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SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

polish_yr_ride — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:36:45 GMT

I am very shocked as to what has heppened to me today.

Earlier on today a ebay member sent me a msg that said he is confused because he has seen my items up for sale by another member with the exact same pictures and titles but for 1/4 of the price i start my listings at.

At first i got confused and thought this guy is just tying to get the items cheaper or something, but i thought hmm il do a search and see what he is talking about.

5 sconds later i found listings of the items i sell with the exact same pics for 1/4 of the price.wtf?

The member told me that they have had these listings up for a week orso and have even sold a couple.

While i was searchig i noticed a second seller with the exact same listings up but only has zero feedback but has taken even more of my pics and titles, even misleading ppl and saying parts will fit models they will not fit and claiming awesome looking chrome parts as being his work but polished.

The listings also says bank deposit preferred cos of paypal fees, from a zero feedback seller.

I polish and chrome car parts just as a hobby and sell them here on ebay, up untill today this kind of thing has never happened in more than a year iv been selling my work here and im quite angry and shocked that some losser needs to steal my hard work eg pics and tittles just so he can sell his dodgy work.

The pictures of the parts isnt even his work and im sure what ppl receive wont look anything like the parts i sell.

The worst things of this is ppl will look at me because he is using my pics and tittles so if they dont get what they paid for i may get abusive msgs.

And i did so much work on this show car a few months back and the guy said i could use a few pics of the engine bay for my adds, well he has stolen them too and put them in his adds.

SHOCKING 😞

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:30:15 GMT

I believe you can report them to eBay.

How did they get your pictures? I thought eBay watermarked them. If they are hosted on the net somewhere, you could always change the pics attached to those file names (after copying and renaming them for you to use).

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

digital*ghost — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:32:25 GMT

The link to report them is here: http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/vero-image-text-theft.html

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

digital*ghost — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:35:20 GMT

BTW, I couldn't find the copied listings from a quick search, but a 0 feedback new seller copying the listings for expensive things at 1/4 the price is a common scam tactic - can you put up the titles of the listings being copied?

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

polish_yr_ride — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:47:04 GMT

POLISHED PLENUM/INTAKE AND FUEL RAILS VS V6 ECOTEC ONLY UTE STATESMAN HSV

Youll find em, thats a listing i sold last week and thats how all my adds are with black felt behind the parts.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

polish_yr_ride — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:52:49 GMT

Top Polished / INTAKE LID V6 ECOTEC VT VX VU WH VY HSV CALAIS

Check this one out, my exact tittle wording from intake forward but has changed the start of it and hasnt even caps locked it.

Thats the pic of my chrome lid in my items that he claims he his polished work... chrome not polished, see the difference from the lid in the first listing? thats polished this one is chrome.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

polish_yr_ride — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:57:29 GMT

POLISHED PLENUM/INTAKE AND FUEL RAILS VS V6 ECOTEC ONLY UTE STATESMAN HSV

That is my wording, notice how it says vs v6 only? go into the description of the add, it says it will fit vs vx vt vy vz.

Fully misleading ppl as it will only fit vs...

I started my listing for that item at $250, theres no way someone would sell that for $90, maybe in china but not aus.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

polish_yr_ride — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:03:57 GMT

Oh yea i phoned ebay before and reported both accounts, and have also put my user name in all the pictures somewhere.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

digital*ghost — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:22:48 GMT

Well, they don't look much like the usual scammers I mentioned (they generally copy every aspect of a listing and are usually to farm info and any money is a bonus), but definitely not kocher - for something like that, regardless of not having permission to use the pics, photos of the actual item for sale would be a must. Perhaps they don't expect to last long either way, hence the newer ID.

Hopefully eBay will take action on the reports.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

licoricebabyandfabmama — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:53:27 GMT

cant remember where I saw this or what i was doing but I noticed Ebay offered the option to watermark, but it was an option box and i had never seen before on all the other pictures I had put up. Just recently I saw my own pictures on ebay images, but i put my store name across the bottom of the photo, so even if you wanted to use my picture you would have to cut a piece of it off. But thats it, alot of people go to google images to grab their pics, so if you had a great pic of the part someone else was selling they would have just grabbed it and put it up, dont know why they had the same title though ????

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

*sparklz* — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:33:44 GMT

If you use Turo Lister you can watermark your photos.

Other than that do up a sigh to have showing in the photos with your ID on them.

It will need to cover a bit of the item though or they can photo shop it out.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

extra-keen — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:39:18 GMT

Unfortunately - watermarking is an absolute must do on all your photos.

Use your business name or whatever, anything that will identify your listings.

Thieves will think twice about steeling photos with watermarks.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:54:06 GMT

I believe you can report them to eBay.

How did they get your pictures? I thought eBay watermarked them. If they are hosted on the net somewhere, you could always change the pics attached to those file names (after copying and renaming them for you to use).

I seem to remember a couple of years ago someone whose pics had been stolen did just that - replacing them with photos of a somewhat.... errr.... interesting nature. Not quite sure how it was done, but I'm sure someone here could tell you.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

lakeland27 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:04:27 GMT

I seem to remember a couple of years ago someone whose pics had been stolen did just that - replacing them with photos of a somewhat.... errr.... interesting nature. Not quite sure how it was done, but I'm sure someone here could tell you.

including a large pachyderm producing manure ? i remember someone doing that . it was simply a matter of replacing photobucket pics with selected 'off-putting' photos then :^O

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

syrupsmummy — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:12:22 GMT

You don't need Turbolister to watermark your photos. You can do it through ordinary selling page.

Click Add or remove options at picture section. This one will pop up. You can just tick "Enable watermarking with my eBay user id."

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

downsizing_2 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:32:26 GMT

I see copies of bits of my listings all the time but, a little over a week ago, another member used my picture and heading. I reported it to ebay on the Sunday night and it was gone by Monday lunchime.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

flashback_deals — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:11:44 GMT

How do you watermark them in turbolister?

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

syrupsmummy — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:39:31 GMT

I've never done it. But I found this in help section in Turbolister.

Adding watermarks to your photos

There are two types of watermarks: a camera icon and your user ID emblem. After selecting the watermark options, eBay Services adds them while optimizing the image quality.

To add watermarks to photos:

Select Tools > Options.

Select Advanced Options > eBay Services.

Select one or both of the watermark options.

Click OK.

Watermarks are added to photos after you upload the new listing(s) to eBay.

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:17:42 GMT

including a large pachyderm producing manure ? i remember someone doing that . it was simply a matter of replacing photobucket pics with selected 'off-putting' photos then :^O

I think these were more along the lines of lingerie clad modelsL L (and I use the word 'clad' in the loosest possible sense) Mind you, in case I should ever start selling and someone decides to steal my pics, I do happen to have an image of that aforementioned pachyderm.:^O

Re: SHOCKED! MY PICS AND TITLE GOT STOLEN AND USED BY ANOTHER SELLER!

federalbookcollectibles — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:28:57 GMT

I had one cheeky seller who was bidding on one of my items who not only copied my listing and photos but his auction was for my actual item which still had 5 days to go. He obviously thought he was going to win and sell it quickly himself.

I think he realised the game was up when I then bid on the fictional listing he created and it disappeared all of a sudden 🙂