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Ebay's heavy handed policies (none / 0) (#1)
by auctionhugh on Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 06:33:51 PM PDT

As someone who associates with several ebay sellers, it is not at all unusual to have your auctions yanked for having "copyright or trademark infringing photos or text" and not be able to figure out what the problem was.

I realize this is a tangental comment, but the issue is communicating. I am allowed to sell a used dell monitor, but if I copy and paste the specs on the monitor from the Dell website, I am infringing on the dell copyright somehow.

It is all very confusing, and not open to any real appeal process.

It is not like ebay has any real competition in the marketplace so to say market forces will keep them doing the right thing is kind of a stretch.

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