Read them before your first load, not after one goes sideways.
When a claim can be opened
From the carrier’s delivery scan until escrow releases —
5 business days. Once the window closes the order is settled and cannot be reopened. Taking an instant payout closes it early, by your own choice —
the payout ladder is here.
How you answer
You have 72 hours to respond to a claim, on one screen you both see. Silence is not neutral: an unanswered claim proceeds without your side of it.
When it is decided
Within 5 days of the claim being escalated. The deadline is on the case from the moment it opens.
What counts as evidence
Photographs, filed against a specific manifest line, uploaded by the buyer’s own account. Photos from anywhere else — another seller’s lot, a stock image, the listing itself — are not evidence and cannot be replayed as “what arrived”.
What is judged
The lot against what the lot said it was. Manifested lots are judged line by line. An assortment or an as-is load is judged against its declared description, condition grade and photographs — not against a manifest it never claimed to have.
The remedy
A partial refund, paid out of escrow, for the lines that hold up. Goods and the freight share on them are settled together. It comes out of the sale, not out of a separate bill —
every line that touches your payout. Full reversals happen only where the load was materially not what the card said.
Not covered
Buyer’s remorse, resale value below what he hoped for, condition already disclosed on the lot card, sample photographs he read as stock, and damage after delivery. An as-is load being as-is is not a claim.
What this is
Load Cover is how money moves and how disputes are decided on Closo — it is not an insurance policy, and nothing here is a guarantee against a buyer being difficult. It is a published rule set applied the same way to every order, and the money sits in escrow until it resolves.