Onselling on Facebook when your item has just been listed?

[connydeylen]

Someone alerted me to the fact that someone was selling our items on facebook and their website for twice the price. I took a look and they were using our photos and stories without asking our permission (keeping the handmade bit  but deleting connydeylen). And then I realized they were listing them as soon as we started an auction. They waited  and as soon as one of their customers showed interest they placed a bid. This person claims to be a Physchic and her customer base is basically people who have recently lost a loved one. I am absolutely seething and have blocked them as bidders. But are there otherways to put this con artist out of action?

[theboulevard14]

make all the profit you want; the more the better. Just don't make it off someone else's back. Come up with your own ideas, products and marketing; - your own hard work, not that of others

[theboulevard14]

Yes, you bought one belt and can turn it into a pot holder for all anyone cares. But more than one, and for profit, is illegal. You buy the belt ONLY, not the manufacture, style, pictures, method, marketing etc etc etc. private use only unless more rights are espressly granted by the seller.

[aps1080]

The world revolves around making a profit off someone else's back.

I bet you wear clothes made in China, Banglidesh et all where they get paid peanuts.

Once she has sold them, their is nothing she (the OP) can do to stop someone selling them at a higher price. She can't put a caviat on them when she sells them.

As said before, she should wholesale them, she'd sell a whole lot more.

[cherry*135]

The FB seller should not be using the OP's photo's and copying her ebay listing description.

That violates eBay policy for a good reason. Even though the copycat seller is advt'ing on Facebook it is the same principle.

Item Description and Picture Theft

eBay members are not allowed to use another eBay user's pictures or descriptions in their listings or About Me pages without the owner's permission.

Report a member who is using your text or images without your permission.

Picture Policy

Watermarks

We don't recommend:

• Watermarks used for marketing

• Watermarks that obscure or interfere with the item in the photo. We suggest that watermarks be smaller than 5% of your listing, and less transparent than 50%

• Watermarks that contain specific information about your product or service

  http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/picture.html

[robinsonmarineparts]

This is a joke right?

Are you trying to say that it's Connies idea what she sells.

Is this Connies??? -  (Posted by colic2bullsgirlore)

Ye olde Norwegian witch poem

I'm a Norwegian Kitchen Witch,

Riding on my broom,

Love and affection,

I'll bring to this room,

Pots boiling over are a thing of the past,

With my kind of magic,

Good fortune will last,

I'll keep burnt food and bad coffee away,

For I'm the good luck kitchen witch,

And I'm here to stay.

I don't design or bulid the products i sell, so i'm making money off 'someone else's back'.

[digital*ghost]

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@aps1080 wrote:

Half the problem in this world is people seem to object to others making a profit.

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I think you are misunderstanding the basis for the protest with this comment.

Obviously, money is involved here, because we're talking about two people who are selling the same product, but you can't say people are reacting to the money side of things just because that's how you see the issue (if indeed, that's what's happening here). 

Artistic integrity doesn't have anything to do with money, pride - while not always the most admirable trait - doesn't have anything to do with money, respect doesn't have anything to do with money.

Money has just been thrown into the mix, but the core issue is something else, it's not "someone else is taking money for my work".

A lot of my items are handmade, not particularly unique in terms of design, but time consuming. Personally... I don't really care if someone sees something I made, makes it themselves and sells it.... but then my craft is thousands of years old, and it would be a suprise if any of my designs are truly original. I don't care if someone buys something I made and resells it.... I definitely would care if someone passed off something I made as something they made, though, whether they were asking money for the item or not. (With exceptions - a lot of my items aren't like conny's at all, and I have done wholesale before where the buyer was going to modify my product and resell them, and I take no issue with there being no mention of my brand when they do), so please try to understand the issue isn't, or can't be, reduced to jealousy, resentment, sour grapes etc, over money - at least, certainly not for all who are protesting here about the reseller's practices. 

[cherry*135]

Is nothing (the) sacred, not even a tree or fairies.

[4green2000]

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@aps1080 wrote:

Half the problem in this world is people seem to object to others making a profit.

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Yep.....

Look at it this way people..Most new items on ebay are items that were bought and paid for, then  resold for a profit just like any shop on this planet.

Allan said if his reseller was to stop buying belts from him he would lose 95% plus of his sales.

So if Allan can supply this reseller 20 belts per week for $35 each he makes $700.

Without this reseller he might as well close shop since he is only selling 2 belts elsewhere per week.

So who cares if the reseller sells them at $70 each? Allan dont.

[robinsonmarineparts]

I think your missing our point(s) no one has said that this reseller is doing the right or correct thing buy the maker, what we / they have said is different to what some here are trying to make out.

The bottom line is the maker of the items (which she does not own the copyright to) is selling for monetary gain, plain and simple, otherwise she would be giving the items away.

[cherry*135]

The first issue is copying the OP's description and photo's though in a advertisment for resale (for a handmade item made by the OP, not a mass produced one). This issue is not only about buying an item and reselling it for a higher price.