Someone took my name!

themerchantsofvintage

themerchantsofvintage

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My heart just sank. I just went to start the process of opening my ebay store and now I could just kick myself for not doing it sooner. I may own themerchantofvintage.com, but somebody is using themerchantofvintage on ebay. And no one was when I started.

I just hope they like Shakespeare! :mad:

Portia's Closet, Dapper Deb's, the Real Merchant of Vintage

Oy

I need a smiley like Dopey from the Seven Dwarfs.
 
Oh dear Deborah what bad news.
Unfortunately I am slightly skeptical of people motives when it comes to things like that and I am sure they will be aware that themerchantofvintage.com has been taken so they exploted it on Ebay instead.
I always think it's better not to take them directly on but out smart them, this early on saturday morning the liitle grey cell have not woken up at the same time as my body, will think on it!
Paul.
 
Grrr. I know exactly how you feel Deborah, tried to register tastyvintage on ebay - and while if you search for it there isn't another, they wouldn't let me use it. Not sure if that's because my ebay shop is called it? I gave up in the end though.

can you be the_merchant_of_vintage or something instead?
 
Oh that so sucks!!!

could always do: theREALmerchantofvintage


but that is pretty long....I like the solution answer though.....
 
Thanks Jonathan! It took a while before I came up with it and it perfectly reflects my two loves - theatre and vintage.

the_merchant_of_vintage is what I may end up doing - thanks, Harriet!!!

I do tend to get annoyed when I'm searching and have to remember things like underscores; so I'll sleep on it for a bit.

The first name I came up with and used loosely before I sold online was Helen of Threads because I amassed mostly 60s, 70s "threads" (that and a woman named Helen was kinda responsible for the start of my vintage selling). But, of course, when you google anything with threads the last thing you're gonna get is clothing. I also felt adding Vintage to the end didn't make it quite as catchy.

The Merry Wives of Vintage

Much Ado about Vintage

I'm Hopping Mad that Someone is Using The Merchant of Vintage Vintage - hmmm, a wee bit long, don't ya think?

Perhaps, the young man who sells old t-shirts and calls himself themerchantofvintage on ebay will get so big, he'll want to open an online store...

The Importance of Being Vintage

I'm a bit loopy right now, but I like the last one - what do you think?
 
I had come up with "Green Eggs and Hamlet" as in high school, and people on the other side of the country had come up with it too. There's was totally different than mine but it was the same name. And i am sure there were many other things that name as well.

I think thats the danger in using shakeapearan word play - its possible that someone else thinks the same way.

that stinks though
 
Originally posted by chezmov

the_merchant_of_vintage is what I may end up doing - thanks, Harriet!!!

I do tend to get annoyed when I'm searching and have to remember things like underscores; so I'll sleep on it for a bit.
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Underscores can make it easier to read if you are advertising on printed paper.



I'm Hopping Mad that Someone is Using The Merchant of Vintage Vintage - hmmm, a wee bit long, don't ya think?
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23 letters longer than most yes , my commercial domain is 21 letters long, no one has much problem ... hopefully!


It's worse than I thought. themerchantofvintage sells paparazzi photos - NOT EVEN (insert expletive) VINTAGE!!!

Is that legal?
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You could tell Ebay and see what happens.. but they might not do anything... pull one or two items.




or you could wait until he puts up a photo of "A" list celebrity in a compromising photo then inform the record company and hope they have a staff lawyer who wants to do some creeping in the company!
Here in the UK there is a privacy law , but has he broken that?.

Or if you wanted to really try and close him down then if the photo originally came from a news paper who bought a full set and only used certain one .
then track down the newspaper and tell them they have a leek in the photo department and that could be a copy write thing.
if that did not work then you could give that info to a rival newspaper, they might love having one over on the opposition... Embarrassment often works well.

Ebay also do not like press coverage for selling having immoral auctions on , the press has exposed EBay here for selling free charity tickets with someone making a profit.

A lot of work and simple to change your name!
 
"I always thought that if I opened a brick and mortar store I would call it The Salvation Armani.... but I never will...." :D - coffee nearly splattered everywhere - good one!!!

When looking for band names years ago for my husband and his cronies one of the names we came up with was Plywood Rush.

Paul you are so right - "Underscores can make it easier to read if you are advertising on printed paper." And if that is not taken, I will most likely end up doing that.

"You could tell Ebay and see what happens.. but they might not do anything... pull one or two items."
I'm really just upset that I didn't take the name when I had the opportunity to do so. And my outward kvetching is just blowing off steam. I'm a little more rational today. The two photos I looked at are nothing worse than you would see in some magazines and/or sensational and unsavory news rags (if you can call it news) - I'll leave that up to the celebs.
 
Thanks, Tori and Lizzie! I've decided to go with Harriet's suggestion - which, I now agree, is a very good one! Wasn't feeling too open yesterday (could ya tell?!).

Harriet - thank you, thank you, thank you and I apologize for for not being more grateful sooner!!!

Thanks again to everyone and I'll post when the_merchant_of_vintage is open.
 
No problem, I was just sharing your pain. Don't think you should change your plans, I think the merchant of vintage rocks.

My husband's teenage attempt at a musical group was called The Elastic Band. Not surprisingly he chose a different career path, lol.
 
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