Buying used items for more than new.

[Darth Sensei]

Take a look:

http://tinyurl.com/ec9kl

Isn't it amazing that people get so competitive that he'll buy a used X-arcade stick for $141 shipped when he can get a brand new one anywhere for $130?

Plus, I wonder why ebay didn't pull the auction since he's selling Mame Roms.

[Kitsune Sniper]

He paid $130 for the roms.

Also, I've reported stuff to eBay and they rarely remove auctions unless you're a Vero member. I hate them.

[ryborg]

Also, I've reported stuff to eBay and they rarely remove auctions unless you're a Vero member.

*You* don't have to be a VeRO member, the *item* has to be on a list of VeRO protected merchandise, or be in blantant, obvious violation of the posting rules. It doesn't matter if the CEO of the company or an eight year old girl in Norway does the reporting. If an item is not on the list or not obviously fake/bootleg/in violation, they won't simply pull it because one person tells them to.

Also, it occasionally takes the investigation people FOREVER to actually check out an item, at which point it might be too late (who cares if they pull the auction after it's over and the seller has his money and has shipped?).
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Forgive my ignorance, but what is vero?

[ryborg]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is vero?

Right here. (http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/programs-vero-ov.html)
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[scorch56]

Yeah it seems eB has gotten a LOT more lax on people selling roms/emulators in the last year or so. In fact.. eB is turning a blind eye towards MANY things they used to care about (bootleg Anime DVDs,etc.). Whatever makes THEM a buck..

The sad thing is.. this may mark the death of emulator developers. I haven't ran an emulator in years, but back when I was into emulation I remember one cardinal rule you NEVER broke..

99% of emulator developers distribute their emulators for free, and in every readme for every emulator I ever saw.. every developer explicitly asked that people NOT to distribute their emulators WITH roms (That's how they kept out of "legal" hot water). But back in those days.. those of us who used and appreciated their efforts never would have thought of doing such a thing.. especially just to make a VERY easy buck for themselves.

Nowdays some half-wit gets into emulation and collecting roms and thinks he has an "original" idea for selling someone else's intellectual property (he got for free) for a profit.

Everytime I see some "kid" on eBay selling a rom compilation WITH the emulator.. I want to hunt them down and cut their nutz off; because somewhere a poor emu dev is about to be open up to a lawsuit.. and he doesn't even know it. No wonder emulation development/improvement has slowed so dramatically in the last couple of years.

[XianXi]

It's all about the Washingtons baby.

[jajaja]

I remember reporting a guy who sold bootleg Action Replay for PSP. He only sold the software and it would be sent over mail (even said so in the auction). I reported him to Ebay, but got in reply that they couldnt remove it because they didnt have enough knowledge about it and that i need to contact the copyrightholder or something of the software.

This guy have sold tons of bootleg PSP games before and even got his auction removed after they ended. Ebay told me he was warned, but still he contunie. He gets reported again, but they dont delete his account. Really strange.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I remember reporting a guy who sold bootleg Action Replay for PSP. He only sold the software and it would be sent over mail (even said so in the auction). I reported him to Ebay, but got in reply that they couldnt remove it because they didnt have enough knowledge about it and that i need to contact the copyrightholder or something of the software.

This guy have sold tons of bootleg PSP games before and even got his auction removed after they ended. Ebay told me he was warned, but still he contunie. He gets reported again, but they dont delete his account. Really strange.

As long as eBay gets paid, they don't care. Just look at the thousands of bootleg DVD/cart game auctions going on!