Just a heads up for many starting selling and a little story :)
"ebay counterfeit guilty"
I honestly did not think that google search would have brought up so many recent cases of people going to prison for selling phakes on eb. Kind of scary to go back in time when i was 14 selling on eb and got hit with a vero. Kept selling then got hit with a huge envelope from a law firm stating my dad was being sued for large amount of $$$ due to my selling activity on his account.
I was terrified at that age to read something like that so the best thing i could come up with was to shred the 100-200 papers and never tell my dad about it. Week went by and i was paranoid each day i woke up i thought cops would show up to my house and arrest him so out of panic what i decided to do was google the law firm and get connected to the office or dept that was dealing with this this vero/lawsuit and beg the lawyer not do push forward with the case. After numerous attempts trying get connected to the right place i just left a voice mail at every phone begging them not to pursue the case and that it was me a 14 year old who had no idea that i could not sell those items lol.
Months went by and it finally became clear the case was dropped and they were no longer going to pursue it. I really think my pathetic begging voice mails apologizing did the trick here but who knows.
Anyway, the point of the story is to be careful. I wish I did that google search or heard a story like this one when i was 14 almost landing my dad or me in jail and a crap load of fines to pay because i was either unaware of the laws or thought it could never happen to me.
If you do that google search and read the stories you can pretty much pin point what led to each of them getting caught. It also may not be a great idea of attaching your state formed business/Tax ID to an account that turns huge or big volumes in profits from non legit sales.
I know most people on this forum know all of this stuff already but this was just to aware some people since i know many sell in these categories after all eb is probably 80% or more unlegit items. And yes i know my english was absolutely terrible but im also really tired. |