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[mapapicker]

I am really **bleep**.  I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.  I did this and ebay cancelled the listing and restricted me from selling for 3 days!!!!    I called them and of course got no where.  NOT TO MENTION THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF KNOCK OFF PURSES ON HERE.   I am a target of ebays controlling system.  

[myescape]

Those listing have not gotten enough unique user report to get ebay to act.In other words they have not been caught yet and you were and saying its a knock off made you an easy target

As to the ones you reported ebay will not tell you if or what actions they take

[nocoolnamejane]

While the conditions in legitimate factories in China would never be accepted here, those where counterfeit goods are made are even worse. And the money made off those goods is often used to finance organized crime.

Also, “designer inspired” and “knock off” aren’t the same. 

A brown and beige damier pattern bag with no other markings that could tie it to Louis Vuitton is designer inspired. A bag made out of a copy of an LV pattern is a knock off and illegal to sell.

[bonjourami]

Yes,''designer inspired' in purses, clothing, jewelry and watches is perfectly legal to sell. As long as they do not use the designer name, the designer copyrighted pattern,hardware,or other copyrighted trademarks.Big difference than selling a cheap knock off copying the real thing exactly, right down to the designer name.

[albertabrightalberta]

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@mapapicker wrote:

the sellers are smarter than ebay  they list it as Designer Inspired which is the same thing.  i listed mine as knock off.  

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There's a huge difference between "knockoff" and "designer inspired."

A knockoff is an illegal copy of a designer item with designer labeling. (I did find a cache of your listing entitled "KNOCK OFF Kate Spade Ladies PURSE HAND BAG W WALLET NICE!" )

That striped bag shown in the cached listing has a phony KS label on the front and was not made by kate spade. 

A legal designer inspired item is something that has the LOOK of the designer brand item but doesn't actually copy the pattern. 

I've attached a few pictures of LEGAL designer inspired items as well as inspired compared to genuine.

Note that signature pattern isn't coach's; it's just similar in stylingNot Coach's C but G insteadVuitton inspired - LegitGucci inspired vs. Gucci

[mam98031]

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@mapapicker wrote:

I am really **bleep**.  I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.  I did this and ebay cancelled the listing and restricted me from selling for 3 days!!!!    I called them and of course got no where.  NOT TO MENTION THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF KNOCK OFF PURSES ON HERE.   I am a target of ebays controlling system.  

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Did you mention the brand name in your title?  If so that is against the Search Manipulation rules.

[bonjourami]

"KNOCK OFF Kate Spade Ladies PURSE HAND BAG W WALLET NICE!" )

[mam98031]

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@bonjourami wrote:

"KNOCK OFF Kate Spade Ladies PURSE HAND BAG W WALLET NICE!" )

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Thank you.  Yep that would do it for sure!!!!!

[albertabrightalberta]

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@mam98031 wrote:

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@mapapicker wrote:

I am really **bleep**.  I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.  I did this and ebay cancelled the listing and restricted me from selling for 3 days!!!!    I called them and of course got no where.  NOT TO MENTION THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF KNOCK OFF PURSES ON HERE.   I am a target of ebays controlling system.  

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Did you mention the brand name in your title?  If so that is against the Search Manipulation rules.

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In my post (reply #19) I mentioned that I found the cached listing and yes, she described it as a "knockoff Kate Spade" and the picture of the bag was an obvious fake with a fake "kate spade" label stuck on the front of it. 

[luckythewinner]

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@mapapicker wrote:

I am really **bleep**.  I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.  I did this and ebay cancelled the listing and restricted me from selling for 3 days!!!!    I called them and of course got no where.  NOT TO MENTION THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF KNOCK OFF PURSES ON HERE.   I am a target of ebays controlling system.  

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If you did indeed list this as a "Kate Spade knock off" , you are violating eBay policy and mis-using the Kate Spade trademark. You got nowhere by calling them because you were completely in the wrong. 

You were indeed a target of eBay's control system becuase you broke the rules. eBay gets their share of things wrong on this site, but it's good to know that at least once in a while they manage to get it exactly right. 

[mam98031]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

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@mam98031 wrote:

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@mapapicker wrote:

I am really **bleep**.  I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.  I did this and ebay cancelled the listing and restricted me from selling for 3 days!!!!    I called them and of course got no where.  NOT TO MENTION THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF KNOCK OFF PURSES ON HERE.   I am a target of ebays controlling system.  

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Did you mention the brand name in your title?  If so that is against the Search Manipulation rules.

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In my post (reply #19) I mentioned that I found the cached listing and yes, she described it as a "knockoff Kate Spade" and the picture of the bag was an obvious fake with a fake "kate spade" label stuck on the front of it. 

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As the OP is learning, knockoffs are illegal.  Ebay isn't going to help them sell their illegal items.  Just because you are telling people it is a knock off doesn't change the fact that they are illegally using a brand name on the product they are selling and in the listing.  Hopefully they understand now.

[janet9988]

Government laws override ANY "rule" you may have seen.

[Anonymous]

“I listed a knock off purse but looked at the stupid rules before i did.  rules state In order to list you need to clearly say KNOCK OFF IN THE TITLE.”

You didn’t read eBay’s rules, that much is clear. Just because someone posts something on the internet doesn’t make it true.

[farmalljr]

Of all things to sell, WHY would anyone purposely sell fakes/copies? It's illegal by U.S. law! It's against the rules of eBay. 

Knowingly doing this and skirting the rules should warrant a permanent BAN. That you had to "read the rules" tells me you KNEW it was a fake and you decided to break the law anyway, all to make a few bucks. eBay doesn't need a seller like that screwing things up, and we fellow sellers don't need people like that making the rest of us look bad. 

Just because other sellers are doing something illegal/wrong, doesn't justify anyone else doing something wrong. 

[mtgraves7984]

 "It's illegal by U.S. law!"

@farmalljr , @mapapicker 

There are many on the fashion board that would also recommend that since you knowingly  have counterfeits, you smear them (inside and out) with a broad Sharpie, making them useless for resale. It really is illegal by U.S. law. 

With that being said, I think that using them yourself is fine... but if donating (even if giving to the homeless) they should be purposefully and permanently defaced.

[farmalljr]

Its my opinion, that if you think reselling a faked items is wrong, then doing anything other than disfiguring and and throwing it away is wrong. Fakes are illegal. IMO, it's not ok to knowingly even keep an use it for yourself. It's still stolen intellectual property. 

Look at it like this. If you buy something, and later find out it was stolen, and the person that sold it to you was the thief, it's not ok to keep it for yourself and use it. It's a crime to receive stolen property even if you are just keeping/using it and not looking to sell it to make money. It's one thing not to know. It's another to know and still try to benefit from it. You aren't "less guilty" because you didn't "steal it". Because you DID steal it at the point you knew it was stolen goods. 

Again, this is just my opinion. But coincidentally, my opinion runs in line with the law.