HELLO
I just want to ask if you think this is fair.
The other day one of my listings were pulled out because a someone claimed to be the right owner. I got this email:
We would like to let you know that we removed your listing: 5971050119 REMOTE CONTROL SUBMARINE (play under the water)
If you believe your listing was ended in error, or have questions regarding the removal of this listing, please contact the VeRO Program participant directly at:
Megatech International
EBay is available to answer questions, but since it is the VeRO Program participant that requested the removal of your listings, we encourage you to contact them first.
I contacted the person responsible for this situation and he said that :
Dear EBay Customer,
The item you had listed for sale is a copy of, or has parts copied from our Ocean Explorer 1 Micro Submarine protected by US Patent D503,754 S. No matter how you obtained this copy, any sale or resale of it is prohibited.
Please visit the US Patent office website at www.uspto.gov if you would like a complete explanation of our rights to enforce any infringing sales of this item.
If you check the link to check for the patent owner. you won't get much information:
The right owner's name is not the same as the one I have to contact to resolve the problem, there is not pictures available to see, no description of the item, nothing to convince me. The patent is in the US only, not in Canada.
This is a picture of the item that he claimed to be the Rights Owner of:
http://www.megatech.com/images_5.0/products/7702/large.jpg
(I obtained it from his website)
And this are the pictures of the item that I imported from overseas:
http://www.gfxhost.com/eBayImageHosting.php?i=16046&img=SubmarineRed.gif&Image-Hosting=Photo-Sharing
http://www.gfxhost.com/eBayImageHosting.php?i=16047&img=SubmarineBlue.gif&Image-Hosting=Photo-Sharing
http://www.gfxhost.com/eBayImageHosting.php?i=16051&img=SubmarineGreen.gif&Image-Hosting=Photo-Sharing
The item that I sell is about 8" long, his item size is about 3" long, different shape,colours, etc.
The guy won't let me sell the item without any reason.
EBay doesn't want to get involve.
I don't know what to do after trying several times to show proof that I am not infringing the law.
All I got was warnings that my account will be suspended if I list the item again.
I think EBay should at list investigate those guys that claim to be right owners of a product and they are not showing evidence.
I am just getting seek with all this.
I need your opinion guys
Ant thank you for taking the time.
Daniel