VeRO Infringement Policy

[miserwa67]

I have had a few of my listing removed now for VeRO Infringement for selling Xerox products. This seems to be a new thing as I have been selling on ebay for decades and have never encountered this. So it seems one cannot sell Xerox (or many other brands) without the permission of the copyright holder. This is like Ford telling me I can't sell my car on Kijiji because they hold the trademark. So now ebay prevents me, and others I guess, from selling items that I have paid for with my own money, made listings with my camera and my own words. What is ebay good for if not for selling things we own?

 

[flipistics]

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@miserwa67 wrote:

I have had a few of my listing removed now for VeRO Infringement for selling Xerox products. This seems to be a new thing as I have been selling on ebay for decades and have never encountered this. So it seems one cannot sell Xerox (or many other brands) without the permission of the copyright holder. This is like Ford telling me I can't sell my car on Kijiji because they hold the trademark. So now ebay prevents me, and others I guess, from selling items that I have paid for with my own money, made listings with my camera and my own words. What is ebay good for if not for selling things we own?

 

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I got hit with one from Xerox a number of years ago. It turns out the toner was part of a subscription program rather than a retail product, and therefore was technically owned by the company. They were easy to deal with though. My account wasn't penalized for the VeRO, and they simply asked that I send it to them (they paid for the label).

You have to really pay attention on products like toner. Some HP toner is also part of a subscription. The boxes usually have some kind of indication on them, but sometimes you have a hunt around a little to find it.

[mrdutch1001]

" So it seems one cannot sell Xerox (or many other brands) without the permission of the copyright holder."

and that has been the case for decades...

Know what you can sell and what you cannot when it comes to trademarked products.

I sell on Etsy where in the forums on daily basis there are discussions pertaining to sellers' listings that are taken down for infringement. And yes sometimes sellers have been getting away with the illegal selling of licenced products for years, before they finally get caught.

Sorry, people but that's just the way it is...

[pjcdn2005]

As @flipistics mentioned Xerox products are often taken down because those products were orginally leased and never for resale. That could be what happened with you.

 You are generally not required to have permission from a rights holder as long as the product is authentic, you use your own pictures and the item is not stolen. Some brands will lie and say an item is not authentic  just because they don't want their products sold here but they are not supposed to do that.