Terms and Conditions

1. Scope and provider

These terms and conditions apply to all contracts for the bleaching service concluded between SpaceBricks, Wolfgang Diers, Grote Wisch 13, 22927 Großhansdorf, Germany (“we”) and you as the customer.

We do not accept differing terms unless we have expressly agreed to them in writing.

A consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or profession.

2. Subject matter

We clean and bleach LEGO® parts sent in by you. The service comprises cleaning, the controlled brightening of yellowed plastics, drying and a final visual inspection.

We are an independent service provider. There is no business relationship with the LEGO Group; LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group.

3. Formation of contract

The presentation of the service on our website does not constitute a binding offer but an invitation to enquire.

By submitting an enquiry you make an offer. The contract is concluded when we confirm your enquiry in text form. The confirmation states the price based on the weight you specified.

4. Prices and payment

The prices valid at the time of confirmation apply. All prices are final prices and include statutory VAT.

The price is based on the weight of the parts sent in. Every 100 gram unit started is charged in full. The shipping flat rate for the outbound and return legs is added.

Payment is due before the DHL return label is issued. We send the label by email once payment has been received.

Weight discrepancies: the actual weight determined at our workshop is decisive. If it exceeds your estimate, we notify you of the difference and only begin processing once it has been settled. If it is lower, we refund the difference.

5. Shipping and passing of risk

For shipment to us we provide a DHL return label within Germany. For consignments from abroad we quote shipping costs on request; we cannot provide a return label in those cases.

You are obliged to pack the parts securely for transport. We are not liable for damage resulting from inadequate packaging.

In contracts with consumers, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration passes to you only upon handover of the goods.

6. Your obligation to disassemble

You send us the LEGO® parts completely disassembled. This is the only way every gap can be cleaned and bleached evenly.

If assembled sets or firmly connected assemblies reach us, we will inform you before processing begins and reserve the right to charge a separately itemised surcharge for disassembly where the additional effort is substantial. In that case processing only starts once you have agreed to the surcharge in text form. If you do not agree, we return the parts unprocessed; the shipping flat rate already paid is retained by us.

7. Material risks, in particular plastics made before 1965

LEGO® parts manufactured before 1965 are partly made of different plastics such as cellulose acetate. These materials can react sensitively to the bleaching process and may, in rare cases, warp, discolour or break down.

If you send us parts from this period or parts of unknown origin, you do so at your own risk. We are not liable for changes resulting from the material properties of such parts unless we acted intentionally or with gross negligence.

Please point out particularly old or rare parts before shipping so that we can decide together whether treatment makes sense. On request we will exclude individual parts from treatment.

8. Nature of the service

Bleaching is a process whose outcome depends on the material. We owe proper professional execution, not a particular visual result.

With the vast majority of modern and classic ABS parts a marked brightening is achieved. Where discolouration runs deep, where material is pre-damaged or where material fatigue is extreme, the result may be less pronounced. Such a result does not constitute a defect.

9. Liability

We are liable without limitation in cases of intent and gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health.

In cases of simple negligence we are liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In such cases liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

Liability under the German Product Liability Act remains unaffected.

10. Right of withdrawal

Consumers have a statutory right of withdrawal. Details and the conditions for its early expiry are set out in our withdrawal policy.

11. Dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution. We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

12. Final provisions

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence.

Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.