Someone using my photo!

chemical.galaxy

I just noticed this as I was checking out my competitors items - one of them has used my photo!
Now I am flattered - but they should have asked!
What should I do! Ask them to remove it?
Just found another photo they have used :-(

vuvuzela

You certainly should ask them to remove it, it is bad form on their part to use your photographs.
If they are stupid and have simply copied the link to the photo site you uploaded it to, then you could replace the photograph with another of the same name calling them out on this practice (or worse )

Gary123456790

You can report that they are using your photo under the copyright section of 'report an item', although I wouldn't hold out much hope that they will get taken down.

I reported some recently where my picture/description or both were copied, they didnt get taken down. Ebay used to be really good at taking these down but dont seem to bother anymore.

I have just contacted another seller asking them to use a different photo and description as they copied mine, not much else you can do.

Put your username as a watermark across the picture if you are handy with photoshop I suppose!

Gary.

chemical.galaxy

Thanks, think I will send them a polite request to change the photo. It's a multiple listing so could run for ages and I don't want them to look like me!
Will look into putting a mark on my photos! should be quite straightforward!

reborndoll

Hi , I can sympathise, it must happen all the time. Annoying more than "criminal" isnt it?

I am quite arty and had directly copied my own images to a listing and it looked good so was funny to see the folk who bought the item went onto sell it a few days later, after all my artistry, lol anyway there it was, my description, font, pics, I guess they clicked copy and paste, and I was flattered, absolutely nothing ebay done as I am not a business and dont have a trademark was just photos I edited as I sat here on computer !

Just be flattered and laugh about it, unless you have copywritten the images or watermarked them it would be impossible to prove ownership of them to ebay and all that happens is the seller gets told to resubmit their ad using their own photos.

I once got an email informing MYSELF that I had used "a trademarked image" which had belonged to the brand, or something of that ilk, on my listing, which was me selling one item a bottle of estee lauder perfume( sorry mum- it was not me!), well I went right onto open a live chat and I pointed our it was my photo, my lounge wallpaper is in background, beige with chinese symbols I can take a picture of my wall if you wan to show I stay here! it is from my ordinary compact canon camera, the image was definately my own and I would like my advert re-instated!

They were so apologetic, as in their their haste to pull the ad they didnt bother checking and it was put back on , so even ebay get it wrong at times removing pics where no one has done "anything wrong"!

techspec

I was once asked for combined postage for 2 items. I said i only had one.

They buyer accused my of lying and said he knew i had 2 listed on seperate accounts. He had bid on both. But the other user had copied my listing in total - making it look like we were the same seller.

As said a above - ebay used to remove them within hours - now they cannot be bothered.

talkinpeace

watermark your pictures ....

reborndoll

I have seen a lady with watermarked image with A.N. Others ebay username still attached to it , pmsl, what a clown, they are all at it! (Ok well a vast majority of people pinch images of private users) if it can be "save image as" then its easy enough to pinch, some websites have blocking software on won't allow you to copy the images ie professional photography websites. Maybe ebay should start doing that and the practice would end.

spacey2012

Read E-bays terms on pictures, you grant them a free licence to store and archive and use as library pictures worldwide.

reborndoll

Well that's true everything is on google soon as you add it to ebay as well just google search your own name and the word ebay, and it finds you and your account listings feedback etc , anyone not even ebay members can click to save images to their pc.