Tiffany Trademark Suit Against Ebay

[goldenstar]

Just an interesting tidbit....

Tiffany Lawsuit

 

[VegasAngel]

If Tiffany wins I am sure Ebay will have many more lawsuits on the way. Ebay uses Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program which allows brand owners to report listings that infringe on their intellectual property rights. I have seen a lot of people say their listing was removed because the item was flagged as not authentic when the person had the original receipt & paperwork. Hopefully Ebay will do a better job at filtering their listings. There will always be unscrupulous sellers but the less there are, the better it is for everyone.

 

[luckystar112]

"Tiffany randomly bought silver "Tiffany" jewelry on eBay and found only 5 percent was genuine, while 73 percent was counterfeit, the court papers said."

So 22% was only semi-authentic? lol

 

[Hera]

Good for them. It''s so frustrating to go onto eBay and scrutinize every listing, seller history, feedback etc. I hope they will find some way to punish those who set out to deceive others. Although I have bought and sold authentic items on eBay (even procuring an authentic LV!) I purchased a Prada bag for my mother for around $400.00 on an auction that ended the week of Christmas. Owning several Prada products, I noticed a suspicious unlabeled grommet but wasn''t totally sure so I gave it to my mother anyways. It just broke 2 months ago and even though she wanted to take it to Prada (In *gasp*Beverly Hills)I had to let her know I didn''t think it was authentic. Lucky for me, she wasn''t upset or anything.

 

[stebbo]

I recently purchased a Motorola item, the ad saying watch out for fakes and boasting how genuine this one was. Well it wasn't. The 99.8% power seller blamed his supplier. He refunded my money, but I was out $50 for two-way international postage. Next thing I get is an email from ebay asking me to authorize his selling-fees refund claim.

After seeing 1 of the other 18 ripped off customers get negative feedback because they said 'no', of course I decided to say yes.

Ebay couldn't care less. I hope their bottom gets spanked.

PayPal couldn't care less either, otherwise they'd make the seller refund postage.

 

[Nicrez]

I think the 22% accounts for items of unverifiable veracity, as well as items that should not be resold on the market, such as employee store items. There are things of imperfect quality that are not allowed for some small QC standard to make it to a Tiffany shelf, so they often reduce the price substantially and sell them to employees.

I remember at all retail companies I worked for had these, or the sample sale, etc... Some may be marked as non-QC items, some may not be (if the damage occurs AFTER the stamping), so these are items of below Tiffany standards that should not be in the market place with their name and without approval.

Which is why you see things such as discount stores selling the RL Polos with imperfect stitching, and incorrect hemming on Frette bed linens at a Marshall''s or TJ Maxx. Some companies just chose to offer them to their employees first with a rule that they don''t resell them, but use them personally.

 

[Nicrez]

and one more thing I see being copied this season...

Tiffany is now selling their signature Robin''s Egg blue cahsmere pashmina wrap scarves. The same ones the doormen wear every holiday season are now going to be sold through their stores for $450...

Give the street corner "real pashmina" vendors a month or two and you''ll see the Robin''s Egg blue everywhere...

 

[JohnQuixote]

I did not look here before posting in RT.

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