Using my text & my ebay name in a competitors listing

shelly

I agree with that becles. I hate it when tradesmen slag each other off. I find it very unprofessional and tend not to go with the one doing the slagging off.

Contains_Mild_Peril

deecy wrote:

Thanks for the replies

By the time ebay replied to my original text copying complaint he had ammended his text to the latter format and ebay saw nothing wrong with it, he also added my question - to ask him to amend his text as he was in breach of my copyright - to his listing and then answered in a cocky putting me down type of way - I complained about him using my company/ebay name in the amended listing and have had a reply saying they will look into it - this time I added a screen shot to the email just in case they dragged their heels and the offending lines had been removed.

He hasn't copied photographs - for a photographer that would be the ultimate sin, he has used his own, I think, but he obviously hasn't got the brain power to make up his own listing, design a template, describe and sell his service without using other peoples words.. and he has spelling issues which, when there is a spell checker on ebay is just plain lazy.

I don't seriously think anybody would look at his auction and be deterred from looking at mine, it is backhanded advertising for me - but the nerve of the guy gets me. His product seems of less quality than mine - less though out anyway, his feedback is private and at 88.9% - mine is 100% - I really shouldn't be worried, but somethings just p*** me off

I think you're right, deecy. His listing would probably put me off, especially with the Q & A bit you mentioned, and I'd probably go and look at yours instead if I were looking for a wedding photographer. Well done for getting the listing removed anyway, but unless his photos were really outstanding I doubt if he was ever much of a threat!