Selling things sent by email

[luvvyluv]

Hi everyone.

I was looking at buying some prints to put around the house and was just wondering if sellers are allowed to sell prints with things like 'free postage' when they're not sent at all. They're just emailng a picture I have to print myself?

Here is an item number

191573301774

- all of their prints are the same, you have to get them in email and get them printed yourself. 

[getnikd]

It was a genuine mistake. Of course images are covered by copyright, but my point was that I wasn't trying to distribute someone else's work. As for buyer protection, I certainly wasn't trying to rip anyone off, just offer a different service that other Ebay sites do allow. For some people buying a digital image is far more cost effective and convenient. I realise that by fessing up that the original listing that this post refers to was mine opens me up to some criticism, but as with anything on Ebay, I don't think it's fair to punish the majority for a few sellers who may have done the wrong thing in the past. We live in a digital age with technology constantly changing and I don't think it's unfair to request that Ebay review their policy to reflect this.

[luvvyluv]

I would be happy to buy a physical print that's what I was looking for, I don't have a printer.

[digital*ghost]

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@phorum_junkie* wrote:

I've sent a 'suggestion' to Ebay Australia that they review the policy - no reason why we should miss out in Australia!

That is never going to happen, I hope. The reason they do not allow digitally delivered goods is becuse there is no buyer protection, something that a lot of buyers found out to their cost when sellers were allowed to list them for digital delivery. If you do have copyright rights then you can put the digital file on a disk and then you have something to post and the buyer has protection.

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No eBay / PayPal buyer protection on a certain type of item doesn't automatically mean that type of item is significantly more risky to buy, and it also doesn't mean people can't get their money back if something goes wrong. 

People buy and sell digital goods every day, never once heard a warning about it (at least, not one that doesn't apply to general trading, and/or general net safety). If it was a bad thing for eBay, then that would make it eBay's fault, since all of eBay's major competitors provide digital goods in one form or another without drama.