Rip off dvds on ebay

[Paulloseby]

The other day I bought item 320645041867 off ebay UK. It was described as LEARN WOODTURNING DVD Fine Woodworking DVD Workshop and mentioned, but not named, an acclaimed international woodturner.

Just to let you know that this is an extremely poor copy of the Turning Wood dvd of Richard Raffan's and published by Taunton Press. Although it only cost £3.40 the quality is really poor. I do have the seller's details and have passed these on to Taunton Press and Richard Raffan.

I have no doubt that almost all of us have had illegal dvds at some time or another but to sell them (in quantity) on ebay, I don't think is on.

I don't know the laws concerned in naming and shaming so I will hold back on that for now but he is a foreign 'gentleman' living in Derby, UK

Regards
Paul

 

[John Fabre]

Thanks for the heads up, I was looking at those.

 

[fgvanatta]

If you didn't already, you should also report this to eBay; that'll get the person shut down fast.

 

[Bill Boehme]

Looks like ebay suspended his operation before he got to sell all of his bootleg copies. Poor guy. 😀

 

[Brian McInturff]

I've got the old VHS and the quality was poor by today's standards. If he bootlegged it off of those then it's got to be unwatchable!

 

[waltben]

I've come to the conclusion that eBay has evolved into more scam than meat. Nothing I've searched for has been of the quality I wanted and I can usually find OEM items for close to the same price on Amazon.

 

[Bill Grumbine]

If you didn't already, you should also report this to eBay; that'll get the person shut down fast.

I don't know how fast it will be, unless they are more reactive to complaints now. I found a guy bootlegging my DVDs on EBay a few years ago. Despite the fact that I am the distributor to any and all resellers (I did not know the guy), and he was selling them for less than the wholesale price that everyone who resells them pays, EBay did not want to get rid of him. It took a lot of writing and documentation for me to get him taken off.

 

[fgvanatta]

I don't know how fast it will be, unless they are more reactive to complaints now. I found a guy bootlegging my DVDs on EBay a few years ago. Despite the fact that I am the distributor to any and all resellers (I did not know the guy), and he was selling them for less than the wholesale price that everyone who resells them pays, EBay did not want to get rid of him. It took a lot of writing and documentation for me to get him taken off.

Very true; I stand corrected - SOMETIMES eBay will shut the defender down fast. Other times they will do absolutely nothing about the same offense.

It's usually worth a try, though.

 

[Bill Grumbine]

It's usually worth a try, though.

I agree with you completely. There is very little consistency in the application of EBay's policy, and I think it is always worth a try. This guy was also in the UK. For all I know it is the same guy.