Resale and rentals

Prove the item is real, and the photo is of it

Stock images, reused listings and misrepresented condition drive disputes, chargebacks and the slow erosion of trust that kills a marketplace. Verified condition capture makes the honest seller's listing visibly different.

The problem

Photographs are the product

LISTINGS

Stock and reused photos

A photograph lifted from another listing, or from the manufacturer, costs nothing and makes a poor item look perfect. Buyers cannot tell until it arrives.

DISPUTES

Condition is contested after the fact

Was the scratch there at handover? Both parties have photographs and neither has a timestamp anyone trusts. The platform absorbs the cost of deciding.

TRUST

Fraud spreads by imitation

Once reused photos work, they propagate. A marketplace that cannot distinguish an honest listing loses its honest sellers first.

How CapSeal applies

Move the trust decision to the moment of capture

LISTING

Sealed at capture

The seller photographs the item in your app. The capture is sealed on the device, so the listing photograph is provably of that item, taken then, by that seller.

BADGE

Visible to buyers

A verified capture is something you can show. Sellers who seal get a badge that means something, which is the incentive that makes adoption self-sustaining.

DISPUTES

Condition at handover, settled

Sealed before and after captures give a dispute team an evidentiary basis rather than two conflicting accounts.

What this does not do

Where the evidence stops

CapSeal establishes that a listing photograph was taken by that seller, of a real scene, at a known time, and has not been altered since.

  • It does not establish that the item is authentic, or that it is what the seller says it is. A sealed photograph of a counterfeit is a sealed photograph of a counterfeit.
  • It does not detect a photograph of the right item taken at a flattering angle, or one that omits the damage.
  • It cannot make an unsealed listing suspicious. Most listings will be unsealed for a long time, and that is not evidence of anything.

The full position is in the Product Disclosure. We would rather you knew the boundary before you bought than after.

Integration

Three things to wire up

  1. Capture Drop the iOS or Android SDK into the flow your users already complete. Our capture-integrity engine measures the scene on the device and seals the result before it leaves the handset.
  2. Verify One authenticated call at intake returns a verdict, a basis and a proof object. See the SDK.
  3. Route Automate on proven and declared. Send everything else to a human with the report attached.

Try the verification half right now, with no signup, at capseal.ai/check.

Make honest listings visibly different.

Start with one category and a verified-capture badge.

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