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Post #1316338

Author
oojason
Parent topic
Dealing with People Selling Fan Projects
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Date created
1-Jan-2020, 9:19 AM

mykyta-R4 said:

That ebay seller is making a profit of a LOT from his $75 a set. A set like that only cost $10-15? to make + and a little more for delivery?

It is shame we cannot do this - make and sell the Despecialized for NO PROFIT. Give links in description to people who want and can do for free, and give the choice to ONLY cover cost of making set for others. Give a price list of materials: ink, photopaper, discs, case, package box, ebay fee, to show no profit being made.

‘Eliminate the scammers!’

 

It is a decent idea and also a noble sentiment mate - but would likely bring more issues and problems, as well as putting the community here (and similar elsewhere) at risk.

Plus…

Jay said:

The community had the same issues with people selling various OUT preservations back in the DVD days. Complaining to ebay did nothing that I can remember, and I’d prefer not to raise our profile any higher than it already is. We have a nice thing going where people are being allowed to work around the lack of an official OUT Blu-ray release without the copyright owners bringing the hammer down. Let’s keep it that way.

This is just part of being a content producer in the fan edit/preservation community. Somebody is going to put your work on a disc and sell it. No way around it.

As Jay said above… it is unfortunate that these scammers profit from the work of Harmy and others on here - nobody likes it, it is frustrating, and unfair that these leeches profit from the work of others who provide all this content for free… yet there is only so much we can do.

By all means carry on reporting these scammers to ebay or whatever site they’re selling them on…