eBay, usernames and trademark infringement

Do you have a client annoyed with a seller using your client’s trademark(s) in said reseller’s eBay username?  It’s a pretty easy thing to fix.  Here’s how you do it.

Go to eBay’s “User IDs” FAQ page.  Therein is a reminder to eBay users that “User IDs:…Can’t incorporate, or be confusingly similar to, a third-party’s trademark or brand (for example, CocaColaSeller).” 

Later on that same page is a javascript link for “Report a User ID that may be inappropriate” which brings up a form that looks like this:

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