27-05-07, 10:27 PM
having just sold a genuine pair of 35ths on fleabay for only £70 
it got me thinking why they went so cheap. Obviously one answer is no one wanted them or no one could afford them, but also are the abundance of fakes on ebay affecting value ?
anyway to my point - ebay are not interested in getting rid of the fake sellers despite what they may say due to the money they make, so has anybody ever contacted adidas to see what they are doing about fake adidas being sold on ebay ?
a few years back i sold a few Ford microcat CD's on ebay - these were just working copies of the ford parts software and ford heads buy them so they can go to the dealership ready armed with the part number they are after etc. Anyway , within about two weeks of selling these microcats i recieved a very nasty letter from the makers of the m-cat system threatening legal action if i did not send them my master copy and stop selling them - needless to say i crapped myself and stopped selling them - so surely some sort of response like that from adidas would scare a lot of the fake sellers off ?
what ya reckon - are adidias doing anything about piracy ?
it got me thinking why they went so cheap. Obviously one answer is no one wanted them or no one could afford them, but also are the abundance of fakes on ebay affecting value ?anyway to my point - ebay are not interested in getting rid of the fake sellers despite what they may say due to the money they make, so has anybody ever contacted adidas to see what they are doing about fake adidas being sold on ebay ?
a few years back i sold a few Ford microcat CD's on ebay - these were just working copies of the ford parts software and ford heads buy them so they can go to the dealership ready armed with the part number they are after etc. Anyway , within about two weeks of selling these microcats i recieved a very nasty letter from the makers of the m-cat system threatening legal action if i did not send them my master copy and stop selling them - needless to say i crapped myself and stopped selling them - so surely some sort of response like that from adidas would scare a lot of the fake sellers off ?
what ya reckon - are adidias doing anything about piracy ?