TOT fake items on Ebay

When the description on Ebay has the following information do you think what they are selling may be fake?

"Please remember if you buy for resale and the item is non genuine you must clearly state so to avoid trademark infringement."

Reply to
alan_m
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Possibly, or that's generic words slapped on all of their listings.

For example they might sell a generic thing 'for' some other brand, eg a phone case 'for' a Samsung. It isn't made by Samsung and you aren't allowed to say it's a Samsung case, but you can say it's for a Samsung.

Although that's a very odd thing to put on an ebay listing, as why do they care if their buyer resells the thing afterwards? Maybe they've had trouble where their buyer got sanctioned for trademark issues and tried to push it back to them?

Theo

Reply to
Theo

When it doesn't say that I think it may be fake. When it does....

Reply to
Animal

Maybe it's a comment on other sellers, the ones who think that SOGA (whatever that's called these days) and HMRC rules don't apply to them.

Reply to
Rob Morley

probably applies to consumables rather than entire product knock-offs, manufacturers can't stop the sale of compatible printer cartridges and the like.

Reply to
Adrian Caspersz

Nope, very common with usb sticks.

And they can't stop knock off usb sticks either.

Reply to
zall

You mean genuine replica high quality Rotary Watches? Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

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