25 Nov
2012
25 Nov
'12
5:47 p.m.
I ran across this on Ebay:
160925314748
The pictures are from my web site, and the description AND serial
number listed are lifted right off my page:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/VT420.html
Even more amazing, someone apparently already bought one and gave
positive feedback! Needless to say, my terminal is not for sale.
I've filed a fraudulent listing complaint.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
25 Nov
25 Nov
5:59 p.m.
On 11/25/2012 5:47 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
I ran across this on Ebay:
160925314748
The pictures are from my web site, and the description AND serial
number listed are lifted right off my page:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/VT420.html
Even more amazing, someone apparently already bought one and gave
positive feedback! Needless to say, my terminal is not for sale.
I've filed a fraudulent listing complaint.
Probably not done with malice but, laziness. Happens all the time. I
have had a couple pictures I took show up in ebay auctions before. I
suspect they just google images and grab ones for what they are selling.
For something as common as a vt420 it's probably not a huge deal. People
use stock photos all the time on ebay and it doesn't make the auction
fraudulent. However, taking someone else's photographs for commercial
use is actually illegal. You could make him take them down or demand you
be given credit. I never cared enough to bother though.
6:17 p.m.
On 11/25/2012 5:47 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
> I ran across this on Ebay:
> 160925314748
> The pictures are from my web site, and the description AND serial
> number listed are lifted right off my page:
> http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/VT420.html
> Even more amazing, someone apparently already bought one and gave
> positive feedback! Needless to say, my terminal is not for sale.
> I've filed a fraudulent listing complaint.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, mc68010 wrote:
Probably not done with malice but, laziness. Happens
all the time. I
have had a couple pictures I took show up in ebay auctions before. I
suspect they just google images and grab ones for what they are selling.
For something as common as a vt420 it's probably not a huge deal. People
use stock photos all the time on ebay and it doesn't make the auction
fraudulent. However, taking someone else's photographs for commercial
use is actually illegal. You could make him take them down or demand you
be given credit. I never cared enough to bother though.
Lifting pictures, and using other people's pictures as if they were "stock
photos" could well be simple laziness.
But SERIAL NUMBER?
6:32 p.m.
On 11/25/2012 6:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Looks like he just put it in with the model by mistake. The question I
have is that I thought vt420's only came with LK401 keyboards? Your
picture is of a vt420 with a vt220 keyboard right ? If you bought this
would you get the lk201 or the lk401 ?
> led a
fraudulent listing complaint.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, mc68010 wrote:
Probably not done with malice but, laziness.
Happens all the time. I
have had a couple pictures I took show up in ebay auctions before. I
suspect they just google images and grab ones for what they are selling.
For something as common as a vt420 it's probably not a huge deal. People
use stock photos all the time on ebay and it doesn't make the auction
fraudulent. However, taking someone else's photographs for commercial
use is actually illegal. You could make him take them down or demand you
be given credit. I never cared enough to bother though.
Lifting pictures, and
using other people's pictures as if they were "stock
photos" could well be simple laziness.
But SERIAL NUMBER?
26 Nov
26 Nov
12:21 a.m.
On 26/11/2012 01:47, Mike Loewen wrote:
I ran across this on Ebay:
160925314748
The pictures are from my web site, and the description AND serial
number listed are lifted right off my page:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/VT420.html
Even more amazing, someone apparently already bought one and gave
positive feedback! Needless to say, my terminal is not for sale.
I've filed a fraudulent listing complaint.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
I wonder if that is a hacked account. Nothing fro 12 months then 2 x VT100
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