@fixnwear wrote:
Rubbish!
No one on this Earth can stop yopu from selling something that belongs to you as you would have bought it and paid money to the rights owners. That is why they made it to start with - to sell it!!!!
They have absolutely no control over what happens to those items after they have been sold - I mean, there is a little thing called LAW standing in their way in dictating to people what they can & can't do with the items that they made and sold.
Same applies to a brand new items, with tags, in boxes, whatewer.
You buy it, for your personal reason you no longer want it - you sell it. End of story.
The only thing those bods are registered for is not to stop people selling the stuff on Ebay, or Mars for that matter - but to be able to complain if they spot a counterfit item with their name - and that is fair enough.
Sorry! But yes they can and do...
There have been numerous postings on these boards where a seller has listed a used brand name item (eg handbags, perfumes, shoes and the like) and the listing has been removed by ebay under the VERO program because the IP owner complained about it.
The seller then has to provide a certificate of authenticity before they will be allowed to relist the item. No matter the item is used or not.
It's not ALL IP owners who will do this and perhaps LEGO are not one. As our products are all hand made and unique to us we don't have to be concerned about this. But if you sell brand name products on ebay it behoves the seller to know and adhere to the licensing and IP requirements before they list it.
Last year the Disney company did a sweep thru ebay (mostly USA) removing their products where sellers had no licence to sell them.
