Suspected Intellectual Property Violations - Stupidity
On 3rd December 2021 I had 42 INACTIVE Previously SOLD Listings Removed. All were media items ie. DVD And CD. I was No longer Selling ANY of these products and had no intention of selling them again. Most were sold between 5-12 years ago . All the listings were INACTIVE And part of my Storefront Listings of 40,000 , so it would have been rather difficult for me to remove INACTIVE Listings.
My Account is “NOW AT RISK OF DEACTIVATION” Due to the breaches !
The reason why the listings have been removed is because of :-
Potential Trademark Violation ?
Now when these items were listed years ago the following applied :-
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ALL WERE PLACED ON DESIGNATED AMAZON SELLING PAGES.
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I HAD NOT AMENDED NOR CHANGED ANYTHING IN THE PRODUCT WORDING.
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UPWARDS OF 20 OTHER SELLERS WERE SELLING THE SAME PRODUCT IN ALL CONDITIONS…
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ALL ITEMS HAD SOLD AND AMAZON TOOK THEIR COMMISSION.
It would appear that the company producing the product have complained to Amazon and Amazon have removed ALL products complained about eg.
ROD STEWART AND FACES DVD
A DOCTOR WHO - VHS TAPE
These products are NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO SELLERS CAN LIST THEM FOR SALE !
All of the 42 breaches are similar to these items .
What is it I have done wrong?
Why am I being threatened with Account deactivation?
Ive sent 4 messages to Seller Support and I may as well be talking to a Wall !
Any comments please…should I be concerned or just forget about it ?
Thanks
5 replies
Seller_64jziShTiTjOq
Unfortunately, that is the risk you take if you don’t delete old listings completely (it should be possible to do that in bulk, not individually), instead of just leaving them as inactive. How do you expect Amazon to know that you are never going to re-list them?
When a problem such as a possible IP violation arises, the bots will find everyone who has the item in their current inventory, active and inactive, and send the same warning to all of them. In this case, the “suspected” violation may be a glitch - there are several other recent threads about IP for Dr Who and other DVDs
None of your four numbered points will make any difference if a genuine IP complaint is raised
By the way, please don’t SHOUT at other sellers - we are not responsible for what Amazon does, so your anger is misdirected
Seller_DROodOAYHftnc
There are a few threads about this, and most media sellers have had the same - and all of your 4 points apply.
Personally I had 83 VHS deactivated - nearly all sold previously.
I now always completely ‘Delete Products and Listings’ from my shipped inventory - not just leave as inactive, as all my stock are ‘one-offs’.
