Re: Question about Listing Removal
Ebay just don't have the means, or will, to monitor and understand every copyright document.
They work on a guilty until proven innocent approach, which I kinda get from their perspective. Not that I'm condoning it.
You've defended yourself once, I guess you can do it again, but the question you need answering and I can't say for sure one way or the other, is whether each attack and subsequent defence keeps your account 'clean'.
Can I imagine a situation where your account is attacked a dozen times and defended a dozen times and subsequently being suspended...you bet I can.
There are simply too many anomalies for ebay to manage. What if someone has the same wares registered with another copyright office? US, EU, Asia etc. Would your UK one be adequate defence? What if it pre-dates yours? What if someone claims to hold the patent or intellectual property rights to the goods? Ebays drones cannot be expected to understand international law an apply it correctly.
Is it safe to say that you did not design the goods and hold a patent?
Your issue has been seen before many times on this forum alone, I doubt it ends well.
Only you can decide how far you're going to push this claim to the wares, but ask yourself this. If you were ebay and had ongoing complaints about a seller and kept having to manage all the toing and froing, what might you eventually decide is the best thing to do?
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