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Holy smokes on that chess set! Amazing! Great job packing it as well.
Last week I was at an estate sale full of vintage electronics. I bought one thing that I could easily research, but I’m sure I left a garage full of valuable stuff. I thought to myself that this is a Steve Schultz estate sale if I ever saw one lol.
With the Iceland call, I think you missed something. The buyer bought from her from another account, going around the blocked ID. It was obviously the same person, from Iceland both times. I had this happen to me too with a domestic buyer who literally made another account to get around the block, and Ebay absolutely sided with me as it was clearly the same person. When the person left a neg, Ebay removed it under “disruption of business”. That caller needs to call Ebay back. What the buyer did going around the block isn’t allowed.
About the new Queer Eye…did you guys like the new cast? I just didn’t love them like I loved the original guys. I watched the same episode as you guys did. Maybe I need to give it another chance though. I agree with you that it’s great how much times have changed since the original show though.
Thanks Mike! That was actually the one link I’d read last night…too funny! Do you think there would be real demand for this vintage litho ink or not since there are competitive brands now? Also, do think artists would prefer to buy a lot of this as opposed to buying individual tubes?
AdventureE, First Sale Doctrine protects sellers regarding that though doesn’t it? Essentially any item on Ebay could be pulled down under the logic that the seller isn’t the VERO member themselves.
Could you contact the VERO rights holder and have them contact Ebay on your behalf since the items are legit and were purchased directly from them?
Yikes! thanks for posting this, I’ll be watching for it. Why are you getting rid of Smartpost if I might ask?
I’ll bet we will. It seems like they went on a spree, reporting a bunch of hats as counterfeit. My takedown was on sold hat. I wonder if you’ll get a takedown on the one you sold last week also. It’s so odd. Do they really think there are tons of counterfeit Subaru hats out there? These aren’t high-dollar hats even NWT.
Simon, was it the same as mine for “counterfeit”? In the future, I’m just going to avoid selling this brand period. I have zero reason to think that my hat wasn’t legit. If these VEROs happen so randomly, what are the odds of ending up with one of those sharky demand-letter law firms going after you for selling a “counterfeit”? Has that ever happened to anyone on here? I’ve read about those online, but mostly for people selling things like fake bags and fake software (like, honestly fake stuff). I haven’t heard of it for someone selling what they had every reason to believe was a legit, very used hat but who knows lol.
Too funny about the guy sending the hat picture! Good to know he liked it!
Yup, that’s what my sister told me…the company pays a service to look through Ebay monthly (or some do it more frequently) and do takedowns for anything they deem fake or “gray market”. What I think is that they wanted to take down the guy selling multiples of this hat NWT but my listing got a takedown also.
So a pizza place or a bar can’t advertise a Super Bowl Party without permission from the NFL??? That seems weird to me! Isn’t the point of the Super Bowl to get people to watch so advertisers are happy?
AdventureE, wouldn’t that essentially mean that every Ebay seller is at risk of random claims from companies because they don’t want their items resold? First Sale doctrine protects people from that thank goodness, or a whole lot of Ebay wouldn’t exist. While googling, I found someone else who had had a random counterfeit VERO claim from this same VERO member, also on a closed item. They also couldn’t figure out why theirs was singled out from the many other identical items. My sister (patent attorney) said that there is a company that other companies pay to look at Ebay monthly or so and report items. I wonder if they have to report X amount of items each month per client or something…it seems really arbitrary, like my hat was just picked at random on the last day of the month.
OK, so the seller “subarupartsdirect” that had sold 80 of this hat NWT ended his own listing overnight and his most recently sold one disappeared overnight. I think they did a takedown of solds for this particular style of hat for some reason. AdventureE may be correct in that they don’t want someone competing with them, particularly a high-volume seller selling NWT. Maybe my one used hat got lumped in with his since they had to do a takedown of 80 solds. He ended his own active listing, so the takedown didn’t apply to live items? Weird. This seller appears to sell nothing but Subaru items and lists themselves as “Subaru parts pros”. I’m going to watch and see if they are able to start selling the hats again as I assume that in their case it’s worthwhile to deal with the VERO member since they have a large stock of new hats.
Oh shoot, I do have one for Velcro! Uh oh, I hope that this isn’t a problem. I forgot about that…I listed a pair of sneakers and put Velcro in the title last August and it got taken down. Yikes. It was for “unauthorized use of a trademark”. I can understand that one, and honestly I knew better than to use Velcro in the title but obviously it slipped my mind. This one saying I sold a counterfeit used, cheap hat is really blowing my mind though. I’d recommend avoiding listing Subaru anything because this is just too weird.
Oh they definitely are, and I avoid those brands. I’m pretty sure nobody out there is going to knock off a $12 Subaru hat though. It’s beyond weird to me that my closed listing was singled out though. Any ideas what’s up with that? I can’t recall the last time I had a VERO violation, but I’d guess it’s been years. I’ve never had one accusing counterfeit merchandise though. Have you guys ever had one? I guess I’m feeling pretty spooked right about now because I honestly thought I was doing everthing right to avoid trademark/Vero violations. I avoid all the brands with very active counterfeit markets, and most of what I sell are used, mostly vintage hats which would be very unlikely counterfeit targets lol.
I had that EXACT scenario that the caller with the crazy Iceland buyer had. The person was in the US in my case, and he created a second account to get around the block. In my case, Ebay had me cancel the sale, and when he left a negative Ebay removed it under “disruption of business”. Hope this helps!
Since I mainly sell hats, I wash a lot of them. I just hand wash them in the sink. I use Dawn soap usually. I do buy hats that are really gross lol. Most of the time they clean up fine, especially the polyester 70’s ones. I put them outside to dry.
Not really a single scavenging nemesis, but a team of them at the Goodwill bins. They are awful! The bins actually hired security guards to keep them in line which has barely made a dent in their insane behavior. I swear, these people would elbow their own kids in the face to grab a pair of shoes they are after. I have to psych myself up to go there, but that’s where I source hats in bulk so every month or 2 I go. The same exact teams of people are there every single time I go.
