mbee:

I agree with the fact that what this man does is not very ethical... BUT everyone says that those manuals are free at Beoworld. That's wrong, you have to pay a Beoworld membership to get them.

Now consider someone wanting a service manual in order to repair one of his B&O products (or "just in case"). He has two solutions :

1. Getting a beoworld membership : that's quite expensive for just a manual (or two...), considering that this person is not interrested by any other thing that beoworld membership gives him.

2. Buying this manual from this guy on ebay : that's a good choice for our customer : he will pay a very low amount for the manual, less than a beoworld account.

The third option is to call the nearest B&O dealers and tell them which manual you need. I can't imagine a dealer charging anything to email a manual or two to someone. They might ask you to cover the cost of printing and shipping if you don't have an email account.  But if it's  true that you don't have an email account, you probably won't be buying much from eBay either...

I thought that selling copies of copyrighted material was illegal and frowned upon by Ebay themselves? Surely if you started selling copies of software or films you would get closed down by a moderator, what is the difference in this case? Surely the service manuals are copyrighted by Bang and Olufsen?

Fair point Cozza - email to B&O me thinks??

mobeyone:

Fair point Cozza - email to B&O me thinks??

could and should be right, but if this was the case, I think Lee and his stuff would had done it already?!