What Are Your Feelings on This ???

thedutymon

Good day,
This guy on E-bay has been selling Exact Duplicate Reprints of Vintage -1950-1970 Non Sport Wax boxes, Wax packs and other items for a couple of years now. I have a major issue with the outcome of the products. These look to be quality copies and some of these boxes and Wrappers are Top dollar items, (Mars Attacks for Example). He uses, used, not Mint examples to make his copies which lends to the authenticity. I have seen what happens on the Sport side and think it is only time if not already until somebody is taken with these reproductions. I sent the Seller Crabmonk a question today and will post with his answer, what is your all feeling on this??
Neil

Auction # as an example 120226857322

Question " Good day,
I have been watching you sell these replica's on E-bay for quite some time now. Although I have a General distaste for what you are doing, I do feel it is free market and you are allowed to do what the Market will bear. My question is as a long time Owner, Collector, Dealer, and E-bayer, are your products discernable from the Originals of which I happen to own most of what you sell. There are serious Crooks on E-bay and if it is doable they will be re-selling your products to the uninitiated/unexperienced Collectors all day long as Originals.
Are your products stamped inside as Re-prints with non removable Ink? are any other measures taken to assure these aren't being Re-sold as the real deal??
Any info would be appreciated.
Thank You
Neil N. Duty
thedutymon

jimq112

I think you used too many big words for the average ebay seller.

VitoCo1972

If he were a real @$% @^%! he would tell you to buy one and see if you could tell the difference.

clydecoolidge

<< <i>I think you used too many big words for the average ebay seller. >>



Lol, exactly what I was thinking when reading it. I think ebay may have the biggest population of grammar school drop-outs, because there are some pretty bad examples when it comes to spelling and grammar.

*edited for grammar, lol*

Ichiro51fan

Am I missing something here? You shouldn't be able to sell reprints of copyrighted material, right? I mean, if I developed a good way to reprint 1952 Topps baseball cards, I couldn't just try to sell those ouright because Topps could sue me since I do not own the rights to the original material.

BobaFett72

are some of the items from companies and such that no longer exist? isnt there a time frame which you can use material and profit from it ?

thedutymon

Good day,
Yes, some of the stuff is in the General Domain (No Copyright Owners), but a lot of it is Topps Stuff, shouldn't they have some say? And that still doesn't address the shady element of this !!!! Or the possible Re-Sale as Original.

I know years ago when I was really a big Comic Dealer, I paid to have some Air Brushed T-Shirts designed and Pre-Production copies of the Shirts made of Batman, and con-signed them to some of the local Denver Stores and started to sell them. When the first Batman Movie came out, Warners Brothers sent some guy around to the stores and he took all of my Samples off the walls and told all of the store owners they could be sued for Copyright infringement if they didn't stop ASAP.
Neil

rube26105

topps could do the same thing to that due,its copyright infringement of a old and high $ product too, ifit was 1990 desert trorm set-whoopie, but mars attack and stuff liie that, id put the big squish on him

jimq112

Your seller charges $2 to accept paypal. Kind of against the rules.