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Seller trust layer

Seller verification helps protect the marketplace without changing the direct-user model.

Middle Who Market may require seller identity verification as part of marketplace safety, seller trust, and future seller account controls. Verification is an identity trust signal only. It does not create item-sale checkout, escrow, platform shipping, item authentication or a transaction guarantee. A separate paid platform review, if offered, has its own stated scope.

Current platform model

Buyers and sellers arrange payment, pickup, shipping, authentication review, and final terms directly. Seller verification does not change that responsibility structure.

How seller identity verification works

  1. 1
    Log in and review your seller identity status in your account.
  2. 2
    When verification is available, follow the secure provider flow to check a government ID and matching selfie.
  3. 3
    Return to your account for the result. A public seller identity badge appears only after verification is confirmed.

Availability is being rolled out in stages. The account page will show whether you can start or need to wait.

Verification policy

  • What seller verification means

    Seller verification means a seller identity status may be checked through a trusted third-party provider before certain seller privileges are available.

  • What it does not mean

    Seller identity verification does not authenticate an item, verify a listing claim, process a buyer-to-seller item payment, provide buyer protection, guarantee shipping, or guarantee a transaction outcome.

  • What Middle Who Market stores

    Middle Who Market stores non-sensitive verification status information and provider references only. The platform does not manually collect or store government ID images, selfie images, biometric data, full SSNs, or provider client secrets.

Data handling

Sensitive identity materials stay outside Middle Who Market.

When seller verification is used, verification is intended to be completed through a trusted third-party provider. Middle Who Market stores verification status and operational references only. Do not submit identity documents, selfies, SSNs, or sensitive verification materials through public comments, listing descriptions, messages, or support notes unless a specific trusted verification flow requests them.

Middle Who Market does not manually collect or store government ID images, passport images, driver license images, selfie images, biometric data, full SSNs, or provider client secrets in the marketplace app database.

Seller status examples

Verification can have multiple operational states.

  • Not started
  • Pending or processing
  • Verified
  • Needs input
  • Failed, canceled, or expired
  • Manual review or restricted

Marketplace limitations

A verified seller status is not a platform guarantee.

A seller verification status should be understood as an identity trust signal only. Buyers should still review photos, descriptions, condition disclosures, seller messages, included accessories, pickup or shipping expectations, and any authentication materials provided by the seller.

Future purchase-account separation

Seller identity verification is separate from future purchase or payment accounts.

Middle Who Market may later add purchase-account or payment-account features. Those future features would be separate from seller identity verification. A seller may be identity-verified without being enabled for future in-platform checkout, payouts, or purchase-account tools.