This is just so wrong. I think this issue should be highlighted more on the forum with a list of ebay sellers doing it to name and shame them (although given their obvious moral standards they probably wouldn't be shamed.....)

The main purpose of the list would be to enable Beoworlders to bombard ebay with complaints / reports about them and to be confident we were only targeting genuine offenders.

Thoughts?

Nigel 

There was a seller who lives not far from me who sold pdf manuals from Beoworld at 4.99 a file. I reported him to eBay on numerous occasions and nothing at all was done. They really aren't  bothered despite their rules clearly stating it is not allowed. They only seem willing to respond to complaints from the copyright holders themselves.

Simon

Beoworld does not have the right to sell/distribute them more than these guys on eBay... If someone could complain, it is B&O and appearantly they do not mind. So fine.

It is against eBay rules to distribute copyright material on CDRs. You can of course sell the originals but they do not have them - I do! We are not selling manuals - we merely provide mine as a library open to silver and gold members - and I have the originals in most cases here. Some were given to me by B&O!

wirralsimon wrote:

There was a seller who lives not far from me who sold pdf manuals from Beoworld at 4.99 a file. I reported him to eBay on numerous occasions and nothing at all was done.

Same here Simon - I simply got fed up & frustrated reporting these with no response so I simply gave up.

Chris.

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Can't this be stopped?????

Presuming this ebayer (Rick Hulme of Oxford, it would seem), is a Beoworld member, cant his Beoworld membership simply be revoked/cancelled..?

Michael

Not only is this a copyright issue that eBay seem not to be interested in........... there is nothing more annoying than to search eBay for vintage B&O and find that the majority of entries are these manuals!

From eBay's viewpoint, how are they to know whether B&O have given a licence to an individual or company to reproduce their old manuals? Unfortunately they are probably correct to only take action if the copyright holder complains. Maybe we need to get B&O to take a financial interest in reproducing its own old manuals on CD or DVD..... but presumably this would not be financially viable for them so they are happy for Beoworld to reproduce them for members. Why can't B&O give Beoworld an exclusive licence to the old manuals and then Beoworld could take action against these people and maybe offer its own manuals for sale to non members or one star members.

Graham

vikinger wrote:

Not only is this a copyright issue that eBay seem not to be interested in........... there is nothing more annoying than to search eBay for vintage B&O and find that the majority of entries are these manuals!

 

Graham, did you know that if you type "bang olufsen -manual" in the search box. It will omit all items with the word manual in the title, within that search. Used to this a few years back. When every other item was a pair of fake A8's.

Craig🙂