In 2011 eBay was reportedly ordered by a French court to pay over £30 million in damages for not doing enough to prevent the sale of counterfeit merchandise here. The court also ruled that rights owners were entitled to insist that some branded goods should only be sold by trained staff in approved places.
Fast forward ten years, and eBay's VERO scheme gives registered brand name owners the right to report any item that they consider infringes their right to the brand. EBay has undertaken to remove any reported item from sale.
Keep this in mind when thinking about relisting this item. EBay isn't going to risk another confrontation with the big brand names. None of us knows how many warnings a seller has to receive before being permanently restricted from selling here, but at least one seller told us that it was after they were reported for the third time.
