are you aloud to use other sellers photos

[au_jeoff]

Hi have a question I sold a item to a buyer now the item is back up for sale with my photos are they aloud to do that just need to know about photos please jeoff

[lyndal1838]

If you did not tick the box to say that the pictures were not to go in ebay's library then the other member is not doing anything wrong.

If they are not watermarked either it is pretty much open slather.

It is poor form to use someone else's photos without asking and you can message the seller and ask them to remove them.  But if it was a one off item and you are not selling them regularly is it really worth the aggravation?

[pennyforum14]

Not without permission, although having said that, when you list an item and enter the title, sometimes a popup will come up asking you if you would like to use photos from eBay's photo library.  Some of these photos are stock photos, but some are photos of other sellers matching items where the seller has ticked (or failed to untick) a box allowing eBay to use their photos in the Library.  If that's how the picture came to be used, then the other seller is not breaking any rules as technically permission was given.  If you are 100% positive you didn't give permission, you can contact the seller and ask them to remove  your photos and add  their own.

[digital*ghost]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

If you did not tick the box to say that the pictures were not to go in ebay's library then the other member is not doing anything wrong.

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This is not true, I've lost count of how many times I've had to say this... 

Ticking the box to allow eBay to add photos to their catalogue doesn't grant any permissions to use all of a seller's photos to all and sundry - never has, never will. (If it did, these permissions would be made distinct on all listings pages so that people would know which images are ok to use and which ones aren't, like they do on photo hosting sites - there is nothing like that, visible to all members, on any listing pages). 

All that ticking the box does is give eBay permission to use the photos. If eBay do use the photos, they will be added to their catalogue, and then anyone can use them when they use the catalogue images. If eBay don't use the photos, and they are not in the catalogue, then the other member is doing something wrong.

No watermark doesn't exactly make it 'open slather' either, except in the sense that it can make it easier to steal other people's images.