From: Jonathan Boos (acfarer@cox.net)
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 10:22:52 PST
I had asked him a ton of questions and he sent me a question asking if I had
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>
fun "F-ing" with him yet.
I told him I had a great time.
I also explained how it was on the cheap side of ethical the use someone
elses legwork to get the sale.
From: "Stephen Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:34 AM
Subject: [MV] Fwd: [MV] Anyone deal with an ebay seller named
"us-military-man" ?
> Hi Dave,
>
>> Although this might be wrong, is there anything in Ebayland that says
>> that this is any type of violation. This happens quite a bit on Ebay.
>
> Yup, it is against eBay rules. First, it is covered under there general
> policy of not hosting any materials with copyright violations. If you
> took the picture and posted it, you have the copyright. Anybody else
> using it is therefore in violation of this overarching policy. However,
> eBay specifically prohibits lifting pictures and/or descriptions from
> other eBayers. In the complaints section there is a specific link for
> notifying eBay of such violations. I have found that these sorts of
> violations are responded to fairly quickly by eBay. Where you get into
> choppy waters is when things are less clear, like shills and unethical
> conduct. These things can be more difficult to prove so eBay appears to
> follow a policy of "if it ain't obvious to us, we ain't doing nuttin".
>
> Of course many of us have experienced this sort of response as well as
> auctions (either our own or ones we are bidding on) being taken down for
> either arbitrary or incorrectly applied legal issues. For example, I had
> a German police uniform yanked two weeks ago because of the rank on it.
> Yet on German eBay if you don't see a hundred of these for sale at one
> time you aren't actually on German eBay! Heck, I just saw one guy sell a
> BOX of ranks (estimated to be over 300 pairs), so if someone wants to
> impersonate a German police officer, I don't think they'd by my uniform
> from the US when they can get boxes of the stuff locally. In fact, they
> could just get one from a German police officer, which is where mine came
> from. Sadly, like so many eBayers on this list, my logic fell on deaf
> ears.
>
> Still, for all its negatives I love it. I sell tons of stuff without
> problems and buy just about as much (OK, significantly more <g>). Got
> some good money for stuff I otherwise would have put in the dumpster too.
> Just balancing out the bad comments with the positive :-)
>
> Steve
>
>
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