Comments on: How to use VeRO to kill your competition http://tamebay.com/2007/07/how-to-use-vero-to-kill-your-competition.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Wed, 23 May 2012 07:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Trevor Ginn http://tamebay.com/2007/07/how-to-use-vero-to-kill-your-competition.html#comment-1556 Trevor Ginn Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:34:29 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/07/how-to-use-vero-to-kill-your-competition.html#comment-1556 The VeRO program shifts power too much towards the rights holder, who can remove items for any reason. The whole program is merely plugging up the holes is a badly organised system where brand owners don't have any way of verifying genuine products and consumer. This leads to a great number of genuine items being removed from eBay The VeRO program shifts power too much towards the rights holder, who can remove items for any reason. The whole program is merely plugging up the holes is a badly organised system where brand owners don’t have any way of verifying genuine products and consumer. This leads to a great number of genuine items being removed from eBay

]]> By: Uncle Sam http://tamebay.com/2007/07/how-to-use-vero-to-kill-your-competition.html#comment-1555 Uncle Sam Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:17:21 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/07/how-to-use-vero-to-kill-your-competition.html#comment-1555 I'm hoping that a proper system will be put into place to impliment Chesnut's words. I hope this because my company was the victim of a manufacturer who initially used VeRO to fix eBay prices & then went on to grant 'exclusive rights to sell on eBay' to one seller, using VeRO to eliminate the competition on the sellers' behalf. At the time (perhaps it is still so), it was not possible for sellers to contact the VeRO team directly. The only process by which decisions could be appealed involved providing 'proof of copyright' - which wasn't even relevant to our issue, esp. as we were only using the manufacturers' trademark in the form of the product name. Here's also hoping the eBay UK VeRO team (if there is one) also research the difference between trademarks & copyright - and stop quoting US 'Federal Law' to UK sellers on the UK site, as they did to us. I’m hoping that a proper system will be put into place to impliment Chesnut’s words. I hope this because my company was the victim of a manufacturer who initially used VeRO to fix eBay prices & then went on to grant ‘exclusive rights to sell on eBay’ to one seller, using VeRO to eliminate the competition on the sellers’ behalf.

At the time (perhaps it is still so), it was not possible for sellers to contact the VeRO team directly. The only process by which decisions could be appealed involved providing ‘proof of copyright’ – which wasn’t even relevant to our issue, esp. as we were only using the manufacturers’ trademark in the form of the product name.

Here’s also hoping the eBay UK VeRO team (if there is one) also research the difference between trademarks & copyright – and stop quoting US ‘Federal Law’ to UK sellers on the UK site, as they did to us.

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