Prison time for couple selling fake BMW accessories

[raw]

Interesting to see this couple have got prison time for selling fake bmw merchandise on eBay:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prison-time-for...

I'm sure there are guys on this forum in the car accessories business, so thought it was worth a little heads up. eBay still seems littered with this sort of stuff!

[Splats]

To be fair, they weren't making £500-£1,000 per month pocket money - it was circa £40,000 a month (which I presume is turnover as opposed to net profit). That's a pretty massive operation when selling just BMW branded badges, cufflinks and tyre caps, etc. I really don't see how they could expect to remain under the radar pushing that volume of counterfeit goods.

[Blib]

He's a churchwarden. He must have assumed Divine protection.

[Simpo Two]

Blib said:

He's a churchwarden. He must have assumed Divine protection.

If you want to break some Commandments, join the church. Nobody will ever guess...

[dudleybloke]

Thou shall not covet thyne neighbours intellectual property.

[JuniorD]

Strangely there was another couple from the same town who got done for excatly the same thing last year. In that case the bloke was a policeman. The sums involved were less but they got away with just modest fines and conditional discharge.

[XMT]

Good news as far as I am concerned.