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I was recently mass VeROed on eBay by Blizzards VUGlegal team. I am not even selling anything from within the game! I don't even own the game and have never played it. What I do sell is a privately written ebook/guide in Adobe pdf format about how to obtain gold ingame. The guide and the ebay listing does not contain any images, text, data or otherwise owned by Blizzard. I have spoken several times with VUGlegal and they continue to insist that if my guide was removed then I must have been breaking copyright or trademark laws. They told me to see a lawyer.
Is it illegal to write and publish a guide or report on a game? The only thing I can think might be the problem is me using the actual games name?? World of Warcraft... am I not allowed to do this?
I have over 2000 positive feedback with ebay at 99.3%, I care about customer care whereas ebay seems to care very little about their customers care. Because of VUGlegals repeated VeROing of my listings I have lost my ebay powersellers status and can only dread to think how close I may be to a permanent ban.
Please help I cant afford a lawyer from the few pounds I make from ebay. Is ebay breaking the law themselves? LINK: http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/12/3/92549/2461/96#96
PerplexedintheUK
I was recently mass VeROed on eBay by Blizzards VUGlegal team. I am not even selling anything from within the game! I don't even own the game and have never played it. What I do sell is a privately written ebook/guide in Adobe pdf format about how to obtain gold ingame. The guide and the ebay listing does not contain any images, text, data or otherwise owned by Blizzard. I have spoken several times with VUGlegal and they continue to insist that if my guide was removed then I must have been breaking copyright or trademark laws. They told me to see a lawyer.
Is it illegal to write and publish a guide or report on a game? The only thing I can think might be the problem is me using the actual games name?? World of Warcraft... am I not allowed to do this?
I have over 2000 positive feedback with ebay at 99.3%, I care about customer care whereas ebay seems to care very little about their customers care. Because of VUGlegals repeated VeROing of my listings I have lost my ebay powersellers status and can only dread to think how close I may be to a permanent ban.
Please help I cant afford a lawyer from the few pounds I make from ebay. Is ebay breaking the law themselves? LINK: http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/12/3/92549/2461/96#96
PerplexedintheUK
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