Forum Information May. 07, 2007 updated

[Chris Beveridge]

As we are now an eBay affiliate, and knowing the problems some people have with eBay and not wanting the retail forum to become overly cluttered, we've added this eBay specific forum for covering the topic of auctions on that site.

At this point, we're going to wing it with how the forum will work and see what kind of dynamic grows. All we ask at this point is that if someone does post a link to a set that *is* a bootleg, let them know it is a bootleg. With so many repackagings lately in region 1, different types of releases and so forth, a lot of people aren't as up on what the new packaging looks like and will now. Especially now that a lot of sets are hitting very low prices as well.

Once the forum runs for awhile, we'll tweak this section based on feedback.

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About The Purpose Of This Forum:
As this eBay forum was opened specifically to complement AnimeOnDVD's affiliate relationship with eBay, it is expected that posters will respect this relationship and and conduct their transactions through eBay's facilities.

It is not considered appropriate to encourage others to contact you directly for buy/sell/trading business. Such threads will be removed, or the poster will be asked to make modifications. There are various other resources available on other boards for person to person anime trading, and you are encouraged to use them if you feel that is how you want to sell your items.

List of Legal "Paul Champagne" Anime Artboxes
Paul Champagne has made a variety of beautiful anime artboxes. Unfortunately some of them were unlicensed and therefore considered bootlegs. It's inappropriate to post bootlegs here, but feel free to post or link to auctions featuring his legally licensed artboxes.

These boxes are:
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Garasaki
BubbleGum Crisis 2040

Doujinshi / Fan-Made Anime-Related Art
You can sell doujinshi created by yourself or others. Also, remember to respect eBay's Terms & Conditions when deciding what to sell as some doujins might be inadmissable under their rules.

Items that use the official artwork without legal license to do so are bootlegs and not doujins.

Items that are just ripoffs, copies or CD-Rs of other people's doujins aren't acceptable.

End-Of-Auction Reminder Posts
Please use a maximum of one (1) post per batch of auctions to remind users that the auction is ending soon. A batch is defined as a group of auctions all ending within the same 24 hour period.

Number Of Threads
Please combine auction ads into one thread so that the forum is not monopolized by high-volume sellers.

Other Relevant Threads In This Forum:
Sellers: Create Instant AOD Affiliated Links

Recommended Sellers

Reporting Bootlegs & Fraud on eBay

2007 eBay Rollcall Spring Editions!

1 & Only Rare and OOP Items Thread

1 & Only eBay Off-Topic & Comedy Thread

[demonanya]

Are you able to become an Ebay UK affiliate as well or is it US only with you being a US site?

[Chris Beveridge]

I can probably do both; I want to give the US one a few days to settle in before tackling something like that however.

[demonanya]

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Chris Beveridge said:
I can probably do both; I want to give the US one a few days to settle in before tackling something like that however.

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That's fair enough, will keep an eye out for any developments [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

[wingednike]

Congrats on the new affiliate. Hope the money it brings in won't all be spent on headache medication [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Anyway, what kind of posts are you expecting in this forum? Members posting their auction, pointing out which vendors sell bootlegs, etc. Also do you receive anything if people use the link to post their auction or is it only when they place a bid that you receive a part?

[Kaikou]

I'm interested in hearing what your plans are exactly for this forum, when you figure it all out. What if this turns into a place that people advertise things they are selling? (assuming you don't want that)

[Zanza Hiro]

eek, well, hopefully this will all go down well, and AoD'ers will find this useful

i just hope too much headache doesn't come of this, with inevitable issues like the posting of illigitimate goods etc.

[elmer92413]

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wingednike said:
Congrats on the new affiliate. Hope the money it brings in won't all be spent on headache medication [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Anyway, what kind of posts are you expecting in this forum? Members posting their auction, pointing out which vendors sell bootlegs, etc. Also do you receive anything if people use the link to post their auction or is it only when they place a bid that you receive a part?

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I think pointing out bootleg sellers would be a good idea...
I hate it when I do a search and pull up a couple hundred hits just to find that 90% are bootlegs from the same people...
If we had a list we could exclude those sellers from our searches...
It would sure make life much easier...!!!
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[bakafoo]

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Zanza said:
eek, well, hopefully this will all go down well, and AoD'ers will find this useful

i just hope too much headache doesn't come of this, with inevitable issues like the posting of illigitimate goods etc.

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True...

In any case, this thread can certainly help those of us who are into figures.. *wink *wink Naruto gashapons... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[hobie]

For letting people know that an auction is bootlegs, should we post in the thread that mentions the item, PM the person, alert a mod, or some combination of the above?

Also, how do you want to handle notorious bootleg sellers on Ebay? Should a sticky of sellers to avoid be created, or would that then create too much of a problem of telling lowlifes who don't care about buying them exactly where to go? Maybe instead create a sticky of sellers that are bootleg free?

There should probably also be a sticky pointing to the Pirate Anime Faq with a brief blurb to help people avoid bootleg auctions.