Copies of Amiga games/apps sold as original!

[orb85750]

BEST WAY TO SHUT HIM DOWN?  We all buy and pay with PayPal.  We receive the bootleg product and immediately file a PayPal dispute for a refund, claiming product is a fake (and it is).  eBay/PayPal will not want to deal with many such claims and will likely take the problem seriously and shut him down.  Thoughts?

[lorddef]

This ebay listing is from one of many drop-ship sellers being supplied by a huge counterfeit ring running out of Swindon by former Amiga shop owners. They counterfeit everything from videos to Amiga to consoles and PC.

I reported these guys several times to their ISP, the local police and trading standards. There is lots of information about these people, they have not tried to hide their identities. They make hundreds of thousands of pounds every year through counterfeits.

Someone needs to bring them down. Watchdog or someone.

It's not "epic marketing" is it, as I recall they had a few other renamed ventures later on? I remember buying some software from them, must have been 10 years ago back in the day of AmigaFormat and they shipped me a counterfeit copy. Total c*nts.

[motorollin]

@jsixis
1. Your personal feelings about the quality or compatibility of those particular pieces of software are completely irrelevant to this discussion
2. Buyers and sellers of software are not at liberty to decide when a piece of software has become "abandonware"
3. Since you ask what the problem is, you seem to have overlooked the fact that the seller claimed that they were selling original software when in fact it is not. Regardless of your feelings about selling unlicensed copies of this software, the problem is that the buyer did not get what was advertised.