From: sandman9 (sandman9@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 10:36:24 PST
John Peterson
Military Transport Assn.
Central Jersey Military Motor Pool
MVPA
1967 M35A2 w/M105A1
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Boos" <acfarer@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fwd: [MV] Anyone deal with an ebay seller named
"us-military-man" ?
> I had asked him a ton of questions and he sent me a question asking if I
had
> fun "F-ing" with him yet.
> I told him I had a great time. You didn't tell me anything!
> I also explained how it was on the cheap side of ethical the use someone
> elses legwork to get the sale. I didn't get that question yet!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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