any lawyers here can advice on what to do? help please
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my friend and i have been selling tshirts on carousell for about 4 months to make a small profit and also so that we can keep some for ourselves. basically to spend money online shopping and selling them so we can break even on costs. pretty normal for anyone to do so, right? somemore carousell is a really simple mobile buy and sell platform.
so we sell tumblr tshirts and band tshirts like metallica etc and only recently started selling branded tshirts. all shirts were purchased from the usual alibaba china website.
what happened was that we received a letter from some big law firm representing this brand of company we had been selling tshirts with their logos on, claiming that we had been infringing trademarks! my friend and i are so stressed out because we do not know how to approach this situation and we know nothing about this. we simply wanted to shop, try, maybe sell a little just like any normal carouseller.
so we have sold less than 10 pieces of that tshirt. so the letter claimed it was unoriginal. we called the guy and took the listing down immediately. the letter wants us to give up all pieces and claim we actually did infringe the brand? it also says we might be paying damage costs and legal fees? we really do not have much money and we are just students. it is a really serious matter but my friend and i are 18 year old jc students and we do not know much about all this law stuff and trademarks. i really need some advice. please do help, thanks.
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Hi Jason, we can only imagine the burden of stress that you and your friend are going through right now man.. Its true that there are some brands which only allow retailers to sell their own stuff. Exclusive rights to sell the brand they might call it. But what makes it interesting for your case is how fast they clamped down on you... like in a matter of 4 months??Then what about the other shops like pasar malam, queensway and all selling so many brands of clothes?? Why havent they clamped down on them yet? Are you the only ones on Carousel selling this brands? Are there any other listings from other sellers who sell the same brands as you do?
My point being, is that sometimes your competitors are trying to take you out by playing this kinda game. And their purpose is to put a stop to your business. Verify first.
I'd check the legibility of this law firm before you or your friend commit to anything in writing(or verbal). Check out whether this law firm is legit; try https://www.lawsociety.org.sg/forPublic/FindaLawFirmLawyer/FindaLawFirm.aspx
Share with us more once you're exhausted all the above. And we'll try to advise you on what to do next!
Cheers.
Patsy.
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Hope this is resolve..any update
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Any update?