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.
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