Something has been done. Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery See New Pages "The Cement Company from HELL!" Updated: August 15, 2003
----- Original Message ----- From: "eBay United Kingdom Customer Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: Re: Other Listing Policies questions #AU RD2 (KMM78034872V20031L0KM) Hello, Thank you for your report, we have reviewed the listings you have brought to our attention and taken the appropriate action. In order to request a refund for your listing fees, you will need to file a case with the billing department. Please use the following link: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/basics/select-support.html Violations of eBay's listing policies can lead to consequences that range from issuing the seller an informational alert, ending the listing(s), moving the listing(s) to a more appropriate category, a temporary suspension, an indefinite suspension or terminating the membership. Repeated violations of eBay's listing policies can result in the suspension of a member's account. I can understand your desire to know what action we may have taken on the seller's account. However, due to eBay's Privacy Policy, I am unable to provide you with information regarding the details of another member's account. This is for the protection of all eBay members. We appreciate your vigilance in helping us to keep inappropriate listings off eBay. Regards, Burt Garcia eBay VeRO Team ______________________________ eBay Your Personal Trading Community (tm) ******************************************* Important: eBay will not ask you for sensitive personal information (such as your password, credit card and bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, etc.) in an email. Learn more account protection tips at: http://www.pages.ebay.com/help/account_protection.html _____________________________________________ For our latest announcements, please check: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml _____________________________________________ ******************************************* (31416242) Original Message Follows: ------------------------- My listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2563306496&ssPageNa me=ADME:B:EOAS:AU:3 His listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2563924879&category =11813&rd=1 I did contact him and he denied copying the text saying that he'd had a professional do it for him. This makes no difference whatsoever since it was he who posted the plagiarised description. Here is his reply: Excuse me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't no who in the hell you are, but I did nothing of the kind so you go ahead and report me all you want. You have a lot of nerve buddy! accusing me of steeling anything from you, I hired a guy from Micro Optical to help me with the rest of the item's that I no nothing about (NOT THAT I OWE YOU ANY EXPLANATIONS, BUT NEXT TIME YOU BETTER GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU GO POINTING THAT UGLY FINGER OF YOURS.) I need eBay UK to do something about this because I intend to post a lot more stuff like this and I don't want him to steal any more of my hard work ... and my sales as a result! I've had a number of emails telling me that the text on the two listings is the same. I withdrew my Heine condenser early and would appreciate a credit from eBay, to my PayPal account, for the fees involved. Thanks. Best, Don Williams _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery See New Pages "The Cement Company from HELL!" Updated: August 15, 2003 ----- Original Message ----- From: "eBay United Kingdom Customer Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: Re: Other Listing Policies questions #AU RD2 (KMM77744961V60696L0KM) Hello, Thank you for writing to eBay. We want to help you, but in order to do so we need the following information: 1. The item number of the listing that you are reporting 2. The item number of a listing that you posted on eBay demonstrating the seller copied your image(s) or description(s) If your original email to us did not include the above information, please send us the requested information by replying to this message. If you haven't already contacted the seller that you're reporting, we encourage you to do so before responding to this email. We have found that many people are unaware that using images or text that they have found on eBay or other sites on the Internet is against eBay policy. Many of them will change their listings when contacted by the owner of the material. Please feel free to refer the other seller to eBay's policy page at: http://pages.ebay.com/help/community/png-text-and-images.html Thanks again for writing, and thank you for being part of the eBay community. Regards, Aisling Wallace eBay VeRO Team ______________________________ eBay Your Personal Trading Community (tm) ******************************************* Important: eBay will not ask you for sensitive personal information (such as your password, credit card and bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, etc.) in an email. Learn more account protection tips at: http://www.pages.ebay.com/help/account_protection.html _____________________________________________ For our latest announcements, please check: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml _____________________________________________ ******************************************* (31416242) Original Message Follows: ------------------------- Form Message Subject: Other Listing Policies questions #AU RD2 Item: Message: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 I recently listed an item, the description appears below: "After Zeiss patented the Zernike Phase Contrast condenser in the early 1900s, Leitz engineers were forced to design their own phase equipment. The Heine Phase Contrast condenser has a very sophisticated optical configuration. This condenser not only provides phase contrast with any phase objective from the lowest to the highest magnifications, but gives excellent dark field and bright field illumination as well. The condenser is fitted with an oil immersion top element and takes the standard Leitz dovetails slide filter holder. The upper high NA optic unscrews giving a larger cone of illumination for use with lower powered objectives. In practice the Heine device will work with any phase objectives and is not restricted to those from Leitz of the period. I have used a Heine condenser with Carl Zeiss (West Germany) phase contrast objectives with excellent results. It is very easy to change from bright field, through phase contrast to dark field and this can be achieved in seconds. The optical design is rather complicated and the optics were very expensive to make. This condenser is in excellent condition and has a 46,5 mm wide dovetail fitting. It takes the standard Leitz filter holder which attaches to the bottom of the optics tube. The Heine condenser can be used with the following Leitz microscopes, amongst others: Ortholux I, Orthoplan, Metalloplan, Dialux (old grey), Laborlux (old black), SM-Lux." A few days later a seller - dnelian - listed a similar item and used my description *word for word*. This is plagiarism and he should be penalised for this. I took two hours to write that text and did a careful historical and technical search first. And this man simply stole my work. Don Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
