{"id":1363939,"date":"2020-09-08T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barcodesegypt.com\/?page_id=1363939"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:21:43","slug":"safe-to-buy-from-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barcodesegypt.com\/en\/safe-to-buy-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe to Buy from Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the 1990\u2019s GS1 was established in most parts of the world. They licensed their 13 digit barcode numbers to their members (and as discussed previously charged both membership fees and joining fees). However, there was a separate organisation in the USA \u2013 the Uniform Code Council (UCC) \u2013 which sold 12 digit barcode numbers to their members for a one-off cost (there were no ongoing license fees). The UCC was effectively competing with GS1. Their 12 digits numbers were effectively a subset of the 13 digit system.<\/p>\n
In the late 1990s, the UCC merged with GS1, becoming GS1-US. As part of this change, they decided to start charging annual license fees for all of their members, including those who had paid a one-off fee for barcode numbers in the 1990s. Of course, many of these members weren\u2019t happy with the new annual license fees, and so a group of them ended up in class action law suit with GS1. The members won in the courts in the early 2000s, resulting in a multimillion dollar settlement by GS1. A further consequence of this court case is the proof that the original numbers issued by the UCC in the 1990s are outside of GS1s control now, and hence no license fees are required.\u00a0 These are the numbers bought by resellers and onsold. They are \u2018new\u2019 numbers, in that they have never been used on a retail product, and are part of the GS1 system. Actually, many people are discussing about this<\/em> and you should know before you buy barcodes for your products!<\/em> Why Was the International Barcodes Network Formed? \u2013\u00a0The International Barcodes Network was formed in order to increase the availability of reseller barcodes and barcode information worldwide. They do this by providing local offices where local licensees, who know their … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1363939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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Why you should buy from us?<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"