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For retailers and manufacturers fighting return abuse

Prove the condition. Deny the false claim.

Returns abuse and warranty fraud cost retailers tens of billions a year, and the merchant almost never has tamper-proof proof of what shipped or what came back. CertNode captures cryptographically signed, independently timestamped evidence of item condition at fulfillment and at return — so a disputed warranty or return is decided on evidence, not the customer's word.

Detection is not proof

Fraud-scoring tools flag suspicious returns. They do not give you a tamper-evident record of the item's condition that survives a dispute. That record is the gap.

Condition captured at fulfillment

Photos and serial/condition data are hashed, signed, and independently timestamped at ship time — proof of exactly what left your warehouse, dated before any claim.

Condition captured at return

The same signed capture at intake shows what actually came back — wrong item, used, damaged, or empty box — against the dated record of what shipped.

Tamper-evident, not self-reported

Each capture is signed (ES256), RFC 3161 timestamped, and Bitcoin-anchored — built to the FRE 902(13) standard. An internal photo log is a claim; this is evidence a counterparty cannot dismiss as edited after the fact.

Same engine as dispute defense

This reuses CertNode's pre-dispute capture — the same cryptographic evidence that defends chargebacks, applied to warranty and return claims.

Stop eating fraudulent returns.

Capture the proof at ship and return; decide disputes on evidence.

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