Hartge supposedly suing an ebayer..
 

The guy is an idiot if he pays...Tell them to go ahead and sue...

Gotta be the newest Nigerian scam...

The only difference between a Nigerian scammer and a Plantiff's Attornery is a law degree...

un****ingbelievable!

A company sues because he mentions their name in an ebay sale? That would be like Porsche suing one of us for using the word "porsche" if we were to auction a 911 on ebay.

The guy IS an idiot if he pays. I'd have called the lawyer and told him to tell hartge to f*** off.

Attorney-bashing again! Shame!

Who will help you when you are attacked by mold? :)

Hartge-Hartge-Hartge. Oops that is 3000 Euros.

edit: Hartge Attorney, please send the bill to my off shore trust fund account in Nigeria of the deposed dictator Dumba Dikka along with a check for 100,000 euros. I will instruct my trust to send 103,000 euros back. This is because my trust is sooo big that it could not release any checks less than 100,000 Euros without the incurrance of unreasonable transaction fees. For your trouble and consideriation, i will also inclued a 3,000 Euro transaction fee for you...but you will also have to send 100,000 Euros first :)

God, I love phone calls like that. Remember the scene in "Ruthless People" when Danny DeVito answers the phone and says, "She can't come to the phone right now. She's on her knees and a little busy......"

Something along those lines. :cool:

If I read it right, this shole thing happened in Germany.

And, I gotta tell you, the laws are very different there. I ran ads in Germany for a client who made software for IBM PCs, and the attorneys told me I could not use "IBM" in the ad. Their 'comparative advertising' rules are very, very tough. This fool essentially compared what he was selling to the Hartge product -- a huge no-no in Deutschland.

However, beating up a private party seller will hurt them more than a $1,000 Euro fine.

Plenty of folks on this board have gotten 'lawyer letters' from Porsche, and one L.A. area vendor had his inventory raided and siezed for not complying with Porsche's trademark rules.

That's the world we live in, now.

Can you get in trouble by saying "Black Audi Wagon"?

Probably.

Another interesting thing: you cannot sell a "war game" in Germany in which it is possible for the Nazis to win.

Seems it will probably cost them more thatn 1000E to try and get the money...and I would imagine they would have to prove damages as well.

I'd get an attorney and let Hartge try.

Ok, who here has the balls to post a Hartge ad in ebay to see what happens? :)

Let me get this straight. If I sell a used Hartge (in this case) airdam as an individual on Ebay, Hartge can come after me for using their name in the ad?

Or is it if I sell a bootleg using their name?

Or both?