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19Jan 07

Another Ebay plaigarism post, help if you can!

If any of you have ebay accounts and want to help shut down a thief, feel free to read on.

User everydayearthling has apparently been racking up a lot of sales of GameSpot strategy guides. For example, feel free to check out this listing and compare it to our strategy guide PDFs...

If you want to help report this kind of stuff, use this link while logged in to your Ebay account. Cut and paste this into the field for Item Numbers: 150083085846 , 150082987082 , 150082987474 , 150083060353 , 150083060910 , 150083061028 , 150083061184 , 150083063093.

Those are the item numbers on all the auctions that this guy is running. If you can use the email form, feel free to cut and paste the following information with links to our own guides so that the Ebay people can compare them:

Gears of War strategy guide:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6161208/p-5.html

And our Dead Rising guide (scroll down):

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6155400/p-2.html

Saints Row:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6159581/p-8.html

And Oblivion (scroll down to the first picture):

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6147085/p-3.html



Thanks. We'll try to watermark these things better in the future, I guess. Still, this sucks. Please feel free to send me a PM or email with any other sellers that seem to be offering our guides and we'll try to sort them out with Ebay.

17 Comments

  • edubuccaneer Site moderator

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 10:54 am PT

    Matt, put watermarks, document notes and password protect the zip files. At least we can number down the suspects this way and help prevent this from happening again.

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 11:11 am PT

    I hope these guys get shut down for good. That's theft right there man...

  • JLuke360

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 11:22 am PT

    He has no right to sell those >_>
    How did you come by these?
    *EDIT* I should recieve a response in 24-48 hours

  • shasam712

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 12:12 pm PT

    I have always been a cynic of ebay. One of those great in theory, dubious in practice things...

    If I had an account, I would fight your corner. Hope you stop this guy!

  • macacd

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 12:17 pm PT

    stolen items on ebay, NEVER!!

  • StanleyL GameSpot staff member

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 12:50 pm PT

    I am in ur ebays, stealin your rorie-guides.

  • dyaballikl

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 3:10 pm PT

    yeah, he's so reported

  • supazio112

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 5:50 pm PT

    $4.99 shipping for digital content...

  • Destman

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 7:13 pm PT

    Check your PMs MattRorie, I sent some important information that will hopefully help you with this problem. Its not a suggestion like last time, just information.

  • Wootex

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 7:20 pm PT

    Did you notice that this seller was also selling a CD to play 297 Xbox games on the 360, but when you look at the list, it is the same games that microsoft has already made compatible. It's amazing what some people are willing to buy and amazing that someone knows that people will buy them. I hope you can put a stop to this Matt.

  • Tiberius

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 7:48 pm PT

    Reported. May the cops roll in.

  • pxc2k

    Posted Jan 20, 2007 1:19 am PT

    Same happens with open source software: people unpack it, change the name, the looks and sells it to mid-sized/corporative users. Makes you wonder if the "open source" or "free information" policies would be, in the future, the correct choice for programmers/editors/etc.

    BTW; reported.

  • 4ngelus

    Posted Jan 20, 2007 4:28 pm PT

    So I tried to report this stuff to ebay, but the items had already been pulled (the item numbers are now invalid). It just pains me to see that the guy himself wasn;t shut down and that his feedback score is decent.

  • fishdalf

    Posted Jan 20, 2007 9:48 pm PT

    Yeah i'll help, these people need putting in their place and fast.

  • joshel

    Posted Jan 21, 2007 3:45 am PT

    Man, that crap is really annoying. I guess eBay aren't helping you out much here , Matt? Is there no way you can threaten them with legal action to get them to move their butts and do something?

  • dcgames

    Posted Jan 21, 2007 10:41 pm PT

    One of the first items I bought of fleabay was two font CDs. The picture in the auction showed a legitimate font CD package (case and all) and the description was for "5,000 professional fonts on 2 CDs", but when I got the CDs they were just a couple of CD-Rs (in paper sleeves) with the fonts on them. I was just starting out as a designer then and also fairly new to the computer so it took me a while to learn that I had been ripped off. I think that's what happens with most people - they are either new to the whole computer/web experience and/or have no knowledge of the scams and scam artists out there.

  • skrutop

    Posted Jan 22, 2007 6:06 am PT

    I hope that got shut down, Matt. I know how much it sucks to have your work stolen.

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