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Offline hauden_lukas

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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #50 on: May 10, 2011, 04:01:05 »
Well,

we (Germans) normally have a customer number that is created on your first order. It's linked to your address...

I wanted to have an order shipped to me but to another address. Result: Geobra created a new account/customer number - although it was still me (and I mentioned this in my email to them).

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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #51 on: May 10, 2011, 04:01:54 »
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Just thought of something... a theme that doesn't exist yet: "Law & Prosecution"  ;D Maybe they could release lawyers and judges in full court-dresses... their appropriate wigs will already be available in the updated pirates-theme.  ;D

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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #52 on: May 10, 2011, 04:07:30 »
Quote from: hauden_lukas on May 10, 2011, 04:01:05
Well,

we (Germans) normally have a customer number that is created on your first order. It's linked to your address...

I wanted to have an order shipped to me but to another address. Result: Geobra created a new account/customer number - although it was still me (and I mentioned this in my email to them).

Cheers,
HDL

It is the same here in Belgium with the account-link to the adress. And it happened to me too: I have (momentarily) 2 adresses and when I had a purchase sent to the 2nd one, I got another customer number and account.
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #53 on: May 10, 2011, 04:09:36 »
Quote from: hauden_lukas on May 10, 2011, 04:01:05
Well,

we (Germans) normally have a customer number that is created on your first order. It's linked to your address...

I wanted to have an order shipped to me but to another address. Result: Geobra created a new account/customer number - although it was still me (and I mentioned this in my email to them).

Cheers,
HDL

Yes I have one from when I place orders. Geobra even has my credit card info. When I call to place an order they ask for my name and then, postal code and then they ask if so and so is my address. I do not however have a different one for DS orders, the same one gets used. I ask because if an account gets black listed can you shop for anything at all? I like to buy lots of stuff from DS but I do not want the ol black spot . I have a list right now that is over 5 pages on a spread sheet
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #54 on: May 10, 2011, 04:14:12 »
Actually it is easy for Geobra to know who is selling what on ebay when "who" has an account at Playmobil.
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #55 on: May 10, 2011, 04:23:06 »
Quote from: Rasputin on May 10, 2011, 04:09:36
I like to buy lots of stuff from DS but I do not want the ol black spot . I have a list right now that is over 5 pages on a spread sheet

Perhaps you could include a note with your DS-order that you are ordering the parts for personal use as a collector/customizer and not for re-selling, and place your signature. Then they have a legal declaration from you that you don't buy parts for resale.
I've done that in the past with big DS-orders - and I live up to it because I'm not a (re)seller - and never had trouble or got questions, but it is already a few years back that I ordered in such large quantities.
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #56 on: May 10, 2011, 04:31:09 »
Quote from: Hadoque on May 10, 2011, 04:14:12
Actually it is easy for Geobra to know who is selling what on ebay when "who" has an account at Playmobil.

how easy is it. Aren't the Ebay accounts in bizarre names? Playmochris I doubt is a real name  ;D Doesn't Geobra have to link a real name to an Ebay account name?
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #57 on: May 10, 2011, 04:36:18 »
Quote from: Rasputin on May 10, 2011, 04:31:09
how easy is it. Aren't the Ebay accounts in bizarre names? Playmochris I doubt is a real name  ;D Doesn't Geobra have to link a real name to an Ebay account name?

Well, if person X (or perhaps company Y ;D) "wins" an auction from an ebay-seller, X (or perhaps Y) usually gets the seller's name (and mostly an adress). And if X (or perhaps Y) has a certain database with names & adresses...  ;)
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #58 on: May 10, 2011, 05:45:29 »
Very interesting all that! Now that I check my DS order again I see that we do indeed have a customer number... Interesting!!! Well, good thing I am not selling anything  ;D

Still, If I ever wanted to, I'd like to know my options before I did. Loose sets, boxed sets, individual items?

I have observed over the past year or so that sellers who used to sell klicky parts on ebay have either closed their shops or renamed them...
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Re: Geobra's lawyers act against selling klicky-parts on ebay (?)
« Reply #59 on: May 10, 2011, 07:06:05 »
As stated on their website Geobra sells via DS only for personal use. I guess that the people they are after are only those long term ebay sellers who are registered as 'professional' sellers and resell parts from DS (with profit) regularly and in large numbers.
If a German sells more than a certain fixed amount regularly on ebay he has to register as 'professional' seller due to tax and further legal reasons. Those have to give their adress on their auction pages.
I do not think that geobra ever will get interested in normal 'private' sellers who occasionally get rid of a few or more parts or sets.

To the origin of some of the parts: Sometimes people (not me, unfortunately) get cheap sets skidwise on clearence sales which they take apart because single items can be sold for more easily. It means not everything offered is shady maltaware.
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