Re: Listing removed due to copyright of design Quote:
Originally Posted by 13obby One thing you need to understand is that eBay’s VerO team do not check pictures or compare pictures with yours they just require the rights owner to provide them legal documentation confirming they own the design rights for the product and once received your listing is removed remember they do not check what the design right as they believe the owner has already done and knows better so therefore the listing needs to be removed and is removed.
It’s down to you to argue this our with the rights owner either by court or by email and from my experience they don’t reply to emails thus giving you no option to argue ebay will not do nothing they won’t reinstate your listing and if you list again then the rights owner may well have you removed again and if this viscous circle continues then your likely to have your account suspended temporarily or indefinitely. | Yeah your right in exactly what your saying but I was able to get it out of ebay in the end. The amount of agents I have to talk to to get as much information out is a lot of work. It was only until l researched the company and gave eBay the company details eBay then started answering my questions.
I said if my image as you can see is different to the image to the rights owner why was it removed? then they then waffled on and I carried on asking and asking questions last question was here is their disclaimer on the gov website my picture is not this part of disclaimer and eBay agreed said yes your right.
I then gave eBay loads of my competitors listing numbers and I was like this person sold thousands this person sold hundreds this person sold loads I then said the only thing I can think of is I’m the only seller with white background image positioned same way as competitors image on gov website they then said my name and said have you thought it could be because of the lighting then that was it the lighting was the only thing which was the same from my picture which was in their copyrights.
They said yes this is the reason but we had to remove listing because we have documents etc I said I understand but I have seen documents as my competitor is selling on eBay and in the documents it doesn’t say the item is what it should be just word like t shirt example but it’s not just t shirt if that makes sense which I’m not selling.
I said the competitor has uploaded an image and paid money to get it copyrighted lighting and other features. No proof of document to say they invented it no proof of document to say they manufactured it it’s manufactured in China anyway not in the U.K. anybody can do this if they wanted to I could copyright a sock tomorrow if I wanted to so as long as I don’t use their design copyrights in image I’m able to sell because it’s a generic item not created by the seller it’s not their item they just own lighting and another feature in the image which is not in my image.
I don’t know why you would want to copyright products which are not your products it’s not your design it’s not your work but yet sellers do this so they can submit something to eBay and listing ends and sellers get upset and copyrighter is happy because they have ended another competitor but if you do the research and you find out in depth what is copyrighted and what is not you can sell no problems. I’ve seen on forum people get MC011 give up on the account, receive drop shipping policy give up on the account listing removal due to design give up the more we learn the more we get better. I’m going to end this now as it was a long one for me.
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