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

[polish_yr_ride]

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 😞

[beach_and_home]

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

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OMG!! That would have been fun to see!!

[***super_nova***]

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.

I believe that was if you used photobucket and substitute the pics, but I am not sure how it would work.  I have tried it on my own listing; I put a photo in my listing from Photobucket but then noticed something I did not like, so i removed the bad pic, and tried to substitute a different photo but it did not work.
If somebody copies your photos and saves them into their computer, they have them, there is no way to "substitute" them.
The way I protect mine photos is to make them "private" in photobucket; I believe they then cannot be copied.

[***super_nova***]

I should have said:  if pics are private in photobucket they cannot be copied easily.  🙂

[the-kazbar]

I've had descriptions, photos, titles etc stolen many, many times.

I even had someone from here on the boards , who I helped with a problem, turn around and steal from me. How's that for a thank you?

[cq_tech]

I even had someone from here on the boards , who I helped with a problem, turn around and steal from me. How's that for a thank you?

On eBay? Pretty typical, in my experience. 😐