Posting Customized Shoes (Nikes)

[owners-nowtrendingshop]

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 Anything”. 

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. 

[slippinjimmy]

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@owners-nowtrendingshop wrote:

The second link to to the "Blue Lobsters" which is impossible in Nike By You.  That isn't a valid answer.

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Impossible today or never possible ever?

[owners-nowtrendingshop]

So 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. 

[house*of*paws]

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@owners-nowtrendingshop wrote:

I 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.”  

Hi @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.

[slippinjimmy]

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@owners-nowtrendingshop wrote:

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. 

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I 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.

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

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@stainlessenginecovers wrote:

Copyright laws forbid you to take the 'well known' part of someone iconic emblem and put it on any other shoe. ...

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But 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.

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If 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

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@owners-nowtrendingshop wrote:

I 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

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Why 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.