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donfaillo -> RE: Eliminate eBay competion... (12/31/2007 4:31:15)
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I know firsthand what you're talking about and even though this discussion is a few years old, I'd be more than happy to hear about anything you've learned since then.
I am an Old Time Radio dealer and I sell my radio shows on eBay. I sell old radio shows from the 1930's, 40's and 50's that are in the public domain and not under copyright protection. Being in a small market, there are only a handful of radio dealers on eBay, but some of them use the Verified Rights Owner program as a way of eliminating competition.
As an example, I had an item removed for alleged copyright infringement on October 09th of 2007. The item number is 260130765303, and the item was for a collection of 274 episodes of the Bob & Ray radio show in mp3 format, and on one c.d. The person that had my listing shut down didn't go after all of the other people who sold the exact same item I was selling, but only mine. I filed a counter notice and a few days later when I received notice from eGay that it had been received, processed and served, I received a call from that person's attorney. He tried to scare me and intimidate me, but I knew my rights and refused to back down. In the end, they let it go and refused to file a lawsuit against me. A few weeks later I was given back my permanent right to relist that item, even though it meant that it would receive a new item number. When eBay reinstated my listing, they said I could find it by looking through my ended listings, and could relist it by simply clicking the 'relist' button, which I did. They also said in that email that they sent emails to all of my customers who purchased that item, informing them that that item had been reinstated, would be assigned a new item number, and that they could find that item number by scrolling through my listings. A month and a half later, this person filed another infringement claim against the same listing. Ebay granted their request as it was a different item number. These are things that I have been dealing with since the early spring of 2006. If anyone has any idea how I can put a stop to this, I would greatly appreciate the input. I've never done anything wrong, and am merely falling victim to eGay's technical rules that they must remove a listing when it's reported as being infringing. I win my case, my item is reinstated, I relist it per the instructions, am assigned a new item number, and am then subjected to the same harrassment by the same party because my item has a new item number that is different from the one that they initially filed a claim against.
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