Other Seller stolen photos

s30jok

look at the person bidding on his item contact that member and tell them if they buy from you they are getting the original and you might throw something extra or something like that or reduce your post and packing
if not send them a snotty email or using your partners login buy something cheap from him and then leave him negative feedback just to make you feel good!!

wirm

This is against eBays terms and conditions as shown here.

Don't think this was posted....

Curry_Queen

Jonni2bad wrote:

An example of this can be seen here - try and right-click anywhere on the ad and see what happens!! I've picked an old advert, just so that I can't be accused of promoting a sale...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5949992757

I went to your listing and did as you said ... right-clicked over the picture (and elsewhere on the page) ... and I could have just copied to file anything I wanted on there, so I guess it's not as secure as you thought


BTW, I use Firefox if that makes any difference or not ...

sra

Curry_Queen wrote:

BTW, I use Firefox if that makes any difference or not ...

With firefox, you can untick a tick-box in options "allow scripts to disable or replace the context menu". But I could right-click that particular page even with that box ticked

There's also a bookmarklet you can get to restore the context menu in IE (You just click it in your favourits and the protection disappears)

Or like I said before, there's nothing to stop me capturing the screen and cropping it


You could even just save the page and the pic would be deposited neatly in the little yellow folder that accompanies saved web pages

Jonni2bad

Guys, I think you may be missing the point!

Jonni2bad wrote:

..it's not entirely foolproof...

I didn't say it will keep your ad totally secure - I also said there were ways to bypass it. BUT, and most importantly, the information given for doing this is free and MAY limit the number of people able to copy your photos.

You've got to remember that very many people who use computers are not that savvy, and if they right click your ad they MIGHT then believe there is no way they can copy it....

Curry_Queen

No, I fully understood your point but the point I was trying to make was that I didn't have to do any of the things you suggested to bypass the code ... I could just right-click it and have the option of saving it as usual.

Maybe the code doesn't work with firefox and I didn't try it in IE (never fire that up unless absolutely necessary) so I was just making people aware that using the code won't necessarily protect the content of their adverts

Jonni2bad

Curry_Queen wrote:

...Maybe the code doesn't work with firefox...

I can only guess that's the reason, it certainly works with IE.

Maybe someone else out there has onother way they would like to share with us? If there is a pic i'm using that I would like to 'protect' then I would just add the username across the photo using Photoshop, but I tend to get most of my pics from google searches anyway, so I'm not overly bothered..

Happy selling!!!