Legal

Terms of sale

Used containers are sold by grade, and grade is a description of condition and process — not a performance guarantee for your specific liquid. Here is exactly what each term in a quote means.

Short answer

Title passes on payment. Inspection window is 48 hours from delivery. Grades are defined on our grades page and quoted explicitly on every order. Suitability for your product is your determination — we will tell you what a tote held and how it was processed, and we expect you to decide if that is acceptable.

Need these terms clarified?

1. What a grade means

Every quote names a grade: food, reconditioned, rebottled, rinsed, as-is or scrap. Each grade is a statement about what we did to the container and what we know about its history. It is not a statement that the container is suitable for your product. We supply the prior-contents disclosure and the process record; the compatibility decision is yours, and we are happy to discuss it before you order.

2. Grade does not travel upward

We will not regrade a non-food container to food grade, under any circumstance, for any price. HDPE permeates. Washing changes what is on the surface, not what is in the wall. Any supplier offering this is selling you a liability.

3. Inspection window

You have 48 hours from delivery to inspect and notify us of a discrepancy against the quoted grade. Note visible damage on the delivery receipt before the driver leaves and photograph it on the truck. Freight claims without a noted receipt are close to unwinnable, and that is a carrier rule, not ours.

4. Title, risk and payment

Term	Position
Title	Passes on receipt of full payment
Risk of loss	Passes on loading at origin for customer-arranged freight; on delivery for freight we arrange
First orders	Prepay or card, unless you are a public entity
Established accounts	Net 30 by agreement, subject to credit review
Quote validity	14 days — resin, scrap steel and freight markets all move
Restocking	20% on returned sound stock, plus return freight

5. Warranty position

Reconditioned and rebottled containers carry a 30-day leak warranty against defects in our process. Rinsed, as-is and scrap grades are sold without warranty, which is reflected in the price. Nothing we sell carries an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, because we do not control what you put in it or how you handle it.

6. Regulated transport

If you intend to ship regulated liquid, the UN marking, test dates and packing-group authorisation on the specification plate govern. We quote and supply those details. Confirming that a given assembly is authorised for your material and mode is the shipper’s legal duty, and that shipper is you.

7. Hazardous residue

We do not sell unwashed hazmat-residue containers to anyone, at any price. We accept them for reconditioning and recycling with a manifest. If you sell us containers and misdescribe hazardous residue, the cost of remediation is yours.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States. Venue is Chatham County, Georgia.

RE:IBC Market LLC. Last reviewed 28 September 2026. Questions: hello@reibcmarket.com.

In practice

What each grade commits us to, contractually

The grading language on our size guide is editorial. This is the same thing expressed as what we are agreeing to when a grade appears on an invoice.

Contractual commitment by grade
Grade	We warrant	We do not warrant
Food grade	Compliant resin, documented food-only history, hot-water wash only, no detectable odour	Suitability for your specific product; sterility on arrival
Rebottled	New virgin bottle with resin certificate, new wetted parts, 3 psi test pass	That the cage is new; single-manufacturer traceability
Reconditioned	Matched-chemistry wash, triple rinse, 3 psi test pass, new gasket, sound cage	Freedom from permeation of prior contents; fitness for a particular purpose
Rinsed	Triple rinse, visual inspection, structurally sound	Any test result; any cleanliness standard
As-is	Prior contents disclosed in writing, structurally sound	Cleanliness of any kind
Scrap	Material weight as ticketed	Any container function whatsoever

The right-hand column is the one worth reading. In every grade, suitability for your specific product remains your determination — we supply the history and the process record so that determination can be made on evidence rather than on assurance.

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Next move

Read the grades page before you order.

Ninety per cent of disputes in this trade come from a buyer and a seller using the word 'clean' to mean two different things. Our grades page removes that ambiguity in about four minutes of reading.

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