Buy / Sell / Swap Guidelines

UPDATE: the Buy/Sell/Swap section has merged with the Property For Sale section to create a new Marketplace section. Please refer to the Marketplace Guidelines for more information.

This is strictly for non-commercial trading of items.

Rules for people posting listings:

1. You must be a paid member (Premium or Business) to list goods for sale
2. You must be prepared to answer any and all (reasonable) questions from our members. Failure to do so may result in the post being removed.
3. All postings will be subject to moderator approval before becoming visible to other members.

Rules for members reading listings:

1. Do your own due diligence - we cannot check every member or listing made and take no responsibility for erroneous or misleading information.
2. If you suspect something dodgy, report the post to the moderators using the Report link
3. You may ask genuine questions, but this is not a discussion area - save your opinion for other threads.

These are interim guidelines - we'll see how things go and may need to adjust them as required.

 

Sure thing - provided that they are genuine (not pirated). You'll also need to be a premium member to post.

 

Hi @Ted Varrick , best if you PM me details.

 

Actually, if you are dealing with physical copies of items and not reproducing them digitally or otherwise, then you are quite within your rights to resell them in Australia - there is no breach of copyright.

However, if you are dealing with digital material, then you are likely to be reproducing it (rather than handing it on as with physical mediums), and electronically communicating it - both of which are exclusive rights of the copyright owner.

Interestingly, "artistic works" such as paintings is an exception to the "physical copies" point above there are resale royalties which may apply to the second commercial sale of such items.

Reference (Australian Copyright Council): Selling Copyright Material

So anyway - to be more explicit about what is acceptable here on PropertyChat:

1. you may list physical original/legal copies of items for sale - eg physical books and coursework and original CDs / DVDs / etc provided that you have not retained copies for your own personal use
2. you may not list digital reproductions of items for sale under any circumstances

For example, if I purchased a printed (physical) copy of Dale Gatherum-Goss's book "Tax Battles" - it would be acceptable for me to list it here for sale.

It would NOT be acceptable for me to list a photocopy or scan of it for sale - that would be a breach of copyright.

If I purchased a PDF version of a book (delivered via download), it would NOT be acceptable for me to list it here for sale.

If I purchased coursework which was delivered via commercial CD or DVD, it would be acceptable to list those physical CDs or DVDs for sale. It would generally NOT be acceptable to list a USB stick or other digital medium - since it is difficult to identify whether it was commercially produced and not simply digitally copied.

 

Digital media in any form is problematic.

If you have software loaded and original physical media which was used to install it and the OS (ie not digital download and nothing else on the machine), then I think it would be reasonable.

A tablet with anything loaded on it beyond the factory default software would be problematic.

An ebook reader with an ebook loaded would be problematic.

An mp3 player with music loaded would be problematic.