eBay Seller hirez00 Recast Me!

Kerr Avon

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I never thought the day would come, but I've been recast!!! :lol

It seems my "Day of the Dead" paper has made it into recast history. A while back I made these:

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I made a limited run of them and sold them on the RPF, one on eBay I think, and then stopped making them. I never released the PDF to the public to make copies of the paper either.

Well then this guy seems to have decided he wanted to make copies and sell them on eBay. Here's his:

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The only difference is he fattened up the THE DEAD WALK font a little bit, but the only thing from the movie that's in his paper is the story titles and the text layout! All the actual meat of the stories was entirely written by me, made to visually match the line breaks of each column. I even have my name in one of the articles as an injoke. Every word in the stories was lifted from my paper exactly, even though he says they were taken from a screen used one!!!

So what should I do, ask him for a cut of the proceeds or just report him to eBay? ;)
 
Get eBay onto him. These guys don't seem very cooperative if you try to reason with them.

Hope you can get it sorted.
 
Since you made up the articles and your *NAME* is it them, I think he has no leg to stand on. Report him.

the next problem though, is that he will just rewrite you out of them and keep going. what a d|ck.
 
I'm with Nataku. I tried to get one of these the first time out, but the list was capped. By the way, I'm a huge zombie fan.

Well, how many people really would be interested in another run?

This is the version I had George Romero sign at DragonCon last year. I was working on a even more screen accurate one that included some more accurate graphics and bigger bolded headline.

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I really love how you're taking a crappy situation, and turning it into a good one. :lol Good luck!
 
cool paper. would be fun to put it in someones newspaper before they woke up. a conspiracy nut would freakout. ;)
 
I've reported it and we'll see. I'll post an interest thread regarding original replicas if anyone's interested next week.
 
Well ebay wants me to join the VERO program so I can report it through that.. is that what people have had to do to get recast stuff pulled?
 
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