RC Crash Crew maintains a community map of hobby shops and businesses, some added by members, some claimed and managed directly by their owners. This page explains how that works.
Community-added listings
A business may appear on our map before its owner ever joins the site — added by a member who found it a useful spot to share. These listings use publicly available factual information: name, address, hours, category, and similar. A community-added listing is not an endorsement by RC Crash Crew or a guarantee that the information is current. Anyone, including the business owner, can report incorrect information through the listing's report option, and an owner can claim the listing at any time to take it over directly.
Claiming a business
To claim a listing, you submit proof of your connection to the business — a work email at the business's own domain, a business license, or similar — and a moderator reviews it before approving. Claiming does not require owning the business outright; an authorized employee can claim and manage a listing on the owner's behalf. If ownership of a business changes, the new owner should submit their own claim, and we will work with both parties to transfer control. A fraudulent claim, once discovered, results in the claim being revoked and the account involved being subject to suspension. If two people submit competing claims to the same business, we resolve it by requesting stronger proof from each side before approving either one.
What "Verified" means
Verified means RC Crash Crew confirmed the claimant has the authority to manage that listing. It does not mean RC Crash Crew guarantees the business, its products, its workmanship, its safety practices, or its financial condition. Shop with the same judgment you would use for any business you found on a map.
Content on a claimed listing
Once claimed, an owner controls their listing's logo, photos, description, hours, and any Storefront products or promotions they add. That content is subject to the same Community Guidelines as everything else on the site — a business page is not exempt from our rules against misleading claims, spam, or infringing use of someone else's logo or trademark.
Employee accounts
An owner can grant staff access to their business listing's Storefront and management tools. The owner remains responsible for what their staff post or process under that listing.
Reporting false information
If a listing (claimed or unclaimed) has incorrect information, report it directly from the listing page. If you believe a listing is impersonating a real business or using its name/logo without authorization, that is a trademark matter — see our Copyright, Trademark & DMCA Policy.