Auction Stations

The Auction Stations facility is able to monitor the internet exhaustively for suspect goods, for the UK or a wider market place of your choice, over sustained periods. This enables you, the rights' owner, to pursue civil and/or criminal actions and also to apply other preventative and disruptive remedies. In this way a constant pressure is able to be put on criminals, thus allowing concrete results to be obtained.

The Auction Stations service is able also to offer you 'snapshot' valuations on its cost/effectiveness for your business, at any time in the life of a contracted client's term. Such a 'snapshot' may be undertaken so as to provide you with instant evidence of how effective to date has been French Solutions' monitoring work. The measurement for success rests in how fully French Solutions has provided you with information which enables enforcers and investigators to chase criminals out of freeloading on your company.

From the array of Performance Indicators bulleted below, your customised choices of approach to enforcement are possible to construct. Your personal select and bespoke suite will allow you to approach disruptive and preventative activity in support of your business from the angles that suit your products and circumstances.

French Solutions recommends you choose your suite of Performance Indicators taking some thought. To alter your selection once your Monitoring Reports are on stream for you, will inevitably lose you momentum and possibly some ability to assess success entirely, until your newly-revised schema has become embedded and a strategic trajectory re-established.

Should you feel you need advice on choosing your best suite of Performance Indicators, you are very welcome to phone French Solutions. French Solutions' staff are happy to discuss the matter with you. Contact Us

The Auction Stations facility is able to monitor:

The number of traders, wholesalers and retailers, trading in fakes of your goods on the net within a designated geographical or virtual area, at and/or between any set times. (this angle scans the breadth of the net to your nominated extent, to offer you information on the size of the problem you are facing)
The total number of fake items available at or over a set time on the net across the full ranges and packages of your products. In money value and in actual items. (this angle supplements the previous one, and is useful as a preliminary testing of the size of the problem)
Estimates of the rate of sales in fakes of your products over set times. In money value and in actual items. (this angle probes deeper to see what levels of trading are being sustained over a length of time)
Actual numbers of items, in money value and actual amounts, of fake product sold over a set time and place (this supplements the previous view, in 'firming up' the outlook into a specific set of results)
Lists of 'top traders' on auction and 'classified ads' sites. (this allows big gains and quick wins, although unless pressure continues traders are able to make rapid comebacks)
Targeting particularly serious offenders with an aim to drive them out of the trade (this is an aggressive and swingeing action. It should be borne in mind that on its own it will not produce results because the vacuums left will soon be refilled by other criminals)
Monitoring to ascertain offenders do not return but stay away from your Brands and property. (another long term second level preventative measure useful as 'insurance' that the same work need not be repeated)
Listed totals of numbers available on the net of each type of item which comprise fakes of one or more of the ranges and packages of your goods. From a single type of item, or a single range, right up to every product you deal in. (useful for the portfolio. And for any Press Releases and PR functions where the IP Crime point needs to be made)
Particular 'hot' websites can be singled out and nominated for monitoring. (useful when dealing with auction house sites and classified ads sites where trading is done for the most part remotely at a further remove. Otherwise the levels of activity at these remoter sites can get ignored and so continue carte blanche)
Tap into the advanced capabilities of technological and mathematical interrogation and analysis of the internet in order to protect your business (Auction Stations has high grade personnel who keep abreast of current movements in trade and technological advance in black as well as legitimate markets. Its staff are well-able to assure your continued benefit from opting for protection and security using the services on offer)