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Offline CyberusTopic starter

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Reporting pirates on eBay
« on: August 18, 2005, 04:01:24 AM »
call me lazy or incompetent, but I find ebaY's website very difficult to navigate, e.g. when you want to make a complaint or something. How would I go about reporting this for example?

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2005, 04:15:29 AM »
Geeeeeeeeeeezuz! Who cares!  :-o

Unless the guy is your uncle, and making some bucks from YOUR hard drive's, hard work!  :lol:

Just kiddin' Dude!   :-P
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2005, 05:13:38 AM »
Use the Safety Centre link at the bottom of the page.
 

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2005, 06:00:06 AM »
Geee... selling pirated games as-is... that's a classic.

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2005, 08:00:19 AM »
Click on 'Help' at the top
Click on 'Contact us' on the left hand side
Than you have to answer some questions (is automated)
after that press 'Continue'
click on 'email us'
Now you have to give them the item number(s)
click 'send'
click on 'Submit'

Come on. Lets get him
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2005, 09:04:33 AM »
As long as the auction states or hints to the fact that it is home made, or if he at least offers a refund, I would leave him be, really. You really don't know how badly the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and these giant Coporations are playing you, and all of the rest of us.
 Ignore there propaganda, they are NOT loosing profits, listen to the experts from the Universities, not some lame rep from within there own company. The system is designed to give the people as little money as possible, and horde all the rest, why do you think we all keep going into recession?!!? It is NO mistake that the people no longer print and control there own money, you are being screwed!!!

Anyhow, if you do have a valid complaint beyond ruining this guy's (most likely) low income desparate life, and do not believe in Free Trade (which has been dead for years), then check Ebay HELP and do a search for what ever it is he did.
 Sent you an item that was not described and refused a refund, broken item, non-paying, ignoring E-mail, etc.

Good luck!
 Otherwise just do your search in Ebay's HELP, for what ever it is that the guy did to you. Refused refund, etc.
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2005, 09:21:07 AM »
Oh. My. Dog.  You must be kidding.

Here we see another over-reaction from a person who really believes the lie that "piracy killed the Amiga".  It was malfeasance and stupid managers who killed the company.  Piracy probably helped as much as hurt.  A lot of people got Amigas based upon some nifty programs they could get copies of.

Anyway, why would anybody care about this?  Is the software on ebay still being developed?  No.  Still being supported?  Still being produced?  If it was new software, I could see the concern.  But it's not.

 

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2005, 09:53:29 AM »
Hi,

Perhaps the seller should have described the item as "Four ****RARE**** 3.5 inch double density disks" instead!

Bargain price of £1 each!  :-)

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2005, 12:21:28 PM »
Jesus guys, do you think I'm going to the hassle of reporting him?
I just wanted to know HOW, and quoted an example of an auction, as I have seen a few auctions where I would like to report the person in question as they have overstepped the mark.

Some of you guys should learn to read English more carefully.
'How WOULD I go about....'

Does anyone here see the distinction between that and

'I want to....'


Anyway, in response to Boing specifically, selling other people's work is wrong IMO. If I wrote some software back in the eighties and some smelly little oik was selling copies of it on eBay, I'd be bloody annoyed. If it was freely distributed on the internet, I wouldn't mind.

Do you see the difference?
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2005, 01:02:12 PM »
I wouldnt care to report anyone.. unless its some new game thats out and being sold as copies.. if its old stuff...and located in the USA... hell, I'd probably bid on it.  :lol:
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2005, 01:02:20 PM »
He says it's on public domain. Is this true?
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2005, 01:04:15 PM »
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TheMagicM wrote:
I wouldnt care to report anyone.. unless its some new game thats out and being sold as copies.. if its old stuff...and located in the USA... hell, I'd probably bid on it.  :lol:


Well I wouldn't either - too much bloody hassle!
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2005, 01:16:19 PM »
Pirate copies are a big problem for all publisher where like release software in future for the amiga.

example we make only one game. no new game are in developing from us. to many pirate copies.

i found every week 1-2 shops where the user can buy DVDs with many pirate copies. for a big money. this shops make money with the work from the developers :((

example: http://www.apc-tcp.de/piratee.html

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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2005, 01:36:59 PM »
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i found every week 1-2 shops where the user can buy DVDs with many pirate copies. for a big money. this shops make money with the work from the developers :((



That is my point. I'm not saying that we should get armed officers swooping down on someone because they gave a copy of Defender of the Crown to their nextdoor neighbour, but I think it is morally objectionable that people should make a living out of someone else's hard work *




* Damn, that's what people have been doing for hundreds of years, its called 'Capitalism' :lol:
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Re: Reporting pirates on eBay
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2005, 01:51:58 PM »
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