... and the newly-passed Collectible Coin Protection Act.
I'm not a fan of it, mind, as there are provisions that make my particular niche in the hobby much more inconvenient (and there is a bit of thought-police-ish language thrown in, too). However, it got me thinking.
Extending the Hobby Protection Act on a number of fronts, this new section was added in:
Quote:
(d) Provision of Assistance or Support.--It shall be a violation
of subsection (a) or (b) for a person to provide substantial assistance
or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller if that person
knows or should have known that the manufacturer, importer, or seller
is engaged in any act or practice that violates subsection (a) or
(b).
Which gave birth to the following hypothetical exercise:
1) Say one were to purchase an unmarked counterfeit on
ebay offered by a seller from China under the guise of a genuine item.
2) Then say, after
confirming that it's fake, that person were to file a SNAD claim.
3) If asked to return the items, could they then claim something to the effect of,
"Now that I have
confirmed that these items are fake, I
cannot return these coins to the seller. That would be giving 'substantial support' to a counterfeiter which is against Federal law, as they could just turn around and try and sell them again."?
Now:
If it
worked, I wonder if this were to happen
often enough that such manufacturers would be persuaded to leave
ebay alone. For good.
Thoughts? Discuss.
Posted 01/06/2015 12:38 pm
