Stolen Ebay Photos!!!!

greenstreetprince

CODEBREAKER wrote: »

if you cant beat them join them, have a look at others listings before you spend hrs taking and downloading pics...

it takes me 2 minutes to take a decent pic on my mobile, transfer it to PC and upload to my ISP's webspace.

hours??

eporium

Watermarking a photo with an ebay user id can help deter copying and also help to prove ownership. This can be easily done by using a free program called Picture-Shark which can be downloaded from http://www.picture-shark.com

For information on how to use it try http://www.erns-eporium.co.uk/watermark.htm

Here is an example of a watermarked picture done with picture-shark (version 1.0).

motorguy

planetjanet wrote: »

I have had another seller who is selling the same item as I sold last week using ALL 8 or so of my photographs - taken in my dining room - cheeky begger! I have reported him to Ebay and hopefully his listing will be pulled. Does anyone know how to customise photos? I have seen them on other listing where they have their user ID typed across the photos, but I can't seem to do it to mine - any advice will be great. Thanks in advance.

Call the police immediately.

Make an example of them, have them burned at the stake publically.

:rotfl:

motorguy

thriftymanc wrote: »

For starters, if the person isn't taking photos of their own then it's likely they don't actually have the item they're claiming to sell and are just out to rip people off.

I bet you believe that all the profits from all copied DVD sales goes to terrorists too? :rotfl:

Its been some bloke who hasnt got a digital camera or who hasnt got the time to take pics and load them up wanting to flog his item.

funkyfunkymonkey

pgilc1 wrote: »

I bet you believe that all the profits from all copied DVD sales goes to terrorists too? :rotfl:

Its been some bloke who hasnt got a digital camera or who hasnt got the time to take pics and load them up wanting to flog his item.

I wonder if you would have the same 'live and let live' attitude if you had had the experience of thriftymanc's friend?

My friend sold a job lot of random bits and pieces on eBay not so long ago. The final bid was quite a high amount (nearly £100). Then, just after the auction ended, the winning bidder contacted my friend to say that another seller had an auction up with hardly any information about what was in their 'job lot' (if they even had one!) but using exactly the same pictures. My friend was furious and contacted eBay immediately. The winning bidder refused to pay as she said she couldn't be 100% sure who the photos actually belonged to (i.e. it could have been my friend who stole the photos from the other seller). eBay didn't even remove the other listing in the end. My friend ended up losing out as by the time she's sent a second chance offer to the next highest bidder, the bidder was no longer interested. So that's what's wrong with stealing other people's photos.

FFM

CODEBREAKER

i think this is getting stupid so what if people copy photo's, it's not misleading anyone if it's the same product.... it would only be misleading if the put your pic up for a brown jacket and they was selling a 3/4 blue wool coat... some people need to get a life... live and let live...

soolin

CODEBREAKER wrote: »

i think this is getting stupid so what if people copy photo's, it's not misleading anyone if it's the same product.... it would only be misleading if the put your pic up for a brown jacket and they was selling a 3/4 blue wool coat... some people need to get a life... live and let live...

if I were bidding for a brown jacket though what earthly good would a photo of someone elses jacket be?

If I'm buying something I need to see a photo to see if it is what I want, how I imagine it from the photo and also for dearer items to make sure seller actually has the goods.

Millionaire

I have to agree that nicking other peoples personally taken photos is not on.

The item maybe the same but what use is it looking at someone else's picture(s) of a similiar item when the you want to see the condition of the one you want to bid on.:rolleyes:

Numerous times Ive seen people leave negative feedback because the item is nothing like what it was in the pictures.

Ive been ebaying for years now and Ive noticed alot of the fraudelent items on ebay use other peoples pictures either direct from a listing or via search engines.

Ebay now remove items and listings using other peoples pictures exaclty for this reason now. and about time 2.

FloFlo

CODEBREAKER wrote: »

i think this is getting stupid so what if people copy photo's, it's not misleading anyone if it's the same product.... it would only be misleading if the put your pic up for a brown jacket and they was selling a 3/4 blue wool coat... some people need to get a life... live and let live...

Some of us have a life making a small (but taxable) living from the hardwork we put into ebaying, it can take hours to photograph items and describe them effeciently, why should you then put up with someone stealing your hardwork. There's no excuse for not taking your own photos just laziness.

Esoog

I admit I've done it a couple of times, for example when I don't have a digital camera (or when I was infact selling my digital camera), I always check the items in the photo are exactly the same/same wires are there etc. And I wait untill the auction I borrowed the pictures from has finished. If anyone contacted me and said take them down I would, but in my eyes its better than just using a stock photo.

There's no excuse for not taking your own photos just laziness.

Of course there is, not having a digital camera for one.
Using other people's photos in an attempt to deceive someone, or using them for all your auctions isn't on, but for the odd one or two I really don't see the problem.
I mean you could say people on this board are stealing avatars that people have made, when infact it takes about 1 minute to find a picture yourself a resize it for use....just gets silly