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No, but it needs to have been previously owned by the brand owner. You can't buy directly from the factory without the brand's permission. That's counterfeitin
by ikeboy 7y ago
No, but it needs to have been previously owned by the brand owner.
You can't buy directly from the factory without the brand's permission. That's counterfeiting.
From your link: "this same doctrine enables reselling of trademarked products after the trademark holder put the products on the market."
In other words, it must have been owned by the trademark holder at one point, and sold by them into the market.
- jrochkind1 7y agoIf you identify it with that trademark, ok, maybe that's new to me but seems plausible. You can sell it without mentioning the trademark though.
- ikeboy 7y agoWe're talking about selling on an Amazon listing which has the trademark on it, which isn't allowed. That's what I originally pointed out - that the wholesale price wasn't relevant because it's not for the trademarked product.
- zaroth 7y ago... and this is why it's impossible to trust the provenance of anything you buy on Amazon!
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoThe factory is the owner of the brand.
- ikeboy 7y agoNot as far as I can tell in this case. I listed the brand owner above, which seems to have no connection with the wholesaler mentioned. The brand owner is a trading company, and buys from factories, but is not a factory itself.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoThe HDDais brand owner doesn't buy from factories. He buys from Hengda. Hengda buys from factories. HDDais is living the exact dream mentioned upthread, in which his business consists solely of buying things wholesale and shipping them to Amazon.
- ikeboy 7y agoNo, they're doing private label. It's a very different business.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoNothing's stopping you from registering your own trademark and selling whatever you happen to have on hand under that mark. Ownership of a trademark is free. What is the difference you're seeing?
- ikeboy 7y agoI didn't say anything is stopping you from launching a private label business. The primary difference is that you need to spend to promote the listing because nobody has heard of you.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoOh yeah you're right, doh. For some reason I assumed the Shenzen company also owns hengda.