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Our <a href="/transparency/2026/">transparency report</a> now reads every figure live from our database the moment you open it — orders delivered, how fast, refunds issued, problems reported and legal requests received. Nothing is typed in by hand, so nothing can drift from reality. We publish this because a verification service asking you to trust its data should be willing to show its own. Revenue is deliberately not included: a transparency report is about how customers are treated, not what a company earns.

A dedicated guide to <a href="/uss-auction-sheet-verification/">verifying a USS auction sheet</a> — how USS grades in practice, what their sheet layout puts where, why the chassis number beats their lot numbers, and what to do when nothing is found. USS handles roughly one in three used cars sold at auction in Japan, and its sheets read differently from the smaller houses.

We have accepted Bitcoin, USDT and around 200 other coins for a while, but our <a href="/payment-methods/">payment methods page</a> never said so. It does now, including the two honest caveats: a blockchain payment takes a few minutes to confirm rather than being instant, and some coins carry a network minimum.

Our terms, refunds, disclaimer, privacy, acceptable use, data rights, sanctions, anti-fraud, security and accessibility pages were written when we only verified Japanese cars. All of them now cover the US and Canada VIN check as well, with a tab at the top so you read the rules for the service you actually bought. We also corrected our stated company details: JP Sheet is operated by List Networks Ltd, registered in England and Wales, with servers in Manchester under UK data protection law.

Searching has always been free on JP Sheet — you only pay for the record itself. Our pages did not say so plainly enough, and people assumed otherwise. The <a href="/how-to-verify-auction-sheet-online/">how to verify</a> guide now answers it in the first two sentences: type a chassis number, see the car and the auction at no cost, and pay only if you want the inspector&rsquo;s grade, damage marks, mileage and sale price.

Our database was reachable from outside the server, protected only by its password. It now listens on the local machine only, so nothing outside our server can connect to it at all. We also closed the database admin port and added rate limits to our public APIs. Our error logs show no sign of any outside connection attempt during the period it was open.

We now check American and Canadian vehicles as well as Japanese ones. Enter a 17-digit VIN and we search the federal title database (NMVTIS), salvage and insurance auctions, dealer listings and service networks. The report shows title brands — salvage, flood, fire, hail, rebuilt, junk, lemon — every odometer reading on record, previous owners, accident and write-off records, theft and lien checks, service history, and photographs from past sales where they exist. Twenty-seven separate checks, each listed individually so you can see what was searched even when nothing was found. Identifying the vehicle is free; you only pay if you want the history. Finished within 12 hours or refunded in full.

Every distance in a VIN report can be shown in miles or kilometres with one tap, and the setting is remembered. Both figures come from the source record rather than being converted, so a reading filed in Canada stays exactly as it was filed.

A 17-digit VIN is now decoded against the US Department of Transportation database, so you get the manufacturer&rsquo;s own filing — make, model, year, trim, body, engine, power, fuel, transmission, drive and the plant it was built in. Japanese chassis codes are unchanged and still use our own data. Results are cached, so a code you have looked up before opens instantly.

Developers can now decode a VIN from their own site or app without an account or a key. Sixty lookups an hour, three hundred a day, and anything already cached does not count towards either. Documentation is at /decoder-api/.

A small number of paid reports were fetched correctly but failed to save, because one database field was too short for an unusually long grade name. Every affected order was completed by hand and delivered. The field has been widened, every similar field was checked, and a failed save now raises an immediate alert rather than failing quietly.

The price history tool now shows real sold prices for more model and year combinations. Where we hold too few records to be honest about an average, we say so rather than publishing a figure you cannot rely on.

Accounts were being signed out after about 24 minutes of inactivity, which meant losing your place mid-order. Sessions now last a week.

The header on report pages could scroll away on some phones, making it hard to get back. It now stays put wherever you are on the page.

Some Google Workspace accounts could not complete sign-in because of an unusually long profile picture address. Fixed — those accounts sign in normally.

Auction records change after the sale. A car listed today may sell tomorrow, and houses often publish the result, hammer price and extra photos days later. Every delivered report now has a Re-check option: our team re-pulls the chassis from all every source we reach and adds whatever has been published since — sale result, hammer price, photos, or a newer auction appearance — to the same report link. We can only show what an auction house has published; if nothing is new, we tell you that. A Deeper Scan includes one re-check.

Something look wrong on a report? Missing photos, a wrong price, a detail that does not match the sheet. Every report now carries a Report a problem button. Tell us what looks off and a team member checks it against the original auction sheet within 12 hours. If it needs fixing we fix it and email you. No charge.

Some records reach us from the auction feed with only one photo and no sale price yet. Those reports now show a clear "Completing this report" bar under the record so you know it is still being finished — and it disappears on its own the moment our team adds the missing photos and price, always within 12 hours.

The verified record at the top of every report is now an overview panel: grade and hammer price first, then result and mileage, then house, date, lot and start bid. Vehicle specifications and auction details below it read as a clean list on a white card. Desktop is unchanged.

Translation, Deeper Scan and the new Re-check now sit in a single panel that adapts to what you have already ordered — the status of a delivered translation shows at the top, and only the add-ons still worth buying are offered below.

A background request logger was found to be slowing every page under load. It has been removed. Pages that occasionally felt stuck for a few seconds at peak now load normally.

If the auction data source does not respond for a paid order, the order is now always visible to our team for manual completion, and the customer is emailed as soon as the report is ready.

Mileage and prices entered by our team are now formatted consistently — 50,000 KM and 5,000,000 YEN — on every manually built report, so figures read the same on every page.

Order confirmations, report links, refund notices and follow-ups are now sent through a dedicated transactional email service with full authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC). Emails arrive faster and land in the inbox, not spam.

A refund email now shows exactly what was paid, the transaction charge the card network keeps, and the amount returned — instead of a single "full refund" line that did not match the figure on the customer's statement. The follow-up sent after an unfinished checkout is now clearly labelled as a one-time follow-up and carries an unsubscribe link.

When a manual search finds no record, our team can now issue the refund and the customer email from a single button, so refunds go out the same day.

New country pages explain import rules, duty and the verification steps for each market, so buyers everywhere can check a car before they commit.

Every report now opens in a dedicated layout — section navigation on the left, the report in the middle, and your permanent link, auction history summary and record details on the right. On mobile the whole report is a single scroll with a bottom tab bar. Auction history is summarised in one place: times seen, first and last seen, sold versus unsold, mileage trend and rollback check.

The profile page now shows your reports, translations, deep scans and credits in one place, with paging for long histories and cleaner invoices.

We added continuous checks on report delivery, page speed and payment processing so problems are seen by our team before customers notice.

Homepage, search and report pages rebuilt on a lighter design system. Pages load noticeably faster on mobile and the search box is the first thing you see.

Two counting errors in our internal customer list were corrected. No customer-facing data was affected.

Our team can now build and correct reports from a phone — useful when a photo needs adding at 2am Japan time.

A rebuilt internal tool for reviewing, editing and attaching auction history to reports, so corrections reach customers faster.

Some auction records reach us with no photos attached by the auction house. When that happens our team sources the images and adds them to your report by hand. We have rebuilt the tool behind that step, so reports needing it are now finished and sent in a fraction of the time. Every photo is also optimised before publishing, so report pages open faster on mobile.

Our free chassis code decoder now covers far more of what actually ships out of Japan. New entries span the 1998 to 2010 export era and the modern range alike: Prius 10 and 20, Vitz, Corolla 120 and 140, Land Cruiser 100 and Prado, Hilux Surf, Crown, Mark II, Harrier, Alphard, Serena, X-Trail, Impreza WRX and STI, Legacy, Forester, Lancer Evolution, Fairlady Z, Skyline, GT-R, Civic Type R, Integra Type R, S2000, RX-8, MR2, Celica GT-Four, Cappuccino, Beat and many more.

The decoder previously focused on cars. It now recognises the commercial vehicles our exporters buy every week — Isuzu Elf, Mitsubishi Fuso Canter and Rosa, Toyota Dyna, Toyoace and Coaster, Hino Dutro and Ranger, Nissan Caravan, Mazda Bongo, plus the kei workhorses like the Honda Acty, Subaru Sambar and Mitsubishi Minicab.

Decoder results now show the model generation, the drivetrain layout, engine output where it is known, and clickable links to closely related codes. Steering and drive type are also listed separately, so a right hand drive car is no longer confused with a four wheel drive one.

Fixed a case where a verified report could lose its auction date, transmission, auction grade or price details if our team later opened it to add photos or notes. Those fields now always carry through untouched.

Verified reports now fetch with automatic safeguards when an auction data source is briefly slow, and an order is never marked complete unless the full report is delivered. If a fetch cannot complete, our team is alerted instantly to finish it by hand — so a paid order is never silently missed.

Resolved a slowdown that could make report pages and the account dashboard load slowly or briefly stall under load. Pages now load in parallel and feel noticeably snappier across the whole site.

Our System Status page now publishes a full timeline for any service-affecting incident — investigating, identified and resolved updates, each timestamped — so you can always see exactly what happened and when it was fixed.

Updated the example on our sample reports page with a Subaru Impreza that appeared at Japanese auctions six times over six years — a clear demonstration of how the full auction history reveals far more than any single sheet.

Fixed an issue introduced by an automatic hosting platform update that could cause checkout to fail. Verification orders now process reliably, with new safeguards added against similar platform changes in future.

Resolved a brief flash where an icon could momentarily appear oversized while a page was still loading. Icons now render at the correct size from the first frame.

Web fonts rebuilt in a modern compressed format with smart preloading — about 270KB lighter on first visit, so text appears noticeably sooner, especially on mobile connections.

Technical errors are no longer displayed in the browser on customer-facing pages — everything is logged privately for our team instead. Less information for attackers, a cleaner experience for you.

Verified reports now include every time the vehicle appeared at Japanese auctions, not just the latest record: date, auction house, lot number, grade, mileage, prices, sale result, photos and the auction sheet for each appearance — newest first, with your purchased record highlighted.

Reports now compare the odometer across all auction appearances in time order. If the mileage ever goes down between auctions, a clear tampering alert appears at the top of the Auction History — rollback fraud has nowhere to hide.

New summary on reports: how many times the vehicle was seen at auction, first and last seen years, sold vs unsold counts and the recorded mileage range — plus an auction-records badge in the report header.