hey guys it's Murph just doing a quick
video today as you can tell from the
title it has to do with eBay and
trademark violations I'm gonna start
from the beginning so I'm selling Apple
watch bands and buying them on bulk if
you've seen my other videos that get
merchandise from bulk and they're just
generic watch bands for the Apple watch
they're silicone sports bands they come
in a plain box looks like this okay you
can see it says for the Apple watch in
no way am i trying to sell this as an
Apple product you can tell it's not an
Apple product just from the box simple
watch band it's AG there's actually no
name on the box for even what it who
makes it it's just generic so I get an
email about three weeks ago from eBay
saying that Apple's made a complaint
I am trademark violating their
merchandise and that I need to stop
they've deleted the listings that they
think are doing this and stop doing it
or there's gonna be more problems
they'll suspend your account whatever
they send them in the email it was real
vague so so I go look at the listings
and I start making all the titles say
generic watchbands and then I look at
the listing a little bit closer and
under item specifics where it has the
brand category it had said Apple and I
didn't do that intentionally I had
copied because when you see somebody
else's listing that similar to yours you
can say sell something similar and it
kind of gives you a quick template to
throw your selling for your product so
you don't have to do the whole item from
scratch the whole listing from scratch
so I did it that way and whoever
whoever's listing I had copied off of I
dice a copy it's like you know it's the
lazy way whatever they had put Apple
under the branch so I didn't
intentionally do that so then I went
back and I changed because they had
trademark violated only three of my
items I probably had ten listed so I
went back and I changed all the brands
to generic and I thought nothing of it
and you know a couple weeks had gone by
and then I get an email
from eBay yesterday saying Apple has
done this again and now my account is
restricted for seven days meaning I
can't make any new listings I can't
change listings all I can do is end
listings early I think you can still
send messages and you know ship stuff if
you have to do whatever is on there's
basically on there and the way it's on
there it's stuck that way I have like
120 listings and these Apple watch bands
are right like maybe 20 listings and
they're cheap of ten bucks and you know
people buying them they know they're not
getting a generic or a genuine Apple
brand band it's just you can tell it's a
cheap box they know what it is nowhere
in the title do I say it's om Apple
grande nowhere in the description am I
saying it's only a Mapple brand it's
just generic so basically my accounts
restricted now and you know I could
still sell what's on there but I can't
make any new listings or anything like
that or change the listings I have so
they did it again for the same watch
bands that they did before it was the
same three and you know it's like well
why would I redo it if I know it's wrong
I mean yeah if I had a new account or
something but my accounts ten years old
so obviously I'm not trying to screw it
up and I use it to make money on a
regular basis so not trying to screw
myself but you know that's what they
thought and then they leave an email for
you to contact Apple if you have I want
to make a complaint or whatever which I
did do but they'll never get back to me
they're a huge company and unless you
have some kind of money I mean where are
you going with it I just said hey I
changed my listings to say generic you
know I'm not trying to sell these items
as Apple branded it says generic right
in under item specifics brand generic
but apparently that doesn't matter so
when I contacted eBay about it yesterday
to try and appeal if they said well
basically you you're not going anywhere
because what you have to do is in your
title you can't even suggest that it's C
here's the weird thing it says Apple
Sports Apple watch band silicones or
Apple watch silicon sports band then it
says the size and the color in my title
okay now this watch fan works just for
the Apple watch doesn't work for any
other watch so it's not like I'm trying
to you know do something there it only
works for the Apple watch but what you
have to do is you have to put generic
Apple watch band or replacement band for
the Apple watch is the way they said it
to me in order to avoid this again
because I guess apparently then they'll
suspend you're a restrictor account for
30 days next and then I think your
account might be even be suspended or
just shut down after that so I'm just
trying to do a quick video on how to
avoid all this it's funny because I
tried to list a knockoff GoPro about a
month ago it's made by generic brand IPM
and when I tried to put GoPro style in
the list thing I wouldn't even let me
make the listing so why don't you guys
at ebay just make it so you can't even
make the listing like you're doing with
that GoPro stuff that way this doesn't
even happen I mean it's funny cuz like
they're always Dibble dabbling around
stuff they don't do it for this but they
do it for that and then also you know I
was selling OAM ink cartridges for Dell
printers om meaning they're dull branded
ink cartridges for Dell printers and I
had to put in my description that it's
OAM that it's made by Dell that it's
from the factory because there's so many
you know no-name brand Dell ink
cartridges out there that they say are
Dell ink cartridges in the title because
they work for a dell printer so also i
think this only goes for certain
companies because apple seems to be
writing people about this where like
dell you know there's a million people
out there selling ink cartridges with
dell in the title and they don't even
care because it just works for their
printers so just keep in mind guys
that's usually those big name brands
that are always up everybody's butt like
apple you know gopro red not that i deal
with their merchandise it's so expensive
but the red cameras and stuff and i'm
sure there's a few other brands that
their name carries weight and makes
money so they don't want you using their
name in any way to make people think
that it could be something else
if you know what i mean so this was just
a quick video guys
just wanted to get it out there so if
you're making listings you can avoid
this it's kind of one of those touchy
things where you got to do things a
certain way and it's kind of hard to
explain but I hope I did a decent job at
doing it and hey guys this was Murph and
we'll avoid them trademark violation so
you can keep using your account on eBay
and I'll see you in the next one
take it easy peace