Trillion

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  2. Posted

    Hello all, for a while now I have worked with stickers, decals and signage. Because of my interest in graphic design, and the contacts I have who work in the field and would be happy to work with me, I'd like to start a design and print business. I intend to be able to make business cards, flyers, banners, menus - anything that could be considered advertising really.

    Would a Roland print and cut machine do the job, or would I need something more specialised for business cards and the like? What could be accomplished with a traditional print machine?

    My budget realistically is around £7000/$9000 here in the UK.

    Thanks!

  5. Posted

    Hey guys, so I have some text I'll be reverse weeding, and since it will be quite small I'm not happy about the tiny little inner pieces of letters such as B or R, O, D, g, etc, and the chance of them not coming away with the transfer paper.

     

    Is there a way to join these to the outer section without having to manually edit each letter/number each time I do it?

     

    Attached pic shows roughly what I'm trying to accomplish, and if there isn't a way to do this then are there any suitable fonts you would recommend? Thinking about it though, any font with the inner piece joined would simply come away with the rest of the letter when reverse weeding, so I don't think this would work either :(

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Thanks

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    I would be very concerned about the fact that it was paypal and not e-bay that is stopping you because that means that they probably have access to your sales and banking transactions with paypal which could mean that they are getting ready to launch a law suit.  It's pretty dumb to blatantly sell trademarked or violate a copyright on the internet, especially e-bay and especially using pay-pal where all the transactions are tracked.  If you're going to break the law a strictly cash no advertising policy is the way to go you dunce. 

    There's no need to respond in such an aggressive manner and with such rubbish. There are several larger businesses operating on Ebay selling these stickers and as I've explained I naively assumed this would be fine for that reason. I am not arguing that there's an issue now that I've read up on it, I'm simply confused at why other, larger sellers are allowed to continue operating selling the same decals that presented an issue for me.

     

    Break the law? Calm down mate, not exactly selling Cocaine on Ebay am I?

  10. Posted

    I've done a bit of research and as far as I can tell only trademark is applicable here, and not copyright, since trademark covers logos and slogans, and copyright covers other stuff. I'm not certain that all of these designs are in fact trademarked.

     

    Please see: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/differences-between-copyright-trademark-3218.html

     

    It refers to America, but I'm sure the rules are more or less the same here in the UK.

  12. Posted

    Ebay does not go searching for offenders..  Offenders are reported TO Ebay, And it is Ebays responsibility  to protect the owners items by removing them from their site...  Those owners have already produced to EBAY that they own the item brands. The brand owner reported you...

    It's definitely not that Mz Skeeter, because I had this problem with another item I was selling a few weeks ago and Ebay simply removed it and I haven't relisted it. This is Paypal specifically who have restricted my Paypal account receiving payments, and not Ebay.

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    Copyright and trademark are altogether different things. Since I am not an attorney I don't want to offer advice except to say if you recognize I promise you somebody already owns it.

    I see. Do you guys only produce original content then? I'd like to hear from people who have sold decals like the ones I'm trying to sell and how they went about doing it! I just want to know what channels I should go through to make sure I'm in the clear when it comes to this.

     

    Here is a listing which has sold slightly more than the particular item that I was selling which features several of the apparent copyrighted logos and icons that I was selling, and MORE: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2X-Playstation-PS4-Controller-Light-Bar-Decal-Custom-Personalised-Vinyl-Stickers-/181920799424?hash=item2a5b531ac0:g:6WkAAOSwwE5WU7ou

     

    So that isn't legal, right?

  14. Posted

    You sold copyright designs and got a slap on the wrist. You could have been sued and still may be. Your auction was probably reported for copyright violation by a competitor.

    How do I make the distinction between what is and isn't copyrighted? I don't see the little C by many of the logos. Can we focus on the Quattro one for a second? I've looked up the trademark database and it only states vehicle parts and repairs. A sticker is neither of these. When I looked up Playstation, they had several trademarks covering anything you could think of. So it should be fine to sell the Quattro decals, right?

  16. Posted

    With so many other sellers selling the same items, I naively assumed it would be fine.

     

    Is there a channel I should go through if I want to sell the copyrighted/trademarked items? It just seems so odd that the other Ebayers have had no trouble for years and within a short span of time I'm having issues. I have no problem removing the items. I do have a problem with other sellers still being entitled to sell those items when I am not.

  17. Posted

    Hello guys. This morning, my Paypal account was limited and made unable to accept payments through Ebay due to an Adidas logo that was on one of the Playstation light bar decals that I sell there. I quickly removed this and was then told that several of my other items breach Paypal's policies. All of these items are being sold by several hundred other sellers on Ebay, which is why I'm irritated. Here's an example of an item that I was selling being sold by other sellers on Ebay:

     

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=quattro&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xquattro+decal.TRS0&_nkw=quattro+decal&_sacat=0

     

    I am a fairly small-time seller on Ebay, and have only recently started doing all this. How is it that some of these other sellers have sold these items for years without problems, but within a month or so I am told that I can't sell them? Have I just been extremely unlucky here? They tell me I need permission to sell these items, which is fair enough, but you can't make double standards for other sellers on Ebay, and realistically there's no way that these guys have sought out permission to sell all of these items. Has a competitor reported me to Paypal? I don't imagine that Paypal routinely scans Ebay for items they don't want people to be selling, and if they did they'd have imposed limits on all of the other sellers with the same items.

     

    A little advise? Thanks 

  18. Posted

    Hi thanks for the reply, I would like to sell them but nothing outdoors, just basic stickers. I typed pigment ink printer into google and got results for printers like this back: http://www.printerland.co.uk/HP-Officejet-Pro-8620-P133908.aspx?source=AddwordsA7F65A&gclid=Cj0KEQiA7rmzBRDezri2r6bz1qYBEiQAg-YEtvYN0FO-ZDNzYBdkxyANdWOh1hFESvdqVcLIACx3U40aAutG8P8HAQ

     

    Would that be ok?

     

    Do you have any examples of aqueous based vinyl stuff? Thanks mate

  19. Posted

    Right, I see! What do you think about using those A4 pieces of sticker paper, laminating them and then cutting them out? Would they be ok for train set/RC decals etc? Wouldn't a good inkjet printer suffice for work like that? And if not, do you know what the cheapest option in terms of buying an eco solvent printer would be? I'd like to do it myself since that's the fun of it!

  23. Posted

    no necessarily - they was selling several "Roland" look alike printers on there a couple of years back and from the reports they was old encad guts being put into a roland looking shell - but if you want to be the test subject let us know how it turns out.  in reality there are usually tons of used graphtec and rolands on cl very reasonable from people that thought they was getting into something that was free money with no expertise or work required.  I have bought several that way - 

    Good points.... think I'll give it a miss..

  24. Posted

    Right I see, the price is a little better hence why I asked! I guess I won't be touching that. Does anyone have experience of buying a machine from there? In my mind I feel like a fake would be very cost ineffective for a third party company to produce due to the research costs involved and the relatively niche market. If it was a fake wouldn't it just look completely different and then I could just get my money back?!

     

    Cheers!!