OT: Grrrr! Another ebay seller is using my pics and item description!

[Mono~rail]

This makes me so mad! Dh came home at lunch today and said that he thought something was "wrong" with eBay's system because my pics were in another seller's auction. I went and looked - sure enough, there were my pics in another listing! Not only are they using my pics, but they c&p'd my item description - even my typos. The only pic they didn't take from my auction is their gallery photo.

It is so obvious because I laid the item on a Disney princess blanket. Why oh why don't people do their own work?

 

[Kellydelly]

If you report them their auction should be cancelled pretty quick by ebay.

 

[DizneyDogs]

You can report the other person to ebay for using your pictures and ebay will pull their auctions.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

If you report them their auction should be cancelled pretty quick by ebay.

It should be, but it's likely that it will not, due to their notoriously slow response time to violating auction reports (and that's if they ever respond).

 

[Mono~rail]

If you report them their auction should be cancelled pretty quick by ebay.

Hmmppphhh! I reported it at lunch when dh pointed it out to me and it is still up.

I gave it 5 hours, and then I contacted Live Help. They just "thanks, they'd look into it."

I went and looked at the seller's other items and it seems they circumvent fees by charging excessive shipping - an example $10 for shipping a toddler set of shorts and tank top first class mail. L*O*O*S*E*R*!

 

[TheRatPack]

I've seen people do this and some of the sellers change their photo in the photo hosting sites to something else so it messes with the stealers auction pic too. If they just copied your picture I don't know how that works...but I thought it was pretty funny when I've pulled up an auction and seen a totally unrelated silly picture, then you know they stole it and the other person caught on.

 

[Mono~rail]

I've seen people do this and some of the sellers change their photo in the photo hosting sites to something else so it messes with the stealers auction pic too. If they just copied your picture I don't know how that works...but I thought it was pretty funny when I've pulled up an auction and seen a totally unrelated silly picture, then you know they stole it and the other person caught on.

I like the thought! It's too late for me to do anything like that now though. *sigh*

 

[ICF]

I went and looked at the seller's other items and it seems they circumvent fees by charging excessive shipping - an example $10 for shipping a toddler set of shorts and tank top first class mail. L*O*O*S*E*R*!

I think you mean, Loser.

 

[daisyduck123]

I think you mean, Loser.

That's right..

"Looser" is what an overweight person wishes his/hers pants would become

 

[TenThousandVolts]

I've seen people do this and some of the sellers change their photo in the photo hosting sites to something else so it messes with the stealers auction pic too. If they just copied your picture I don't know how that works...but I thought it was pretty funny when I've pulled up an auction and seen a totally unrelated silly picture, then you know they stole it and the other person caught on

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This is so funny! I would love to see that or better yet do that to someone stealing my pix.

 

[Mono~rail]

I think you mean, Loser.

thanks

 

[Imzadi]

I like the thought! It's too late for me to do anything like that now though. *sigh*

Why can't you change your pictures? Did they copy your pictures then uploaded them to be hosted elsewhere? Or are they linking directly to your pics? You can find out by right clicking on the pic, clicking on Properties & seeing if the address that comes up is the same as yours. If it is, you can simply change the pic to a picture of a jack*** or something.

 

[DianeV]

Shoot -report the auctions for shipping overcharge too..that is a new feature near the bottom of each auction..double whammy them and hopefully at least one will get the auctions ended

 

[IDoDis]

I would email the seller and tell them to remove your pictures. Make sure to add them to your blocked bidder list so they can't bid on your stuff and retaliate w/ neg. feedback out of spite.

The other seller probably right clicked on your photos, saved them on his/her computer and then uploaded them onto their own picture hosting server. If they saved the photos on their own hard-drive, you can't change their photo. Maybe they'll at least take your photos off if you ask and let them know that you've reported this to ebay.

Once I had a seller email me and ask if she could use one of my photos. She said her camera just broke and she really needed to get a certain item listed (it was seasonal). I said that was fine as long as she waited until my auction was over. I didn't feel bad about it since she had the decency to ask.

 

[macphrsn]

I would and have considered it a compliment that someone else felt that my pictures were good enough that they would want to use them for their auction. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[englishteacha]

My DH is a web developer, and many pics have been "stolen" from sites he mangages and creates. It's a big deal, because the pics are the property of the site owner or administrator, and it can affect the bandwidth of the site (I think--it's really DH's department!). If someone has just linked to the picture to put in an eBay listing, my DH goes in and changes it so it appears with a logo to the site the pic was stolen from.

Sorry about them stealing your pics. I'd definitely contact the seller and let them know that you're displeased in addition to contacting eBay. Good luck!

 

[Pamlur]

I was just reading on one of the eBay chat threads one day, and a power seller was distraught. She had an item to list, but nobody else had one like it listed for her to copy the picture. I think this is so dishonest, because they aren't posting a picture of the actual item they are selling; they are showing somebody else's item.

EBay used to take action on something like this, but I haven't sold in so long that I've completely lost touch with what they might be doing now.

 

[Mono~rail]

The seller must have saved them to their hardrive because it says ebayimg as the host.

It makes me mad that someone is competing for bids against me with my pics and item description! If they wanted to use my pics, I might have considered it, but only after my auction was done.

PPPPHHHHTTTT! on eBay! They say they have policies against this stuff, but don't do anything about it. My auction ended and the other one ends in about an hour. I guess I can assume if eBay hasn't done anything about it by now they aren't going to.

I haven't eBayed in months because I had gotten sick of all the crap. This was my first batch of auctions since July. I'm so done with eBay. I'll donate and take the tax write off or have a garage sale - much less stressful.

ETA: I did message the seller and tell them those were my pics and item description and I didn't appreciate it. since the auction is less than 12 hours before ending and they have bids there is no way for them to edit and remove the pics or change the description.

I did put a statement at the bottom of my auction right above the pics that another seller was using my pics and had c&p'd my item description without my permission.

 

[DMRick]

The last time someone stole my pic (and I don't consider it a compliment, but just what it is, stealing), they linked it right to vendio. I changed it to read free express mail shipping on all my auctions. That pic was down in about 15 minutes. It was a pretty heavy item, and would have cost her a lot.
Another gal has a great pic of a monkey mooning that she changes her stolen pics with. Of course if I have the auction running myself, I rename the picture and make a copy, and change it to the copy in my auction. Otherwise, the new pic would show up in my auction.

 

[cats mom]

I absolutely understand the frustration!

It's happened to me twice recently (that I'm aware of - who knows if there are others I may have missed)

Ebay actually shut both of those auctions down, but I caught them with several days to go.

I'm guessing I saved someone from being scammed on one of them since it's hard for me to believe the guy had tickets for the same day, in the same exact sec. and row as mine. When they shut the auction he copied from me down he proceeded to copy a listing from someone else for the same event.