datawebotFnac Marketplace product data: sellers, offers and condition
A guide to Fnac Marketplace sellers, shippers, refurbished grades and offer ranking, plus current crawl rules.
Updated · datawebot team
A Fnac item page can contain several sellers’ offers.
Fnac’s French Marketplace overview, checked September 30, 2026, says one product page may let a shopper choose between Fnac’s offer and offers from professional partner sellers. The product page represents an item; each seller’s price and delivery terms belong to a separate offer. Fnac describes marketplace transactions as taking place between the buyer and the partner seller.
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| Record | Capture from the page | Keep separate |
|---|---|---|
| Product identity | Exact title, URL, category and identifier such as EAN or ISBN when shown | A title match is not enough to merge products with different identifiers or editions. |
| Fnac offer | Fnac as seller, selected option, displayed price, delivery cost and offer state | The direct-retailer offer is not a partner seller’s offer. |
| Marketplace offer | Partner seller name, price, delivery charge, condition and observed availability | Store each seller offer separately from the item record and other offers. |
| Observation context | French storefront, page surface, selected sort and observation time | A product detail page and a search result can present offers in different orders. |
Vendu par and Livré par identify different roles.
Fnac labels the seller as “Vendu par” and the delivery party as “Livré par.” The Marketplace overview says a partner seller manages order preparation and after-sales, while delivery can be handled by the seller or by Fnac. Some item pages also display a country-of-shipping marker; it does not by itself identify where the seller is established.
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| French label or signal | Meaning on the page | Record it as |
|---|---|---|
| Vendu par | The seller offering the product: Fnac or a named professional partner | Seller identity attached to the individual offer. |
| Livré par Fnac | Fnac handles delivery for the identified offer | Fulfillment party, separate from seller identity. |
| Livré par [seller] | The partner seller handles delivery | Fulfillment and seller may match, but are distinct fields. |
| Shipping-country marker | Fnac currently shows France and Europe markers on its overview page | Shipping origin/market label as displayed; do not infer seller location. |
| Seller and product ratings | Seller evaluation concerns the merchant; a product rating concerns the item | Keep the rating subject and count source-labeled; do not join them as one score. |
Seconde Vie offers use four named condition grades.
Fnac’s Marketplace overview currently describes four condition labels for second-life and refurbished products. Keep the French label with its listing; the short descriptions below are Fnac’s own definitions in English summary. They are not a condition scale for every new listing or a universal rating system across retailers.
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| Fnac label | Fnac’s current description | Use in a product record |
|---|---|---|
| Parfait état | No visible cosmetic defect | Store as the exact source grade and link to the listing’s full condition description. |
| Très bon état | Minor cosmetic defects | Do not infer missing accessories, repair history or warranty from the grade. |
| Bon état | Small apparent defects | Keep the source phrase; avoid mapping automatically to another retailer’s grade. |
| État correct | Clearly visible cosmetic defects | Use only when the specific offer carries this label; do not apply to new items. |
Offer order changes by page type and seller mix.
Fnac’s published ranking criteria checked September 30, 2026 describe different defaults for product pages with a Fnac offer, partner-only product pages and search results. A position is meaningful only with its surface, seller mix and selected sort attached.
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| Surface and offer mix | Published default | Other displayed choices or context |
|---|---|---|
| Product page with Fnac and partner offers | Ascending price | The shopper may sort by descending price, partner-seller evaluations or partner-seller sales count. |
| Product page with partner offers only | Quality criteria, including seller rating, complaints and professional quality | Do not summarize this as a price-only order. |
| Search results | Relevance to the shopper’s search | Available sorts include lower/higher price, best sales, customer ratings and newness. |
| Partner fee and offer rank | Fnac says seller fees do not affect the ranking of partner offers | This statement concerns offer ranking; keep it separate from sponsored search results. |
| Sponsored search result | Some offers may appear with a sponsored label for remuneration | Keep the sponsored label; do not interpret its position as an organic rank. |
Robots directives and Marketplace terms have different scopes.
Fnac’s robots.txt checked September 30, 2026 disallows account, identity, order, basket, shared-comment and filtered or paginated search paths; it marks /api/* Noindex and lists two sitemap indexes. The Marketplace terms page still shows an update date of March 4, 2026. These are separate source signals; a robots directive is not a reuse license, and this summary is not a legal conclusion.
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| Source and scope | Current posted detail | Keep in view |
|---|---|---|
| robots.txt | Disallows account, identity, order, basket, shared-comment and filtered/paginated search paths; marks /api/* Noindex | Do not infer that unlisted paths are permission for automated use. |
| robots.txt sitemap entries | Lists sitemapindex-master-old.xml and sitemapindex-master.xml | A sitemap tells crawlers about URLs; it does not establish content rights. |
| Buyer terms §§3 and 6 | §3 reserves access to the Service for strictly personal use; §6 restricts reuse of protected Site material beyond private use | Attribute these to the buyer terms; the French version prevails if it conflicts with the English version. |
| Seller terms §§11.5–11.6 | For marketplace sellers, §11.5 addresses extraction/copying of product-sheet templates and §11.6 lists seller-side misuse, reverse engineering and unauthorized-access restrictions | Keep the seller-only scope explicit; do not apply those clauses to every visitor. |
| Account CGU | The separate account terms page displays a March 2021 date | Do not cite it as the current Marketplace content-use rule. |
Content reviewed 2026-10-18.