Threat of legal action

[V6]

Afternoon all. I recently started selling Peroni beer glasses on Amazon and ebay. To my surprise I received the email below threatening legal action. It was received from a hotmail address (seems dodgy)... Where do I stand? I bought 72 of them (to get them cheap) and kept 12, thinking I'd sell the rest. Are they talking st or may they have a point?

I think they're just pissed off because I undercut them


Dear Seller,

RE: PERONI GLASSES LISTINGS

As an authorised agent we suspended our own Peroni products listings last week whilst an investgation was conducted as to your eligibility to sell the product.
Further to the investigation, your listings of Peroni Glasses for sale infringe on the intellectual property rights of said product. You are not one of the authorised agents in the UK to sell the product, and the product you have either purchased or aquired from an authorised agent and are re-selling clearly states that it is not for resale. If your listing for all Peroni products is not removed within 24 hours we will have no alternative but to take legal action against you.We will also investigate and stop the supply of peroni point of sale items to you.
PLEASE TAKE THIS EMAIL AS A 7 DAY NOTICE OF OUR INTENTION TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION IF YOUR LISTING IS NOT REMOVED. PLEASE SEEK ADVISE FROM A SOLICITOR IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF YOUR LEGAL POSITION.

[Vixpy1]

I'm not sure there is any legal basis in that email at all, but then i'm not a lawyer.

[HereBeMonsters]

Surely they can't serve you a "legal notice" by email...I think just a jealous seller who has been undercut. Absolute rubbish...

[Plotloss]

Reply simply saying 'Bring it'

And carry on as you were.

[T_Pot]

sell them as used, cant touch you

[Andyuk911]

Agree, ignore ... so if I sent you an email from [e-mail] stating my piggy bank was low .. would you send any funds ?

Edited by Andyuk911 on Thursday 7th May 13:54

[V6]

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

[YoungTom]

hotmail address? carry on, nothing to worry about

[Gibson70]

Take my advice - IGNORE them....They are clearly upset that you are selling the beers.

If you are selling an used product, then they can't "touch" you or take legal action.

Carry on what you are doing

[JustinP1]

A load of rubbish.

They are probably miffed as they may be the sole UK distributer and have a deal with Peroni for the UK. If that were the case they may have thought Peroni may be supplying you and they would be miffed.

You are fine selling your own property. Otherwise of course nothing could be sold on ebay without whoever sells the product new sueing millions of listings.

In fact it is actually offence to threaten legal action over IP and trademarks where there is no legal base for action or the aggressor has no real intention to follow it up.

I would just ignore it.

[Boosted LS1]

^ Whot he said So long as you are selling as an individual then I can't see them being able to do anything about it. If you were selling as a business then there could be issues to argue over but more to do with who sold the goods to you (or so I would think).

[anonymous-user]

V6 said:

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

Got mine FOC Are these the tall ones?

[V6]

Dave_ST220 said:

V6 said:

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

Got mine FOC Are these the tall ones?

They are indeed the tall ones.

Did you 'acquire' them from Pizza Express?

[chr15b]

even if you were breaking t's and c's that is between you and your supplier (who may be peroni)

so if i buy a load of bmw's direct from the factoru will the williams dealer down the road start legal action

[anonymous-user]

V6 said:

Dave_ST220 said:

V6 said:

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

Got mine FOC Are these the tall ones?

They are indeed the tall ones.

Did you 'acquire' them from Pizza Express?

Got two from a nice country pub We struck a deal on a freebie which he doubled to two

[Simpo Two]

They use Hotmail and spell 'Peroni' with a small 'p'... hardly the work of a pukka business.

If you wished to counter-strike, you could report them to eBay for either 'communicating outside the rules' or for being threatening, and might get them banned.

[Jasandjules]

Reply back, advise you are in breach of no law and any further communication will be deemed harassment and the police will be contacted.

[havoc]

V6 said:

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

I could be tempted by a couple...got a link or some pics?

[V6]

havoc said:

V6 said:

Cheers guys, as much as I thought. Anyone want to buy some Peroni glasses?

I could be tempted by a couple...got a link or some pics?

ebay ad



If you don't buy through ebay/paypal I'll do 6 for £10 plus the cost of P&P if you need them posting. I post them in 6 bottle wine boxes with plenty of bubblewrap.

Edited by V6 on Thursday 7th May 21:48

[JonRB]

I've always wanted some Peroni glasses. No, I'm being serious.

Edit: I don't want as many as 6 though. 2 would do me.

Edited by JonRB on Thursday 7th May 21:51