When registering on this site, the User agrees to these rules and assumes the rights and obligations specified therein related to the submission of advertisements to the site.

Attention! These rules apply to both free and paid advertisements (Premium, VIP advertisements) that are published on the SOTA.am website. Paid advertisements may also be blocked if violations are detected.

If there is information that posted advertisements violate the rules of the Site, current legislation and/or the rights of third parties, SOTA.am has the right at any time to check and/or remove such advertisements, as well as limit the actions of the User who posted these advertisements on the site.

The site administration reserves the right to refuse to publish an ad if the User systematically violates the rules of the site and if complaints about the ad from other users are confirmed.

General terms

• The content of advertisements must not contradict the law of the Republic of Armenia «About advertising» № 3Р-55 from 30.04.1996.
• Do not post prohibited goods and services.
• It is prohibited to publish advertisements from users who do not have the proposed object/service or do not have a documented right to carry out a transaction.
• A user can have only one registration (account) on the site. Do not register again with another e-mail.
• Do not submit the same ad (offering the same product or service) repeatedly, regardless of whether you place it in different regions or categories.
• Place one specific product/service in one ad. The exception is the offer of a “set”, which is sold/rented as a whole, indicating the price for the entire set.
• Do not post general advertising ads, advertisements for advertising Internet resources (portals, forums, dating sites, etc.), businesses (shops, companies).
• Do not post advertisements asking for financial assistance, collecting funds for treatment, accepting gifts, etc.
• Ads containing deliberately false information, advertisements of financial “pyramid schemes” and other dubious methods of generating income are not allowed to be published.
• Choose the section that best matches the topic of your ad, as well as the region that corresponds to the actual location of your product.

  For example: “1-room apartment in Yerevan”, the region indicated in the advertisement should be Yerevan, and not Gyumri, Artik, etc.

• If your offer is no longer relevant, be sure to remove the ad from publication immediately after completing the transaction.
• Advertisements are accepted for publication only in Armenian, Russian and English languages and written in Armenian letters (phonetic), Cyrillic and Latin. Advertisements must comply with the norms of the Armenian, Russian and English languages, that is, they should not contain spelling, punctuation and stylistic errors.
• Advertising that lacks some essential information about the advertised product, the conditions for its acquisition or use is not allowed, if this distorts the meaning of the information and misleads consumers of the advertisement.

Requirements for filling out ad fields:

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• The title of the ad must correspond to its content.
• Do not use repeated question marks, exclamation marks and other marks, as well as words that attract attention, for example, “Urgent!!!”, “Selling!”, “I’ll buy!”, “Best offer”, etc.
• Do not provide contact information (phone number, physical/legal/electronic address (e-mail), website name (links), ICQ, skype, company name, etc.).
• Do not write the title in upper case, with the exception of the first letters of capital words and proper names. Only abbreviations can be written entirely in uppercase. An example of incorrect spelling: «I WILL BUY A VAZ-2109 URGENTLY».

Description

• The advertisement must contain as much detailed information as possible about the specific product/service that you are offering/looking for. It is acceptable to indicate related information: conditions and options for purchase, delivery, information about discounts and gifts, installation and assembly of the purchased product, etc.
• Descriptions of the capabilities of the item for sale that are of an advertising nature are not permitted.
• The ad text should not contain contact information (phone number, physical/legal/electronic address (e-mail), website name (links), ICQ, skype, etc.).
• Upper case is not allowed, except for the first letters of capitalized words and proper nouns.
• It is unacceptable to use keywords in the description to facilitate the search for seller’s advertisements, list several products, or place price lists.

Price

• The price must correspond to the actual price of the object/service.
• The price must be an integer; words replacing the price are not allowed (For example, “expensive”, “inexpensive”, “symbolic price”, etc.).
• The price must be for the entire item of sale/rent. (For example, when selling an item in installments, the price should be indicated in full, and not depending on the term of the installment payment. Include information about the installment plan in the text.)
• Do not indicate the price in the title or text of the ad - there is a separate field for this.

Photos

• A photo demonstrating the product/service you offer must match the title and text of the ad.
• The photo cannot contain user interface elements, abstract drawings, frames and other details drawn using graphic editors.
• The photo should not contain a collage as a title photo, logo (including Slando and Avito), brand, copyright, watermark, company name, phone number, E-mail, website link, etc.
• The photograph must be of good quality, the depicted object must be distinguishable, the optimal size is: width – 1024 pixels, height – 800 pixels, size up to 500 KB.
• A watermark with your full name is allowed in the photo. For Internet partners (shops), a watermark with the company name or company logo can be used. The watermark should not occupy more than 25% of the photograph's area and should not distort the image of the object.
• In advertisements for the sale and purchase of goods, it is allowed to use only real photographs of the proposed object.
• Advertisements for the provision of services may contain any graphic images that are suitable for the topic, but do not violate anyone's intellectual rights.
• It is prohibited to use photographs containing images of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, weapons, or other similar items.

After placement (publication), the ad is checked by a moderator and becomes visible to all users. If the moderator discovers an error, the ad will be rejected, with a mandatory indication of the reason for the rejection.

Rejecting an ad is simply reporting an error. The ad author can correct the error and publish the ad again.

* By agreeing to these rules, you also confirm that you have read and agree to the following sections of the “terms and rules” of this site.