Ebay Pirate!! Rich_1600.

bluearrow · Post by **bluearrow** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:38 am

Hi All
Beware of this guy selling on ebay. Authors of named software might want to contact ebay about his activities.
Thanks to mick.c5 for contacting me about the pratt.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 00042&rd=1

jp4712 · Post by **jp4712** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:18 pm

* BUMP *

Thanks for the heads-up, Mike. I've reported him to ebay, I suggest others do the same.

Paul

bluearrow · Post by **bluearrow** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:02 pm

jp4712 wrote:* BUMP *

Thanks for the heads-up, Mike. I've reported him to ebay, I suggest others do the same.

Paul

I have done the same. Thanks Paul

ArthurC · Post by **ArthurC** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:28 pm

Hello Folks

It looks as though your reports to E-Bay have done the trick. I have just used the link to view it and it says nothing on this number.

Regards Arthur

bluearrow · Post by **bluearrow** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:56 pm

ArthurC wrote:Hello Folks

It looks as though your reports to E-Bay have done the trick. I have just used the link to view it and it says nothing on this number.

Regards Arthur

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It appears so Arthur. Problem is Ebay will not ban him, so he will be back.

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:15 pm

You could try reporting him to your local trading standards.

They might trace him and do something even if it's only a warning.

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:13 pm

Y'mean something like THIS?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0022842255

Have notified a few people before - has he started flogging BATS products too?

alanhowat · Post by **alanhowat** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:19 pm

Hi all,

Rich_1600: "No longer registered with eBay".

Cheers,

Alan.

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:00 pm

That just means he'll come back with a different username, unfortunately.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:15 pm

Which is doubly annoying because e-Bay will have a good deal of identifiable information about a user such as e-mail address, IP addresses, almost certainly a Paypal account, bank account details etc.

So if e-Bay were really serious about banning people who breach copyright / trade illegally they could make it very hard for them to re-register under another username.

I don't know anyone who has been banned from e-Bay so have no idea if it's just a case of 2 mins work creating a new account or whether e-bay take their own bans seriously and stop illegal traders by other means.

carlwestwood · Post by **carlwestwood** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:43 pm

its a shame people like this person do this. It ruins things

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:22 pm

well he is not the worst I have seen guys charging a tenner for download locos etc etc

petethetim · Post by **petethetim** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:25 pm

alanhowat wrote:Hi all,

Rich_1600: "No longer registered with eBay".

Cheers,

Alan.

Sure he will be back tomorrow under another name

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:31 pm

Thanks everyone for their input. I am going to lock the thread now since the original seller has apparently either shut his eBay account down or had it shut down for him. We also have the sticky running for freeware items being sold which is located here. Where people are selling commercial add-ons then it is really down to the copyright holders to follow up on that and be monitoring what is up for sale.

Kindest regards

John