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Ebay sucks tonight...stolen pic.
I'm selling this cassette player on ebay:
And i find out tonight that another user has taken my picture and revised HIS ad with MY pic.... his auction eventually ended with a winner. is this fraud? i reported this situation to ebay, see what transpires. |
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10-04-2004, 07:26 PM
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If he is actually using your image (and bandwidth) then just swap it out with a nice little message...
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10-04-2004, 07:32 PM
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10-04-2004, 07:35 PM
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Hey- his sold for 99 cents & yours is up to 12 bucks already.
I wouldn't bother about it. |
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10-04-2004, 07:37 PM
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I've had several auctions copied in the past. People use the EXACT same picture for their own stuff. I even had one guy copy/paste my entire item description!!!!
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10-04-2004, 07:39 PM
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 anyway, ebay knows when the pictures were uploaded and which one came first and which one came second. but i doubt they'll actually do anything about this one. |
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10-04-2004, 07:42 PM
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Hmmmm.
Why did his auction begin 2 days BEFORE yours? Did you have a previous auction with the same pic? I don't think you can add a pic after the auction starts. At the very least the listing would state what was changed & when? |
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10-04-2004, 07:43 PM
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10-04-2004, 07:53 PM
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You can alway bid on his auction, win it, dont pay for it of course and leave him a bad feedback explaining the situation.
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10-05-2004, 07:18 AM
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 This is the address: www2.porsche.com/bilder/countryselector/logo_foto.gif The sysadmin at Porsche could look at their server logs and see that the file is being leeched. Usually this isn't a big deal, but if you have a limited monthly bandwith limitation, if a large photo gets posted on a high traffic site, it can be a problem. If the other auction was leeching your photo, what you could do is replace the file with a different photo with the same name, from something simple as a text block that says "I stole this picture", or if you really want to make a point, farm animal porn. In this case, the photo addresses are different, so it looks like he saved your picture and uploaded it. If you want to prevent this, put a copyright watermark on your photos. Tom |
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10-05-2004, 08:35 AM
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how about this? makes it more difficult to copy now. .. |
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10-05-2004, 04:04 PM
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internet hijinx, I would rotfl to see the farm pics linked to the ebay ad pic picker, too much!
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10-05-2004, 05:05 PM
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