| Master Caster | 10 Aug 2022 5:07 p.m. PST |
There are 6-7 painted ship kits up on eBay falsely labeled 1/600 Thoroughbred Figures by a seller named cjae in Arizona. Don't buy these frauds. I have contacted the seller to erase the false labeling immediately or I will be informing eBay tomorrow. Toby Barrett, of Thoroughbred Figures (The real ones) |
 ColCampbell  | 10 Aug 2022 5:16 p.m. PST |
Good for you, Toby. I hope that you prevail. Jim |
| pmwalt | 10 Aug 2022 5:19 p.m. PST |
I hate those who recast and claim as their own. They are frauds. Good for you to hold them accountable. |
| Master Caster | 10 Aug 2022 6:24 p.m. PST |
I think this was innocent enough. The seller already contacted me and corrected most if not all of them already. I'll check again in the morning. It was really the poor quality and serious lack of detail on these that caught my eye. |
| HMS Exeter | 10 Aug 2022 11:42 p.m. PST |
Color me bonkers, but those look more like Houston's 1200s than anything else. My 39 cent guess is the seller got the maker, AND the scale, wrong. FWIW |
 Lluis of Minairons  | 11 Aug 2022 2:10 a.m. PST |
My 39 cent guess is the seller got the maker, AND the scale, wrong. It can't be discarded, indeed. At a first moment, at least. |
| kevin smoot | 11 Aug 2022 4:02 a.m. PST |
You should have informed eBay anyway |
| Pyrate Captain | 11 Apr 2023 5:56 p.m. PST |
I was once told by the enlightened staff of the renowned Games Plus, that if a figure was altered by 10% it could be considered a new casting. A gray area to be sure, but that's what courts of law are all about, instead of vigilantism. |
| snurl1 | 12 Apr 2023 2:23 a.m. PST |
So, these were Pirate Ships then ? |
| Master Caster | 16 Apr 2023 7:25 a.m. PST |
Just to be clear, those on eBay at the time were something other than Thoroughbred, but being sold as such and what I objected to. They were taken down by the seller.
And I cannot let the "10%" comment by Pirate Captain go unchallenged because it is wrong. It's BS in fact, and I'm surprised to hear it supposedly coming from the Games Plus guys who I used to know.
It would be much better to research and quote the US Copyright regulations and laws. If you change an item by 10% and the remaining 90% is still recognizable from the original then it is considered a derivative work and protected just as much as the original is covered and not a new item.
Individual key parts to kits are protected as well by their own nature.
Toby Barrett |
finds bridges to match the river sets.