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Originally Posted by giraffenigel
The only reason they closed the site was because someone reported them to PayPal for selling counterfeit parts as they were advertised as GPO/BT and were new parts not made by these companies.
This was done by either a rival seller or some busybody who doesn't approve of excellent reproduction parts being added to old telephones.
I was in contact with one of the people that ran Britphones a few months ago and he was trying to resolve the issue with PayPal and hoped to be up and running again by now but it looks like they are still having problems.
It was someone amongst the vintage telephone community who has ruined it for the rest of us I'm afraid
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And what about the outfit that claim to sell 'GPO Telephones' because they attach a label to them with a slightly modified version of the old General Post Office's 'lozenge' logo which they have trademarked as theirs. See
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tm.../4/EU008634693
Now they stick the logo on all sorts of products and claim to be 'the official supplier' !!
http://www.gporetro.com/products/fil...ogue_lores.pdf
The original trademark was registered by Royal Mail PLC . See
https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tm.../UK00002550026 Unfortunately Royal Mail didn't include telephones on their list of products/services
