Posting Customized Shoes (Nikes)
I need some guidance here as my son has started to customize various pairs of Nike’s by swapping out the swoosh, adding embellishments, or mixing brands. I can search eBay and find 14,282 current listings for “Customized Nikes, Customized Dunks, Custom Yeezy, Custom Jordon, Custom Anythingâ€.
I have posting and sold a few pairs but only after eBay’s algorithm remove the posting for counterfeit policy and I had to call eBay and have them review the post and they relisted the shoes. However, I don’t want to be having to call eBay every time I post a pair of customize shoes because their algorithm marks it as counterfeit.
Where am I going wrong in my listing as a market customized. And I also market as handmade. I list out the model in the description that the shoe is based off of.
Any guidance from expert sellers who do customize shoes would be so greatly appreciated as I can’t spend our time calling eBay, and having them of you every post that we want to do.
fashunu4eeuh
·3 years ago“The second link to to the "Blue Lobsters" which is impossible in Nike By You. That isn't a valid answer.â€
Hi @owners-nowtrendingshop I think you are focused on and arguing the wrong point.
The issue of importance here is not what other sellers are doing, and how they are doing it.
The only matter that counts is that eBay took down your listing(s). That places your account and actions under heightened scrutiny.
Removal of listings needs to be taken seriously. It carries the potential for permanent suspension of selling privileges if subsequent infractions continue.
As a general practice, it is not a good idea to base one’s listing decisions on what others are doing. Only eBay’s official position is valid.
owners-nowtrendingshop
OP3 years agoSo I had a great conversation with a supervisor in eBay and I totally get it. I understand my posting and items don’t meet the guideline and the simple fact is that as a new seller my account goes under higher scrutiny and now that they have removed two items it’s even worse.
The simple fact is that eBay stops monitoring accounts after a certain number of items sold, time as a seller, and selling profile. Heck - Sell enough fake shoes and they will give you their top rated seller icons and trusted seller.
Thanks for the conversation everyone. Just frustrated with the system.
slippinjimmy
·3 years agoI can assure you that is not the case!
I've been selling on eBay for 24 years, probably 100,000 transactions and if I list a prohibited/restricted item It will likely get pulled and I'll receive a nastygram about it.
simba6
·3 years agoIf you put their label, logo, trademark or badge on another companies product or on an item you made, that is what the issue was.
owners-nowtrendingshop
OP3 years agoThen please people explain how these sales and posts are happening.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185960321426?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=G5hBOyBwRfW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=7okpdw-frxu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275929636063?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=N4RunMJATpq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=7okpdw-frxu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
https://www.ebay.com/itm/284777386134?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dsBsZ829Qrq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=7okpdw-frxu&var=586444029405&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
And you can’t say “they will eventually be banned because they have sold 100’s of shoes and they are faking real shoes.
slippinjimmy
·3 years agoI only looked at the first two links, those are Nike shoes bought from Nike using Nike's "customized shoe" program.
https://www.nike.com/ca/nike-for-you
owners-nowtrendingshop
OP3 years agoThe second link to to the "Blue Lobsters" which is impossible in Nike By You. That isn't a valid answer.
slippinjimmy
·3 years agoImpossible today or never possible ever?
krazzykats
·3 years agoBecause the swoosh is still there, the original design, logo, etc., is still where it was originally put on the shoe.
You can color the shoe all you want, but you can't take the logos off, move them around, or add another brand's logo on it.
Original artwork on the original shoes.
krazzykats
·3 years agoWhat I noticed was the swoosh was not removed from the listings I looked at. The artwork was added to the shoe, to the swoosh, etc. Maybe it isn't allowed to modify the actual shoe components, but you can paint all over it.
owners-nowtrendingshop
OP3 years agoI am going to talk to eBay again tomorrow and then probably give up on custom shoes. Thanks everyone
stainlessenginecovers
·3 years agoCopyright laws forbid you to take the 'well known' part of someone iconic emblem and put it on any other shoe.
Your takedowns were legit.
Your 'selling' illegal shoes.
Like stated, a CSR may tell you one thing, but you are on the radar for life- do NOT relist ANYTHING like that again.
ps. there may be 1000's of 'others' doing the same, and they are ALL infringing and will also eventually get caught. But, there are MILLIONS of things like this listed so this site has no way to 'constantly' be removing items- they basically play 'wack-a-mole'.
nobody*s_perfect
·3 years agoBut if they remove a logo from a shoe, and put other decorations on that shoe, then they can still legally sell ihat shoe as that brand, explaining that it has been customized.
stainlessenginecovers
·3 years agoIf they 'remove' the 'logo'; the one "ICONIC" thing that is 'trademarked'; (after all, the trademark is NOT on Shoes, it's on 'Our Logo on Our Shoes') then it's not longer that 'shoe'.
I bought Vehicle Emblems (Cadillac, Impala, Corvette C4/C5/C6) FROM licensed Dealerships that sell them on this site; put them on MY item and sold them (A $120 for now $140 just to 'break even' on the 'emblem') and had them 'taken down' months later from GM because I was NOT authorized to 'use' their copyrighted logos on now, my item.
To take that emblem off (like the Nike Swoosh) and then 'paint up' 'art up' or whatever you want to call it, and sell it as a NIKE product, would be the same as it is NOT the authorized Nike Product.
If someone were to work with Nike and get 'permissions' to 'alter' their shoes and do 'other things' (as stated by another poster) then that would be different..but not really as that person GOT THEIR PERMISSION first.
That is the difference.
I cannot just 'buy up a bunch of Nike Shoes' and put Addidas all over them and sell them. ds
owners-nowtrendingshop
OP3 years agoI have a hard time believing this as they wack me within minutes yet there are “trusted sellers and entire stores selling customized shoes with logos all over them.†They even have eBay’s trusted seller logos and have built entire eBay shops around it
The Shoe Surgeon
Custom Kickz
ShoeSupply
Years of selling and eBay reviews. All branded items
house*of*paws
·3 years agoHi @owners-nowtrendingshop
It's normal to be 'whacked in minutes' if you've had similar items removed before. A bot takes notice the first time an item is removed ... and future relistings of the item trigger the Big Bad Bot.
THAT is why it's always recommend to never relist an item that's been pulled ... even if you're certain it was removed by mistake. It seems impossible to remove whatever is triggering the bot to keep pulling the listings ... even if a CS rep has assured the seller the problem has been taken care of.
stainlessenginecovers
·3 years agoWhy would ANY of that be 'hard' to understand??
YOU are proof that they don't just let anyone do anything.
Maybe those 'other shops' have permissions?
You don't.
and if they do, they may very well be the ones that are 'reporting' your listings because you are unauthorized competition.
krazzykats
·3 years agoWhy is OOAK allowed?
Customization of dolls is allowed, and the makers have been around far longer than famous shoemakers. I believe there are OOAK in die-cast and other items.
Where is the line drawn for OOAK?
(OOAK=one of a kind) 😾
krazzykats
·3 years agoArt policy | eBay
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·3 years agoYou can’t sell them here if they were taken down once they will be taken down again. if that happens your selling account will be in jeopardy.
Sorry.
ETA: Just because you see hundreds of other similar listings it only means they haven’t been reported or taken down yet.