Explain trademark infringement rules?

Hi All,

I just had something very bizarre happen. I have a tag sale and collectible type booth and recently listed three designed hand bags. Bonanza sent me three emails saying they’d been removed for trademark infringement and that if I infringed someone else’s trademark again they’d shut down my booth. The emails all contained he same link, supposedly explaining trademark infringement rules, but when I clicked on it it dumped me into the booth of another Bonanza seller selling handbags. What on earth is going on. These are all authentic items with my own photos. I wrote to Bonanza in reply to all three, but until they get back to me, does anyone know what is going on with this nonsense?

asked over 8 years ago

3 Answers

This is an official Bonanza response.

@CastoffQueen, sorry that you had products removed. Bonanza does have many brands and a few trusted experts who peruse Bonanza for items that are not authentic. We monitor all of our brand partners and trusted experts closely so we can ensure that our program has consistency and integrity.

We would recommend that you reach out to the partner who pulled the items and find out why (they are the ones who have the details as to why). Sometimes mistakes are made on both sides so it would definitely be worth finding out why so everyone can move forward. Thank you for caring, and for checking. Best of luck to you.

answered over 8 years ago

I am not sure CastoffQueen, but I do know for a fact there is a site out there that “patrols” bonanza and other sites and reports back to the websites if they find an item that is not authentic, they then request that the website remove the item.
The site that does this actually has members on there that are “specialists” in authenticating, I am not saying this is what happened, but to me it sounds like your items were flagged as not being authentic.

As far as being spilled over into another booth, sounds like a glitch and hopefully support gets back to you quickly.

answered over 8 years ago

misskeech
Reputation: 1958
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CastoffQueen says: September 10, 2015

Thank you for your reply, misskeech. Thepart that is scary is being dumped into another seller’s booth. makes it look like another seller is trying to claim my items aren’t authentic, which they are! I’ll wait to hear back from support, because I can prove that all three items are authentic.

Contact support..my guess is you got caught in a routine flag or (and unfortunately it happens) another seller did not like the competition and reported your items …..

Contact support and forward the link sent to you…because it should have have sent you to another’s booth….

answered over 8 years ago

ccmom
Reputation: 12648
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CastoffQueen says: September 10, 2015

Thank you. I got another answer from Bonanza support that contained the same link to another seller’s booth. The page claims the personis an expert protecting the community from counterfeit items and the person also hides out behind total anonymity. To me, that’s unacceptable.

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