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Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
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Mon, 27 May 2002 13:36:51 GMT
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In lugnet.market.services, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.market.services, Thomas Garrison writes:
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> > This is not, however, how Ebay defines key word spamming.
> >
> > http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-wordspam.html
> >
> > In particular,
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> > Extra Brand Names in Title. Any use of a trademarked
> > (brand) name in the title of a listing where products
> > of that brand name are not being offered.
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> That's news to me, I'm afraid, and I think in practice it's nothing more
> than Ebay's effort to divorce itself from liability re: trademark
> representation. Could Ebay even enforce this policy if they wanted to?
> Hypothetically--if you came into possession of a MegaBloks collection and
> decided to sell it to someone who had never heard of MegaBloks but *had*
> heard of LEGO, do you think you wouldn't use "LEGO" somewhere in the
> description? Not even to say "well, they're sort of like LEGO but not as
> good" or whatever? Even the term "clone brand" would come close to
> violating thet requirement, since it implies that the item is a clone of
> something, but it's not *really* that something. Obviously Ebay is free to
> set whatever TOS limits it desires, but it's unreasonable to think that
> people won't aim for evocative descriptions in identifying their auctions,
> and the shortest descriptive distance between two points is to liken one
> object to another.
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> > This policy is actually one of the nice things about Ebay (or would
> > be, if they enforced it): it is in Ebay's interest to ensure that searches
> > return all relevent results, but only relevent results.
>
> If the average consumer stumbles upon an unfamiliar clone brand, (eg Byggis)
> at a flea market and decides to auction it, how should that person describe
> it, if the actual brand isn't known, but they bricks are "like LEGO," how
> should the seller describe it? I expect that this happens quite often;
> would you be able to identify Qubo or Byggis or Tandem or Block-Men or Coko
> or Blok-Tek or Laramie or TYCO or Best-Lock or Ultra-Blox or American Bricks
> or LOC BLOC? If not, how would you describe them? Actually, since I'm a
> clone fan, I use this uncertainty to aid my searches by using the phrases
> "lego like," "like lego," "not lego," "works with lego," and "lego compatible."
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> > That way, users can find what they're looking for---which includes not giving
> > up because the target is buried in a haystack of irrelevent hits. This both
> > sends more users to auctions in which they are interested (hopefully boosting
> > the final price) and ensures more satisfied users (or at least users who are
> > willing to continue to look
>
> Of much greater annoyance to me are preposterously misleading descriptions,
> such as "HUGE LOT OF BLUE LEGO" that includes nothing but a dozen 2x4
> bricks, or a "UNIQUE, HARD TO FIND LEGO DROID FIGHTER" that is hardly unique
> and is very close to ubiquitous! I mean, come on!
>
> Dave!
>
> FUT OT.Minor-Ranting
Yes, yes, yes, but what about this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1733342755
the title is
70's Sears Brix Blox 900 Piece Set Lego Legos
lego is not mentioned in the description. This is annyoing, and is keyword
spamming. Were do we complain about this?
John Kruer
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| (...) Well, that one I'll concede. I suppose it's possible that there are indeed "Legos" in the lot, but you're right that the description should reflect that. (...) I suppose Ebay has some kind of complaint department, but my at-home Internet (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| (...) That's news to me, I'm afraid, and I think in practice it's nothing more than Ebay's effort to divorce itself from liability re: trademark representation. Could Ebay even enforce this policy if they wanted to? Hypothetically--if you came into (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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