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ebay smackdown

dekhdekh
edited July 2008 in Chit chat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/01/ebay.hitechcrime

About time too.

Funnily enough the latest CD games collection they emailed me about had been removed too.
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  • zx1zx1
    edited July 2008
    I bought a dvd last year from ebay that was a pirate (police squad). I wasn't too happy, it was really cheap though.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited July 2008
    Well stopping sale of pirated goods on ebay is a lot in the hands of the buyer to take note and caveat emptor, I think. They can't check absolutely every auction. I reported a 9000+ seller as sending me a fake GBA cartridge and he was removed, although no doubt started up a new ID somewhere. He had loads of good feedback with the odd negative for games not saving, but it was clear that everything he was selling was fake and parents were buying them for their kids and not noticing or caring that it was a fake, just that it was cheap and would shut little Johnny up.

    Actually have just noticed that a DS game I bought that looked legit is shipping from HK, so anything could happen in the next week or so. He has mostly good feedback, 11000+, but if it's fake I'm shopping the bastard. All I want is the bloody game.
  • dekhdekh
    edited July 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    caveat emptor

    Sale of goods act. Copyright Law. Berne Convention (to which the UK is a signatory).

    Why shouldn't ebay check every item. They charge listing fees, take a percentage of the auction price and are an active party to the sale.

    If they don't check every item that is their look out.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited July 2008
    dekh wrote: »
    Sale of goods act. Copyright Law. Berne Convention (to which the UK is a signatory).

    Why shouldn't ebay check every item. They charge listing fees, take a percentage of the auction price and are an active party to the sale.

    If they don't check every item that is their look out.

    Agreed. If they don't have the capacity to check then they need to down-scale. It's not my job as a buyer to go on the lookout for moody goods.

    By the way, I used to sell a lot on there but these days it's just not worth the arsing around for what ends up being a pittance.
  • alchresearchalchresearch
    edited July 2008
    I wish they'd get rid of sellers flogging DVDs of emulators and their games, and those who offer software to extract videos from Youtube, when all they do is burn a copy of ORBIT to a CD and post it and charge a fiver for the privilege.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited July 2008
    dekh wrote: »
    Why shouldn't ebay check every item. They charge listing fees, take a percentage of the auction price and are an active party to the sale.

    On the same note, why shouldn't the phone company have to approve every phone call and listen in? After all, they charge a fee for phone calls. Same with ISPs. Should ISPs be responsible for what their users do? I don't agree that ebay are an active part of the sale, any more than a market square is an active part of a market stall - it's just a venue.

    I have no love at all for ebay, but if they had to check every item for sale, ebay would cease to be useful because they would have to be about 1/100th of the size they are now or hugely expensive. The vast majority of stuff on ebay is legitimate, and if ebay had to check every single item it'd be throwing out the baby with the bath water.
  • sparkessparkes
    edited July 2008
    Somebody was selling Minions remake of the Star Wars game a couple of months back and claimed it was 'Public Domain'.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited July 2008
    sparkes wrote: »
    Somebody was selling Minions remake of the Star Wars game a couple of months back and claimed it was 'Public Domain'.
    Did you report it?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2008
    Personally I don't care about designers and perfume companies losing money to fakes. Why buy designers jeans when you can buy cheap ones that look better and last longer. Also why buy snidey fragrances or cosmetics, when you can get the real thing as prezzies from some mug you're related to.

    ....and if not, you can buy em' cheap anyway, from a few places.

    I've got 2 pairs of designer jeans, and I bought them both whilst in the USA, nver had a real pair of designer jeans the entire 28 years I lived in England. Why......because pricks buy them from places like Primark and front like they bough them brand new for 40000000 quid, then they buy a LaCostely shirt to go with it. Then they punch you for looking in their general direction for 3 seconds and assume you were looking at them.

    Basically the people who apparently wear designer clobber are in fact pricks.

    ....and I don't care if snides get sold on she-bay, it's a fucking joke half the time anyway. I remember in 98' I searched for a kidney and got several auctions available.

    Never used e-bay.....never will.
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