Please Help

buggu

soolin wrote:

Yes they can, you do not buy resell rights when you buy an item in the UK. Whilst in practice this is nonsense, how would we all find items to sell otherwise, in reality some manufcaturers of branded goods have purges to stop their items being sold by third parties.

Soo

I agree a few companies are really strict with who sells there products but i am looking at the fact that nike arent seen as one of those companys and correct if i,m wrong they cant stop me selling trainers i brought for my personal use but changed my mind and decided to sell on ebay.

Just seems to me nike would only target ppl who are selling a huge quantites of trainers on ebay.

soolin

buggu wrote:

I agree a few companies are really strict with who sells there products but i am looking at the fact that nike arent seen as one of those companys and correct if i,m wrong they cant stop me selling trainers i brought for my personal use but changed my mind and decided to sell on ebay.

Just seems to me nike would only target ppl who are selling a huge quantites of trainers on ebay.

I agree that Nike are unlikely to target sellers selling the odd pair of trainers or item of clothing, I have done the same myself. However the OP refers to selling hundreds of pairs which puts him in an entirely different league.

Soo

bh4v1k

Hi, i am so in the same boat and just wondering how you managed to resolve the situation? I dont no wether to contact solicitors?

Thanks In Advance

frivolous_fay

Try a PM, this thread is 6 months old!

matto

If you parallel (grey) import the items from outside the EU then that's illegal (Tesco v Levi is the principle case law).

If you buy the items within the EU then under the Treaty of Rome freedom of movement of goods, Nike cannot stop you reselling the items. Nike have exhausted their rights in the goods when they are legally put on the market in the EU.

mkr_2

I got a letter from Hewitsons today saying that I should pay £25 per trainer I sold which is above what I sold them for PLUS £350 to settle the claim PLUS a percentage of something.

I have sold about 100 pairs and stupid me probably thought they were real as I now know they arent because nike say so, and they did come from China (at first I thought thats where they were made, hence, cheap price)

I dont know what to do because 100 x £25 = £2500 add the £350 and considering the fact that they add something else which I cant remember on top of my head, total would be around £3,000. Also, I they want exact figures of trainers sold which I dont have as I can only view items sold upto 30 days or so ago not before that.

I bought information of my nike supplier of a guy on eBay who said it was the real thing and under that impression I sold these trainers.

All of a suddent today I get a letter from Hewitsons, they are eral solictors by the way and it is a formal letter. They say I have 21 days to respond or may take court action, I can no way afford this amount of money, I never even made that much from selling them.

Any advice? Would be grateful, dont get on my back as I sold them in good faith. Shall I give them a call and see if they would reduce the amount or something or let me pay in installements? I will pay £250 out of court settlement to just get this headache out of the way but no way can I afford anything more than that!

Please help!!!

MKR

soolin

As this question is now on a new thread I 'll close this old thread down.