[DUG] WARNING! Do NOT buy from TradeMe or EBay

[Richard Vowles]

Sounds like a spiffingly good idea to me. I'll pass it on.
 
Richard
 
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Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
email: richard.vowles at borland.com
phone: +64-9-9184573
cell: +64-21-467747
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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Paul A Norman
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2005 11:29 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] WARNING! Do NOT buy from TradeMe or EBay


Dear Richard,
 
A well placed corporate computer industry type fellow was once selling
some stuff but we were spared some difficulty because  . .
 
Corel, and sometines Adobe I think, regional offices in the past have
put clear (but elegantly designed) Media license stickers (permanent
glue!) on the outside of their media kits. 
 
Seeing these on other companis products has helped us avoid bad moves.
We nearly got stuck with something very bad once becasue it was not
marked in any way. A journalist was selling stuff openly and that
itseslf alerted us on another occasion. 
 
When I look at the picyures supplied on the recent postings in New
Zealand Trademe, there do not appear to be any media kit warnings on
them. 
 
Do you think that that is something that Borland USA, Singapore and
other regional offices  might consider implementing? 
 
Paul
 
On 04/11/05, Richard Vowles <Richard.Vowles at borland.com> wrote: 

	Guys,
	 
	A real warning. In the last two weeks alone I have been
contacted by THREE people who have been burnt by this. 
	 
	One guy purchased from ebay and got the item sent out. It turned
out to be an educational license where the key was attached to an
account in France (not the UK where he purchased it). 
	 
	The other two purchased off TradeMe and paid $600 and $800 for
media kits. They were unopened so the person selling probably didn't
know they weren't full versions, but they may have. This is also not
legal, only our resellers with reseller agreements can resell our
products without explicit permission from us. 
	 
	We aren't trying to make things hard for you guys, if you have a
legitimate sale (decreasing developers, etc) then we are happy to grant
permission, but it is to protect people from things like this happening.

	 
	Richard
	 
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	Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
	email: richard.vowles at borland.com
	phone: +64-9-9184573
	cell: +64-21-467747
	other: MSN richard.vowles at borland.com, skype: rvowles 
	 

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