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What the Standard tier does (and does not)

A precise description of the marketplace — posting listings, buyer protection, fees, and the boundaries between self-serve Standard and the invitation-only Elite desk.

Standard is the marketplace: a self-serve surface where any verified seller can post a listing and any verified buyer can reserve it without an intermediary. The tier is built for speed, transparency, and a precise definition of what the marketplace owes each side. It does not pretend to be Elite, nor is it a waiting room for it.

What Standard does

What Standard does not do

Standard does not compose journeys. It does not negotiate aviation, accommodation, or hospitality on a buyer’s behalf; it does not write a brief, it does not send a curation, and it does not put a desk on the phone with a venue to recover a sold-out section that has reappeared in a private block. Those motions belong to the Elite conversation, which is invitation-only and is not entered through a Standard checkout.

Standard also does not invent listings. The platforms that grow by spreading inventory their sellers do not actually own — drops, ticket bots, opaque merchant pools — undercut the verified-seller premise that this tier rests on. A reader who lands here can read every seat, every row, and every claim against the seller who actually holds it.

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