Textbooks are Expensive. So Ebay lets bootleggers Keep on BOOTLEGGING

You warn a jerk in Algeria to stop selling illegal downloads of textbooks.

Slap-slap on the wrist-wrist. (He's got TWO identities.)

Does he stop? Of course not.

How many times does a seller get warned for the same offense before there's a suspension?

Hmmm, hmmm...no set amount. Ebay chooses. "We can give a warning, another warning, another warning, we may restrict the account, we may restrict it for a week, then a month, then indefinite suspension..."

Would you like the police to operate that way if YOU were robbed or raped?

Why are authors treated like shit?

The nice thing with eBay is that an Algerian scumbag doesn't have to be an illegal alien or be in America to steal and rob from Americans. He can sit on his dirt-encrusted lice-filled butt and press a few buttons on EBAY.

He's CHEBABFLY.

Here's another of his idiotic names.

Note the same green-underlining caveat, and the usual nonsense about being the copyright owner.

Foreign monkeys who don't even speak English can quickly get an EBAY account and cut and paste ads like this.

Just look for any account with EPUB or MOBI in the header, copy it off, steal the downloadable versions off the torrents or forums, and mmmm, Ammmmmmerican mmmmmmmmoney in your dirty little paw.

Americans? Stupid stupid rich rich American assholes. Russia tampered with the election? Feh! Foo! Ha ha! Never mind.

Algerians and Sri Lankans and Russians stealing from American authors? Give 'em another chance, another identity, and another, and another. What's it to you? You work hard to write a book? Fehhhhhhhhhh. Baaaaaahhhhh! Too bad for YOU! I'm Algerian, I deserve your royalties more than YOU DO! EBAY AGREES!

Ebay bootlegger ghouls...stealing Carrie Fisher books while Ebay gets a Percentage

What have we here? Carrie Fisher dies and THIS guy instantly posts her audio book.

The monkeys from Sri Lanka, Putinville, Mexico, or the ones who infest Florida or New York, LOVE to get a few easy dollars off the world of literacy, a world they know so little about:

"AUDIO BOOK, WILL BE DRECT LINK TO YOU THE AUDIO BOOK FILE"

Most of them copy off the various caveats from each other, hoping the phrasing makes any kind of sense. All they know is there's easy money because EBAY doesn't police their site and PUBLISHERS aren't vigilant and AUTHORS are naive.

THIS seller posted over 170 different audio books. You'd think a few authors or publishers would've noticed and sent in DMCA's to get rid of this jerk.

You'd also think EBAY would have an efficient way by which these auctions could be reported by anyone who sees them. After all, this jerk has blatantly indicated: "AUDIO BOOK SEND BY EMAIL." Which happens, miraculously, to be against eBay's own basic rules.

For a watchdog, be it blogger or concerned librarian or a member of the Writer's Guild (oh, forget the latter, that union does nothing except take money), eBay's idea is you click the "REPORT THIS ITEM" link, scroll down several menus:

REPORT CATEGORY (that would be "Listing Practices" in this case), REASON FOR REPORT (that would be "Other Listing Practices") and DETAILED REASON (that would be "Digitally Delivered Goods") followed by the final button: SEND IN REPORT.

Do that 177 times? The other options are to call eBay direct, get somebody on the other side of the world, and explain the problem. Or go on Twitter to ASKEBAY and hope for the best.

If more PUBLISHERS and more AUTHORS simply saw and reported the abuse, sellers like this would be suspended before they get hundreds of dollars that belong to PUBLISHERS and AUTHORS, and help support printers, bookstores and libraries.