barrier and forced an inline-text workaround in v7. That workaround is deleted; this is its replacement.
Sign-up link read from the company's own page
resource-package-v7.md Part 1: their own help centre — 'How It Works' documents the seller flow
Taking new people read from the company's own page
debt-tranche3 (owner arc 2026-08-26): their own signup flow, fetched 2026-08-26, is open (list-and-sell onboarding)
Vehicle class read from the company's own page
category-vehicle-cascade (owner ruling 2026-08-25): CATEGORY DEFINITION — reselling what you own is listing and shipping — by definition, no vehicle is required to participate. Encoded at the category level by owner ruling; the record's own page remains the authority for everything else it states.
Vehicle needed read from the company's own page
vehicle-model-phase2 (owner arc 2026-08-25): restates this record's category-definition vehicle encode under the five-state model — the work is remote, listing-and-shipping, or hosting your own asset; no transport is part of doing it (the vehicle_tier claim remains the underlying source)
What it is read from the company's own page
debt-tranche2 (owner arc 2026-08-26): identity restated on their pages: mobile-first resale marketplace (fetched 2026-08-26)
What workers rate the app reported by someone else — not the company's words
Apple App Store listing for "Mercari: Buying & Selling App" and Google Play listing for "Mercari: Buy and Sell App" — the store is the witness, not the company; one app serves both workers and customers, so the rating blends both; checked 2026-09-02
What you need unproven — carried from an older research method and not yet re-read from a source
Inherited at the v8 migration from the record's evidence class (Verified-official). This claim does not yet say where IT came from; the record does.
Worker costs read from the company's own page
debt-paydown (owner arc 2026-08-26): DROPPED TO HONEST ABSENCE: the inherited value was an unproven promise; the 2026-08-25 search of their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees found no fee statement, and the record now carries the evidenced absence instead
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