Re: For Sale: Stedman's February 2008

Kathycarp wrote:
But if you bought it from Stedman's, paid the price, and it's still in the shrinkwrap...

Okay -- keep in mind here that I have no idea what, exactly, Donna was offering, so I am not trying to say anything about her.

If you purchased it brand new as a standalone product, never opened it, decided you did not want it, and were selling it, and if you clearly stated that in your Ebay auction, Stedman's probably would have no grounds to block the auction.

OTOH, I bought a Dorland's dictionary a couple of years back partly because it came with a spell checker, and I am pretty confident that Dorland's would not want me to sell the spell checker and keep the dictionary. Besides, which, the dictionary was shrink-wrapped, and the spell checker software was permanently sealed into the dictionary, so I would have no way of verifying that I had not opened it myself if I was going to sell it.

I don't know if Stedman's does the same thing that Dorland's does.

I do know that this home-schooling software Switched-On Schoolhouse used to allow you to sell or give your software (which was a complete curriculum) away when you were finished with it, then when home schoolers had done all their beta testing and helped Alpha Omega work through all the problems in the software and they were ready to relase a Version 2 marketing it primarily to Christian schools and also a secular version for other private schools, all of a sudden they decided that nobody could sell it when they were done with it, not even the people with the license agreements that specifically stated that you could resell it. They kept an eye out for every Ebay auction where someone was selling any year's edition of SOS and told Ebay that they did not allow anybody to sell SOS, and Ebay dutifully cancelled every single auction they pointed out to them, no questions asked. I can understand that they wanted to avoid having a school purchase one copy of one grade and priate it for a whole class of 30 students, but they really spit in the faces of the home schoolers who had done all their dirty work for them. (They also quit working with people who were buying in bulk and reselling to homeschoolers.) I went around and around with this one person stating that their supposed reasons for doing this were really bogus and that there were easier ways to solve their supposed problems than what they were doing, but they didn't want to listen to anybody. It was really sad.

(I only wish Ebay were as conscientious about the scammy auctions that people run, but alas....)
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