Selling customized sets forbidden?

[Baron Marshall]

My guess is that this case is mostly to scare people, but bringing a stolen parts case would be almost impossible to prove against the receiving party... but they have to do something to discourage the theft of parts and the receipt of stolen goods.


I would think that the biggest show of force here is that PM seems to be willing to close the Malta facility if the authorities won't do more to stop parts from being stolen. This would be pretty bad news for Malta I would think.

[Indianna]

My guess is that this case is mostly to scare people, but bringing a stolen parts case would be almost impossible to prove against the receiving party... but they have to do something to discourage the theft of parts and the receipt of stolen goods. . .

That's really the point I was trying to make, but you have said it much more clearly, Baron Marshall!   

[Baron Marshall]

Well i did major in useless... i mean english

[bonniebeth]

If I want to make a historically accurate WW2 custom of graphic nature I would like to see Geobra stop it. Idiots  I do not take kindly to people or companies who practice in censorship. let freedom prevail

There's obviously no way they can stop someone from doing what they want with playmobil in their own home. If you want to use them as voodoo dolls, that's your business. The issue raised is about selling those customs. I can't see a thing in the world wrong with selling them either, of course. I'm just saying, that's what the suit is about. Sounds like heresy, but I hope playmobil loses this one.

[playmo1989]

Playmobil uses (relatively) cheap labor in Malta to assemble klickys even sending quantities of unassembled parts home with workers to assemble as "piece goods."

to take them home ?? wow!!! i never heard of such thing ,i thought machines were assembing the klickys  no? 

[gaspodfreud]

i know Vicky and i'm sad to ear that ....she really don't sell custom very often in ebay !! she usually sell clean collectors parts .

D2 don't speak about selling custom (he do but it's not the problem) but about showing custom on the web witch is different , of course you can do what you want with what you buy !! 

laws are differents in all country and marketing (control his image by geobra is legitim ) is different from law (but geobra had more money to pay lawyer !)

i sell customs (i hope i will be able to stop at ending stock ...) and the french director of marketing call me to remove the celebrity name (i respect this toys and never do things with blood for example to not hurt kids , it's not because i'm fear of geobra but for morality reasons) , as you know geobra is near some famous theme so i write to the french director of marketing i will do as well (panoramix can be a only druid ...like their zorro ...)  i think m jackson (his family) can attack you if you sell his image without autorisation but not playmobil , for my lawyer , they will lose if they attak (i just speak for france ) . these process are not good for the image of geobra in the collector world but i think the big customers are childreen , not us ...

In france i think it's impossible to have such problems but i don't know the law in malta , ebay is a mondial place , i must think to ask if there's exeption in this place . 

[Rasputin]

to take them home ?? wow!!! i never heard of such thing ,i thought machines were assembing the klickys  no? 

Come on everyone knows that klickies are assembled on the inner thy of a ........ Never mind, where is that Cuban cigar 

[Lindama]

Is this Vicky lady still selling on ebay or have they curtailed that too?

[playmofire]

My guess is that this case is mostly to scare people, but bringing a stolen parts case would be almost impossible to prove against the receiving party... but they have to do something to discourage the theft of parts and the receipt of stolen goods.

In the report in the Times of Malta, it is reported that some of the items seized in raids were for sets not yet released which is case proved surely.

I would think that the biggest show of force here is that PM seems to be willing to close the Malta facility if the authorities won't do more to stop parts from being stolen. This would be pretty bad news for Malta I would think.

It would but is unlikely as the Malta factory has been very successful expanding from just klickies to smaller sets and the Geobra presence in Malta is more than just Playmobil.

[gaspodfreud]

sure !! selling stoled things is another story ! i buy things 3 years ago to ebay seller from malte and i was shoked to learn they comes from the fatory ... it was in the newspaper of malte and lot of sellers was forbidden to sell in ebay after that . I don't think Vicky is like that : she sell complete collectors and the people who do that use to build playmo with huge bags of pieces (they miss pieces who're made in germany) and that why maybe people who sell news parts and incomplete parts can appear as people who do custom with playmobils . For information the starting price of 10 playmobils without hat and accessories was 6E (stolen things in the factory ) , i know it goes on because some people contact me for that last year (but of course i decline the proposition)