These terms and conditions of sale (the “Terms”) govern sales concluded between Nicolas Bret, trading under the business name LAPIERRE MARKET, and any person (“the Customer”) making a purchase on the lapierremarket.fr website. Placing an order implies full and unreserved acceptance of these Terms.
Article 1 — Seller identity
Nicolas Bret (Entreprise individuelle (French sole trader)), registered office: 42 avenue Pasteur, 89000 Auxerre, France. SIRET: 900 112 186 00011. TVA non applicable, article 293 B du CGI (French small-business VAT exemption). Email: infos@lapierremarket.fr.
Article 2 — Purpose and scope
The site offers for sale authenticated and restored vintage designer furniture, together with decorative accessories. These Terms apply to all sales concluded at a distance, to the exclusion of any other conditions.
Article 3 — Characteristics of the products
The pieces sold are second-hand, vintage or pre-owned goods. Their condition, their estimated year, and any patina, marks of use or repairs are described on the product page and shown in the photographs.
The images are shot in natural light, without significant retouching. A slight difference in rendering caused by the Customer's screen may occur and cannot engage the seller's liability.
Article 4 — Prices
Prices are shown in euros, all taxes included. TVA non applicable, article 293 B du CGI (French small-business VAT exemption). Delivery costs are not included and are stated before the order is confirmed, in accordance with the delivery schedule.
The seller reserves the right to change its prices at any time; products are invoiced on the basis of the rate in force when the order is recorded.
Article 5 — Orders
The Customer places an order online by following the purchase path indicated. Before confirming, the Customer is able to check the details, the characteristics and the total price of the order. Final confirmation constitutes acceptance of the Terms. A confirmation is sent by email.
LAPIERRE MARKET reserves the right to refuse or cancel any order from a Customer with whom a dispute is ongoing, or for any other legitimate reason.
Article 6 — Payment
The price is paid in full before delivery. The Customer pays online on the site, by the means offered at the time of payment, or by bank transfer, whatever the amount; in that case, the piece is reserved on receipt of the transfer. Online payments are secured by our payment provider Shopify Payments.
No bank details are retained by the seller. The charge is made on confirmation. LAPIERRE MARKET reserves the right to suspend dispatch in the event of an incident, suspected fraud or failure of authorisation.
Article 7 — Delivery
Delivery terms, times and rates are detailed on the delivery page. The Customer is informed that risk transfers when the goods are actually handed over.
In accordance with articles L216-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, the seller delivers on the date indicated to the Customer or, failing any indication, no later than thirty (30) days after the contract is concluded. In the event of a failure to do so, the Customer may require the seller to deliver within a reasonable additional period; if the goods are still not delivered, the Customer may terminate the contract by any writing. The sums paid are then refunded within fourteen (14) days following termination.
Article 8 — Right of withdrawal
8.1 Scope
The right of withdrawal provided for by article L221-18 of the French Consumer Code applies to contracts concluded at a distance, on lapierremarket.fr, with a Customer having the status of consumer. That Customer has fourteen (14) days to withdraw without giving a reason, from the day on which the Customer, or a third party designated by the Customer, takes physical possession of the goods. Where the order covers several goods delivered separately, the period runs from receipt of the last of them.
The fact that a piece is second-hand, vintage, old, rare or unique is not a ground for exclusion: the law provides for none.
8.2 Sales that give rise to no right of withdrawal
- Sales concluded in the shop. A sale concluded in the simultaneous physical presence of the parties, on premises where the seller habitually carries on its business, is neither a distance contract nor an off-premises contract within the meaning of article L221-1 of the French Consumer Code. The fourteen-day period does not apply to it. The legal guarantees in articles 9 and 10 apply in full.
- Sales to professional buyers, subject only to article L221-3 of the French Consumer Code: the provisions of that section are extended to contracts concluded off-premises between professionals where, cumulatively, the subject matter of the contract does not fall within the scope of the buyer's main activity and the buyer employs five employees or fewer.
- Goods made to the Customer's specifications or clearly personalised (article L221-28 3° of the French Consumer Code): a USM Haller configuration assembled from the Customer's dimensions and choice of modules, sourcing carried out against a written brief. Such projects are the subject of a written quotation identifying the specifications, and the absence of a right of withdrawal is restated there before the order is confirmed, in accordance with 10° of article L221-5.
- Services fully performed before the end of the period (article L221-28 1° of the French Consumer Code), where performance began after the Customer's prior and express agreement and acknowledgement that the right would be lost. That agreement is obtained through a dedicated box, not pre-ticked. In the event of withdrawal while performance is under way, the Customer pays the amount proportionate to the service already supplied (article L221-25).
- Contracts concluded at a public auction (article L221-28 11° of the French Consumer Code).
8.3 How to withdraw
The Customer may exercise this right directly online, free of charge, from the withdraw from the contract here page, permanently accessible throughout the withdrawal period. The Customer receives an acknowledgement on a durable medium stating the content of the declaration, its date and its time.
The Customer may also notify the decision by any unambiguous statement, by email at infos@lapierremarket.fr, by telephone on 07 56 85 23 41 or by post to Nicolas Bret, 42 avenue Pasteur, 89000 Auxerre, France. The model form appears on the returns page.
No further formality is required: no prior agreement from the seller, no return number, no original packaging, no return of any document whatsoever.
8.4 Returning the goods and costs
The Customer returns the goods without undue delay and no later than fourteen (14) days after communicating the decision, unless the seller offers to collect them itself.
In accordance with article L221-23 of the French Consumer Code, the direct costs of return are borne by the Customer. As furniture cannot, by its nature, normally be returned by post, an estimate of those costs is provided before the order on the returns page, in accordance with 8° of article L221-5. The Customer remains free to arrange the return itself.
The Customer's liability is engaged only in respect of the depreciation resulting from handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, the characteristics and the proper functioning of the goods. Where applicable, that depreciation is deducted from the refund after a photographic record has been sent; it can never justify refusing the withdrawal.
8.5 Refund
The seller refunds all the sums paid, including the initial delivery costs at the standard delivery rate, no later than fourteen (14) days after the date on which it is informed of the decision to withdraw (article L221-24 of the French Consumer Code). It may defer the refund until the goods are recovered or until the Customer has supplied proof of dispatch, whichever of these two dates comes first.
The refund is made using the same means of payment as that used for the order, unless the Customer expressly agrees otherwise. Additional costs arising from the choice of a delivery method more expensive than standard delivery are not refunded.
Article 9 — Legal guarantee of conformity
In accordance with articles L217-3 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, the seller delivers goods that conform to the contract and is liable for defects in conformity existing at the time of delivery. The legal guarantee applies for two (2) years from delivery of the goods. For second-hand goods (the case of vintage furniture), the period of the presumption that the defect pre-existed is reduced to twelve (12) months.
The Customer may enforce this guarantee by writing to infos@lapierremarket.fr, free of charge, obtaining the repair or the replacement of the goods (or, failing that, termination of the contract or a reduction of the price).
Article 10 — Guarantee against latent defects
Independently of the legal guarantee of conformity, the Customer may invoke the guarantee against latent defects within the meaning of article 1641 of the French Civil Code, covering a defect that renders the item unfit for the use for which it is intended. The action must be brought within two (2) years from the discovery of the defect, and no later than twenty (20) years after the sale (Cour de cassation, mixed chamber, 21 July 2023).
Article 10 bis — Information box on the legal guarantees
Box reproduced in accordance with article L217-15 of the French Consumer Code, the content of which is set by article D211-2.
The consumer has a period of two years from the delivery of the goods to obtain the implementation of the legal guarantee of conformity where a lack of conformity appears. During that period, the consumer is required to establish only the existence of the lack of conformity and not the date on which it appeared.
The legal guarantee of conformity entails an obligation for the trader, where applicable, to supply all the updates necessary to maintain the conformity of the goods.
The legal guarantee of conformity gives the consumer the right to the repair or the replacement of the goods within thirty days of the request, free of charge and without major inconvenience to the consumer.
If the goods are repaired under the legal guarantee of conformity, the consumer benefits from a six-month extension of the initial guarantee.
If the consumer requests the repair of the goods, but the seller imposes replacement, the legal guarantee of conformity is renewed for a period of two years from the date of replacement of the goods.
The consumer may obtain a reduction of the purchase price while keeping the goods, or bring the contract to an end and be refunded in full against return of the goods, if:
1° The trader refuses to repair or to replace the goods;
2° The repair or the replacement of the goods takes place after a period of thirty days;
3° The repair or the replacement of the goods causes major inconvenience to the consumer, in particular where the consumer definitively bears the costs of taking back or removing the non-conforming goods, or where the consumer bears the costs of installing the repaired or replacement goods;
4° The lack of conformity of the goods persists despite the seller's unsuccessful attempt to bring them into conformity.
The consumer is also entitled to a reduction of the price of the goods or to the termination of the contract where the lack of conformity is so serious that it justifies an immediate reduction of the price or termination of the contract. The consumer is then not required to request the repair or the replacement of the goods beforehand.
The consumer is not entitled to the termination of the sale if the lack of conformity is minor.
Any period during which the goods are out of use for repair or replacement suspends the remainder of the guarantee until the delivery of the restored goods.
The rights mentioned above result from the application of articles L. 217-1 to L. 217-32 of the French Consumer Code.
A seller who in bad faith obstructs the implementation of the legal guarantee of conformity is liable to a civil fine of a maximum amount of 300,000 euros, which may be raised to 10% of the average annual turnover (article L. 241-5 of the French Consumer Code).
The consumer also benefits from the legal guarantee against latent defects under articles 1641 to 1649 of the French Civil Code, for a period of two years from the discovery of the defect. That guarantee gives the right to a reduction of the price if the goods are kept, or to a full refund against return of the goods (article L. 217-7 of the French Consumer Code).
Article 10 ter — Spare parts
In accordance with article L111-4 of the French Consumer Code, the Customer is informed that the pieces sold are second-hand goods produced for the most part between the 1950s and the 1990s: no original spare part is available from the seller. For the systems still produced today, notably USM Haller, compatible new elements remain available from the manufacturer; the seller can assist the Customer in that search.
Article 11 — Customer service
For any question relating to an order or to the performance of these Terms: infos@lapierremarket.fr. Reply within twenty-four (24) working hours.
Article 12 — Complaints and mediation
Any complaint should be addressed to infos@lapierremarket.fr or to 07 56 85 23 41. We reply within forty-eight (48) working hours and we systematically seek an amicable solution.
In accordance with article L612-1 of the French Consumer Code, a Customer having the status of consumer may, where a dispute is not resolved directly, have free recourse to a consumer mediator. The contact details of the competent mediator are provided on request at the address above.
Article 13 — Personal data
The data collected in connection with the order is processed as described in the privacy policy. The Customer has the rights of access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection and restriction provided for by the GDPR.
Article 14 — Force majeure
Neither party shall be held liable for a failure caused by an event of force majeure as defined in article 1218 of the French Civil Code.
Article 15 — Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by French law. Failing an amicable resolution, and subject to the public-policy rules protecting consumers, any dispute shall fall within the jurisdiction of the French courts.
Last updated: 23 August 2026.