Ebay hall of shame

[retro]

This twat thinks he can make a profit from unreleased games and ROMs. He even uses misleading phrases such as:

Works on all Sega Dreamcast Consoles!

No, not the later ones, that don't boot from CD-R!

and

Note to eBay:

All software is freely available in the public domain. The sale of this software does not commit any violation of copyright ownership or copy regulations and adheres completely with all of eBays rules and regulations.

Bullshit! You're selling ROMs and betas, mate! Of course they're copyrighted, they're not in the public domain, and yes, you're infringing copyright!





Now here are some stats for you:

27 auctions @ £3.50 = £94.50
33 auctions @ £3.99 = £131.67
21 auctions @ £18.99 = £398.79

Total: £624.96

On top of that, he sold 3 copies of an earlier 6 disc pack @ £12.99, so another £38.97... so over £650 selling dodgy ROM CDs.

These people need to be reported. As well as eBay, you can report piracy to the following:

http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/
http://ap.nintendo.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/licensin...rt-piracy.mspx

[Consumed]

There's quite a few who do this actually, selling anything from the emu's you've listed above to the Jeff Ma compilations from 2003/2004 and the recent(ish) DreamAgain shooting/racing/fighting collections :-(

How it can be acceptable to sell cd-r's for the DC yet not for other systems is beyond me. Surely a bent disc is a bent disc no matter what machine it's on. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating what these people are doing but if these same sellers were selling golds for the PSX or DVD rips for the PS2 or Xbox the auctions would be removed instantly. Double standards of the highest order.

[LeGIt]

Its cunts like that which put me off paying out of th earse to buy then dump. I paid a good chunk of cash for my Propellor Arena GD-R back in the day yet it is these cunts which are the only ones which profit from it =/ Tempted to buy one for his address and go round with a bat - if it turned out to be a community member I'd brng their collection home with me too :P

[Disjaukifa]

... Disjaukifa

[Disjaukifa]

Comes with 9 common games, light gun, controller, but no power cord . . .

[Cyantist]

Comes with 9 common games, light gun, controller, but no power cord . . .

Thats a recipe for disaster! 0 feedback, bullshit price, no real picture and the obligatory ''No power cord so we can't test it, NO REFUNDS.''

[Disjaukifa]

[mooseblaster]

Thats a recipe for disaster! 0 feedback, bullshit price, no real picture and the obligatory ''No power cord so we can't test it, NO REFUNDS.''

Interestingly, with eBay UK it states quite clearly that for businesses selling on eBay 'untested, no refunds' and other weasel words are no excuse and the buyer can return it and get a refund if it doesn't work.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre...hatiftheseller

[Shox2711]

512GB RAM!! LOL

[dreamcast_zone]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Dreamcast-S...item20b8081310

a Dreamcast signed (ruinded) by Ozzi Osbourne for only 15.000 $ !!!

[Cyantist]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Dreamcast-S...item20b8081310

a Dreamcast signed (ruinded) by Ozzi Osbourne for only 15.000 $ !!!

35%-of the final sale price will support American Red Cross- opens in a !

So the cheap fuck is selling it for 15k but ARC will only get $5250?

[segaloco]

To tell you the truth, if I wanted a Dreamcast signed by someone, lets say, Putin, I'd just print this on a peel-away and stick in on the dreamcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Putin_signature.svg (Not that I would really do that, but I'm just saying, signatures can be copied like never before thanks to the internet ;))

[Cyantist]

To tell you the truth, if I wanted a Dreamcast signed by someone, lets say, Putin, I'd just print this on a peel-away and stick in on the dreamcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Putin_signature.svg (Not that I would really do that, but I'm just saying, signatures can be copied like never before thanks to the internet ;))

Its only a matter of time before the forgers begin using templates and spray markers to do anybodies signature...

[Japan-Games.com]

I sent am email to a collector friend of mine who knows a lot about Dreamcasts. I think he mentioned this console years ago. It might actually be a legitimate console.

[neozeed]

How are assholes allowed to get away with selling stuff like this??
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rez-Vibes-K-Pr...#ht_1606wt_932

[Alchy]

Just report it whenever you see it, it takes less than a minute.

[neozeed]

Just report it whenever you see it, it takes less than a minute.

Ive reported loads of dodgy rip off sega stuff but they never do anything.

[BamBoo]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Game-Boy-Advan...item1c1a90bbe0

[Consumed]

How are assholes allowed to get away with selling stuff like this??
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rez-Vibes-K-Pr...#ht_1606wt_932

Him and others have been mentioned in this thread before, any other console that has copies advertised for it and it's clamped down on immediately as infringed copyright but anything even remotely Dreamcast related seems to be fair game.

The message it sends out is spend an hour or 2 on snesorama, UG or DCisozone and the money will come rolling in, the seller you've linked has sold shitloads of copies of games/comps that are easily found on their boards.

[Japan-Games.com]

I gave up on reporting anything after people began ripping laserdiscs to DVDs. Song of the South was a big seller with people selling hundreds of bootleg copies. I reported maybe 10 different Sellers but in the end nothing was ever pulled.

I don't think I've ever reported a video game auction but a while back eBay pulled a 64DD auction of mine since they thought it was a machine to copy disks...heh. In the end I sent an email with links talking about the item and I got a response from a human saying they looked over the links and saw that it was a legit product. Kinda took me by surprise...