Full disclosure.

From the discription: "PROBABLY MADE IN CHINA, WHERE MOST BUCK KNIVES ARE MADE THESE DAYS". Interesting spin from the seller making out the counterfeit is a higher quality knife than the orriginal. So are you still being honest admitting your selling a dis-honest product?
 
Buck clones have been around forever.

As long as there is no attempt to deceive--it's not counterfeit--instead, it's an imitation or a clone.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as they say.

No deception, no foul.

:)

People are starting to collect the Buck clones. Some are high quality.
 
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From the discription: "PROBABLY MADE IN CHINA, WHERE MOST BUCK KNIVES ARE MADE THESE DAYS". Interesting spin from the seller making out the counterfeit is a higher quality knife than the orriginal. So are you still being honest admitting your selling a dis-honest product?
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He's violating eBay policy and has been reported both to eBay and to Joe Houser. Joe told me just a few days ago to send any and all that we run across and if they have time before the listing ends they will get them shut down.

From eBay:

"Policy overview
Items that bear a company's official brand name or logo can be listed as long as the products were made or officially endorsed by that company.

For a safer buying and selling experience on eBay, we don't allow listings for counterfeit items, fakes, replicas, or unauthorized copies. Unauthorized copies include things that are backed-up, bootlegged, duplicated, or pirated—which are all illegal. These kinds of things may infringe on someone's copyright or trademark.

For examples of what you can and can't sell on eBay, see the guidelines below.

Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account.

Be sure to report listings that offer counterfeit items or replicas. We also encourage you to report listings that offer unauthorized copies of media."
 
It's illegal to sell fake items, even if you say it's a fake the company is suffering defamation (think that's the legal term, not a lawyer) since people later will think it's their real product. It's marked as a Buck which is wrong both legally and morally. If they ripped off the design and marked it Joe's Knife Co then that would be a different matter.
 
Does it help is ebay is bombarded with item reports I wonder? Rather than just one or two, if everyone that reads the thread reports it, will that help get it off?
 
E-Bay needs to hear it direct from Buck. They don't care about anybody else's opinions on whether or not a knife is legit.

So, as Joe requests, report this stuff to Buck and there will be action. The bad guys often start three-day auctions on a Friday just to thwart attempts to get their auction cancelled.

And, of course you can't use the Buck trademark, but Buck clones have been sold for years and always will be. Older knives, as far as I know, usually lack patent protectcion. You can make an exact copy of a 110 and sell it, you just can't use the Buck trademark. Fortunately, Buck sells them so cheap that it's hardly worth it to sell clones.

However, there may be some exact copies out there marked with the trademark that are so good that nobody notices.
 
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