eBay Member: celforsale... "disk prints"

[bob]

After a quick mention in another thread, I went to eBay to see if these "disk prints" are actually floating out there.  Sure enough, some moron celforsale is indeed printing these stupid things.

SNATCHER SEGA CD PRINT

Our message exchange:

Dear celforsale,
I dont get it. Why would you do this?
-galam (not my true eBay ID)
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Dear galam,
No matter how many games you have, you can only play 1 at a time. I sell this, looks like an expensive game, looks good on your shelf. Thanks, Dan.
- celforsale
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Dear celforsale,
But its just a disc. I guess Im not following your logic. Besides, the bigger problem is that somebody is going to buy this, burn the snatcher image on it and try to pass it off as "real".
-galam

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Dear galam,
If you send me another message I will report you. I do not want to discuss my "logic," and you are not my customer.
- celforsale
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Dear celforsale,
um...ok.  you can report me I guess.  not sure why, as i was just wondering if you realized you were possibly facilitating the production of counterfits.  My original question was simply "why make these?" because i didnt really understand the point of them.
I think we found the real reason behind them.  The "to sit on a shelf" is comedy.
-galam
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No response yet.

[MrBroadway]

Counterfeits, and report him to eBay please.

[Opethian]

hes not writing data to the discs

good luck cd based game collectors! check the bottoms of the discs now for CD-Rs coming to an auction near you!

[Black Tiger]

His Popful Mail cdr is more than double the price of many of his others, because it's a picture of the "rare" variant of the actual game.

[johnnymad]

I wish ebay gave a crap about stuff like this. I believe this was brought up on one of Pat the NES Punk's podcast months ago, which means it's been reported many times. People reporting it has obviously done a lot of good.

[MrBroadway]

Not until eBay gets sued will they start giving a crap about this stuff.

[johnnymad]

Not until eBay gets sued will they start giving a crap about this stuff.

They'd probably make you pay a listing fee and final sale fee to start/end the lawsuit. They'd still get theirs out of it. 

[tggodfrey]

Isnt reprinting the Sega CD label a copyright infringement?

[bob]

Isnt reprinting the Sega CD label a copyright infringement?

I would think so. Along with all the others hes doing.

[tggodfrey]

prolly wont go anywhere but I reported it.  30 seconds of my time I am not concerned with.

[tggodfrey]

Sent Konami of America an email and link as well.

[bob]

Well its funny, the original auction i messaged him through, he then "ended" it early.
Then relisted it with the "its not a bootleg" description.

[tggodfrey]

I suspect this guy has had a few of his auctions shut down by ebay for trying work around the Ebay rules.  He makes it a point to tell you that he will make other re-prints and conduct the transaction through ebay.  When have you ever seen that listed in an auction?

[Necromancer]

Isnt reprinting the Sega CD label a copyright infringement?

Certainly.  The Sega CD logo, Konami's logo, the Snatcher logo, and the Snatcher disc art are all copyrighted or trademarked.  Hell, even the compact disc logo isn't free for use.

[xelement5x]

This twat is still at it?!  I'm a bit tempted to dump $15 to buy one just so I can leave negative feedback, but they'd probably just create another account to sell this shit if they got banned anyway and I'd just be out $15 with a shitty CDR.

Oh, and that "rare" Popful Mail one?  It looks like he just ran out of ink mid-print.  What a f*cking tool.