Any of you guys catch this **** on FB?

[Joe]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/291390817694790/

Saw a few people posting and commenting on this page and had a quick look, not only is the guy a complete twat it's a group page filled with people that think Repro boxes/inserts/bubbles etc are all totally fine.

Oh....

And Karen is on there too. :lol:

But also very much: :|

 

[walkie]

Lets bring this scammer down!

 

[Grant_C]

I started to read it and notice Karen.....I can't be arsed.

I thought about doing my on repro- A cease and desist letter from Lucasfilm to Darren Repro whatever his ****ed up name is

 

[Richard_H]

Can someone ban Joe until he's read some of the thread's on here? :lol:

Will these do for starters?

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20231

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20809

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21192

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21393

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20560

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21477

 

[Joe]

Haha, I had seen a few of those ebay threads but didn't see Todd post about the FB group! I'm genuinely shocked to see so many people defend this bloke on the FB page..boggles my mind.

If you can't afford the real deal, you go without!!

 

[Richard_H]

Bingo. Or trade your way up to them.

 

[shawn_k]

I've been keeping an eye on the page and am floored every time I see what new box or display he has reproduced. It's sad that there is such a huge market for this or else he'd obviously would have given up by now. As a vintage collector I'd much rather my money go to vintage Star Wars rather than something that someone has just created in photoshop to make money off of. I don't see the point in displaying a bunch of boxed items in boxes that were just created last week.

 

[PGowdy]

I don't read the nonsense on those FB groups pages. No one should. :roll:
Enough nonsense on here to deal with. :lol:

 

[Hothrebel]

One more reason why I don't have anything to do with FB !!

 

[itfciain]

God that makes for depressing reading - although it is good to see them all grouped away in their own 'special' little section

As for Karen - she is either thick as **** or just a massive troll - probably both to be honest.

There are a lot of people in that thread, and in the group in general, that are alienating themselves from the rest of the community just by supporting this twat - I for one would never knowingly sell anything to them and would 100% never buy from them and I think a lot of others will do the same

 

[Caswellbot]

He says that he has received scans of originals. Some of those displays are very rare so who is providing the scans?

 

[bobbybobs]

I posted an anti-repro article there yesterday and got absolutely slammed by abuse, including threats of violence by some old bloke who looked like he couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag! These people have no idea how to articulate their view. I did know it wouldn't be a popular post but I couldn't sit back and do nothing after I saw guys like Walkie and Thorsten fighting lone battles in there. Darren unfortunately is getting a lot of support and the situation is not simply just going to go away and die.

Darren PMd me apologising for the abuse I received but then went ahead and liked all of their comments, including the one that contained a threat. Well....

I think it's obvious Karen is not well, I really wasn't sure how to deal with her....

Anyway I blocked them all and removed myself from the group.

One thing I love about SWFUK is that you guys won't cop repros or u-graders. What's not to love about that????

 

[walkie]

Hi mate, I see Darren has removed some of the comments from his FB page. What I really find funny is people are prepared to pay £60 for a fake box that has a resale value of bugger all, what utter idiots these people are.

And who the hell is his source?!?! someone out there is supplying this guy with all these scans.

Now where that email for Hasbro's legal department.....

 

[Grant_C]

I'd say Lucasfilm is better as they are profiting of the star wars logo.

 

[bobbybobs]

I saw that your post and Thorsten's were deleted. He let my thread run and congratulated himself publicly for doing so. Truth is he would have looked like a coward if he deleted it.

I know that a few of the guys, including at least one lawyer, have lodged complaints about his gross misuse of copyrighted material.

Such a shameful business and look what happens if anyone diplomatically raises any concerns. Anyway my fault for trying to use logic with monkeys. They just made themselves all look like animals.

 

[Richard_H]

I've reported his stuff over 20 times now to ebay. Nothing.

 

[PGowdy]

I posted an anti-repro article there yesterday and got absolutely slammed by abuse, including threats of violence by some old bloke who looked like he couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag! These people have no idea how to articulate their view. I did know it wouldn't be a popular post but I couldn't sit back and do nothing after I saw guys like Walkie and Thorsten fighting lone battles in there. Darren unfortunately is getting a lot of support and the situation is not simply just going to go away and die.

Darren PMd me apologising for the abuse I received but then went ahead and liked all of their comments, including the one that contained a threat. Well....

I think it's obvious Karen is not well, I really wasn't sure how to deal with her....

Anyway I blocked them all and removed myself from the group.

One thing I love about SWFUK is that you guys won't cop repros or u-graders. What's not to love about that????

You need to report those posters and the page to Facebook. FB take things like that pretty seriously and it could result in the page being closed down. I refuse to visit pages like that but have people tried reporting it to FB? It pedals illegal goods and there's a fairly good chance Facebook would not be as ok with that as ebay are. If 20 of you report it all in the same week i could see the page being removed.

 

[walkie]

good idea, 1 of 20. whos next?

 

[Richard_H]

me too

 

[PGowdy]

Personally, i would try calling Facebook as there is no option to report a page/group for the selling and promoting of illegal counterfeit goods. Not that i know of anyway. (does he actually offer anything for sale or attach prices to anything? If so he is breaking the law)

Here is FB number - 0016505434800

Possible other contact info -

650-543-4800 and 650- 853-130.
Press 1 and follow the instructions.
For email address you can contact at -
1. [email protected]
2. [email protected]